Fit for office: how politicians have fought battles with the bulge
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David Cameron has become the latest top politician forced to literally get fit for office.
The former PM, who made a dramatic return to politics last year, has found that polls are not the only numbers politicians have to watch carefully.
The image-conscious peer is said to have been forced into action due to the number of diplomatic food functions he attends as Foreign Secretary while jetting around the world.
He is said to be trying to get through the day with just a porridge and fruit breakfast, an apple and plenty of black coffee as he tries to sort out the fighting in the Middle East and bolster support for Ukraine in its fight against Russia.
In his first week in his new job he attended a state banquet for the South Korean president at Buckingham Palace, where the menu included a warm tartlet of soft poached egg and spinach puree; breast of Windsor pheasant with croquette of celeriac and calvados sauce; and mango ice cream bombe, washed down with an assortment of wines.
It is not the first time he has tackled the weighty issue of how to stay in shape. Before the 2015 election he gave up bread and started running every other day in what he described as a 'great patriotic struggle' with his waistline.
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The former PM, who made a dramatic return to politics last year, has found that polls are not the only numbers politicians have to watch carefully. His is pictured left in 2013 and right this year
In his first week in his new job he attended a state banquet for the South Korean president at Buckingham Palace, where the menu included a warm tartlet of soft poached egg and spinach puree; breast of Windsor pheasant with croquette of celeriac and calvados sauce; and mango ice cream bombe, washed down with an assortment of wines.
Lord Cameron running in St James's Park earlier this month
But it appears to have worked, as he won the election to hand the Tories their first majority government since 1997.
It comes in the wake of Rishi Sunak's admission that he fasts for 36 hours at the start of every week.
Alongside Rishi and Lord Cameron, ministers including Michael Gove are often pictured running, while Labour's Keir Starmer is often pictured playing five-a-side football despite being 61.
In an image conscious time, looking fit and healthy is increasingly part of the political profile - they need to prove they are literally fit for high office.
But they are far from the only politicians who have shed the pounds for power. A string of portly politicos found successful battles with the bulge.
Nigel Lawson
Margaret Thatcher's former chancellor Lord Lawson was probably the first high-profile politicians to lose weight, and was so successful he published a book about it.
After quitting frontline politics in the late 1980s the five-foot nine-inch Tory decided that the only growth he liked was economic.
He slimmed from a rotund 17 stone to 12 stone in a matter of months, resulting in better health and the Nigel Lawson Diet Book - which came out two years before the first cook book by his daughter, Nigella.
And he managed to keep the weight off into his old age.
‹ Slide me ›
After quitting frontline politics in the late 1980s the five-foot nine-inch Tory decided that the only growth he liked was economic. He slimmed from a rotund 17 stone to 12 stone in a matter of months and kept the weight off.
It resulted in better health and the Nigel Lawson Diet Book - which came out two years before the first cook book by his daughter, Nigella.
In keeping with his Thatcherite principles, he scoffed at the idea of government intervention to help the fat to lose weight.
He once told the House of Lords: 'I speak from personal experience. The problem of obesity is simply a matter of eating less and drinking less and that is 100 per cent a matter of willpower.
'It is not a matter of giving more money to local authorities, much as I understand their desire to have that.'
Tom Watson
Labour's former deputy leader shed an impressive six stone in just nine months. But at a huge cost - he had to drink coffee with butter in it.
He revealed he reversed his Type 2 diabetes and lost seven stone after going on the Keto Xplode Erfahrungsberichte diet.
The Labour deputy leader, 51, said he went on the drastic weight loss regime after his weight soared to 22 stone.
He said he feared that he would die young and leave his two young children without a father unless he made a radical change to his lifestyle.
So he ditched the beer and curries he had survived on while working in Westminster and adopted the brutal regime involves shunning sugar, cutting out carbs and exercising.
‹ Slide me ›
Labour's former deputy leader shed an impressive six stone in just nine months. But at a huge cost - he had to drink coffee with butter in it. He revealed he reversed his Type 2 diabetes and lost seven stone after going on the Keto diet.
One part of Mr Watson's regime was 'bulletproof coffee', made using butter. The saturated fats are said to prevent you getting hungry during the day.
He said that the weight loss had been a 'transformational experience' and had 'lifted a brain fog that I didn't know was there'.
'I feel like my mental acuity has improved, almost like my IQ has improved. I feel much sharper.'
It was a transformation he required as he tried to keep Labour on a even keel under the leadership of hard Left icon Jeremy Corbyn. He quit the Commons in 2019 and later became a life peer.
Nicholas Soames
Like his famous grandfather Winston Churchill, Nicholas Soames cut a larger than life figure in the Commons.
