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17 December 2014updated 24 Jul 2021 5:16am

Watch: which party leader does Lord Sugar fire in The Apprentice?

Alan Sugar has released a spoof exclusive preview of next year's Apprentice series, featuring politicians.

By Anoosh Chakelian

It’s approaching the end of Series 10 of The Apprentice, so Lord Sugar and his boardroom buddies are naturally looking ahead at 2015 to perpetuate the programme’s tired format. With politicians.

Sugar has “leaked” a spoof exclusive preview of next year’s series, and it features our politicians giving 110 per cent to meaningless self-promotion and looking inadvertently foolish.

The most entertaining aspect of this clip is that the Labour peer seems to have decided (spoiler alert!) to fire Ed Miliband, of all the party leaders. “It’s too little, too late!” he barks. Perhaps his trusty right-hand Tory, Karren (Lady Brady), who took her seat in the Lords last month, had a bit of influence…

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