Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, speaking to ITV Tonight, responded to criticisms about the state of the country after 14 years of Conservative rule. "We've been hit by two, once in a century crises," Sunak stated, referring to the pandemic and the energy crisis following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He noted that the Conservatives were re-elected because "people thought the Conservatives were doing a good job." Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Let's talk about the actions over the past 14 years of Conservative government.
00:04A YouGov poll from the beginning of this year found 75% of people
00:08think the country is in a worse state than when the Conservatives came into power in 2010.
00:13Are they wrong, those people?
00:15Well, it's been very difficult for the last few years. It's been very difficult.
00:1914 years we're talking about, not just a few years.
00:21Well, you have to remember, just a few years ago, the Conservatives won a general election.
00:27And people thought, actually, the Conservatives were doing a good job.
00:30Otherwise, we wouldn't have re-elected them.
00:32But what's happened in the last few years is we've been hit by two once-in-a-century crises.
00:36A pandemic, which we hadn't seen before, and then an energy crisis as Russia invaded Ukraine
00:42and everyone's energy bills spiralled. And that's had an enormous impact on everybody.