Keir Starmer mocked for wanting to spend time with family after 6pm on Fridays | LBC reacts

As Keir Starmer says he wants to spend time with his family after 6pm on Fridays, Nick Ferrari speaks to callers to get their take on the Labour leader's remarks.

Starmer has stated that he wants to protect some time that he can then spend with his family, who observe Jewish Shabbat dinner on Fridays.

But a number of Tories have criticised these comments, arguing that it would make Starmer a “part-time prime minister” if he wins the election on Thursday.

Rishi Sunak even told reporters: “I haven’t finished at six ever."

This comes with just two days to go until General Election polling day.

01:06 Nick Ferrari: 'How realistic is this ambition?'

02:23 Caller Tanya defends Keir Starmer's style of working to Nick, saying she 'respects him for it.'

03:13 Caller Matthew: 'I think this was not a well-advised statement but one that was an effort to try and make himself more relatable.'

05:18 'It reeks of entitlement, and that's what we've had with the Tories', says caller Clare.

06:57 Caller Glen tells Nick he feels that Starmer's work ethic has been 'wrongly portrayed'.

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[nelch]

Is anyone dumb enough to think Boris was even doing a full 40 hour week, let alone working late into the weekend?

[catherinemartin]

Nick how desperate are you and the Tory’s’ this is pathetic and embarrassing boris couldn’t be bothered to attend 5 cobra meetings

[shaunwarren]

So we have a choice between someone who wants to finish at 6pm on a Friday or someone who has fleeced the country for billions in corruption. I run my own business and I have aspirations to make time for family on evenings and weekends, does not mean I am always able to. As the first caller said he is actually showing leadership here. 

Ferrari is absolutely pathetic. How can LBC claim to be impartial with clowns like this leading the conversation?

[MurphyOCP-]

Ferrari is a complete bell end. Uber Tory who can’t stand the thought of a Labour Government. Retire Nick, you’re way out of touch.

[callummc]

I've heard Keir also expects sleep at night time. What happens if Russia launch a nuke at 4am and Keir is selfishly unconscious?! Also plans to eat food, can't make a speech to the UN while you're chewing on a burger! Next he'll be wanting to use the toilet

[yellowletters]

I'm sure if the country were about to be attacked, Ferrari, he'd change his plans. But unlike Johnson, Starmer actually knows how many kids he has

[Mark-pcox]

Heaven forbid that families get prioritised in a society where family life had been breaking down and causing mass societal issues across the board....

You may not care about your family Nick, but many do. And that should be promoted as much as possible.

[hashtagboss]

Where was this outrage when Boris was taking a holiday every two weeks as PM. Going on holiday at the start of COVID.

[tommymorrison]

Starmer wants to spend time with this family on a Friday night and Ferrari thinks it reeks of entitlement. Tell me you're a Tory without telling me you're a Tory.

[iangascoigne]

If Starmer said he’d be spending less time with his kids no doubt Ferrari would criticise him for that as well.

[JT]

Hey Ferrari, what about those Tory MPs who don't attend their own constituencies? Don't go to the house of commons? Taking a salary from us, but concentrating on their own interests, not working for the people.

[josephjones]

Yeah while the rest of us admire that. Anyone calling this out as anything other than what it is. Needs to go and speak with someone about their Daddy issues.

[tycoondude]

Ferrari is crying before the election has taken place, imagine how he’s going to feel post election 😂😂😂

[atlasgabriel]

Ferrari is so pathetic and desperate to be slagging off a father and a husband for prioritising spending quality time with his family on Friday nights and weekends. This country needs more husband and father figures like Starmer and a considerably fewer Ferraris.

[Broughton]

So ridiculous that this is what you’ve chosen to attack him on…

[Radchenister]

A professional who can manage his time, get in the bin tories. Small business owner here, programming down time is 21st century. Desperate smear!

[SuperSupermanX]

"But why would he say it??" Why not? Why on earth would he assume that he would be jumped on for daring to say he wants to see his family once a week?

[Robmc]

I love how James O'Brien absolutely demolishes Ferrari every week without saying his name out loud.
He is client media, totally desperate to keep his tory friends in power.

Ferrari cant be that thick to think hes not working all weekend. He knows what hes doing and never said a word about Boris or May taking time off in the week.

Utterly shameless that he tries to manipulate the low iq listeners

[tcroft]

Are you really this desperate Nick?

To attack a man over choosing to spend time with his family and have some sort of home life?

[thwalmsley]

Worrying that a clinical psychologist does not understand how boundaries work.