Vegetable disaster: Keir Starmer labels ‘lemon’ in Wakefield

In an interview with The Telegraph after Sir Keir drove away his entourage, Paul Stoner explained why he made the unusual offer.

The 60-year-old said: “I asked him if he wanted an apple, and when he said‘ yes ’, I gave him a lemon because I find him joking a bit.

“If you call someone a lemon, you think he’s a little idiot, a little sour.

“He wasn’t even aware it wasn’t an apple. He was just confused and said ‘thank you’. “