Nigel Farage on the campaign trail in Middleton. Photograph: Chris Thomond for the Guardian

Posing for a bacon butty shot has become the fastest way for a politician to earn his everyman credentials. So, how did the Ukip leader do?

It may be more than four months since Ed Miliband’s much-ridiculed attempt to to eat a bacon sandwich made the headlines, but while out canvassing in Middleton, Ukip leader Nigel Farage couldn’t miss an opportunity to show him how it’s done.



Farage tucked into a bacon sandwich bought from a stall outside Middleton shopping centre, where Ukip is fighting the Heywood and Middleton byelection called following the death of sitting Labour MP Jim Dobbin.

Ed Miliband tucking into that bacon butty. Photograph: Evening Standard

Keen observers will notice the sliced bread of the Farage sandwich arguably makes it an easier handful than Miliband’s roll. The Guardian’s Christopher Thomond caught the moment on camera.