Prime Minister Theresa May still shops at a village butchers where a favourite buy for her is herby sausages made on the premises, writes Sue Corcoran.
Brexit and world problems can wait when Mrs May calls in to enjoy the normality of buying her meat at Jennings the Butchers at Hurst – something she’s done for around
15 years.
Prime Minister’s support
Butcher David Jennings, 57, said: “She amazed me when she called in just after being voted Prime Minister. She apologised and said she wouldn’t be able to come so often.
“But then she turned up again a few days later. She apologised again, but this time for buying just six sausages. She makes the effort to come in, it’s commendable.”
The May menu also boasts Jennings bacon, chicken thighs and a bit of steak.
David jokes that Mrs May talked to him one morning and then Barack Obama in China later that day. He wondered if Mrs May, who lives in Sonning, had commended his meat to her fellow world leader.
“I get on very well with her, I do poke gentle fun at her and she gives it back. We have a bit of fun.
“She’s a lovely lady, very professional and very nice,” he said.
A Jennings customer, surprised to see Mrs May, then dined out on how he’d held the door open for the Prime Minister to leave.
Another customer, ahead of her in the queue, was devastated to hear later he managed to leave without spotting her.
Customers have speculated whether the Prime Minister would recommend Hurst meat to other famous Sonning residents, film star George Clooney and Jimmy Page of rock band Led Zeppelin.
They concluded they were probably on different dinner party circuits.
