From rows about winter fuel and farming, to being told off for dodging questions, Keir Starmer just had a nightmare local media round.

Keir Starmer faced fury across the country this morning (Image: BBC)

The Prime Minister was just subjected to a 45-minute gruelling grilling from local BBC radio stations, as listeners across the country heard him struggling to answer crucial questions.

An annual tradition, Prime Ministers often use the local radio stations to get a message out to specific regions and avoid the Westminster-focus of national broadcasters.

However Liz Truss’s appalling performance at the hands of local radio hosts in 2022 has since revealed that the hosts are no pushovers.

Sir Keir appeared on six local BBC stations from 11.15 this morning, covering Merseyside, Lincolnshire, the West Midlands, Norfolk, Kent and Bristol.

While each joust lasted just seven to eight minutes, the Prime Minister found himself repeatedly butting heads with the interviewers and facing damning personal testimonies from local voters about how his policies will affect them.

Sir Keir Starmer denies he has a problem with Lincolnshire after upsetting farmers and supporting proposals for pylons and solar farms for the area

Sir Keir was slapped down by the BBC Merseyside host, after he was asked a question about this morning’s rise in the energy price cap, only to begin talking about the Government’s re-introduction of ASBOs.

Host Tony Snell interrupted him to call him out after the PM “drifted off the topic”.

He was also called out over this week’s revelation that the Government’s own modelling has revealed 50,000 pensioners will be pushed into relative poverty as a result of his cuts to Winter Fuel Allowance.

He was accused of “picking a fight with the pensioners”, and then forced to admit he’s never personally struggled to pay his utility bills – something many local listeners will have struggled to sympathise with.

Moving over to BBC Lincolnshire the PM was met with the brutal opening question: “Do you have a problem with Lincolnshire? Have the people of Lincolnshire upset you in any way? Because you seem to have upset an awful lot of people in the county since you were elected back in July.”

Sir Keir sounded petulant when he hit back: “No, I’ve got absolutely nothing against Lincoln [sic], it’s an absolutely fantastic county – an under-appreciated county.”

Presenter Sean Dunderdale called him out for being over in Rio De Janeiro for the G20 while Lincolnshire farmers travelled down to Westminster to condemn the Government’s planned inheritance tax hike on their families and businesses.

At one point the Prime Minister responded to one worried farmer with the offer that any farmer can write into him with details of their farm, and his team will go through the figures with each farmer who writes in.

This seems like an offer that could seriously backfire if more than a small handful of farmers were to take it up.

His go on BBC West Midlands was particularly brutal, as he was awkwardly pressed over Labour’s record running Birmingham Council into the ground.