Rishi Sunak has opened up about the struggles of balancing fatherhood and work while serving as prime minister. Mr Sunak appeared on ITV's 'This Morning' the day before the general election where he admitted "doing this job means I'm not as good a dad or a husband as I would like to be." Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00But what's really important is Conservatives to come together, as Boris has said, warning
00:04rightly about what a Labour super-majority would mean for people.
00:07Well, I think what Keir Starmer was saying, he was with his kids on a Friday night out
00:11watching cheerleading or kickboxing, rather than doing that.
00:13But the point is this, everyone's going to do this job in a different way.
00:18So I can only speak from my own experience over the past 18 months, and the reality is
00:21there's always work to do, there's always decisions that need to be made, and ultimately
00:26that's what the job demands, because it's a great responsibility to be Prime Minister,
00:30and that's what public service is about.
00:32Public service entails sacrifice, and that's why we respect people who are in public service
00:37in any different way.
00:38Sacrifice for the family as well.
00:39And I've talked about that as well, Ben, because I love my girls, as we were just chatting
00:42about in the break, and one of the things I've spoken about a lot is that doing this
00:46job means I'm not as good a dad, I'm not as good a husband as I would love to be.
00:51And that comes with the territory of being in public service and having the responsibility
00:55to be Prime Minister, to do a great job for everyone who's watching.