LABOUR received an unexpected boost yesterday when comic turned unlikely revolutionary Russell Brand came out to back the party. .

Mr Brand, who famously said that voting accomplished nothing and urged young people not to head for the polls, called on the electorate to engage in the democratic process.

In a video uploaded to his Trews website yesterday, Mr Brand systematically went through the options facing the electorate on Thursday reserving his strongest invective for the Tories, Lib Dems and Ukip.