The Spectator asked the Tory leader — elected to the head of the U.K. opposition party in November — if she ever took a lunch break.
“What’s a lunch break? Lunch is for wimps,” she shot back. “I have food brought in and I work and eat at the same time. There’s no time … Sometimes I will get a steak.”
Badenoch added: “I’m not a sandwich person, I don’t think sandwiches are a real food, it’s what you have for breakfast.” The Tory leader went on to confirm that she “will not touch bread if it’s moist.”
That prompted a patriotic pushback from Starmer’s official spokesperson.
Asked by Westminster’s deadly serious journalists about the prime minister’s views on sandwiches Thursday, the spokesperson said: “I think he was surprised to hear that the leader of the opposition has a steak brought in for lunch. The prime minister is quite happy with a sandwich lunch.”
They said the sandwich is a “great British institution” — and cited figures from the British Sandwich Association suggesting the food raises £8 billion a year for the U.K. economy.
