Sam Fender has joked that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is the next politician he plans to turn into a piñata and destroy with a trophy after winning his first Ivor Novello Award.
Following his win at the Brit Awards for best alternative/rock act in February, the singer returned to his local pub in North Shields with a piñata made to look like Boris Johnson which he proceeded to smash with his new award.
On Thursday, he claimed the Ivor Novello for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for his classic rock-inspired track Seventeen Going Under, written about his teenage years in North Shields and the trials he and his family faced.
