Rachel Reeves ignores Jeremy Clarkson cancer diagnosis in latest statement

Jeremy Clarkson, who said he has been diagnosed with cancer, is known as a vocal critic of Chancellor Rachel Reeves' agricultural inheritance tax policies.

The MP for Leeds West and Pudsey was scrutinised on Jeremy Clarkson's hit Prime Video series, Clarkson's Farm, where the famous presenter learnsed how to run his 1,000-acre farm with no agricultural experience.

In addition to joining farmers on the streets of London in protest, Jeremy ranted about the impact of the Chancellor's autumn budget on the show.

Shortly after it was revealed that the British television presenter,  best known for hosting the "Top Gear" motoring show, had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate ​cancer, fans started wondering whether Rachel Reeves had commented on the sad news.

However, although she did share two posts on X , Rachel Reeves did not mention Jeremy Clarkson's health issue in them.

Clarkson, 66, one of Britain's most popular and high-profile TV figures, made the ‌disclosure during filming for his Amazon documentary show "Clarkson's Farm" for episodes which were broadcast on Wednesday.

"I’ve got cancer," Clarkson tells two of the show's other main characters in a scene filmed last year. "I ​had a medical, remember, back in May? I disappeared off the other week ​and I had a biopsy and it is cancer, and it’s aggressive."

Clarkson ⁠said the disease had been caught "really early" and he had since had an ​operation to remove 10% of his prostate.

"If I hadn’t have got myself checked out and ​they hadn’t caught the problem early, this could well have been my last harvest," he said. "It’s only because they did catch it early, there’s every hope that I’ll be harvesting this farm for many, ​many years to come."

Ahead of the episodes' broadcast, Clarkson posted a video on Instagram ​on Tuesday, saying they were a "difficult watch".

"Ordinarily, we try to keep the show bucolic, charming, and cheerful," ‌he ⁠said. "But the final two episodes, which drop in the middle of the night tonight, are ... they're none of those things, really. They're a difficult watch.

They're really, really difficult."

Clarkson, who has cultivated a reputation for being controversial, opens new tab, gained worldwide fame as presenter of the BBC's "Top ​Gear" show but lost ​his job after he ⁠punched a member of the production team in 2015.

He moved to Amazon where he made a new car show with his ​old show's co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May, and subsequently began ​making the ⁠successful "Clarkson's Farm", which chronicles his often haphazard attempts to run the farm he owns in central England.

"I don't know what's going to happen. But look, what I wanted to say was: ⁠if ​this is all successful, I’ll see you for season ​six," he says from a hospital bed at the end of the final show of the latest series. "And ​if it isn’t, I won’t. Take care, everyone."