As A Child, Rishi Sunak Had To Live Without Sky TV

Rishi Sunak says he had to ‘go without’ Sky TV as a child so his parents could pay his expensive private school fees.

The premier said his GP father and pharmacist mother wanted to ‘put everything’ into their children’s education so having no satellite television was one of the things they sacrificed. 

Mr Sunak spent his teenage years at the now £52,000 a year distinguished Winchester College in Hampshire near his home in Southampton.

In the interview with ITV, which he left D-Day commemorations in Normandy early to attend, he is pressed on how he can stay in touch with the struggles of ordinary people when he is ‘wealthier than the king’. 

Journalist Paul Brand asks the PM if he ever had ‘go without something’ when he was a child, to which he replies: ‘I went without lots of things because my parents wanted to put everything into our education and that was a priority.’ 

Mr Sunak squirms and laughs as he is asked what sort of things his parents ‘sacrificed’.

‘Lots of things,’ he says. ‘There would have been all sorts of things I wanted as a kid.’

He appears uncomfortable as he laughs again before adding: ‘Famously Sky TV. That was something we never had growing up, actually. But there are lots of things. But again my experience is obviously going to be what my experience was. 

‘More important are my values and how I was raised. And I was raised in a household where hard work was really important. You had to work really hard. And family was important, service to your community was important.’ 

In another awkward moment, Mr Sunak apologised for keeping Mr Brand waiting explaining the D-Day anniversary event ‘all just ran over’. 

‘Yeah, it all just ran over… it was incredible but it just ran over everything,’ he says, before saying he ‘spoke to almost everyone [of the veterans in Normandy] there, I hope’.

The PM was grilled on a Tuesday BBC Panorama episode, during which he pleaded with the people to pardon him for leaving the D-Day celebration early. The interview with ITV will be shown tonight at 7 p.m.

The Tory leader told Nick Robinson that he hoped people could ‘find it in their hearts’ to forgive his blunder.

Amid rising Tory alarm about the fallout from the D-Day row, Mr Sunak said: ‘Well, the last thing that I wanted to do was cause anyone any hurt or offence or upset, which is why I apologised unreservedly for the mistake that I made.

Desperate times equal desperate measures. Rishi Sunak knows the Conservatives are in big trouble, and there will be many voters not voting for them in the next General Election. The Conservatives have been a disgrace. They promised that they would quell boat people from coming into our country, but that did not happen, and they have wasted hundreds of millions of pounds of hard-working taxpayers’ money.

I know who I will vote for, and it’s not going to be Labour or the Conservatives. Regarding Nigel Farage, he is completely disconnected from reality. He’s a showman, adept at making huge gestures. Heaven forbid that he should ever come in contact with any true power; he would be completely clueless.

Rishi Sunak is a typical money-grabbing banker and got rich at everyone else’s expense. Including his rich wife.

Rishi has become quite the poet. He started his campaign as the ‘Wally with the brolly’, and now he’s ‘Rishi without the dishy.’