If Jeremy Corbyn is elected Prime Minister in 2020 “we should all move to China,” Lord Sugar has said in a scathing attack on the new Labour leader.
The businessman and star of TV show The Apprentice, who quit the Labour party in the summer, suggested Britain should be left to “rot” if Mr Corbyn enters Downing Street and claimed that his approach to the housing crisis would “shut down” London’s booming property market.
He also hit out at Sadiq Khan, Labour’s candidate for London Mayor, describing him and Mr Corbyn as “Batman and Robin”.
“If they ever got anywhere near electing him and him being the Prime Minister then I think we should all move to China or somewhere like that and let this place just rot,” he said in an interview with the Standard as he launched a luxury apartment building in central London – his first residential property venture.
“He [Mr Corbyn] and his policies would be the thing that shuts the whole thing down,” he added.
Lord Sugar, who has donated generously to Labour in the past, served as the Government’s official “enterprise champion” under Gordon Brown but four days after Ed Miliband led Labour to its worst election performance in more than 30 years he said he was quitting the party because of the party’s failure to appeal to business.
He said Mr Khan, who beat off Blairite candidate Dame Tessa Jowell to win the Labour nomination last month, stood a “very good chance” of being elected London Mayor, “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.
“If they ever got into power that would create a lot of problems.”
