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UK Prime Minister Theresa May gives up crisps for the religious austerity period, but can Donald Trump refrain from tweeting?
UK Prime Minister Theresa May may be facing crunch talks as she leads Britain out of the EU, but it won’t be because she’s munching on potato crisps. At the same time as the Financial Times warned in an editorial that the UK government was "facing the limits of austerity", she introduced an austerity measure of her own – she is giving up crisps for Lent. It’s not clear how serious her habit is – a Number 10 spokesman said her favourite flavour of the crunchy snack is salt and vinegar, but was unable to say how often May indulges, telling reporters: "I don’t know how many packets of crisps the prime minister consumes per week, per day or per month, but she will be giving them up." Christians traditionally deny themselves a favourite treat over the Lent period from Ash Wednesday – which this year falls on March 1 – to Easter Sunday, to mark Jesus’s 40 days of fasting in the desert. The story was on the front page of the dour Daily Telegraph on Wednesday, so it is presumably not fake n...
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