Rishi Sunak invited members of the Tories Parliamentary Party’s hard and far right groupuscules for a breakfast meeting on Tuesday morning. It was to try and persaude them to be very slightly less racist about Sunak’s Rwanda scheme (latest version).
There had been speculation about what breakfast might consist. The suggestion of smoked salmon was dismissed as too Labour. An informal poll I ran found toast to be the most popular suggestion.
The BBC has reported that in reality bacon rolls were served (tomato or brown sauce optional). There does not appear to have been a vegetarian or vegan option which no doubt the MPs would have dismissed as Woke anyway. Jonathan Gullis was present so presumably he chewed the carpet instead.
The tradition of sandwiches at No.10 to try and resolve difficult issues goes back (at least) to the days of Harold Wilson’s Premiership in the 1960s (1964-1970). In 1966 he invited union leaders to No.10 with the aim of trying to resolve a seaman’s strike. Beer and sandwiches were on offer.
If any alcohol was on offer at Downing St today given the attendees it would presumably have been the Churchillian tipple of brandy
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