Tonight marks 100 days since Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister – so what better way to celebrate than an interview with Piers Morgan? The charge from some of Sunak’s critics like Nadine Dorries is that he’s an ‘invisible’ ‘submarine Prime Minister’ who isn’t ‘out at the front, making the case’ for his party. This evening’s encounter on TalkTV gave him the chance to do just that. Morgan mixed policy with the personal, in the style he’s used previously to good effect in interviews with the likes of Gordon Brown and Keir Starmer. Much of it focused on Sunak’s ‘five pledges’ – reducing debt, halving inflation, boosting growth, stopping the boats, cutting NHS waiting times – though there were questions too about his earnings, recreations and marital life too. Below are five things we learned from tonight’s interview.
The looming battle on small boats
Morgan asked Sunak about his pledge to stop migrant crossings in the Channel and the action he has taken in his first 100 days as PM.
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