A lemon for a lemon: Greengrocer’s fruity jibe at ‘idiot’ Starmer
SIR Keir Starmer’s dream of becoming Prime Minister may never bear fruit.
And greengrocer Paul Stoner will be delighted if it doesn’t. He branded the Labour leader a ‘lemon’ after the party’s victory in the Wakefield by-election yesterday. Sir Keir was visiting the constituency market town of Ossett when Mr Stoner offered him an apple. The 60-year-old then gave Sir Keir a lemon to suggest he was ‘a bit of a joke’.
‘If you call someone a lemon you think they are a bit of an idiot, a bit sour,’ the trader told The Daily Telegraph. ‘He didn’t even realise it wasn’t an apple. He just looked confused and said “thank you”.’