Morrissey's miserable now he knows PM is a Smiths fan

CHART star Morrissey has spoken of his unease that the Prime Minister is a fan of his former band The Smiths.

The 1980s icon agreed with former bandmate Johnny Marr, who has said he forbade the Conservative leader from liking the band and has called on him to stop saying he was a fan.

Morrissey, a vegetarian, said it was a "moral issue" because Mr Cameron had hunted stags in the past.

In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Front Row programme, the singer said it was a "mystery" why the Prime Minister would like the band.

He told the presenter, John Wilson, he doubted whether he would bother opening the door if Mr Cameron turned up at his dressing room.

Perhaps to Morrissey's irritation, the Prime Minister chose Smiths track This Charming Man when he was a castaway on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs four years ago.

Marr distanced himself from Mr Cameron four months ago with a message on Twitter which said: "Stop saying that you like The Smiths, no you don't. I forbid you to like it."

Asked whether he was agreeing with the guitarist, Morrissey said: "I am indeed, because David Cameron is a hunter and he kills stag, and so forth, and that's everything The Smiths were against."

He conceded it was impossible to say who should listen to his music once it was released, but added: "Sometimes you see people whom you would least expect to be interested in it and they have a lifestyle which is everything that you oppose."

Morrissey's debut solo album in 1988 included a track called Margaret on the Guillotine - in which he mused about the execution of Baroness Thatcher.