It's Sir Scare Starmer! The Prime Minister becomes a funny tool scarecrow with a bag full of free football tickets after the general election

Sir Keir Starmer sparked ridicule at Britain's biggest scarecrow festival when villagers made a lifelike puppet of the Prime Minister in a suit stuffed with Premier League tickets.

Villagers at the Belbroughton Scarecrow Festival fitted the model with glasses, a nod to the intense scrutiny Sir Keir and his wife Victoria have come under for accepting donations.

The competition entry shows the Prime Minister in Sir Keir's trademark blue suit and burgundy tie, holding a rake and trowel and a shovel in his hands and a Premier League ticket in his breast pocket.

There was also a sign at the entrance that read: “My father was a toolmaker. I am the son of a toolmaker” – a reference to one of Sir Keir's election campaign slogans. The festival's theme this year was “Who said so?”.

Sir Keir has been found to have declared more business gifts than any other MP, accepting over £100,000 worth of gifts, perks and hospitality since December 2019.

Sir Keir Starmer visiting PsiQuantum in Daresbury, Cheshire on Sunday

Donations from Labour life peer Lord Waheed Alli included clothing, Arsenal games and a Taylor Swift concert.

Sir Keir regularly mentioned his late father's profession and made references to toolmaking in previous conference speeches, interviews and campaign material.

On his official website, under the heading “My Childhood,” the Prime Minister says: “My father worked as a toolmaker in a factory and my mother was a nurse in the NHS.”

In his party’s election broadcast in April, Sir Keir described his father as a “man devoted to his profession”.

And in a promotional video on Facebook shared by the Labour Party in January 2023, Sir Keir said: “My father was a toolmaker. He worked in a factory all his life.”

The Prime Minister made similar references in his keynote speech at the Labour conference last year and when presenting his election manifesto in June.

Rodney Starmer, known as Rod, spent much of his time caring for Sir Keir's ailing mother. He died in 2018, two years before his son became Labour leader.

The Prime Minister told Sky News' Sophie Ridge in March that he regretted not having had a closer relationship with his father.

Elsewhere at the scarecrow festival, a puppet of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator was on display with an inflatable machine gun.

Sir Keir at the Labour conference. The Prime Minister has repeatedly referred to the profession of his late father

When presenting his election manifesto in June, the Prime Minister mentioned that his father was a toolmaker.

At the festival, locals craft their favorite pop culture characters out of straw and attract over 30,000 spectators each year.

Harry Potter fans posed with the young wizard as he cast his Expedition Patronum spell to create his ghostly stag.

Meanwhile, children reacted to a giant straw shark jumping out of a clever neighbor's yard.

Parodies of Dolly Parton, former Prime Minister Winston Churchill and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein have also been spotted in the village.

The Belbroughton Scarecrow Festival was founded in 1996 by children's author Steve Haywood and takes place every September.