UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is under fire after an interview with Piers Morgan where he admitted failing to cut NHS waiting lists and made a £1,000 bet on the Rwanda asylum plan's success, which was met with backlash as being insensitive. Sunak's mother suffered a heart attack and was left on a trolley in an NHS hospital corridor for nearly seven hours, with the heart monitor battery running out, highlighting the healthcare system's issues. NHS hospitals have been described as 'warzones', and under the Conservative government, infant mortality rates have risen, and extreme child poverty has trebled in three years. Furthermore, apprenticeships are down 120,000 over the course of the parliament. Sunak's comments have been criticized as out of touch, and his suggestion that Keir Starmer is a 'terrorist sympathiser' has compounded the controversy.
Piers Morgan reveals Rishi Sunak called his mother and sent her flowers after hearing about her negative NHS experience during their interview. "I don't think he's heartless, I don't think he didn't care." @piersmorgan | @RishiSunak | @TalkTV | #PMU https://t.co/bZKFMIbfS0
EXCL: Rishi Sunak accused of personally holding up deal to end doctors’ strikes despite warnings from officials that waiting lists will continue to soar unless agreement reached - by @denis_campbell and me https://t.co/JqbXEt8Duv
Isabel Oakeshott tells Piers Morgan the clip of him telling Rishi Sunak about his mother's heart attack 'triggered' her about her own mother's recent harrowing death in an NHS hospital. "He shows no empathy." @IsabelOakeshott | @piersmorgan | #PMU https://t.co/xWWy6wVCiJ
British PM condemned for $1,000 bet on deportation flights Rishi Sunak told Piers Morgan that he’s willing to wager that the controversial plan will go ahead https://t.co/quUS6Cmthf https://t.co/FriAdwTMmP
From telling viewers that nurses got a good pay rise to blaming doctors for NHS waiting lists to telling us how great he’s doing on his pledges - the Prime Ministers latest interview shows he has no shame https://t.co/0S04GjDZDj
They’ve been in power 14 years. Nothing disempowers more than the Tory administrations since 2010 who have overseen a slump in living standards and a rise in poverty and destitution. https://t.co/qqanoPJQkD
The Tories have overseen 14 years of decline in skills and training, making Britain poorer. Labour will invest in people across our communities to deliver opportunity for all, skills for business and growth for the nation. My interview in @NewStatesman https://t.co/9aBPjHxjKe
Ever get the feeling it’s all a game to Rishi Sunak? He can’t deliver the change Britain needs. https://t.co/QKUOO2Dti9
“I am not a betting person” says former Hedge Fund Manager Rishi Sunak, who bet on the misery of British people at the outset of the 2008 crash, and won - £millions. Now he has bet on the lives of asylum seekers & is trying to wriggle out of it. But he has been caught out again: https://t.co/Xu45MmqXA8
The Tories have overseen 14 years of decline in skills and training which is making Britain poorer. Labour's plans to invest in people across our communities will deliver opportunity for all, skills for business and growth for the nation. https://t.co/9aBPjHxjKe
This is appalling behaviour from the Prime Minister. Betting on the lives of thousands of vulnerable people is stomach churning. He should apologise. https://t.co/sgPi0Wqau8
The interview all Britain's debating.. my full unedited encounter with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak: https://t.co/fNA3SQl6wX via @YouTube
On the Government's watch, the price of infant formula has shot up so much families are having to water down formula so they can feed their babies. This is Britain under the Tories. https://t.co/xR5guRobSX
14 years where food bank usage massively increased, childhood diseases returned, life expectancy dropped, public services cut to a thread, & still Tories have the gall to whine about enemies & bemoan the country https://t.co/Qiw8R0mHSj
UK Prime Minister Sunak faces backlash over controversial Rwanda asylum bet https://t.co/5e2GUykoDy https://t.co/qnzU5pFjJ7
Almost half of patients are waiting excessive times for an appt & treatment as Govt fail to meet their own cancer targets for 9 years. Under the Tories our NHS is being destroyed & patients put at risk. https://t.co/x91xPtJfEe
If he sticks to this, it is very bad news for Rishi Sunak. https://t.co/w5j6VPU5xd
This is utterly disgraceful from a PM with more money than morals. While he has a £1,000 to gamble most of our people can only dream of having that much money to spare. #GeneralElectionN0W https://t.co/ZE4bsNj1uH
This is utterly disgraceful from a PM with money than morals. While he has a £1,000 to gamble most of our people can only dream of having that much money to spare. #GeneralElectionN0W https://t.co/ZE4bsNj1uH
UK PM Sunak "taken by surprise" by 1,000 pound Rwanda asylum bet https://t.co/W7ThlS4rHR https://t.co/zqUfzxv30k
If Sunak can be embarrassed into shaking hands on a £1000 bet with Piers Morgan, what would he be like dealing with Putin?
