Rishi Sunak details his McDonald's breakfast order back in 2022
After facing down Tory rebels in a confident show of authority this week, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been dealt a double helping of good news by none other than McDonald's.
A No. 10 source has revealed Mr Sunak is “very excited” by the fast food chain’s announcement that they will shortly be reviving a much-loved breakfast menu item - one which caused the Prime Minister a headache during his leadership battle against Liz Truss.
Speaking on ITV’s This Morning during the 2022 Tory leadership election, Mr Sunak was asked what his typical McDonald’s order is.
The then-leadership hopeful revealed that that morning he had eaten a bacon roll with ketchup and pancakes.
However he added for good measure: “If I’m with my daughters then we get the wrap.
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Mr Sunak is "very excited" about the return of his favourite breakfast item (Image: This Morning, ITV)
“My eldest daughter – if I’m with her, it’s the wrap with hash browns and everything in it. It’s what we do.”
Unfortunately for Mr Sunak, loyal fans of the restaurant chain soon pointed out the breakfast wrap had been discontinued two years prior, when they slimmed down their menu amid the Covid pandemic.
A source from Mr Sunak’s campaign was forced to defend their candidate, claiming: “Given he’s barely seen his kids in the last two-and-half years since he became chancellor it’s not beyond the wit of man that he hasn’t had a McDonald’s with them in that time."
The breakfast blunder wasn’t the only McDonald’s-related faux pas to irk his Summer campaign against Ms Truss.
The day prior Mr Sunak posted an Instagram Story attempting to make light of his infamous contactless payment error at a petrol station the previous March.
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The popular menu item will return next month (Image: McDonald's)
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Snapped in front of a McDonald’s self-checkout machine holding his card to the reader, Mr Sunak captioned the jokey image: “Nailed it”.
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Questions were raised given the screen already said “thank you for your order”, and the machine had printed out the receipt, indicating the food had already been paid for and the photo taken subsequently.
At the time, Liz Truss’ campaign compared the incidents to the infamous David Cameron blunder, when he said he’d previously bought a pasty from Leeds Train Station, only for it to be revealed no pasty shop had ever existed there.
The Breakfast Wrap Mr Sunak and his daughters enjoy will return to McDonald’s menus from February 7 this year after a four-year hiatus.
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