The war time leader was famous for his prodigious appetite for food and booze and Sir Nicholas appeared to have followed in his footsteps, with the former minister for food once weighing in at 20 stone.
But he surprised Westminster in 2016 when he displayed a much reduced figure contained within his trademark double-breasted suits.
‹ Slide me ›
The war time leader was famous for his prodigious appetite for food and booze and Sir Nicholas appeared to have followed in his footsteps, with the former minister for food once weighing in at 20 stone. But he surprised Westminster in 2016 when he displayed a much reduced figure contained within his trademark double-breasted suits.
Like his famous grandfather Winston Churchill, Nicholas Soames cut a larger than life figure in the Commons.
He lost the weight in the space of a year, leading to some claims that he had undergone gastric band surgery.
But the then Conservative MP for Mid Sussex - now a peer - is said to have lost weight through 'restraint and abstinence'.
According to Bruce Anderson, of the Spectator, his tremendous weight loss is simply down to eating less.
Boris Johnson
The former prime minister and current Mail columnist has spoken publicly about his weight going up and down.
He weighed in at 16.5st in 2018, while he was Foreign Secretary, but overhauled his lifestyle when he started dating future wife Carrie.
In January 2019, Mr Johnson revealed he had lost 12lbs by quitting alcohol and 'late-night binges of chorizo and cheese', with Twitter users saying it was a 'loved up diet'. By March he looked even slimmer when he made headlines with his neat haircut and trim appearance.
But fast-forward a year and Mr Johnson was once again struggling with his weight. He famously admitted 'I was too fat' after he was taken into intensive care when he was hospitalised with Covid-19 in April 2020.
‹ Slide me ›
The former prime minister and current Mail columnist has spoken publicly about his weight going up and down.
Shaken by the experience, the Prime Minister embarked on a fitness and healthy eating regime, backed by Carrie, and was regularly photographed running in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, having been given permission by the late Queen.
The PM claimed to have lost a stone in the summer of 2020 and his physique looked trim as a result of his lockdown fitness regime.
By March 2021, he was nearly two stone lighter than he was when he contracted Covid after cutting down on carbs, chocolate and cheese.
In June last year he used his column to reveal he had used the weight loss drug Ozempic, with mixed results.
'For weeks I jabbed my stomach, and for weeks it worked. Effortlessly, I pushed aside the puddings and the second helpings. Wasn't it amazing, I said to myself, how little food you really need,' he wrote.
'I must have been losing four or five pounds a week — maybe more — when all at once it started to go wrong. I don't know why, exactly. Maybe it was something to do with constantly flying around the world, and changing time zones, but I started to dread the injections, because they were making me feel ill.
'One minute I would be fine, and the next minute I would be talking to Ralph on the big white phone; and I am afraid that I decided that I couldn't go on.
'For now I am back to exercise and willpower, but I look at my colleagues — leaner but not hungrier — and I hope that if science can do it for them, maybe one day it can help me, and everyone else.'
Robert Jenrick
Most politicians want to be seen as heavyweights, but ex-minister Robert Jenrick is turning heads by proving he is now a lightweight.
The former immigration minister has triggered Westminster gossip with a rather noticeable 'glow up' since resigning from the Government last year.
The 41-year-old father of three has shed the pounds and used his new free time to get himself a crisp new haircut, leading to speculation he is positioning himself for a tilt at the Tory leadership.
Mr Jenrick cut a fuller figure and sported longer hair when he was in Cabinet in March. But he is noticeably in better shape recently as he becomes a leading figure on the Tory right leading a rebellion against immigration rules he feels are not tough enough.
‹ Slide me ›
The former immigration minister has triggered Westminster gossip with a rather noticeable 'glow up' since resigning from the Government last year.
Sources told the Sun on Sunday Mr Jenrick had been on a 'leadership diet', with another adding: 'His new Caesar haircut has set tongues wagging.'
He last week refused to rule out running to be Tory leader in place of Rishi Sunak, as senior party figures again jostled for position ahead of an expected election defeat.
The former immigration minister was questioned on GB News about his recent personal makeover which has seen him shed the pounds and adopt a new businesslike haircut.
Westminster gossip suggests he might be lining up a leadership bid in the wake of a Tory election defeat, having taking an increasingly leading role in opposition to Rishi Sunak's Rwanda plans.
Mr Jenrick was one of just 11 Tories who voted against the Safety of Rwanda Bill last week, arguing the plan to deport Channel migrants to east Africa was not strong enough to work.
While MPs backed down from defeating the law, potentially toppling Mr Sunak's administration, Mr Jenrick's actions - which included writing several hardline amendments to the bill - have increased his appeal to the party right.
Asked by GB News whether he was positioning as a future leader if Mr Sunak steps down he said: 'I'm not giving that any though … I'm not ruling it out but that is not my intention, yet.'
