The former business secretary, who is running to lead the Conservative Party in the upcoming election, claimed that the work she started at the age of sixteen had a “humility” to it, recalling days spent “flipping hamburgers” and cleaning restrooms.
She said that her experience working at McDonald’s was the “first time I ever interacted properly with people who didn’t come from the sort of background that I came from” on Chopper’s Political Podcast with Christopher Hope.
“I grew up in a middle class family, but when I was sixteen and started working at McDonald’s, I became a working class person,” Ms. Badenoch stated.
merely realizing the sheer number of single parents who relied on their jobs to make ends meet.
There’s also humility there. The toilets needed to be cleaned by hand; no professional cleaners were sent. You had to manage money, flip hamburgers, and clean bathrooms.
Online, one Labour MP questioned Ms. Badenoch’s assertion that she “became working class” after her remarks went viral.
The MP for Rhondda and Ogmore, Chris Bryant, shared a podcast clip and remarked, “I’m not sure that’s how it works.”
