Of course Rishi Sunak doesn’t have any working-class friends

I see there’s much chortling over the fact that Rishi Sunak once said he had no working-class friends.

It was in 2001, for a BBC series called Middle Classes: Their Rise and Sprawl. In a resurfaced clip, Sunak, who would have been 21 at the time, says: ‘I have friends who are aristocrats, I have friends who are upper class, I have friends who are working class… well, not working class.’

It’s the way he swiftly corrects himself when he says he has working-class mates that has got people going. It’s the speediest of self-corrections. It’s like he suddenly thinks to himself: ‘Oh God, no — I don’t associate with those people.’

‘Gotcha!’, the social-media set is saying. The clip has gone insanely viral. It’s even been covered in some of the papers. Tory-bashing online lefties are all saying the same thing: that this 21-year-old seven-second clip is hard proof that the Tories are out-of-touch poshos who’ve never met normal people.