[Ammi]

Lunch breaks are for wimps, says Kemi Badenoch…

Kemi Badenoch has said lunch breaks are “for wimps”.

The Conservative leader revealed she brings in food to the office and eats while getting on with her work because “there is no time”.

She used a line from Wall Street’s Gordon Gekko when explaining that she does not spend time away from her desk for a midday meal.

Gekko, played by Michael Douglas in the 1987 film set in the world of New York corporate finance, famously declared: “Lunch is for wimps.” He was also known for the quote: “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.”

Mrs Badenoch also declared that she did not believe that sandwiches were a “real food” and that she “would not touch bread if it’s moist”.

Her revelations come after she was criticised during the summer for not attending hustings to spend time with her family.

Criticism over children

Christopher Chope, a Tory MP, sparked controversy when he said she was “too preoccupied with her children” to be leader of the opposition.

Asked about her down time since becoming leader, Mrs Badenoch told The Spectator: “What’s decompressing, what’s that? What’s a lunch break? Lunch is for wimps.

“I have food brought in and I work and eat at the same time. There’s no time.”

The Conservative Party leader, who worked at The Spectator before leaving in 2016, also revealed some of her lunch preferences, expressing a distaste for sandwiches.

In her interview with the magazine’s new editor, Michael Gove, and Katy Balls, its political editor, she said: “Sometimes I will get a steak... I’m not a sandwich person.

“I don’t think sandwiches are a real food, it’s what you have for breakfast. I will not touch bread if it’s moist.”

Mrs Badenoch became the leader of the Tories in November, after a lengthy leadership contest in which she ultimately beat her nearest rival Robert Jenrick, now her shadow justice secretary.

She put the embrace of capitalism at the centre of her pitch, and said that it should no longer be considered a “dirty word”.

The former business secretary became embroiled in a row over whether or not maternity pay was set at the right level for businesses, after suggesting that it was “excessive”.

Mrs Badenoch is said to have quit her job at The Spectator in 2016 because she felt it would be “unfair” to keep the post open while she went on maternity leave to have her second child.

She also joked during the interview for the Christmas edition of the Spectator that anybody who puts decorations up before 1 December “should be fined”.

“That’s my ban!” she added.

The Tory leader went on to criticise Sir Keir Starmer for revealing that he might watch Love Actually over the festive period, as she believed that the film has “quite a lot of dark undertones”.

“There is a British prime minister who’s messing around and is not doing the foreign policy properly, people are cheating and there is a lot going on there if you move away from the smiley, happy, cheesy stuff,” she said, adding that she prefers watching Die Hard.

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[Crimson Dynamo]

im sure she said this in jest and frankly I would not expect the PM to have a lunch break tbh

[Liam-]

She’s the gift that keeps on giving

[Ray.]

Well that'll endear her to the common worker, I'm sure.

[bots]

it may have been a joke, but having worked in the city, i've experienced people glaring as our squad headed out to the pub for lunch and i know who was happier at the end of the day

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by bots

it may have been a joke, but having worked in the city, i've experienced people glaring as our squad headed out to the pub for lunch and i know who was happier at the end of the day

Those were the days pub lunchs and back to the office afterwards wonder if that still happens

[Cherie]

If Kemi were on the left, anyone criticising her would be called racist, that said she is terrible at PMQs

[bots]

Kemi won't be leader next year

[Beso]

Pick up your steak for lunch, and jump in my get to **** bin alongside starmer.

Its reform for me from here on in.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Christmas Dynamo

im sure she said this in jest and frankly I would not expect the PM to have a lunch break tbh

Of course
I would not make a thread on this


Had to be a Pigeon
pecking at this.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by arista

Of course
I would not make a thread on this


Had to be a Pigeon
pecking at this.

Always trying to ruffle a few feathers that one

[bots]

it's a load of guano.....

[Crimson Dynamo]

I had a homing Pigeon once

I sold it 24 times

[arista]

Originally Posted by Christmas Dynamo

I had a homing Pigeon once

I sold it 24 times

clever buggers

[Glenn.]

She’s lovely isn’t she

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Good King Glennceslas

She’s lovely isn’t she

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by arista

Of course
I would not make a thread on this


Had to be a Pigeon
pecking at this.

……it’s good to chirp in with a thread now and again, sir…

[Oliver_W]

#LetThemEatSteak

[Vanessa]

Lunch breaks are very important. We always take them.

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Cherie Christmas

If Kemi were on the left, anyone criticising her would be called racist, that said she is terrible at PMQs

Didn't you used to say you were a labour voter?

That's not true, is it now? David Lammy is criticised more by the left than by weirdo centrists or the right, so there's that.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

Didn't you used to say you were a labour voter?

That's not true, is it now? David Lammy is criticised more by the left than by weirdo centrists or the right, so there's that.

Nope, I have voted Labour in the past but I wouldn't say I have been a consistent Labour voter, I have voted Lib Dem, Independent and spoiled my vote so what would YOU call that seeing as you know so much about me, also I voted to REMAIN,I know you decided because you like to pigeon hole everyone that I voted to leave

[Cherie]

Also what is so weird about being on the centre?

[Beso]

Originally Posted by Cherie Christmas

Also what is so weird about being on the centre?

Said the Rose's hazelnut and caramel to the Rose's caramel.

Sorry, I've been eating Rosie's today.

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Cherie Christmas

Also what is so weird about being on the centre?

Because it's not really a true ideology. The centre basically always capitulates to the right, but they just don't want to admit they love the cruelty.

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Cherie Christmas

Nope, I have voted Labour in the past but I wouldn't say I have been a consistent Labour voter, I have voted Lib Dem, Independent and spoiled my vote so what would YOU call that seeing as you know so much about me, also I voted to REMAIN,I know you decided because you like to pigeon hole everyone that I voted to leave

Difficult to try and decipher what you mean here, because this post is verging on incoherent, but the bit in bold is not true. I've never said you voted leave. And I can't pigeon hole you to other people. Complete nonsense.

How have you deduced that I believe I know so much about you? I just remember you saying previously you were a labour voter, but it's going to be from years ago, so I could easily be completely misremembering, which is why I posed it as a question, rather than a definitive statement.