NEW: Rishi Sunak’s spokesman says the PM “is not a betting man *in general*.” NB: That is not what Sunak said on 5Live this morning. Shambles https://t.co/XvTvhDy9rk
Even if Sunak wins his £1000 ‘pub bet’ with Piers Morgan, it’s still morally bankrupt, writes @Femi_Sorry https://t.co/aIDflT6gUv
Even if Sunak wins his £1000 ‘pub bet’ with Piers Morgan, he’ll still be morally bankrupt @Femi_Sorry https://t.co/7ExMmdX1al
Nigel Farage wades in to PM’s Rwanda bet with @piersmorgan. Tells @TimesRadio at PopCon: “Not a cat’s chance in hell of a boat that comes across the channel sending its occupants to Rwanda.” Adds “I am a gambling man, and I’d be on the Piers Morgan side of that bet” https://t.co/jG6smiYDNj
🔴 Rishi Sunak has said Sir Keir Starmer was “on the side” of a major Islamist group and suggested he was a “terrorist sympathiser” https://t.co/vfdTF7TXs6
Here's Rishi Sunak, who this morning claimed that "I'm not a betting man" in order to distance himself from his £1,000 bet with Piers Morgan... boasting about his love of spread betting. https://t.co/MVKd3qYQnv
Sam Coates on Rishi Sunak's £1000 bet. "That as close as you get to a Cabinet Minister criticizing the PM... he(Sunak) just gets dragged into stuff.... you've got to deal with more difficult people than Piers Morgan, you've got to deal with Putin.. " #KayBurley https://t.co/er2xFuizHE
Sunak I'm not a betting person. Also Sunak https://t.co/1QFwiBB1LT
Rishi Sunak says he is "not a betting person" over the ill-judged Rwanda bet. He told @bbctms last summer “In the 2005 Ashes, I was doing my internship in investment banking and at the same time had discovered spread-betting quite useful in that world” https://t.co/m8he4Sq82u
“Betting on genocide victims" - New Achievement Unlocked” Yes, it really is that bad. #rishiSunak @lbc #PiersMorgan https://t.co/HyjF0PLLCx
"Betting on genocide victims" - New Achievement Unlocked Israel's attack on Gaza has turned 2 million people into asylum seekers. @PiersMorgan knows that Rishi Sunak is complicit in that. THAT is who they're betting on! https://t.co/WIA8uvEjgb
Every UK news show is talking about that £1,000 bet today but none are pointing out the PM also bull****ed his way through the interview with everything from nurses got a good pay rise to blaming doctors for NHS waiting lists to how great he’s doing on his pledges https://t.co/0S04GjDZDj
‘I can be easily pressured into bad decisions,’ admits Rishi Sunak https://t.co/iHUYb7Hn6u
PM defends himself for £1,000 Rwanda deportation bet with Piers Morgan https://t.co/4Ji9Kdkzmd
Rishi Sunak skewered over £1,000 Rwanda bet as families forced to water down baby milk https://t.co/2ZQBYrxAoV
PM defends himself for £1,000 Rwanda deportation bet with Piers Morgan - @jitjoshi reports https://t.co/bIvtfIgkpi
The PM has been accused of taking a "depraved bet" with Piers Morgan on whether deportation flights to Rwanda will take off. Work and Pensions Secretary @MelJStride says, 'I probably wouldn't have entered a bet on anything'. https://t.co/fpvpxBpPDf 📺 Sky 501 https://t.co/lVj69JmdWt
More chaos from Rishi Sunak. This time over a £1,000 publicity stunt bet with Piers Morgan. Sunak has zero judgement. As his own MPs admit, he is wholly unsuited to be Prime Minister. He should end the misery for himself and for everyone else and call a #GeneralElectionNow
Rishi Sunak: "I'm not a betting person and I was taken totally by surprise in the middle of that interview." https://t.co/ArEyXpNh4L
Rishi Sunak backs away from the get he shook on with @piersmorgan says he was “taken completely by surprise by it”
