Rishi Sunak hits out at BBC interviewer after snarky assaults over personal jet

Rishi Sunak hit again throughout a testy BBC interview this morning, which was meant to be concerning the authorities’s huge announcement on new North Sea oil and gas licences.

The Prime Minister dialled into BBC Scotland for a radio interview, and was instantly confronted by the presenter criticising him for under allocating 5 minutes to the station.

Mr Sunak interjected and stated it was a “strange way to start an interview”, and clarified he couldn’t discuss for lengthy as he was about to go off to Scotland.

The Prime Minister is the primary Prime Minister since David Cameron to have sat down with the station, and has carried out so twice since coming into No. 10.

Presenter Gary Robertson claimed he was simply clarifying so listeners didn’t assume the interview had been reduce quick.

Mr Sunak later accused the presenter of being “economically incoherent” when making an attempt to pin down the PM on how a lot oil the UK imports from Russia.

The Government argues todays announcement will make the UK much less dependant on international dictators and despots to maintain our lights on.

Mr Robertson requested how that’s the case once we import simply three % of our fuel from Russia.

Mr Sunak shot again: “It’s a globally traded market and you can see the impact on energy prices, I think your listeners will know what’s happened to their energy bills over the past couple of years, so in spite of us directly not importing a huge amount of oil and gas directly from Russia we’re still heavily impacted by what happens when energy supplies are weaponised by dictators, because they’re traded in a global market.

“It’s just economically incoherent to say we’re not impacted by that, just look at anyone’s energy bill. That’s what happens in a globally traded market.”

Rishi Sunak stated he could be “flying as I normally would, and that’s the most efficient use of my time”.

According to Google Maps, it could take the Prime Minister 9 hours to get to Peterhead the place he’s set to make the announcement.

Mr Sunak slammed the presenter as “completely and utterly wrong” in eager to ban individuals from flying.

“Every PM before me has used planes to travel around the United Kingdom because it’s an efficient use of time for the person running the country, so I can continue focusing on delivering for people”.