Jeremy Clarkson peeved over reaction to Dan Stevens' Boris Johnson swipe on The One Show
msn.comhis partygate scandal jibe. Last week, Downton Abbey star Dan took a swipe at Prime Minister Boris Johnson while discussing his new political drama Gaslit by US network Starz.
Describing the series, he said: ‘Well, what you’ve got is a criminal for a leader who is wrapped in a messy war, embroiled in a stupid scandal and surrounded by ambitious idiots and really should resign and… no I’m sorry… that’s the intro to Boris Johnson. ’Hitting out at the hypocrisy, Jeremy penned: ‘A lefty actor of some sort went on the endlessly annoying The One Show this week and made a feeble joke comparing Boris Johnson to Richard Nixon, the disgraced and now dead ex-US President. ‘As a result of this . . .
nothing happened. ’Jeremy then claimed: ‘Whereas when I went on The One Show and made a feeble joke about executing strikers, all hell broke loose. ’‘I was on the front pages,’ he added in his column on The Sun. ‘People demanded an apology and I’ve never been asked back. ’Jeremy was widely criticised after saying public sector workers ‘should be shot’ during an appearance on The One Show in 2011.
He told presenters Alex Jones and Matt Baker at the time: ‘I think they have been fantastic. Absolutely. London today has just been empty.
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