UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, whose family is estimated to be richer than King Charles, said he spent his childhood without “a lot of things”, including Sky TV, when asked if he was in contact with the struggles of ordinary people.
Sunak, the son of a doctor and a pharmacist, is the richest prime minister in British history due to a combination of his previous career in finance and the family fortune of his wife, whose father founded the Indian health services company Infosys information technology.
In an interview with ITV to be broadcast this Wednesday (12), Sunak cited his parents’ refusal to pay for the subscription channel as an example of things he had to “do without” because he said they were making sacrifices to pay for their education.
When asked to give a specific example of something he didn’t have as a child, he said, “There are all kinds of things I wish I had as a kid that I couldn’t have. Famously, Sky TV, which was something we never had when we were kids.”
The opposition Labor Party tried to use Sunak’s personal fortune to accuse him of being out of touch with the problems facing most people in the UK.
Sunak’s family net worth is estimated at just over £650 million, putting him in 245th place on the 2024 Sunday Times list of the richest Britons, ahead of King Charles in 258th place.
Earlier this year, Labor branded as poor taste Sunak’s decision to agree to a £1,000 bet that his government would send asylum seekers to Rwanda and that most people could not afford to bet.
Sunak’s ITV interview caused him embarrassment last week after he interrupted his participation in D-Day celebrations in northern France to record it.
The prime minister later apologized, saying it was “a mistake not to have stayed longer” after opposition parties called it a dereliction of duty.
Source: CNN Brasil

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