Rachel Reeves prefers to save £5 on making own cheese sandwich rather than eating Pret lunch

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Susanna Siddell

By Susanna Siddell


Published: 07/03/2025

- 12:30

The Labour Chancellor has snubbed top politicians' favoured lunches

Rachel Reeves has revealed that she ops to make her own cheese sandwich at home to take to work - in a devastating snub to her Tory colleagues' own preferences.

The Labour Chancellor has revealed that she tends to "live up to my sort of reputation of believing in value for money" and regularly chows down on a cheese sandwich in No11.



Reeves said that it "doesn't take long and you save £5 for the process".

However, she did admit she would rendez-vous to Pret A Manger on occasion, according to Sky News.

Rachel Reeves

However, she did admit she would rendez-vous to Pret A Manger on occasion, she told Sky News

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This will surely come as a blow to former foreign secretary Dominic Raab who was renowned for his adoration for Pret's baguettes - namely the chicken Caesar sandwich.

The former MP's diary secretary claimed that he ordered the same lunch everyday and told The Mirror: "He has the chicken Caesar and bacon baguette, SuperFruit pot and the Vitamin Volcano smoothie, every day. He is so weird. It's the Dom Raab Special."

However, Raab brushed off the allegation, insisting that he did indeed have different lunches during his time in Westminster.

"I've been tempted by the spicy Italian baguette from Subway," he told the BBC.

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An array of his former Cabinet peers were known for their love of the popular coffee chain - including Rishi Sunak, Jeremy Hunt and Priti Patel.

The Chancellor's invaluable lunchtime insight has put her head-to-head with Kemi Badenoch who has recently ruffled feathers with her controversial rebuttal of sandwiches, branding them as "not a real food" - opting for a rare steak instead.

The MP even made the bold declaration that lunch was for "wimps" and that breakfast was a far superior meal.

Badenoch declared: "I'm not a sandwich person, I don't think sandwiches are a real food, it's what you have for breakfast... I will not touch bread if it is moist."

Kemi Badenoch; Rachel Reeves

The Chancellor's lunchtime insight has put her head-to-head with Kemi Badenoch on the topic of sandwiches

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Recounting the Leader of the Opposition's preference for steak at lunch, Reeves said: "I didn't go upstairs to make myself a steak... I haven't got that much time on my hands."

Badenoch fell in the minority as cross-party support for sandwiches was quick to be established across the Chamber.

The day before the General Election, Rishi Sunak said he was a "big sandwich person", while Sir Keir Starmer branded the bready meal as a "great British institution".

Reform leader Nigel Farage jumped on the sandwich bandwagon too, telling GB News that it ties together the community.

"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 the People's Channel.