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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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'I will not touch bread if it is moist': Kemi Badenoch sparks Westminster food fight

A cheese toastie
Starmer ‘enjoys a tuna sandwich and occasionally a cheese toastie’. Photograph: Sergejs Rahunoks/Alamy

In a row likely to generate more debate than many of their exchanges over the dispatch box, the prime minister has hailed the humble sandwich as “a great British institution” after Kemi Badenoch denounced the lunchtime staple as “not real food”.

In an interview with the Spectator, the leader of the opposition channelled her inner Gordon Gekko to declare: “Lunch is for wimps. I have food brought in and I work and eat at the same time. There’s no time…Sometimes I will get a steak,” she said.

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