Watch: Vote for my Tory Cabinet minister friend, says Sir Bob Geldof

Sir Bob Geldof has endorsed a Cabinet minister for re-election in an expletive-laden video.

The Irish rock star and foreign aid activist said he wanted to “big up” Andrew Mitchell, the deputy foreign secretary, because he was “a decent person”.

But he admitted that he had “no bloody idea” where the senior Conservative’s Sutton Coldfield constituency was.

“The party that Andrew Mitchell is a member of is not important to me,” Sir Bob said.

“What is important is that he’s a decent person or else he wouldn’t be a friend of mine, I guess.”

Sir Bob said he and his wife, Jeanne Marine, were friends with the former secretary of state for international development and his wife, Dr Sharon Bennett.

Mr Mitchell resigned from the international development role in 2012 after calling police officers “f------ plebs” for asking him to enter Downing Street through a side gate.

In the video, Sir Bob said the Tory MP was “a laugh” and feels “a fine human sympathy for those he was trying to help, whether that was in Sutton Coldfield or elsewhere in the world”.

Mitchell ‘knows how to do stuff’

“What we so desperately need in our Parliament, whether again in opposition or in Government, is clever, committed, capable people,” Sir Bob said. “We have had enough of leery shysters, buffoons and tiresome w-----s.

“We need people who can actually do things and then get it done. Mitchell knows how to do stuff and to get it done.”

He added that it would be nice if Mr Mitchell would “stop boring the a--- off me” over dinner about the charms of Sutton Coldfield and its people.

“I have no bloody idea where Sutton Coldfield is. It does tend to spoil the evening, Andrew. Give it a rest.”

Mr Mitchell deputises for Lord Cameron in the House of Commons, where the Foreign Secretary cannot answer questions because he is a peer.

In April, he accused peers of being “patronising” and “bordering on racism” in their demands for an independent monitoring committee to establish if Rwanda was safe for asylum seekers.