John Healey carries a bottle of HP Sauce in his briefcase - politicians’ other food quirks in photos

We've taken a look back at unusual moments that politicians seem to have with food - from vomiting over another country's Prime Minister, to cutting into a hot dog

by · The Mirror
HP sauce may be an acquired taste for some, but for John Healey, it’s practically a daily requirement - complete with its own place in his briefcase.
The Labour Chancellor’s love of the brown sauce reportedly extended to keeping a bottle on a coaster on his desk. But the most amusing moment came during a Greggs stop in Scotland, when he bought a sausage roll and pulled his trusty bottle from his briefcase.
He previously said: “I suppose a politician’s answer would be that I’m an MP so I carry HP sauce. But the hard truth of it is that I love HP sauce – and these days, you often get a brown-sauce substitute.”
Though usually stuck to his hip, the bottle hasn’t always made it through his travels. Healey admitted it had occasionally been confiscated at airport security after falling foul of liquid restrictions.(Image:Paul Reid/Press Association)
A cone of chips is a seaside staple, you'd think everyone would have indulged in one at least once in their life. But Theresa May made eating one look far more demanding during a campaign visit to Cornwall in 2017.
The then prime minister was pictured sheepishly picking out individual chips, looking less than comfortable in front of the cameras.
Perhaps being watched while eating was the problem. Still, as the country’s leader, she surely faced more uneasy moments to save that expression for.(Image:AFP/Getty Images)
KFC’s “finger lickin’ good” slogan offers a fairly clear nudge about how to eat its chicken. But that seemed to have gone over Donald Trump’s head.
In 2016, the then presidential candidate shared a photograph of himself tucking into KFC on his private plane, with a knife and fork poised over his fried chicken. If he had it over the accompanied mash and gravy, that could've been understandable.
But the attempt to seem like a ordinary man did not convince many.(Image:Twitter/X/)