Labour have called for Geoffrey Boycott's knighthood to be revoked over abuse claims.
The England cricket legend is being handed a knighthood by Theresa May in her resignation honours list.
The cricketer said he 'couldn't give a toss, love' over the backlash to his honour despite a conviction for domestic violence.
But Labour have slammed the former PM for awarding the knighthood to her "favourite sportsman" describing it as "an insult to victims and survivors of domestic violence".
Boycott was convicted of punching his then-girlfriend Margaret Moore in 1998.
Yorkshireman Boycott, 78, was given a three-month suspended sentence and fined 50,000 francs (then £5,100) by a French court in January 1998 after being convicted of repeatedly punching Moore at a hotel in the south of France in October 1996.
When questioned on the Today programme about the criticism of his knighthood today, Boycott replied “I couldn't give a toss”.
Boycott is reported to have responded to a question in 2017 about why he did not have a knighthood by saying they are handed out like “confetti” to West Indies cricketers and that he would need to “black up” in order to receive one.
Dawn Butler MP, Labour ’s Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities, said: “Celebrating a man convicted of assaulting his partner by giving him a knighthood is an insult to victims and survivors of domestic violence.
“Honouring a perpetrator of domestic violence just because he is the former Prime Minister’s favourite sportsman shows how out of touch and nepotistic the honours list is.
“Boris Johnson should rescind his knighthood today. The whole honours system needs radically overhauling, alongside peerages, so that our political system works for the many not the few.”
