Rishi Sunak gets trolled after old BBC video resurfaces
An old video of British politician Rishi Sunak, who is making a bid for Prime Ministership, has resurfaced and gone viral. The video has triggered heavy trolling as it shows Sunak, as a 21-year-old, saying he doesn’t have any working-class friends.
An old video of British politician Rishi Sunak, who is making a bid for Prime Ministership, has resurfaced and gone viral. The video has triggered heavy trolling as it shows Sunak, as a 21-year-old, saying he doesn’t have any working-class friends.
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“I have friends who are aristocrats, I have friends who are upper-class, I have friends who are, you know, working-class. Well, not working class,” Rishi Sunak said in the BBC documentary ‘Middle Classes- Their Rise & Sprawl’.
The full Sunak clip is even more toe-curling pic.twitter.com/vIVI6UTPun
— Conor Gogarty (@ConorGogarty) July 9, 2022
Sunak further said he was lucky to have studied at Winchester College and then at Oxford. “I am very lucky to have been at these places, it does put me in an elite society. I always consider myself professional middle class, I don’t think being Asian is a defining feature,” he said in the BBC documentary.
Many people on Twitter, reacted to the video featuring Sunak.
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David Lammy, Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs of United Kingdom, tweeted: “He would be a Prime Minister for the few not the many.”
Rishi Sunak, on camera, saying his friends are Aristocrats and members of the upper class, “not working class”.
He would be a Prime Minister for the few not the many.pic.twitter.com/UvLLPFt8JG
— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) July 9, 2022
Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, a British-Nigerian activist, wrote: “To be fair to Rishi Sunak – Boris Johnson is NOT a friend of the working class and quite unlikely he had any as friends but the working class voted for him anyway.”
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To be fair to Rishi Sunak – Boris Johnson is NOT a friend of the working class and quite unlikely he had any as friends but the working class voted for him anyway👀 https://t.co/UNOlWTLcYb
— Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu (@SholaMos1) July 9, 2022
One Twitter user, Andrew Godsell, tweeted: “Quite a few reasons not to trust #RishiSunak as a potential PM in this thread.”
