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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Catherine Bennett

I found out the hard way the secret of Sunak’s Monday blunders – a 36-hour fast

Screen shot of Rishi Sunak on ITV's This Morning show with a caption reading: The prime minister on intermittent fasting
Rishi Sunak told This Morning that fasting helps with his ‘balanced lifestyle’. Photograph: ITV

God knows how Rishi Sunak feels on mornings when he’s not eaten for 16 hours and there’s still over half a 36-hour fast to go. Better than I did, presumably. But I’m not sure. It was probably around that time on a Monday – when, as I understand it, his body would have entered the longed-for fat-burning stage – that Sunak exhumed the disgraced David Cameron and called that abomination a triumph.

What day was it, I now wonder, that Sunak agreed to release a Home Alone-style Christmas video of him frolicking boyishly in Downing Street? Ah. It was “posted on social media at teatime on Monday”.

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