{"id":160086,"date":"2022-07-10T14:13:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T14:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=160086"},"modified":"2022-07-10T14:13:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T14:13:09","slug":"video-of-young-rishi-sunak-saying-hes-no-working-class-friends-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/politics\/video-of-young-rishi-sunak-saying-hes-no-working-class-friends-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of young Rishi Sunak saying he’s ‘no working class’ friends goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"

An archived clip has resurfaced and gone viral as it showed a young Rishi Sunak claiming that he has "no working class friends" but only friends from upper class and aristocrats.<\/p>\n

The 42-year-old, who is one of nine candidates to join the race to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson, was mocked for his appearance in a 2001 BBC documentary about middle classes. <\/p>\n

Appearing in the series "Middle Classes: Their Rise & Sprawl", the then 21-year-old Sunak told the interviewer of his circle of friends.<\/p>\n

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He said: "I have friends who are aristocrats, I have friends who are upper class, I have friends, who are, you know, working class, but …well, not working class.<\/p>\n

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"But I mix and match and I go to see kids from an inner city state school and tell them to apply to Oxford and talk to them about people like me.<\/p>\n

"And then I shock them at the end of challenging them for half an hour and tell them I was at Winchester, and my best friend is from Eton or whatever, and then they're like, 'oh okay'."<\/p>\n

The clip was widely shared on Twitter after the former Chancellor announced his campaign to race for the Tory leadership.<\/p>\n

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One viewer tagged his handle and said: "Hi @RishiSunak, have you got any working class friends yet? If not, try renting a few for your leadership campaign."<\/p>\n

"It's the manner in which he makes that reply that is the real eyebrow raiser," a second wrote and a third added: "Saying the words 'working class' seems to have given him a nervous tick."<\/p>\n

Mr Sunak posted on Friday a two minutes and 52 seconds long clip outlining his plans to contest the leadership as he discusses his family's arrival in Britain and his own upbringing during the clip.<\/p>\n

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