VEGGIE Keir Starmer has sparked controversy by confessing he scoffed a box of chicken – because he was hungry.
The Labour leader publicly says he has been a vegetarian for 30 years and did not let his children eat meat until they were ten.
But in a shock confession slipped out in a book by his pal Tom Baldwin, Sir Keir admits he ate the finger lickin’ treats after a long day out on the campaign trail.
He had been speaking at a curry night and sent away with a box of dinner to eat on his way home on the train from Sheffield to London.
As he sat down at the platform to dig into his tea he discovered it was chicken, but ate it anyway.
He said: “I opened it sitting on a freezing cold station platform and found it was chicken.
“I wasn’t going to get anything else at that time of night, so I ate every morsel – and very good it tasted too.”
Richard McIlwain, Chief Executive, the Vegetarian Society said: “In our view – a strict vegetarian would rather go hungry than eat meat.
“That said, at least Keir Starmer accepts this was a one-off.
“And to be frank we applaud anyone who takes action to cut down or cut out meat from their diet, even with the odd slip-up.”
Another vegetarian Westminster insider said: “This could become the most ill-fated meal eaten by a Labour leader since Ed Miliband’s bacon sandwich.”
Sir Keir has been a veggie for over 30 years – although he now eats fish.
He is appearing on Channel 4’s Sunday brunch on Sunday although The Sun on Sunday can reveal he is not cooking chicken.
