Sir Keir Starmer‘s insistence that he and his Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, did not mislead the public over last week’s Budget shambles has failed to convince Queen Camilla‘s son Tom Parker Bowles.

The food writer is so disheartened by the ‘useless’ Labour Government that he used a speech on stage at an awards ceremony to voice his anger at its ‘politics of envy’.

‘We’re here, back again, bruised, battered and perhaps destroyed almost by the sovereign functions of a government so useless, they cannot even be bothered to lie properly,’ the King’s stepson declared at the Boisdale Xerjoff Cigar Smoker of the Year Awards, which he hosted at Boisdale restaurant’s Canary Wharf branch in east London. Eton-educated Tom, 50, who is The Mail on Sunday’s restaurant critic, added: ‘We’re still standing, of course, as we smoke fags and cigars, and drink, we have a good time.

Queen Camilla’s son, Tom Parker Bowles, said the Government is ‘so useless, they cannot even be bothered to lie properly’

‘We mustn’t let the politics of envy sully what is one of the most glorious and lovely nights of the year.’