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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent

Banana-phobe Swedish minister’s staff insisted on ‘no traces in the room’

A bunch of bananas
Paulina Brandberg has called her aversion to bananas ‘the world’s weirdest phobia’. Photograph: Indigo photo agency/Alamy

A Swedish government minister’s fear of bananas has become a national talking point after emails revealed that such is the strength of her aversion that aides try to clear rooms of the fruit before she enters.

Paulina Brandberg, the minister for gender equality and work life, has previously spoken out about her issue with bananas, describing it as “the world’s weirdest phobia”.

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