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Eric Pickles and Jeremy Paxman mock Osborne’s Byron burger shot

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28th Jun 13 11:33 am

Chancellor George Osborne’s decision to tweet a photo of him eating a Byron burger on Tuesday night has caused a rash of parodies, with Cabinet colleague Eric Pickles and Newsnight host Jeremy Paxman joining in.

Just as Osborne enjoyed his burger when finishing off his spending review speech, Paxman was shown putting his own ā€œfinal touchesā€ to the script for Wednesday’s Newsnight. Instead of a posh burger, Paxman appears to be enjoying swan.

This came after Communities Secretary Eric Pickles made his own joke in putting out a photo of him ā€œputting final touchesā€ to a speech he was going to deliver to the Local Government Association. His food of choice? A salad.

Osborne responded to this barb by supportively retweeting Pickles’ post and commenting ā€œNice one Ericā€. This may have come as a reaction to Osborne poking fun at Pickles’ weight in offering back-handed praise to the minister as a ā€œmodel of lean governmentā€ in his spending review speech.

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