London, Feb 06 : BBC''s Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson has launched a scathing attack on British PM Gordon Brown describing him as `a one-eyed Scottish idiot'.

The cruel attack on the PM, who has a glass eye, came as Clarkson launched a stage version of the hit show in Australia.

He laid into Brown after saying he had not been as honest about the world financial crisis as Australia's PM Kevin Rudd. Clarkson, 48, said he had watched Rudd on TV addressing the nation.

London, Nov 4 : English broadcaster and journalist Jeremy Clarkson has sparked a fresh controversy with his joke about murdering prostitutes.

Clarkson, 48, who co-presents the BBC TV show Top Gear, had made the remark on November 2 night''s BBC2 show, after he had completed a lorry-driving task.

"This is a hard job and I''m not just saying that to win favour with lorry drivers," the Daily Express quoted him as having said.

"Change gear, change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That''s a lot of effort in a day," he had stated.