Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg this morning, as the Conservative party conference gets underway in Manchester. With polls currently predicting an election defeat for the Tories, Sunak was noticeably combative in his interview, insisting that he would do what he ‘believes is right’ for the country.
When Kuenssberg accused him of shifting away from pledges made in 2019, Sunak acknowledged that people would be critical of him, but said he was ‘prepared to change things’.
Sunak: ‘My job is to deliver for people’
Kuenssberg showed Sunak a word cloud indicating that the public heavily associate him with his wealth. She asked him if he was worried that people might see him as being out of touch. Sunak wouldn’t engage directly with the question, but said that his changes to the net zero policies showed that he was trying to ‘ease the burden on families’.
PM: ‘You’ve got to take a stand on things’
Sunak was ‘uninterested in talking about personalities’ when asked by Kuenssberg to say one thing he admired about the leader of the Labour party.
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