That Rishi Sunak interview with Piers Morgan in full: * Admits he has failed on NHS waiting lists * Condemned over £1,000 Rwanda bet * Suggests former Director of Public Prosecutions is a terrorist sympathiser. https://t.co/w1rQh4YZz6
Labour Fury After Rishi Sunak Suggests Keir Starmer Is A 'Terrorist Sympathiser' https://t.co/k2hdqgAhuZ
Sky New Australia host Piers Morgan has criticised UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Rwanda scheme. https://t.co/78kmL2ybPi
Sunak ‘out of touch’ for betting £1,000 on Rwanda plan’s success, says Labour https://t.co/96ZqkOalxn
“Piers sort of led him into it, it’s unfortunate” Minister for Northern Ireland @SteveBakerFRSA reacts to Rishi Sunak appearing to bet @piersmorgan £1,000 on deportation flights leaving for Rwanda before the election. #Peston https://t.co/S07Dni11Da
Imagine you're the PM. You've been supporting an attack in Gaza that has turned 2 million people into refugees. How would you react if Piers Morgan bet you £1000, you couldn't send them to Rwanda, a country the Supreme Court said may get them killed? https://t.co/pbXzEG2mGF
Most of the audience at my book event tonight were unaware of the Sunak Rwanda bet. When I described the exchange, and his taking the bet and the bait of @piersmorgan there were literally sharp intakes of breath and reactions of disgust in the audience. He is so so bad at this
Accepting s £1,000 bet on refugees / migrants was tasteless. Hugging the leader of a party that still celebrates IRA terrorists was too much. Sunak really shouldn't be in politics.
Deporting vulnerable refugees to a country the Supreme Court has ruled unsafe is not a betting matter - another example of how out of touch our Prime Minister is. Shameful. https://t.co/PsrWRL4Gfh
From telling viewers tonight that nurses got a good pay rise to blaming doctors for NHS waiting lists to how great he’s doing on his pledges - the Prime Minister literally has no shame https://t.co/0S04GjDZDj
Jeez! Prime Minister @RishiSunak just bull****ed his way through tonight’s interview with everything from nurses got a good pay rise to blaming doctors for NHS waiting lists to how great he’s doing on his pledges! If you are as sick of this boll**** as I am RT this widely https://t.co/OOfnfsdGz1
On Monday, Rishi Sunak shook hands on a £1,000 bet with Piers Morgan 🤝 Remarkably, the level of stake agreed would be enough to see the loser face an enhanced financial check under the government's proposals if it had been placed with an online bookmaker
This is craven and squalid behaviour from a Prime Minister. Rich kid, but what a cheap guy. https://t.co/cOZ9vAIewN
‘When I was Prime Minister I made a bet on a TV show about deporting people to a country my own courts had said was unsafe’ https://t.co/TcaNtVoPwK
Govt’s flagship Rwanda Bill is immoral, inhumane & should be scrapped Disgusting that the PM & @piersmorgan are betting on peoples lives & laughing at the suffering of real human beings. It is not a laughing matter. We need the #ToriesOut & a #GENow https://t.co/m8wLgzMvNV
Betting on the suffering of other human beings. This is a new low for Rishi Sunak. https://t.co/CqoJisHT0M
'Those are people. Human beings with lives we should care about. Placing bets on whether any of them are going to be on a plane is completely divorced from what's at stake here.' @AmnestyUK on £1000 bet the PM placed over Rwanda flights. Credit: @PiersUncensored/TalkTV/YouTube https://t.co/jIckkmuqLV
Today proves that Sunak is even worse than Johnson.
I'm struggling to think of a more grotesque spectacle than our super-rich Prime Minister – whose fortune is estimated to be £529,000,000 – making a £1,000 bet that he will deport people seeking asylum before the next election. He's gambling over people's lives. It's sickening.
