Rishi Sunak: I’ll still be Prime Minister on Friday
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A defiant Rishi Sunak said the Tories can still win the General Election despite languishing in the polls as he insisted the UK is a better place to live now than in 2010.
The Prime Minister defended the Conservative record in government against what he described as a “declinist narrative” while he faced questions about the state of public services and the economy.
Mr Sunak said it was “completely and utterly wrong” to suggest Britain’s standing has diminished since Brexit, claiming “people are queuing up to work with us because they respect what we do”.
“It’s entirely wrong, this kind of declinist narrative that people have of the UK I wholeheartedly reject,” he told the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme.
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