The British Prime Minister Rishi Sunakwhose family is estimated to be richer than that of King Charles, said that as a child he was deprived of “a lot of things”, such as Sky TV, when asked if he was in touch with the plight of everyday people.

Sunak, the son of a doctor and a pharmacist, is the richest prime minister in British history thanks to his career in financial services and the family fortune of his wife, whose father founded the Indian IT services company Infosys.

In an interview with ITV to be broadcast later today, Sunak cited his parents’ refusal to pay for cable channel as an example of those forced to “deprivedbecause, he said, they had to make sacrifices to pay for his education.

Asked to give a specific example of something he was deprived of as a child, he stated: “There are various things that I would have wanted as a child, but I couldn’t have. The familiar Sky TV, so that was something we never had growing up.”

The opposition Labor Party tried to use Mr Sunak’s personal wealth to accuse him of being out of touch with the problems facing most people in Britain.

Sunak’s family fortune is estimated to have a net worth of more than £650m ($828m), putting him at 245th on the Sunday Times’ 2024 Rich List, with Britain’s richest, ahead from King Charles who is in 258th place.

Earlier this year, Labor criticized Sunak’s decision to agree to a £1,000 bet that his government would send asylum seekers to Rwanda, calling the move in poor taste and saying it was an amount most people could not afford to bet.

Sunak’s interview with ITV last week put him in a difficult position as he pulled out of D-Day events in Normandy early to film it. The prime minister later apologised, saying it was “a mistake he didn’t stay longer”.