Singer baulks at Cameron being a fan

He agreed with ex-bandmate Johnny Marr, who has previously said he forbade the Conservative leader from liking the band and has called on him to stop saying he was a fan.

Vegetarian Morrissey said it was a “moral issue” because Mr Cameron had hunted stag in the past.

In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Front Row programme, the singer said it was a “mystery” why the PM would like the band.

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

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.”

Morrissey said: “When you make music you’re very happy that anybody listens, whoever they may be, but somebody with such an extreme lifestyle as David Cameron, killing stags as I say as a hobby, sport, you’re mystified – you just can’t see how it joins.”

The 51-year-old singer is now refining his autobiography.