I'm not a sandwich person. I don't think sandwiches are a real food, it's what you have for breakfast." Asked about her comments, No 10 said Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer viewed sandwiches as a "great British institution".

The prime minister's favourite sandwich is tuna but he "occasionally" indulges in a cheese toastie - a revelation that comes after Kemi Badenoch criticised sandwiches as "not real food".

The Tory leader says lunch is for wimps and sandwiches are not "real food" whereas the Prime Minister likes a cheese toastie

Kemi Badenoch has hit out at the idea of sandwiches, saying she doesn’t consider them to be a real food as she declared lunchtime is ‘for wimps’. In an interview with The Spectator to mark her first month as leader of the opposition,