{"id":194631,"date":"2024-12-13T16:30:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T16:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/13\/im-happy-with-my-unique-choices-says-badenoch-after-sandwich-row\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T16:30:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T16:30:41","slug":"im-happy-with-my-unique-choices-says-badenoch-after-sandwich-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/13\/im-happy-with-my-unique-choices-says-badenoch-after-sandwich-row\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m happy with my unique choices, says Badenoch after sandwich row"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kemi Badenoch has robustly defended her dislike of sandwiches, telling the BBC she was “happy with my unique choices”.<\/p>\n

In an interview with The Spectator,<\/a> the Conservative leader said: “I’m not a sandwich person. I don’t think sandwiches are a real food, it’s what you have for breakfast.”<\/p>\n

Her comments sparked a mini-political row with the prime minister’s spokesman defending sandwiches as a “great British institution”. <\/p>\n

Asked about her stance while visiting a factory in Essex, Badenoch said: “I find it fascinating how interested people are in what I have for lunch.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She added: “I got asked what I like to eat and I answered the question which is something Keir Starmer doesn’t do.<\/p>\n

“But more seriously, we do need to focus on the things going wrong in country right now.”<\/p>\n

Pressed on the subject, she added: “We all have individual tastes and unique preferences.<\/p>\n

“This world where we try and make everyone the same and then complain if a politician says something that might be different is quite wrong.<\/p>\n

“I am someone who is happy with my unique choices, everyone should be, and we should celebrate those differences.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In her interview with The Spectator, Badenoch also said she was “not a lunch person”. <\/p>\n

Quoting the investor Gordon Gekko<\/a> in the film Wall Street, she said “lunch is for wimps”.<\/p>\n

“I have food brought in and I work and eat at the same time… sometimes I will get a steak.”<\/p>\n

She also said she would not touch bread if “it is moist”.<\/p>\n

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband – who attracted ridicule<\/a> when he was photographed eating a bacon sandwich in 2015 – told Sky News he wished he could “have a cross-party consensus here with Kemi Badenoch, but I can’t”.<\/p>\n

“You know, I think I need to persuade her of the delights of a bacon sandwich.”<\/p>\n

Asked about her comments, a No 10 spokesman said the prime minister was “surprised to hear that the leader of the opposition has a steak brought in for lunch”.<\/p>\n

“The prime minister is quite happy with a sandwich lunch.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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