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Lord Sugar to Boris Johnson: ‘you need a whack, mate’

Faced with the prospect of Jeremy Corbyn one day becoming Prime Minister, Lord Sugar said that if elected, we should all move to China. Strong words from the Apprentice star — who quit the Labour Party after the election over its ‘negative’ stance on business, yet he doesn’t seem all that happy with Britain under Tory rule either.

Today Sugar told the Mayor of London that he needed a ‘whack’ after the millionaire businessman found himself stuck in traffic. ‘I have been sitting in Lower Thames st for a bloody hour,’ he moaned in a tweet directed at Boris Johnson. ‘What a bloody joke, it’s getting worse.’ It’s thought that the delay was in part caused by the East-West Cycle Superhighway.

Sugar’s woes show little sign of disappearing anytime soon, given that he has also cast doubts on how the capital would cope should a Labour candidate replace Boris next year. Discussing Sadiq Khan’s chances of becoming mayor, Sugar said that Khan alongside Corbyn would make a disastrous duo when it came to business:

‘I don’t know the fellow and what he stands for but certainly if you want the market to stop then you’ve got Batman and Robin in those two.’

With all the current grievances being inflicted on Sugar, Mr S wonders whether it’s time he at least made enquiries about a move to China — after all, what are a few human rights abuses when compared to an hour stuck in traffic?

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