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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nina Lloyd

Toastie-loving Starmer hits back at Badenoch’s claim sandwiches ‘not real food’

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer (right) tours an Iceland supermarket in Warrington (Stefan Rousseau/PA) - (PA Archive)

Toastie-loving Sir Keir Starmer views the sandwich as a “great British institution”, Downing Street has said after Kemi Badenoch dismissed the dish as not “real food”.

Number 10 said the Prime Minister was “surprised” to learn that his opposite number instead occasionally has a steak brought in for lunch after she talked about her eating habits in an interview.

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