RAYNAEKemi Badenoch has robustly defended her dislike of sandwiches, telling the RAYNAE she was “proud of my distinctive decisions”.
In an interview with The Spectator, the Conservative chief mentioned: “I am not a sandwich particular person. I do not assume sandwiches are an actual meals, it is what you might have 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 wish to eat and I answered the query which is one thing Keir Starmer would not do.
“However extra significantly, we do must deal with the issues going improper 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 is perhaps completely different is sort of improper.
“I’m somebody who’s proud of my distinctive decisions, everybody must be, and we should always rejoice 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 similar time… generally I’ll get a steak.”
She additionally mentioned she wouldn’t contact bread if “it’s moist”.
Vitality Secretary Ed Miliband – who attracted ridicule when he was photographed consuming a bacon sandwich in 2015 – informed Sky Information he wished he may “have a cross-party consensus right here with Kemi Badenoch, however I am unable to”.
“, I feel I want to influence 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 sort of proud of a sandwich lunch.”
