Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is hoping to extend his stay in Number 10 (Picture: Leon Neal/PA Wire)
Senior political reporter Craig Munro spoke to four top party leaders for Metro’s 60 Seconds interviews ahead of the General Election on July 4.
You can find our interviews with Keir Starmer of Labour, Ed Davey of the Liberal Democrats and Carla Denyer of the Green Party at these links. Nigel Farage of Reform UK declined to take part.
Here is our interview with Conservative Party leader Rishi Sunak.
What’s been the best week of your time as prime minister (so far), and why?
The first week of January this year was the most important because I was able to do something I firmly believe in – make substantial tax cuts for 27 million workers. I’m proud of what we did in the pandemic to rise to the extraordinary challenge and support people through, but I believe in low taxes and it was a relief to be in a place where I could make changes I wanted.
To me, cutting taxes is the morally right thing to do and I hope to keep putting money back in people’s pockets in the years ahead – in contrast to Labour, who will raise your taxes.
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The most ‘pinch yourself’ moment, though, was playing with the England cricket team in the garden at No 10 – a boyhood dream. The kid who used to play in the Southampton cul de sac – fearing he’d break a car window with a rogue shot – wouldn’t have believed it.
Sunak had a whale of a time with members of the T20 World Cup winning England cricket team last year (Picture: Simon Walker/No10 Downing Street)
Two and a half years on, what’s one benefit young people can enjoy from Brexit?
I’ll give you several. First, every single young person over 18 can vote for the people who decide the laws that govern them and everyone in this country. The EU has passed over 6,000 laws in the time since we left – that’s 6,000 laws we haven’t had imposed on us without a say. We’ve also scrapped or repealed 2,000 existing EU laws because unnecessary red tape clobbers businesses and restricts opportunities for young people.
Second, we will scrap …read more
Source:: Metro
