COMEDIAN Russell Brand has been described as a "twat" by a Tory MP after the star admitted he'd never voted during an appearance on Newsnight.

Lichfield MP Michael Fabricant used a live interview on a local BBC radio station to criticise Brand for accusing politicians of "lies, treachery and deceit".

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BBC apologised to its listeners for the language used by Mr Fabricant, who later jokingly referred to his comments as #TwatGate on his Twitter account.

Brand was interviewed on Newsnight by the BBC's Jeremy Paxman, where he admitted he has never voted and never will.

In the fiery interview off the back of Brand being a guest editor for New Statesmen, he told Paxman he thought the UK's political system has created a "disenfranchised, disillusioned underclass" that it fails to serve.

Watch the interview above.

"I am not that I am not voting out of apathy. I am not voting out of absolute indifference and weariness and exhaustion from the lies, treachery and deceit of the political class that has been going on for generations", he added.

He also suggested that politicians were only interested in "serving the needs of corporations" and that an administrative system based on the "massive redistribution of wealth" should replace the status quo.

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