Fresh attacks on PM’s wealth

LABOUR backbenchers bombarded Rishi Sunak with renewed attacks about his vast personal wealth during Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday.

The Labour leadership has consistently branded Mr Sunak – a privately educated former banker who has an estimated £750million fortune with his heiress wife – out of touch. Karl Turner, a former shadow minister, asked: ‘If the PM or any member of his many households became unwell, would he start ringing the GP surgery at eight o’ clock to not get an appointment?

‘Would he call an ambulance which wouldn’t come or would he use some of his £750million unearned wealth to pay privately and see somebody there and then?’ Mr Sunak responded by praising his constituency’s hospital, which has ‘provided excellent care to my family over the years’. Former Cabinet minister Liam Byrne branded the Prime Minister ‘one of the richest men in Britain... doing so little for the poorest’ by not cancelling the tax break for non-doms.

Mr Sunak’s press secretary said: ‘We should be talking about what politicians are doing, not who they are.’ But a spokesman for Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was ‘clear the public do see Rishi Sunak as someone who is out of touch with working people’. The spokesman denied that Labour was co-ordinating the attacks.