Russia-UkraineDavid CameronDominic Raab
The former PM, who made a dramatic return to politics last year, has found that polls are not the only numbers politicians have to watch carefully.
The image-conscious peer is said to have been forced into action due to the number of diplomatic food functions he attends as Foreign Secretary while jetting around the world.
He is said to be trying to get through the day with just a porridge and fruit breakfast, an apple and plenty of black coffee as he tries to sort out the fighting in the Middle East and bolster support for Ukraine in its fight against Russia.
In his first week in his new job he attended a state banquet for the South Korean president at Buckingham Palace, where the menu included a warm tartlet of soft poached egg and spinach puree; breast of Windsor pheasant with croquette of celeriac and calvados sauce; and mango ice cream bombe, washed down with an assortment of wines.
It is not the first time he has tackled the weighty issue of how to stay in shape. Before the 2015 election he gave up bread and started running every other day in what he described as a 'great patriotic struggle' with his waistline.
‹ Slide me ›
The former PM, who made a dramatic return to politics last year, has found that polls are not the only numbers politicians have to watch carefully. His is pictured left in 2013 and right this year
In his first week in his new job he attended a state banquet for the South Korean president at Buckingham Palace, where the menu included a warm tartlet of soft poached egg and spinach puree; breast of Windsor pheasant with croquette of celeriac and calvados sauce; and mango ice cream bombe, washed down with an assortment of wines.
Lord Cameron running in St James's Park earlier this month
But it appears to have worked, as he won the election to hand the Tories their first majority government since 1997.
It comes in the wake of Rishi Sunak's admission that he fasts for 36 hours at the start of every week.
Alongside Rishi and Lord Cameron, ministers including Michael Gove are often pictured running, while Labour's Keir Starmer is often pictured playing five-a-side football despite being 61.
In an image conscious time, looking fit and healthy is increasingly part of the political profile - they need to prove they are literally fit for high office.
But they are far from the only politicians who have shed the pounds for power. A string of portly politicos found successful battles with the bulge.
Nigel Lawson
Margaret Thatcher's former chancellor Lord Lawson was probably the first high-profile politicians to lose weight, and was so successful he published a book about it.
After quitting frontline politics in the late 1980s the five-foot nine-inch Tory decided that the only growth he liked was economic.
He slimmed from a rotund 17 stone to 12 stone in a matter of months, resulting in better health and the Nigel Lawson Diet Book - which came out two years before the first cook book by his daughter, Nigella.
And he managed to keep the weight off into his old age.
‹ Slide me ›
After quitting frontline politics in the late 1980s the five-foot nine-inch Tory decided that the only growth he liked was economic. He slimmed from a rotund 17 stone to 12 stone in a matter of months and kept the weight off.
It resulted in better health and the Nigel Lawson Diet Book - which came out two years before the first cook book by his daughter, Nigella.
In keeping with his Thatcherite principles, he scoffed at the idea of government intervention to help the fat to lose weight.
He once told the House of Lords: 'I speak from personal experience. The problem of obesity is simply a matter of eating less and drinking less and that is 100 per cent a matter of willpower.
'It is not a matter of giving more money to local authorities, much as I understand their desire to have that.'
Tom Watson
Labour's former deputy leader shed an impressive six stone in just nine months. But at a huge cost - he had to drink coffee with butter in it.
He revealed he reversed his Type 2 diabetes and lost seven stone after going on the Keto Xplode Erfahrungsberichte diet.
The Labour deputy leader, 51, said he went on the drastic weight loss regime after his weight soared to 22 stone.
He said he feared that he would die young and leave his two young children without a father unless he made a radical change to his lifestyle.
So he ditched the beer and curries he had survived on while working in Westminster and adopted the brutal regime involves shunning sugar, cutting out carbs and exercising.
‹ Slide me ›
Labour's former deputy leader shed an impressive six stone in just nine months. But at a huge cost - he had to drink coffee with butter in it. He revealed he reversed his Type 2 diabetes and lost seven stone after going on the Keto diet.
One part of Mr Watson's regime was 'bulletproof coffee', made using butter. The saturated fats are said to prevent you getting hungry during the day.
He said that the weight loss had been a 'transformational experience' and had 'lifted a brain fog that I didn't know was there'.
'I feel like my mental acuity has improved, almost like my IQ has improved. I feel much sharper.'
It was a transformation he required as he tried to keep Labour on a even keel under the leadership of hard Left icon Jeremy Corbyn. He quit the Commons in 2019 and later became a life peer.
Nicholas Soames
Like his famous grandfather Winston Churchill, Nicholas Soames cut a larger than life figure in the Commons.
The war time leader was famous for his prodigious appetite for food and booze and Sir Nicholas appeared to have followed in his footsteps, with the former minister for food once weighing in at 20 stone.
