Rishi’s breakfast whoppers leave egg on his face

It’s the scandal all Westminster is talking about. Appearing on ITV’s This Morning Rishi Sunak told viewers that if he goes to McDonald’s with his daughters they all get the breakfast wrap: ‘My eldest daughter, we get the wrap so if I’m with her that wrap with the hashbrown and everything in it is what we do.’

But as Times sleuth and self-proclaimed ‘breakfast wrap aficionado’ Geri Scott pointed out such wraps ‘were taken off the menu in March 2020 due to Covid.’ McDonald’s themselves are yet to weigh in on the row today but in January the fast-food chain’s official UK account confirmed that ‘bagels and breakfast wraps are officially gone from the menu’ declaring that ‘it’s now time to say “that’s a wrap.”‘

And there was Mr S thinking it was Burger King that sold Whoppers. There’s no word yet from team Sunak on whether he was ‘economical with the actualité‘ but today’s breakfast farce comes after similar silly-season storms about the former Chancellor buying petrol for someone else’s car and being unable to use contactless.

Still, at least it’s not as bad as fellow Tory Shaun Bailey, who when running for London mayor last year, named a pub that had been demolished 23 years previously as his favourite boozer in the capital.