Brexiteer who confronted Tim Farron revealed as an ELVIS impersonator who got through to the semi-finals of Britain’s Got Talent and also met the Queen
The man will vote for Theresa May's Conservatives for the first time on June 8
THE PRO-LEAVE pensioner who took apart Tim Farron over Brexit on his 65th birthday has been revealed as an ELVIS impersonator who auditioned for Britain's Got Talent and received an MBE from the Queen.
Malcolm 'Elvis' Baker, from Kidlington, gave the Lib Dem leader a humiliating dressing down this morning, accusing him of "running Britain down".
The local accosted him during a rally over his calls for a second EU referendum.
He told Mr Farron: “You keep going on about people didn’t know what they were voting about.
“Well we did. I voted Leave and I’m proud to have voted leave and I knew what I was voting about.”
The startled Lib Dem leader, who was in the middle of a television interview in Kidlington, near Oxford, asked how Mr Baker’s grandchildren would feel about a “poorer, less powerful, less influential country”.
And received the MBE for his charity work in 2003 - and has raised more than £40,000 by performing as Elvis since he started in 1997.
All the funds from his performances went to children's hospitals and the elderly.
"When you put that suit on, you kind of start to 'become' him. I've certainly got no plans to hang up the jumpsuit."
This afternoon he revealed he was a life-long Labour supporter, but will vote Tory for the first time next month.
And the man, who worked in social care for ten years, told Sky News Mr Corbyn is from a "distant past" and "things have moved on".
Mr Baker was honoured at the annual care and support awards last year too.
And though he liked the Labour leader's plans to put more money into social care, he added: "I don't think he would be good for this country."
"This will be the first time I have ever voted in a general election for the Conservatives," he explained.
"Theresa May is strong, she’s got this country at heart. She’s going to the country for a mandate."
Mr Baker invited both leaders to come around to his house to talk politics in his garden over a cup of tea.
Instead of being out celebrating his birthday tonight, he told Sky he would be "watching TV, listening to the debates and getting wound up again".
He said: "There’s various politicians that wind me up very, very much on the television. Tim Farron is, I’m afraid, one of them."
And he went on: "I, like a lot of the shadow cabinet who resigned, have no faith in Jeremy as a leader.
"His history shows that he was always rebelling against the party, against various Labour prime ministers. He was a rebel.
I feel more comfortable with five years of a Tory government led by Theresa May than I would a Labour government led by "Jeremy Corbyn.
"I don’t think he has got the right temperament and qualities to be a leader. I think Mrs May does."
The pensioner, who lives near Oxford, said that people knew what they were voting for when they opted for Brexit last year in our historic referendum.
He said: "We all knew when we were voting, if we voted leave, we would be coming out of the single market, out of the free movement of people, and out of the Court of Justice."
Tim Farron's party want a second referendum on the terms of our exit - but Mr Baker disagreed.
"The democracy of this country is that we had an election, the result was, we leave, we don't need another referendum," he said.
He vowed that the country needed to "look forward" now and insisted that we "can succeed outside of Europe".
When it came to upcoming Brexit negotiations, he trusted Theresa May to stand up for Britain and get a good deal.