
Kemi Badenoch has robustly defended her dislike of sandwiches, telling the ORIONEWS she was “pleased with my distinctive selections”.
In an interview with The Spectator, the Conservative chief mentioned: “I am not a sandwich particular person. I do not suppose sandwiches are an actual meals, it is what you have got for breakfast.”
Her feedback sparked a mini-political row with the prime minister’s spokesman defending sandwiches as a “nice British establishment”.
Requested about her stance whereas visiting a manufacturing facility in Essex, Badenoch mentioned: “I discover it fascinating how individuals are in what I’ve for lunch.”
She added: “I bought requested what I prefer to eat and I answered the query which is one thing Keir Starmer would not do.
“However extra significantly, we do must concentrate on the issues going flawed in nation proper now.”
Pressed on the topic, she added: “All of us have particular person tastes and distinctive preferences.
“This world the place we try to make everybody the identical after which complain if a politician says one thing that may be completely different is kind of flawed.
“I’m somebody who’s pleased with my distinctive selections, everybody needs to be, and we should always have a good time these variations.”
In her interview with The Spectator, Badenoch additionally mentioned she was “not a lunch particular person”.
Quoting the investor Gordon Gekko within the movie Wall Road, she mentioned “lunch is for wimps”.
“I’ve meals introduced in and I work and eat on the identical time… generally I’ll get a steak.”
She additionally mentioned she wouldn’t contact bread if “it’s moist”.
Power Secretary Ed Miliband – who attracted ridicule when he was photographed consuming a bacon sandwich in 2015 – instructed Sky Information he wished he might “have a cross-party consensus right here with Kemi Badenoch, however I am unable to”.
“You already know, I believe I would like to steer her of the delights of a bacon sandwich.”
Requested about her feedback, a No 10 spokesman mentioned the prime minister was “shocked to listen to that the chief of the opposition has a steak introduced in for lunch”.
“The prime minister is kind of pleased with a sandwich lunch.”