British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunakfaced criticism for his lack of contact with ordinary people, following he asked a homeless man at a charity if he “worked in business” and wanted to go into the financial sector.
Sunak, ex-banker Goldman Sachs y one of the richest people in the UKwas serving breakfast at a homeless shelter in London last Friday when she started chatting with a man who identified himself as Dean.
“Do you work in business?”, the prime minister asked the man at one point in the conversation, as he hands him a plate of sausages, toast and eggs.
“No, I am homeless. I really am homelessthe man replied.
Angela Raynerdeputy leader of the opposition Labor Party, posted a snippet of the exchange on Twitter, calling it “unbearable”, while another Labor lawmaker, Bill Estersondescribed Sunak as having “lost touch with reality”.
His ascension to the head of the British government in October made Sunak the richest occupant of 10 Downing Streetat a time when the country is facing a cost of living crisis.
This week, the Prime Minister made surprise phone calls to British diplomats and servicemen around
the world to congratulate them on Christmas, his office said Friday.
His awkward exchange with the homeless began when the man asked Sunak if he was “fixing the economy”.
When the homeless man tells him that he is interested in business and finance, Sunak tells him that he also worked in finance, before asking him: “Would you like to dedicate yourself to that?”.
“Yeah, I wouldn’t mind,” Dean replies. “But, I don’t know, first I would like to spend Christmas”.
The UK is also being hit by a wave of social protests of a magnitude not seen in decades. The government, however, is inflexible in the face of the demands of the strikers.
(With information from Archyde.com)
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