Opposition parties attack Rishi Sunak over £1,000 Rwanda bet https://t.co/nyDDJTHxiH
This government is so bad at politics I expect the Downing St response to Sunak's Rwanda bet being pilloried is they get his spokesman to say "it's fine, £1,000 really isn't a big deal to him, he can afford it"
While my constituents struggle to make ends meet, our multi-millionaire PM has bet £1000 that he'll be able to deport vulnerable asylum seekers, potentially including children, to Rwanda - a country the Supreme Court has ruled is unsafe. A disgusting new low for this government. https://t.co/jqbjKcWkYx
Our Multi-Millionaire Prime Minister is casually putting up £1000 on a cruel bet that he will be able to deport asylum seekers, including women and children, to a dangerous third country. Utterly despicable, a new low for this Government. https://t.co/vIEftZQLY3
NEW @theSNP has reported Rishi Sunak over a potential breach of the ministerial code by accepting a £1,000 bet that the first plane to #Rwanda will leave before the next election. https://t.co/Lhrv1bOy7R
"When are you gonna call the election?" Piers Morgan gives his final question to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Watch the full interview on YouTube: https://t.co/LZFBIVv3kQ @RishiSunak | @piersmorgan | #PMandthePM https://t.co/iFeKbh2OPB
"Why should any NHS staff pay for the privilege of saving people's lives?" Piers Morgan grills the Prime Minister over hospital parking fees for workers. Watch more: https://t.co/LZFBIVv3kQ @piersmorgan | @RishiSunak | #PMandthePM https://t.co/Ys7qDjlQKa
Probably the least Prime Ministerial thing I've seen in 9 years in Parliament. Deeply distasteful. A Prime Minister splashing his cash around like it's monopoly money - betting on a policy that he has lost control over. Cost of Rwanda policy may now end up at £400,001,000... https://t.co/1gzajfDEDR
"You don't want to be the Prime Minister, after saying you're going to grow the economy, to wake up and discover technically we went into recession." Watch more of Piers Morgan's interview with Rishi Sunak: https://t.co/LZFBIVv3kQ @piersmorgan | @RishiSunak | #PMandthePM https://t.co/4mf4TXLGki
When asked by @piersmorgan if he thinks Keir Starmer is a "terrorist sympathiser", Rishi Sunak says "the facts speak for themselves". Labour has called the PM's comments "desperate nonsense". Story here: https://t.co/TXmXkUKNBW
14 years of Tory failure 👇 https://t.co/di9ZfPOdSv
"How many of the five do you think you've met?" Piers Morgan questions Rishi Sunak on his 'ballsy' move of making five pledges to the British public shortly after becoming Prime Minister. Watch more: https://t.co/LZFBIVv3kQ @RishiSunak | @piersmorgan | #PMandthePM https://t.co/d9jo3VfLMN
Thanks to 14 years of shambolic Tory Government over 1/3 of UK adults have less than a grand in their savings. Meanwhile our multimillionaire Prime Minister is casually betting that amount to prove he can be cruel to asylum seekers. Sunak sinks to a new low. https://t.co/gRksDcuQkq
Piers Morgan asks Rishi Sunak if he thinks Benjamin Netanyahu should be in power - and whether the Israeli Prime Minister 'listens' to him. "We have persuaded him to open up the crossing to get hundreds of trucks in - but we need hundreds more." @RishiSunak | @piersmorgan https://t.co/8aEtNElQLc
Piers Morgan asks Rishi Sunak if he thinks Benjamin Netanyahu should be in power - and whether the Israeli Prime Minister 'listens' to him. "We have persuaded him to open up the crossing to get hundreds to trucks in - but we need hundreds more." @RishiSunak | @piersmorgan https://t.co/HRx4Xp20MC
Rishi Sunak tells Piers Morgan he suspects his children think it's "not very cool" to have him as their dad... Watch the full interview on YouTube: https://t.co/LZFBIVv3kQ @RishiSunak | @piersmorgan | @TalkTV | #PMandthePM https://t.co/OCEyjzSFkC
Rishi Sunak tells Piers Morgan he is cracking down on antisemitism in the UK: "The police should be going after those people and getting them locked up." @piersmorgan | @RishiSunak | #PMandthePM https://t.co/4fhexe6rcw
Does Rishi Sunak think Keir Starmer is a 'terrorist sympathiser'? "The facts speak for themselves," the Prime Minister tells Piers Morgan. @piersmorgan | @RishiSunak | #PMandthePM https://t.co/EZqVh14Yod
if we all work together, we can bankrupt Rishi Sunak by challenging him to endless £1,000 bets on his key policies https://t.co/Gz3MgXEjx3
A PM worth hundreds of millions betting £1k that he can deport a few hundred people with nothing to an unsafe country is really deeply grim.
