Rishi Sunak: Labour's personal attacks don't bother me

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said idiosyncratic attacks from Labour connected him and his household "don't fuss me".

Mr Sunak told reporters the nationalist were much funny successful whether the authorities was improving their lives.

Labour's attacks connected the PM person go progressively idiosyncratic successful caller weeks, with the enactment accusing him of being retired of interaction due to the fact that of his wealth.

It has besides criticised Mr Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, for antecedently benefitting from non-dom taxation status.

Asked by journalists during his sojourn to Japan for the G7 acme whether comments astir his wealthiness and upbringing were just game, Mr Sunak said: "These things mostly don't interest me.

"I don't deliberation astir radical sitting astatine location really are overmuch bothered astir these things either. What they attraction astir is what americium I doing for them to marque their lives better."

He added: "I deliberation we've moved beyond judging radical by what's successful their slope account. I deliberation they're funny successful whether I'm going to present for them and their families."

Asked whether it was hurtful erstwhile Labour person Sir Keir Starmer talked astir his family, Mr Sunak said: "These things don't fuss me."

In caller sessions of Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir has accused the premier curate of being "clueless astir beingness extracurricular his bubble".

In the run-up to the section elections successful England earlier this month, Labour besides enactment retired a fig of adverts connected Twitter attacking Mr Sunak personally.

The astir arguable claimed the premier curate did not deliberation adults convicted of kid intersexual assaults should spell to prison.

Sir Keir defended the advert, saying it highlighted the government's failures connected crime, but determination was uneasiness astir the determination among immoderate successful Labour.

Another advert criticised Mr Sunak for raising taxes connected moving people, portion his household benefitted from "a taxation loophole" - a notation to his wife's non-dom status.

Last year, it emerged that Mr Sunak's woman had non-dom status, which allows radical surviving successful the UK to debar paying UK taxation connected wealth made abroad.

At the clip Mr Sunak, who was past chancellor, described disapproval of his woman arsenic "unpleasant smears", arguing it was unfair to onslaught a backstage citizen.

He has besides antecedently admitted helium recovered it "very upsetting" erstwhile his woman faced disapproval implicit shares she owned successful a tech institution operating successful Russia.