Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reveals fears for MPs' safety, talks about what family means to him and describes what it is like to receive 'the biggest hospital pass of any incoming Prime Minister in decades' - Exclusive Interview with The Yorkshire Post offering fascinating insight into Rishi Sunak's life
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00:00 Hello, I think most of you know who I am by now, but I'm James Mitchinson, the editor
00:05 of the Yorkshire Post, and I wanted to just give you a quick glimpse into the weekend
00:10 ahead's edition, because it carries a fascinating interview with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
00:18 Our Westminster correspondent Mason Boycott-Owen sat down with the Prime Minister in South
00:23 Yorkshire this week, and to our surprise, my surprise, he managed to put the Prime Minister
00:28 so at ease that he opened up about a whole host of different issues, matters relating
00:34 to the safety of himself and his family, after, if you recall, those protesters breached security
00:40 at his home and managed to get on the roof there. Lord knows what that must have felt
00:44 like. He goes on to talk about his wider concerns about, and for, if you like, the safety of
00:54 other MPs in their own homes too, and when they're out and about. He reflects with us
01:00 on family life, on the support of his wife, and what that means to him. He talks about
01:07 his parents, he talks about the upbringing they gave him and why they instilled in him
01:12 the sort of values and qualities that mean he still has ambitions, he still has things
01:18 he wants to do. He talks about the reasons why he doesn't give it all up and go off and
01:25 live on a luxury island. And perhaps more fascinating than all of that is when he talks
01:34 about receiving the biggest hospital pass for any incoming Prime Minister in decades.
01:41 You don't want to miss it. It's going to be a huge double page spread across the middle
01:45 of the broadsheet book. We're working on it now, but I just thought I'd give you a preview
01:50 to that. And also, turn the newspaper over, go to the back pages, and our cricket correspondent
01:58 Chris Waters, he has written a raw, emotive, challenging read actually, from his interview
02:07 with Wayne Morton, the former physiotherapist at Yorkshire County Cricket Club. He goes
02:11 into great personal detail about the impact the racism scandal at the home of cricket
02:16 has had on him and his family. And there is a part in the interview where Wayne Morton
02:24 talks about the way he broke down. He didn't realise he'd got to that point, but he went
02:30 to his GP for help and found himself breaking down in front of his GP, realising that he
02:35 was at the very brink of despair. So that's the difficult read, but it's a fascinating
02:41 insight into the trauma and the impact of the racism scandal on a particular individual.
02:47 So I hope you can pick up a copy of the Yorkshire Post. Tomorrow, the interview isn't a soft
02:53 touch for anybody who, with Rishi Sunak that is, it's not a soft touch for anybody who's
02:58 tempted to accuse us of being so on the Tories. I think the Yorkshire Post has been amongst
03:02 the fiercest critics of this Tory government in recent years. Not least when I banned Boris
03:08 Johnson from coming to the Yorkshire Post at all, such was his misdemeanours and behaviour.
03:13 But yeah, I'll leave it there. We're going to get on with it. So I hope you enjoy. Take
03:19 care.