12 favourite takedowns of Lord Sugar for claiming he couldn’t understand Martin Freeman’s Scouse accent

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If you haven’t seen the BBC’s new five-part police drama, The Responder, there’s plenty of time to catch up on it via iPlayer.

The Liverpool-based show sees Martin Freeman lead the cast through a gritty depiction of the life of an emergency responder, complete with the poverty and violence that an urban landscape inevitably contains.

While the series has picked up a raft of excellent reviews from newspapers and magazines, it got a less impressive reaction from tech tycoon Lord Sugar.

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The former police officer who wrote The Responder, Tony Schumacher – himself a Liverpudlian – calmly refused to be dragged into a Twitter spat.

Others, however, took up the baton on his behalf.

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We’ll leave the last word to The Responder cast member, popular Liverpool actor – Michael Starke.

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