HP Sauce

Certainly I'm not, in the sense that I'm a government minister and I have a

I would remind you, HP Sauce has gone up by 9% over the last 12 months, Chancellor.

I mean, you must have felt the pressure of that.

Well, I've certainly bought one or two bottles of HP Sauce in the last few months.

All right.

You also talked about the importance of enterprise.

was when, incredibly, under Gordon Brown, the production of brown sauce left the United Kingdom.

Chancellor, can you give an assurance you'll do everything you can to get the production back in the United Kingdom? God, I'd love to do that.

So I think actually while they're munching on their chicken korma and their lamb jalfrezi or whatever their order is.

With HP sauce in as well.

Oh, no, no, surely not.

He's bound to.

We know that John Healy likes HP sauce, but surely that's for bacon and sausage sandwiches and not for curry.

We'll ask him.

You'd hope so.

And as the tricky decisions mount up, whether his everyday fixes cut the mustard with Polly.

And we're also going to talk about John Healey's addiction to HP sauce, not mustard.

Look, an important message comes via Spotify from Steve with a PH, he says.

Steve with a PH.

So I think we have to separate this sense of what does immigration control, immigration enforcement look like? And what is our actual policy for who we want in the country? And they're really very different.

Okay, look, in a moment, we're going to be talking about Andy Burnham's small ideas.

We're also going to talk about the Chancellor's HP sauce addiction.

That's all still to come here on How to Win an Election.

And I absolutely loved it.

And this week since getting home, I've had Brussels pâté on toast with HP Sauce.

And, um, it was very good.

Very good.

I also just learned this week, by the way, Sarah told me, that HP Sauce stands for Houses of Parliament.

Why does HP mean Houses of Parliament on sauce? I don't know why it's called Houses of Parliament sauce, but it is.

I'm Googling it now.

The sauce was invented in 1894 by Frederick Gibson Garton, a grocer from Nottingham.

HPP wouldn't have helped you.

It almost turned into HP sauce.

It was so old.

That's impressive though, Zach.

Yeah, very cool, Jay.

You didn't think I was going to know anything about HPP, eh?

No, I thought you were going to go to the HP sauce.

Remember HPP? What's it stand for?

Of course.

We did, we, we, we really went into the weeds when we did HP Sauce.

We've, we've got to, we, we've really got to give beans the due that it deserves.

Oh, yes.

Sorry, I wasn't meant to say Worcestershire.

I meant, um, HP sauce.

HP sauce.

It's kinda like Worcestershire, isn't it?

Yeah, that's why I got the two quite confused.

I, I like the...

I don't know.

I, I felt a little bit different having everyone else had tomato and I had HP sauce.