Chancellor John Healey visited the Two Chairmen pub in Westminster after his Budget speech for a beer.
The pint has attracted media attention, perhaps firstly because he downed the pint in (reportedly) 12 seconds and secondly because he held the empty glass over his head.
A Times Editorial (30th October) tut-tutted that this was not appropriate behaviour.
The real story is more interesting.
The beer was from a small independent brewery, Chantry, based in Rotherham, Healey’s Constituency. Chancellor’s Choice was on the bar as a guest (its a Greene King pub). Healey has previously visited and supported the brewery. It was of course a pint of cask beer. Drinking a keg beer so quickly while perhaps not impossible it would have been even more impressive.
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