Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 1d

As Andy Burnham fulfils the contractual obligation of a British PM to be photographed with a pint within the first 3 days of taking office, a question, for the true political anoraks. Who was the first holder of that office to be photographed with a pint? Bonus points for who was last not to be. 📸🍺

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@edinburghjdawg.bsky.social · 1d

Alec Douglas Home? Perhaps too short a tenure and more of a sherry man?

Brian McRoberts · 1d

Hmm Ted Heath or Winston Churchill.

Anthony Cunningham · 1d

Did Truss have enough time in office to do the pub photoshoot?

Elaine Hutton · 1d

Andy! I have quite a few chores to attend to today. I really just don’t have the time to be googling ‘Edward Heath pint’ and going down an internet rabbit hole….

MacFeagle · 1d

There wasn't time to pull a pint of Guiness properly during Truss's premiership.

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Julian Le Vay · 1d

Wilson first. Thatcher not.

Johnny McBob (Maigret arc) · 1d

I think as Ramsay MacDonald was teetotal it'll be Neville Chamberlain but I cannot find a picture

Ian Fraser · 1d

Harold Macmillan?

SanguinePar · 1d

Has to be Truss for the last one not to be. First one to be... total guess, Bonar Law.

Hugh Pumphrey · 1d

Google does not turn up any photos of "PM with pint" any earlier than Macmillan (as per @ianfraser.bsky.social 's post) Since then, the latest PM where I cannot easily find such a picture is Callaghan. (Baptist background --- maybe he didn't drink?) There are many "Wilson with pint" photos.

Noise Research · 1d

Meanwhile he lets the US use British airbases to bomb innocent civilians in Iran and supports a genocidal war criminal in charge of Israel. What a f**king let down 👎