But he surprised Westminster in 2016 when he displayed a much reduced figure contained within his trademark double-breasted suits.
‹ Slide me ›
The war time leader was famous for his prodigious appetite for food and booze and Sir Nicholas appeared to have followed in his footsteps, with the former minister for food once weighing in at 20 stone. But he surprised Westminster in 2016 when he displayed a much reduced figure contained within his trademark double-breasted suits.
Like his famous grandfather Winston Churchill, Nicholas Soames cut a larger than life figure in the Commons.
He lost the weight in the space of a year, leading to some claims that he had undergone gastric band surgery.
But the then Conservative MP for Mid Sussex - now a peer - is said to have lost weight through 'restraint and abstinence'.
According to Bruce Anderson, of the Spectator, his tremendous weight loss is simply down to eating less.
Boris Johnson
The former prime minister and current Mail columnist has spoken publicly about his weight going up and down.
He weighed in at 16.5st in 2018, while he was Foreign Secretary, but overhauled his lifestyle when he started dating future wife Carrie.
In January 2019, Mr Johnson revealed he had lost 12lbs by quitting alcohol and 'late-night binges of chorizo and cheese', with Twitter users saying it was a 'loved up diet'. By March he looked even slimmer when he made headlines with his neat haircut and trim appearance.
But fast-forward a year and Mr Johnson was once again struggling with his weight. He famously admitted 'I was too fat' after he was taken into intensive care when he was hospitalised with Covid-19 in April 2020.
‹ Slide me ›
The former prime minister and current Mail columnist has spoken publicly about his weight going up and down.
Shaken by the experience, the Prime Minister embarked on a fitness and healthy eating regime, backed by Carrie, and was regularly photographed running in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, having been given permission by the late Queen.
The PM claimed to have lost a stone in the summer of 2020 and his physique looked trim as a result of his lockdown fitness regime.
By March 2021, he was nearly two stone lighter than he was when he contracted Covid after cutting down on carbs, chocolate and cheese.
In June last year he used his column to reveal he had used the weight loss drug Ozempic, with mixed results.
'For weeks I jabbed my stomach, and for weeks it worked. Effortlessly, I pushed aside the puddings and the second helpings. Wasn't it amazing, I said to myself, how little food you really need,' he wrote.
'I must have been losing four or five pounds a week — maybe more — when all at once it started to go wrong. I don't know why, exactly. Maybe it was something to do with constantly flying around the world, and changing time zones, but I started to dread the injections, because they were making me feel ill.
'One minute I would be fine, and the next minute I would be talking to Ralph on the big white phone; and I am afraid that I decided that I couldn't go on.
'For now I am back to exercise and willpower, but I look at my colleagues — leaner but not hungrier — and I hope that if science can do it for them, maybe one day it can help me, and everyone else.'
Robert Jenrick
Most politicians want to be seen as heavyweights, but ex-minister Robert Jenrick is turning heads by proving he is now a lightweight.
The former immigration minister has triggered Westminster gossip with a rather noticeable 'glow up' since resigning from the Government last year.
The 41-year-old father of three has shed the pounds and used his new free time to get himself a crisp new haircut, leading to speculation he is positioning himself for a tilt at the Tory leadership.
Mr Jenrick cut a fuller figure and sported longer hair when he was in Cabinet in March. But he is noticeably in better shape recently as he becomes a leading figure on the Tory right leading a rebellion against immigration rules he feels are not tough enough.
‹ Slide me ›
The former immigration minister has triggered Westminster gossip with a rather noticeable 'glow up' since resigning from the Government last year.
Sources told the Sun on Sunday Mr Jenrick had been on a 'leadership diet', with another adding: 'His new Caesar haircut has set tongues wagging.'
He last week refused to rule out running to be Tory leader in place of Rishi Sunak, as senior party figures again jostled for position ahead of an expected election defeat.
The former immigration minister was questioned on GB News about his recent personal makeover which has seen him shed the pounds and adopt a new businesslike haircut.
Westminster gossip suggests he might be lining up a leadership bid in the wake of a Tory election defeat, having taking an increasingly leading role in opposition to Rishi Sunak's Rwanda plans.
Mr Jenrick was one of just 11 Tories who voted against the Safety of Rwanda Bill last week, arguing the plan to deport Channel migrants to east Africa was not strong enough to work.
While MPs backed down from defeating the law, potentially toppling Mr Sunak's administration, Mr Jenrick's actions - which included writing several hardline amendments to the bill - have increased his appeal to the party right.
Asked by GB News whether he was positioning as a future leader if Mr Sunak steps down he said: 'I'm not giving that any though … I'm not ruling it out but that is not my intention, yet.'
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