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Of course Rishi Sunak doesn’t have any working-class friends

12 July 2022

1:23 AM

12 July 2022

1:23 AM

I see there’s much chortling over the fact that Rishi Sunak once said he had no working-class friends.

It was in 2001, for a BBC series called Middle Classes: Their Rise and Sprawl. In a resurfaced clip, Sunak, who would have been 21 at the time, says: ‘I have friends who are aristocrats, I have friends who are upper class, I have friends who are working class… well, not working class.

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