LISTEN: Apprentice boss Alan Sugar: I would have fired Theresa May for election performance
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Apprentice star Lord Alan Sugar today revealed he would have fired Theresa May after her dire performance at the June general election if it were a challenge on the show.
The straight-talking tycoon and former Labour peer also said he would have sent Jeremy Corbyn to Siberia.
Lord Sugar backed the Conservatives to win the snap general election in June - but Mrs May managed to lose her Commons majority with her lacklustre campaign.
Asked today what he would have said to her if it had been an Apprentice challenge, Lord Sugar said the Prime Minister would have been kicked out.
“If you're comparing it to the way that Jeremy Corbyn ran his election campaign, he was far more aggressive, it was far more organised,” he told BBC Radio 5 Live.
“He had lots of pictures taken with great audience of young people, and Theresa May seemed to have no one standing in front of her.”
“Her campaign was bad - it was poor. It was very, very poor. So if it was an apprentice task I would have said yes, she would have got fired.”
He added: “Corbyn would be sent off to a nice little trip...to Siberia maybe.”
But he said Mrs May should not quit since she “has the capability”.
Elsewhere he said the Brexit negotiating team was not up to the job because they “have never been anything apart from politicians”.
And he doubled down on his suggestion that lying politicians should face jail, saying Brexit supporters like Boris Johnson should “absolutely” be locked up or have a criminal record for Vote Leave's claim about NHS spending.
The campaign was often criticised for saying the UK sends £350m a week to Brussels and that the money should instead go to the health service.
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