Nigel Farage hits back at Kemi Badenoch after claiming lunch is ‘for wimps’: ‘It’s nonsense!’
Nigel Farage has branded Kemi Badenoch’s recent comments about lunch being “for wimps” as “nonsense” during a scathing response on GB News.
The Reform UK leader took aim at Badenoch’s interview with The Spectator, where she defended herself against accusations of not working hard enough.
The Tory leader claimed: “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. I’m not a sandwich person, I don’t think sandwiches are a real food. It’s what you have for breakfast.”
“I’m beginning to lose the plot,” Farage told GB News viewers, expressing his bewilderment at the Business Secretary’s remarks.
Farage questioned the practicality of Badenoch’s claims, particularly regarding lunch habits.
“How do you have a steak brought in? I’ve never heard anything like it. Is there a takeaway steak service that I’ve never heard of?” he asked during his GB News appearance.
The former Brexit campaigner appeared particularly perplexed by the logistics of Badenoch’s lunch arrangements.
“I literally couldn’t help it because I thought I might respond at lunchtime today to her claim that lunch is for wimps,” he said.
Farage emphasised the universal nature of sandwich lunches in British culture.
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“I think everybody from school kids to people going out for the day to people working at their desk to people heading off to the building site, we all have sandwiches for lunch,” he told GB News viewers.
The former MEP suggested that sandwiches remain a fundamental part of British lunchtime habits.
Defending the remarks, former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng claimed that the comments were “light-hearted” and accused people of getting “over-excited” about the remarks.
Kwarteng explained: “It was light-hearted. I think people are getting slightly overexcited about it.
“The problem is, the one complaint about politicians is that they’re not real people, they don’t say what they think.”
He added: “She says what she thinks – to her and other people, we don’t eat sandwiches.
“Back in the day, as I’m sure you were in the city, we used to eat sandwiches the whole time, if you didn’t have a big boozy lunch. But it was slightly light-hearted and she is a very capable politician.”