Carol Vorderman savages Rishi Sunak over his childhood poverty complain
Carol Vorderman has hit back at Rishi Sunak’s moans that he had to go without during his childhood – so his parents could send him to a private boarding school.
The Prime Minister struck a new low in an election campaign already mired in gaffes and missteps when he whinged to ITV journalist Paul Brand about the “sacrifices” his family made… including a Sky TV package.
His pre-recorded interview, which was the reason he gave for leaving the D-Day commemorations early last week, aired on Wednesday night, with Mr Sunak attempting to plead poverty in a bid to appeal to the general public.
But his comments were met with anger and derision, with comedian Jason Manford skewering him with a brutal tweet.
And Pride of Britain host Carol Vorderman has also savaged the PM, telling Instagram followers she “couldn’t even begin” to describe her fury.
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“Sunak went to one of the poshest boarding schools in the country Winchester College,” she pointed out. “He had no concept of going without. His government has increased the numbers of children and families living in poverty, while the obscene wealth of him and his fellow billionaire mates has grown, often through government contracts.
“I can’t even begin to describe my fury. He and his disgraceful cronies have been laughing at you and all of us,” Carol added.
Carol, 63, grew up “dirt poor” to a single mother who was forced to work five jobs to make ends meet, and has spoken about her early years of childhood poverty left their mark. She has been a thorn in the side of the Tory government, using social media to highlight their hypocrisy and urging her followers to register to vote if they haven’t already.
And last month she used her mathematician skills to calculate how much the Tories have added to the national debt since they came to power under David Cameron.
On Joe Lycett’s Late Night Lycett show, she revealed: “I did a few numbers: earlier in the year they’d been in power for 5,000 days since David Cameron became PM in January… but I calculated how much they had added to the national debt every day for 5,000 days, and it was over £300 million a day, for 5,000 days. Where’s all the money gone?
“Because I tell you what, everything – NHS, prisons, schools, water, rivers, even water in the taps in Devon – everything has turned to s***,” she added to applause and cheers from the studio audience.
When asked by Joe how the NHS could be saved, Carol bluntly said: “Vote them out.”
And in an opinion piece for the Mirror last year, the former Countdown star said she was determined to get out as much information about “the scale of Tory corruption and cruelty over the last 13 years” as possible before the next election.
“I cannot bear to see the desolation successive Tory governments have caused. It will only get worse as their greed knows no bounds,” she wrote. “This election is as absolutely critical to our children’s futures as the post-war ones were to my generation, creating the NHS and much more to try to bring equality. This government is the most patently corrupt I’ve ever observed.”