Rishi Sunak & the Tories have completely failed the NHS. Throughout Harrow East people recognise that only Labour can save our NHS. https://t.co/2vBh5qSWTp
The Tories have failed on the NHS. Even Rishi Sunak thinks so. https://t.co/l0EObZPJjA
🗣️Infant mortality rates have risen under the Tories, with 4 deaths per 1000 live births. 🌍 Infant survival rate in the UK is worse than in 60% of similar countries. Widespread inequalities and poverty have exacerbated this crisis. 📉 Again, the Tories are failing our country.
In 2010, the NHS was the best performing health service in the world. Today it faces the worst crisis in its history. It's a disgrace that Rishi Sunak is trying to pin the blame on NHS workers fighting for fair pay. This is his mess. He should own it. https://t.co/jGXEtZUnCC
🇬🇧🚨‼️ ROUGH: "My mother is 79, and she had a heart attack three months ago. And she was taken to our local hospital. She was put on a trolley in a corridor for nearly seven hours. The heart monitor battery ran out. No one fixed it.” — Piers Morgan https://t.co/PPpG4aGA1m
Waiting lists were at record highs BEFORE the pandemic. The crisis in the NHS - the worst in history - is a Conservative crisis that has been 14 years in the making. The longer the Tories are in power, the longer patients will wait. Their time is up. https://t.co/NKU2YHVUCi
The Tories have failed our NHS, failed patients and failed Britain. https://t.co/341VIb9RDe
Under the Tories, apprenticeships are down. The current Apprenticeship Levy is inflexible & isn't working for businesses. Labour would introduce a new Growth and Skills Levy, to help people gain new skills, access the jobs of the future & grow the economy across all regions. https://t.co/qV6z8iEvDa
🇬🇧 PIERS MORGAN TO SUNAK: YOU'VE FAILED NATIONAL HEALTHCARE Piers Morgan: "My mother is 79, and she had a heart attack three months ago. And she was taken to our local hospital. She was put on a trolley in a corridor for nearly seven hours. The heart monitor battery ran out.… https://t.co/qmdenTQ2g7
Sunak admits he’s failed on his main NHS policy in Piers Morgan interview — big concession to have to make on voters’ number 2 priority in election year https://t.co/jO7aIl13qr
‘Apprenticeships are down 120,000 over the course of this parliament!’ Ellie Reeves MP discusses Labour’s vows to reform the apprenticeship levy into a ‘growth and skills’ levy in a bid to encourage firms to improve their employees’ skills. https://t.co/bDoYd9hap9
Piers Morgan confronts Rishi Sunak after his elderly mum spent hours on a hospital trolley https://t.co/5HfOzeRv3A
Piers Morgan reveals his mother's horror experience in A&E in his latest #PiersUncensored column https://t.co/yXKWj6JFT6 https://t.co/yXKWj6JFT6
It’s difficult to imagine a more shocking indictment of 14 years of Conservative government. Infant mortality rates have soared under the Tories while extreme child poverty has trebled in three years https://t.co/DhmiGYplls
"This was a very, very big topic for Piers to hold the Prime Minister to account." Peter Cardwell reacts to Piers Morgan holding Rishi Sunak to account over the NHS 'failure' which saw Piers' mother lying in a hospital corridor for hours. @petercardwell https://t.co/VYTm5lLXQr
Piers Morgan reveals his mother nearly died on a trolley in an A&E corridor after suffering a heart attack - as he blasts Rishi Sunak for allowing NHS hospitals to become 'warzones' https://t.co/ApuCxWMXaV https://t.co/CDHuOK9QnA
PM admits failing to cut NHS waiting lists and blames striking docs in exclusive @piersmorgan interview https://t.co/gOrBDp2bJ9 https://t.co/gOrBDp2bJ9