Dining across the divide: The one thing we bonded over was despising Reform'

"Occupation Oncologist Voting record Historically, whatever wasn't Conservative. Her new rule is not Reform or the Conservatives Amuse bouche She is bilingual in English and Tamil, speaks decent French, German and Japanese, a little bit of Spanish, and could pull out ancient Greek and Latin if required"

"Maimuna, 24, Birmingham Occupation Education programmes assistant at a medical charity Voting record She's a Conservative party member but, because of Boris Johnson and the direction of the party, voted Labour in the last two elections Amuse bouche Last year while on a pub crawl in Copenhagen, someone asked if she was running the marathon the following week. I said no, I'd only just started running! In May, she returned to Copenhagen and ran it"

"For starters Thakshayini I was nervous, partly because I was expecting some rabid rightwinger, but she wasn't at all. She was perfectly nice. Maimuna We quickly started chatting about the NHS strikes; it was really interesting to hear her perspective. Thakshayini I had crab toast, which came with a nice bisque, then chicken. For dessert I had panna cotta with strawberries. And lovely mocktails. Maimuna I had a mushroom parfait, a steak, two glasses of oaky chardonnay and a chocolate dessert. Delicious. The big beef Maimuna I was concerned that the NHS is bad at retaining doctors, and relying on foreign doctors is an incentive not to train people. She said it's just as expensive to train doctors from abroad, as their qualifications might not translate to the UK system."

An oncologist historically opposed Conservative parties now excludes Reform and Conservative options and is multilingual across modern and classical languages. A 24-year-old education programmes assistant from Birmingham remains a Conservative member but voted Labour in the last two elections due to Boris Johnson and party direction. The two shared a meal with detailed descriptions of starters, mains, desserts, and drinks. They discussed NHS strikes and concerns about doctor retention. The assistant worried that reliance on foreign doctors discourages domestic training, while the oncologist countered that recruiting and training foreign doctors can be equally costly because qualifications may not translate to the UK system.

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