Rishi Sunak has said he is “in this to work my socks off” and that he thinks Sir Keir Starmer was “watching cheerleading or kickboxing” on Friday nights rather than setting the time aside for a Jewish dinner. The Prime Minister was asked on This Morning about the Jewish community being upset about his party’s response to Sir Keir’s comments that he tries to “not do a work-related thing” on Friday nights. Mr Sunak said on This Morning: “I think what Keir was saying he was with his kids on a Friday night out watching cheerleading or kickboxing rather than doing that.
But the point is this, everyone’s going to do this job in a different way. “One of the things I’ve spoken about a lot is that doing this job means I’m not as good a dad, I’m not as good a husband, as I would love to be, and that comes with the territory of being in public service, and having the responsibility to be Prime Minister, to do a great job for everyone who’s watching. “I love my country for what it’s done for my family and I’m in this to work my socks off so I can make that same difference to everybody else.
That’s how I approach this job,” he said. The Labour leader had told Virgin Radio that he and his wife, who is Jewish, have a strategy to “carve out really protected time for the kids” and that he tries not to do work after 6pm on Friday. “Now, there are few exceptions, but that’s what we do.
My son goes kickboxing, so I’ll often take him there, and my.
