Sir Bob Geldof has pleaded with fans to vote for his Tory cabinet minister friend in an expletive-laden video.
The foreign aid activist endorsed Andrew Mitchell, the deputy foreign secretary, because he was ‘a decent person’.
However, the Irish rock star admitted he had ‘no bloody idea’ where the Conservative’s Sutton Coldfield constituency was.
Sir Bob said: ‘The party that Andrew Mitchell is a member of is not important to me. What is important is that he’s a decent person or else he wouldn’t be a friend of mine, I guess.’
Mr Mitchell was secretary of state for international development but had to resign from the role in 2012 after calling police officers ‘f****** plebs’ for asking him to enter Downing Street through a side gate.
Sir Bob Geldof (pictured) endorsed Andrew Mitchell, the deputy foreign secretary, because he was ‘a decent person’
Mr Mitchell (pictured) was secretary of state for international development but had to resign from the role in 2012 after calling police officers ‘f****** plebs’ for asking him to enter Downing Street through a side gate
He and his wife Dr Sharon Bennett were friends with Sir Bob and his wife, Jeanne Marine.
The politician was called ‘a laugh’ by Sir Bob in the video, who felt he had a ‘fine human sympathy for those he was trying to help, whether that was in Sutton Coldfield or elsewhere in the world’.
He added: ‘What we so desperately need in our Parliament, whether again in opposition or in Government, is clever, committed, capable people. We have had enough of leery shysters, buffoons and tiresome w*****s.
‘We need people who can actually do things and then get it done. Mitchell knows how to do stuff and to get it done.’
But Sir Bob was tired of hearing about the qualities of Sutton Coldfield and its people, claiming it ‘bored the a** off me’ whenever Mr Mitchell mentioned it over dinner.
‘I have no bloody idea where Sutton Coldfield is. It does tend to spoil the evening, Andrew. Give it a rest,’ he said.
Mr Mitchell, who deputises for Lord Cameron in the House of Commons, accused his peers in April of being ‘patronising’ in their demands for an independent monitoring committee to establish if Rwanda was safe for asylum seekers.