Rod Stewart has been a Conservative supporter for some time – but no longer. The ageing rocker, who congratulated Boris Johnson after his landslide election win in 2019, says it is time for the party to move over and give Labour a turn.
‘This is a bad time for us in Great Britain – change the bloody government,’ he told Sky News viewers after phoning in during a discussion on the dire state of the NHS. Stewart described the cost-of-living crisis as ‘heartbreaking’ and suggested that Rishi Sunak’s government was failing:
‘I personally have been a Tory for a long time and I think this government should stand down now and give the Labour Party a go at it, because this is heartbreaking for the nurses – it really is heartbreaking. In all my years of living, in this country I’ve never seen it so bad. And anything I can do to help: go on, the nurses, I’m on your side.’
Stewart’s loss of faith in the Tory party will come as a blow to the Prime Minister: while plenty of luvvies like nothing better than to voice their dislike of the Tories, Stewart is not one of them. When he congratulated Boris, he endured the wrath of his fellow Celtic football supporters: fans unveiled a rude banner aimed at Stewart at their next home game alongside another placard declaring ‘Tories not welcome’.
Now it seems Stewart might well agree with that sentiment. His support for the Tories is sailing away….
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