The prime minister says he did 'everything I could' to help people during the pandemic as he is asked: 'How can anyone trust you?'
Rishi Sunak has been challenged over COVID parties in Downing Street while out on the campaign trail for the general election. During a Q&A session in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, a member of the audience described how his mother died at the height of the pandemic in 2020 and neither he, nor his brothers, were able to be with her in hospital due to the rules in place.
Mr Sunak said: 'As you know, I was working on things to help you and your business and many other families like that, and in fact, it was probably in that same period of time that you got to know me as chancellor.
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