He didn’t quite say he’d found a Reason To Believe in Nigel Farage. But when Sir Rod Stewart steps on to Glastonbury‘s Pyramid Stage tomorrow afternoon, fans may ponder his plea to ‘give Farage a chance’.
The 80-year-old singer’s teatime set comes the day after he claimed the country was ‘fed up’ with the Tories and that Labour was trying to ditch Brexit.
He accused Prime Minister Keir Starmer of giving Scottish fishing rights ‘back to the EU’, although the Government insists it has simply renewed an existing deal for European boats.
His views represent a second volte-face given that he appeared to support Labour at last year’s election – despite previously backing the Conservatives.
Asked where Britain’s political future now lay, he told The Times: ‘It’s hard for me because I’m extremely wealthy, and I deserve to be, so a lot of it doesn’t really touch me.
‘But that doesn’t mean I’m out of touch. For instance, I’ve read about Starmer cutting off the fishing in Scotland and giving it back to the EU. That hasn’t made him popular.
‘We’re fed up with the Tories. We’ve got to give Farage a chance. He’s coming across well. What options have we got? I know some of his family, I know his brother, and I quite like him.’
Asked what Mr Farage stands for aside from Brexit, tighter immigration and controversial economic promises he replied: ‘Yeah, yeah. But Starmer’s all about getting us out of Brexit and I don’t know how he’s going to do that.
Sir Rod Stewart is set to step out onto Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage tomorrow, a day after he said voters were ‘fed up’ with the Tories and that Labour was trying to ditch Brexit
The 80-year-old singer claimed the UK should give Nigel Farage ‘a chance’
Sir Rod accused Prime Minister Keir Starmer of giving Scottish fishing rights ‘back to the EU’, although the Government insists it has simply renewed an existing deal for European boats
‘Still, the country will survive. It could be worse. We could be in the Gaza Strip.’
Sir Rod also seemed unconvinced that Sir Keir was going to fully address one of his personal pet hates.
Three years ago, the singer donned a hi-vis jacket and rang around friends asking for help filling in potholes outside his Essex house.
‘I took me Ferrari out. Nearly lost the f***ing wheel,’ he said.
Three years ago, the singer donned a hi-vis jacket and rang around friends asking for help filling in potholes outside his Essex house
‘And before I did in the Ferrari, I saw an ambulance that couldn’t move, the wheel stuck right in there.
‘So I took me mates out, and we knew what to do because I had builders in the house.
‘We filled in a considerable length of the road, actually.’
He added that potholes were still present ‘all over Britain’ in contrast to Europe.
‘As I travel in Italy, Germany, nowhere else is as bad,’ he said. ‘Starmer has promised to spend millions on it… We shall see.’
