More Brits would quite share a kebab with Keir Starmer than Rishi Sunak, a brand new ballot has discovered.
The survey, performed forward of this week’s British Kebab Awards, checked out British politics by means of the lens of the doner – and located the Labour chief was a most well-liked eating companion to the Prime Minister by 13% to 11%. Ahead of each occasion leaders have been disgraced ex-PM Boris Johnson, who led the ballot on 25% and Nigel Farage on 18%.
Conservative voters are nonetheless enamoured with Mr Johnson, with 40% selecting him to share a kebab with, forward of Mr Farage and Mr Sunak on 22% every. But Labour voters have been way more open to crossing the political divide for his or her eating companions, with their high 4 selections being Mr Starmer (29%), Mr Johnson (19%), deputy Labour chief Angela Rayner (17%) and Farage (12%).
Tories are a lot much less prone to need to share a kebab with left-leaning politicians – their high 3 are Mr Johnson (40%), Mr Farage (22%) and Mr Sunak (22%), with Ms Rayner in 4th on simply 4%. Ibrahim Dogus, Founder of the British Kebab Awards, commented: “As we gear up for the 12th edition of the British Kebab Awards, it’s great to see that people across the nation and of all political leanings can agree that a kebab is something to be enjoyed.”
The ballot additionally discovered the standard doner was the nation’s favorite kebab, with almost 50% of these polled selecting a pitta of shaved minced lamb over chargrilled chunks of meat.But the nation is much less choosy in the case of sauces, with a close to even break up between garlic (25%), chili (20%) and chili and garlic (22%) – though 16% want no sauce in any respect.
Labour voters are larger kebab shoppers, with 45% consuming kebabs at the least on a month-to-month foundation in comparison with 41% for Conservative voters.