Radcliffe shares views with gay magazine

London, July 24 (IANS) He doesn't like Prime Minister Gordon Brown or opposition leader David Cameron and he is a Liberal Democrat -- "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe revealed all this and much more in an interview to a gay magazine.

According to thesun.co.uk, Radcliffe got candid about his political views while speaking to the magazine Attitude. He also appears on its cover.

The 20-year-old actor, who is not gay and is dating actress Laura O'Toole, made it clear that he was not fond of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown or opposition leader David Cameron.

"I just loathe homophobia. It's just disgusting and animal and stupid and it's just thick people who can't get their heads around it and are just scared. I grew up around gay people entirely. I was the only child in my class who had any experience of homosexuality or anything like that," he said.

He said he supported Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg. "I rather like Nick Clegg. At the next election I will almost certainly vote Lib Dem. If all the people who liked them voted for them you could change politics overnight and we could have a proper three party system."

When asked about Gordon Brown, Radcliffe said: "Paul Merton said, and I agree with him, 'it's a tragedy that this man has waited all his life to do this job and now he finds out he can't do it'. I don't like the New Labour thing. I never experienced the optimism of New Labour, I was too young, but I hear everyone was up and it was fantastic. I've only seen the bad years of it." Click the Movie button below for more info:
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