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<\/p>\nRishi Sunak was mocked on social media today for appearing to use a hammer cackhandedly on a visit to a jewellers studio.<\/p>\n
The PM was the butt of jokes after video of his visit to the Emma White Jewellery Studio in Leeds yesterday gained traction online.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Footage obtained by broadcasters in Yorkshire showed the PM using the flat side of the hammer rather than one of the ends while working with Ms White.<\/p>\n
Critics drew a comparison with an incident last year when he appeared to not know how to use a contactless payment card, and even with an infamous incident involving then labour leader Ed Miliband trying to eat a bacon sandwich.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But not is all as it appeared. After the clip had gone viral this afternoon a fuller version appeared in which Ms White, a former finalists on BBC\u00a0reality show\u00a0‘All That Glitters’, tells the PM to use the hammer in the way that he did.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And after he questions the technique the clip shows her jokingly rebuking him for not doing it hard enough.<\/p>\n
By then the damage was done, with Labour putting out the clip with a tag of ‘man who hammers working people can’t work a hammer’.<\/p>\n
But after the longer clip was found, Tory chairman Rick Holden hit back, saying:\u00a0 ‘Always wise to follow the advice of those who know what they’re talking about.’<\/p>\n
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The PM was the butt of jokes after video of his visit to the Emma White Jewellery Studio in Leeds yesterday gained traction online.<\/p>\n
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Footage obtained by broadcasters in Yorkshire showed the PM using the flat side of the hammer rather than one of the ends while working with Ms White.<\/p>\n
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By then the damage was done, with Labour putting out the clip with a tag of ‘man who hammers working people can’t work a hammer’.<\/p>\n
The tool the PM is shown using is a chasing hammer, which has two ends, neither of which is flat. One is a ball used for knocking out dents in metal and the other is slightly convex, and is used among other things for flattening rounded lengths of wire.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After Ms White choses the hammer for him she says:\u00a0‘You’re going to use this bit.’<\/p>\n
After he asks: ‘Sideways?’ she replied:\u00a0‘Yes. Give it a right good … no, no, no, more! Come on Rishi.’<\/p>\n
Twitterer Colin the Dachshund posted the original clip, saying: ‘Tell me you’ve never seen a hammer before without telling me you’ve never seen a hammer before.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Critics drew a comparison with an incident last year when he appeared to not know how to use a contactless payment card, and even with an infamous incident involving then labour leader Ed Miliband trying to eat a bacon sandwich.<\/p>\n