Rishi Sunak shown words people think best describe him live on airSunday with Laura Kuenssberg, BBC One
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00:00 you mentioned there you feel you've got a good sense of where the public's at. Let's
00:04 look at what the public associates with you and we asked them. Now we did this with Ed
00:07 Davey, the Lib Dem leader. We'll do it again with Keir Starmer. We're using what's called
00:11 a word cloud, asking people what they associate a leader with. And we can show our viewers
00:15 that with this morning. Now you can see there, rightly or wrongly, what many people associate
00:20 with you is your personal wealth. What does that make you think? Does that worry you if
00:27 people might feel you're out of touch or perhaps you are very wealthy. You could be living
00:32 on a beach not working at all. A lot of people might think you've got all this wealth, you
00:35 could do anything good on you for being in public service. But what goes through your
00:39 mind when you see that? My job is to deliver for people. And that's why we've just been
00:44 talking a lot about this net zero decision, which I've made. I think people would really
00:47 like to know what your response is. We've talked about the net zero target a lot. But
00:51 this is a great example of it. That is a decision which was motivated by me wanting to ease
00:56 the burden on families. And again, I might get lots of criticism from people about that.
01:01 People who could happily afford to rip out their boiler, install incredibly expensive
01:05 energy efficiency upgrades in their rural home that's off the gas grid or change their
01:08 car sooner than is necessary.