But in an interview with Times Radio, Clarkson, who is a vocal critic of the Labour Party, made it clear that Sir Keir will not be welcome.
Asked if he would invite the Prime Minister to the pub, he said: “No, he’s banned. Actually, he’s the first person to be banned. He’s actually on a board in the hall, he’s banned.”
Clarkson, who is also a prominent farming campaigner, was scathing about Labour policies during the election campaign, declaring that he would rather vote for his dog than Sir Keir’s “merry bunch of ideological nincompoops”.
‘Meat-eating rural halfwits’
In an article for The Sun before the election, he took particular issue with the party’s position on farming, claiming that its manifesto contained just 87 words on the subject, “which, when translated into English basically say: ‘We hate you, you meat-eating rural halfwits’.”
Labour made a conscious effort to claw back the rural vote from the Conservatives in the months leading up to the election, with Steve Reed, the shadow environment secretary at the time, vowing to “park our tanks on the Tories’ fields”.
He admitted the party had become “too detached” from people in the countryside over the past two decades and pledged to treat them “with respect” in the future.