Rishi Sunak says he is proud of disastrous election campaign

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Rishi Sunak says he is proud of disastrous election campaign

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has said he is “proud” of his disastrous

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– and claimed he would win Thursday’s general election.

The

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has come under ***** in recent weeks for a series of calamities that included a rain-soaked announcement of polling day, leaving

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early and a

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But in a crunch interview with just days to go before the vote, Mr Sunak told the

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‘s Sunday With

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show “this campaign is something I am very proud of” as he sought to highlight

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’s plans.

He also said he believes he will win the election. Asked whether he thought he would still be prime Minister on Friday, he said: “Yes. I’m fighting very hard and I think people are waking up to the real danger of what a Labour government means.”

Rishi Sunak, soaked in rain, pauses as he delivers a speech to announce the election date (AFP via Getty Images)

The Leave-campaigning Tory leader also admitted that

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has been bad for many British businesses.

He was confronted by comments by his ministerial colleague Kevin Hollinrake that there was “no doubt” exporting to the EU had been made more difficult by the ***’s exit.

Mr Hollinrake said: “There’s no doubt, for some businesses, it is more difficult to trade with the ********* Union. There is no doubt that is the case.”

He went on to pick out businesses in the food and drink sector, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises.

Kevin Hollinrake admits Brexit was bad for many businesses (Good Morning Britain)

Asked about his remarks the prime minister said: “Of course when you leave the Single Market and the Customs Union that is going to change our trading relationships.”

He added: “But we have the most deepest, bilateral free trade agreement with the ********* continent that any nation has anywhere around the world.”

He also claimed the *** is a “better place to live” in now than it was when the Tories took office in 2010, although he pointed to the pandemic and the war in Ukraine as he condeded “the last few years have been difficult for everyone”.

But an at times tetchy PM also became involved in a spat with the BBC presenter, who at one point told him: “That’s not what I said prime minister”.

He also claimed there was a “clear difference” between his handling of the racism row surrounding Tory donor Frank Hester and how

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responded to ******* comments made about the PM by a Reform *** canvasser.

On the programme, he was shown a message from a viewer expressed concern that Mr Sunak’s stance on racism had not been zero-tolerance and pointed to the Hester row.

The donor, from whom the party has continued to accept donations, allegedly said Labour MP

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“should be shot” and that she made him “want to hate all ****** women”.

Mr Sunak said: “I think it’s reasonable when someone is genuinely contrite about what’s happened, accepts what they’ve done is wrong, then that apology is accepted.”

He added: “The difference here is… Nigel Farage has just described these comments as ‘inappropriate’.

“They’re not inappropriate. They were vile and ******* and wrong, but he’s only said that they’re inappropriate.

“The person who made them has only apologised to the Reform Party for the impact it’s had on them. It’s a very clear difference. There’s no contrition or remorse or acceptance of what’s happened in that case.”

Earlier, Mr Sunak claimed

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could inflict “irreversible damage” on the *** within 100 days of entering Downng Street.

The PM said Labour “cannot be trusted” and predicted a plan to impose VAT on private schools would cause “chaos” for families.

Meanwhile, Labour said Sir Keir‘s first steps would be restoring economic stability and cutting NHS waiting lists as “the work of change begins” as the party leader said his party offered voters hope for a better future.

On the PM’s interview, Jonathan Ashworth, Labour’s shadow paymaster general, said: “It’s excruciating to watch Rishi Sunak just gloss over the concerns of ordinary working people.

“Rishi Sunak has no remorse for his record: prices are up in the shops, NHS waiting lists have rocketed, and mortgages have soared. He just doesn’t understand what the Conservatives have inflicted on voters over the past 14 years.

“Britain simply cannot afford five more years of the Tories. Their pie-in-the-sky, unfunded manifesto risks heaping £4,800 more onto family mortgages.”

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