Rishi Sunak says he had to 'go without' Sky TV as a child so his parents could to pay his expensive private school fees.
The premier said his GP father and pharmacist mother wanted to 'put everything' into their children's education so having no satellite television was one of the things they sacrificed.
Mr Sunak spent his teenage years at the now £52,000 a year distinguished Winchester College in Hampshire near his home in Southampton.
In the interview with ITV, which he left D-Day commemorations in Normandy early in order to attend, he is pressed on how he is able to stay in touch with the struggles of ordinary people when he is 'wealthier than the king'.