Fighter’s food

How do Prime Ministers relax in a crisis, if they can at all? William Pitt the Younger, who oversaw the early stages of the Napoleonic Wars, consumed so much port that he exacerbated the gout that historians think probably killed him. David Lloyd George was a philanderer, Winston Churchill drank champagne in bed and Margaret Thatcher liked a late-night whisky.

Theresa May disclosed yesterday that one of her “little indulgences” was peanut butter, which she sometimes eats straight from the jar on a spoon, although she insists that she doesn’t “spend the entire day doing it”. Given the remarkable stamina that the Prime Minister has shown over the past two gruelling years maybe we should all be eating it.