Sir Keir Starmer has defended the “Great British institution” of the sandwich after Tory chief Kemi Badenoch mentioned the lunchtime staple just isn’t “real food”.
The controversy emerged following an interview Ms Badenoch did with The Spectator journal.
Within the chat, she was requested if she took a lunch break.
The journal says she replied: “What’s a lunch break? Lunch is for wimps.
“I’ve meals introduced in and I work and eat on the similar time.
“There’s no time… Sometimes I will get a steak…
“I am not a sandwich particular person, I do not assume sandwiches are an actual meals, it is what you’ve for breakfast.”
And Ms Badenoch said that she “is not going to contact bread if it is moist”.
Asked by journalists about the prime minister’s views on sandwiches, Sir Keir’s spokesperson said: “I feel he was shocked to listen to that the chief of the opposition has a steak introduced in for lunch.
“The prime minister is quite happy with a sandwich lunch.”
The spokesperson mentioned the sandwich is a “great British institution” and, in accordance with the British Sandwich Affiliation, raises £8bn a yr for the UK financial system.
Sir Keir “enjoys a tuna sandwich and occasionally a cheese toastie”, in accordance with his spokesperson.
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Sir Keir Starmer is alleged to get pleasure from a tuna sandwich. Pic: iStock
Hitting again on the prime minister, Ms Badenoch criticised him for having time to “respond to my jokes about lunch” whereas not “having time for farmers”.
Ms Badenoch’s predecessor Rishi Sunak held very totally different views on lunch, branding himself “a big sandwich person” and saying they had been his “favourite meal” – particularly a membership sandwich with chips and a coke.
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In 2022, former Tory MP Dominic Raab additionally discovered himself in a slice of lunch-adjacent hassle when he denied throwing tomatoes at an aide.
He additionally denied that he ate the identical noon meal daily – a rooster Caesar and bacon baguette, a superfruit pot and vitamin volcano smoothie from Pret a Manger.
Mr Raab did concede that he does “love a good chicken Caesar baguette from Pret” – though he had been “tempted by the spicy Italian baguette from Subway”.
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Maybe essentially the most notorious sandwich scandal was when Ed Miliband was Labour chief.
The now vitality secretary was captured at an inopportune second whereas consuming a bacon sarnie, and the image got here to hang-out his time in workplace – and nonetheless circulates to today.
