Millionaire Rishi Sunak today remarked “we all have different breads in my house” as households across the UK face the biggest income drop since the 1950s.
The out-of-touch Chancellor of the UK Government was being questioned by BBC Breakfast this morning about which food he noticed was rising in price in the supermarket as inflation looks set to near 9per cent this year.
When the presenter said for her it was crisps, he laughed, and replied: “It’s probably, I think bread, probably is the thing. The one we buy I’m sure is now about £1.20 and it was about £1, from memory.”
Asked what kind of bread, he replied: “It’s a Hovis kind of seeded thing.
“We have a whole range of different - we all have different breads in my house, a degree of healthiness between my wife, myself and my kids.”
It comes a day after Iceland’s boss said food bank users are “declining potatoes and root veg because they can’t afford the energy to boil them”.
The Budget watchdog said despite his Spring Statement cutting some taxes, Brits will face the worst drop in disposable incomes next year since records began nearly 70 YEARS ago.
Lib Dem Treasury Spokesperson Christine Jardine said: “Rishi Sunak has shown just how out of touch he is with the British people.
“This is his ‘let them eat cake’ moment. While he talks about all his dough on morning television, millions of families watching are struggling with the worst fall in living standards in decades.”
Shadow Food Secretary Jim McMahon said: “Maybe if the Chancellor was struggling to afford a single loaf of bread like so many families are, he would have offered support to families yesterday.
“Instead it appears the ‘continental breakfast’ Chancellor doesn’t understand the Tory cost of living crisis he’s presiding over.”
The fitness fanatic Chancellor lives with his wife Akshata Murthy, who is the daughter of the sixth richest man in India and said to be richer than the Queen, in a gated Grade II-listed manor.
The couple applied for permission last year to build a stone building on a paddock to house their own gym, swimming pool and four showers.
Mr Sunak has extolled the virtues of his morning workout, including on his Peloton exercise bike, report Mirror Online.
The Chancellor later appeared rattled when he was grilled by BBC Radio 4’s Today programme about his refusal to raise benefits by inflation.
He even offered to personally handle the case of a struggling woman raised by the BBC. Labour questioned whether the offer was open to everyone.
Universal Credit and pensions are rising by 3.1%, less than half the predicted inflation rate of 7.4% next year.
He replied: “If I might just have an opportunity to try to answer the question, that would be marvellous.”
Rishi Sunak boasted he’s giving Brits £11bn of tax cuts in his Spring Statement - with a rise in National Insurance thresholds and 5p cut to fuel duty.
But MPs shouted “ is that it?” as he announced just £500m extra for a household support fund for poverty-stricken Brits.
Grilled by LBC Radio earlier, Boris Johnson insisted the Government would “fix” the rising cost of living which is “the single-biggest thing”.
He bizarrely claimed the Chancellor had “cut taxes for working people by I think the biggest single amount for the last 25 years”.
That is despite the tax burden reaching its highest in generations, and the Resolution Foundation saying 7 out of 8 families will still see a tax rise by 2025.
The PM added: “We need to do more.
“I’ll be bringing forward a British energy security strategy which is intended to make good some of the mistakes of the last 25 years in which we haven’t really done enough to ensure we have our own energy supplies.”
But Rishi Sunak defended his package, saying the £500m on the Household Support Fund - as benefits lose £12bn in value due to inflation - would give families a “little bit of extra help”.
He admitted there was rising inflation globally but said “with the best will in the world, I can’t change that”.
The Chancellor added: “Oil prices are very volatile, of course they are, and I can’t control that.”
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