Rishi Sunak says he had to ‘go without’ Sky TV as a child so his parents could pay his expensive private school fees as the Prime Minister tries to explain how he is in touch with ordinary people

Rishi Sunak says he had to ‘go without’ Sky TV as a child so his parents could afford his expensive private school fees.

The Prime Minister said his GP father and pharmacist mother wanted to put “everything” into their children’s education, so the lack of satellite TV was one of the things they sacrificed.

Mr Sunak spent his teenage years at the now £52,000-a-year Winchester College in Hampshire, near his home in Southampton.

In the interview with ITVfor which he left the D-Day commemorations in Normandy early to attend, he is asked how he can stay in touch with the struggles of ordinary people when he is ‘richer than the king’.

Journalist Paul Brand asks the Prime Minister if he ever went “without anything” as a child, to which he replies, “I went without many things because my parents wanted to put everything into our upbringing and that was a priority.”

Rishi Sunak says in an interview with ITV that he had to ‘go without’ Sky TV as a child so his parents could afford his expensive private school fees

The Prime Minister said his GP father and pharmacist mother wanted to put “everything” into their children’s education, so the lack of satellite TV was one of the things they sacrificed.

Mr Sunak squirms and laughs when asked what kinds of things his parents ‘sacrificed’.

“Lots of things,” he says. ‘As a child I would have wanted anything.’

He looks uncomfortable as he laughs again before adding: “Famous Sky TV. That was something we never really had growing up. But there are many things. But again, my experience will clearly be what my experience was.

‘More important are my values ​​and how I was raised. And I grew up in a household where hard work was very important. You had to work very hard. And family was important, service to your community was important.”

In another awkward moment, Mr Sunak apologizes for keeping Mr Brand waiting, explaining that the D-Day anniversary event has “all gone over”.

“Yes, it all just spilled over… it was unbelievable, but it just spilled over everything,” he says, before saying he’s “talked to almost everyone.” [of the veterans in Normandy] there, I hope’.

The ITV interview airs tonight at 7pm and follows the Prime Minister’s grilling during a BBC Panorama special on Tuesday, in which he begged the nation to forgive him for leaving the D-Day event early.

Mr Sunak spent his teenage years at the now £52,000-a-year Winchester College in Hampshire, near his home in Southampton

Mr Sunak said he hoped to speak to ‘almost all’ the veterans who were in Normandy

Lord Cameron poses with Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and US President Joe Biden in Normandy after Rishi Sunak flew back to Britain and missed the international commemorations

The Tory leader told Nick Robinson that he He hoped people could “find it in their hearts” to forgive his blunder.

Amid growing Tory alarm over the fallout from the D-Day row, Mr Sunak said: ‘Well, the last thing I wanted to do that hurt, offended or angered anyone, and I have therefore apologized unreservedly for the mistake I made.

“And I can only ask that I hope that people can find it in their hearts to forgive me and also look at my actions as Prime Minister to increase investment in our armed forces, to support our armed forces, but also to ensure to ensure that veterans have a Minister sitting around the Cabinet table with unprecedented support to make this country the best country in the world to become a veteran, as a demonstration of how deeply I care about this community and what they have done for our country.”