Jeers and laughter: Public have their say on Rishi Sunak and Keir StarmerSource: Sky News
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00:00When I grew up, my dad was a toolmaker.
00:02He worked in a factory.
00:03It's true.
00:04You seem more like a political robot.
00:08How are you, how are you going to convince others
00:10like me to vote for you?
00:12Well, um, the most of, look, all I can say,
00:19I went to run the Crown Prosecution Service.
00:22In this parliament, we've had three prime ministers,
00:25five chancellors, five home secretaries,
00:27six health secretaries.
00:29How do we know, how do we know that if you won
00:33the general election, you'd still be prime minister
00:35in a year's time?
00:43Look, I can appreciate people's frustrations.
00:47Of course, we haven't got everything right.
00:49To 3% of fairness, would you personally
00:51be happy to pay more tax?
00:53Yes, of course.
00:54OK.
00:54But I've always paid my tax in full.
00:58But, you know, and I accept I earn a lot of money
01:01in the job I am now in.
01:03But when I grew up, my dad was a toolmaker.
01:05He worked in a factory.
01:06It's true.
01:07My mum was a nurse.
01:08And actually, we couldn't make ends meet,
01:10which actually isn't a laughing matter.
01:12We couldn't make ends meet.
01:14And I would, yeah, thank you so much.
01:15I would, I would usually agree.
01:18I just think that, and I'll be very honest here,
01:21that picture of the queen, our late queen,
01:23who was left to bury her husband on her own,
01:28during COVID, following guidance that we all followed,
01:30and knowing what was happening in Downing Street,
01:32and you were part of that, and you had a fixed penalty notice,
01:35and you've apologised.
01:36And I understand all of that.
01:37That's where the trust broke down.
01:39And I just think we have long memories
01:41in this country as a public.
01:42And you really will have to go some.
01:45And I appreciate the apology tonight.
01:46Thank you very much.
01:47But you have to realise that there is a long way
01:50to go to really rebuild that.
01:52Yeah, no.
02:02Those rules were difficult for everyone to follow,
02:05and the government should absolutely have gone
02:08above and beyond.
02:09No, for Brexit, one of the reasons people voted
02:12for Brexit was to take back control of our borders, right?
02:15What was the total net migration figure
02:18in the last three years,
02:19running up to the 2016 referendum,
02:22when we had freedom of movement?
02:26Do you know it?
02:27I don't have it offhand.
02:28It was 836,000 people.
02:33And I'm sure many people in this room would have...