Rishi Sunak shares details of home life - from dishwashers to Friends reruns

Prime minister Rishi Sunak says he feels 'irritated' if his bed is unmade.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cooks scrambled eggs on a Saturday, takes dishwasher stacking seriously, and rewatches Friends in the evenings.

That is according to a new Grazia magazine interview with the prime minister and his wife, businesswoman Akshata Murty.

A video of the interview has met a mixed response online, with some calling it "cringey" while others ask, "who cares?".

Grazia frames it as a look at "how the country's most high-profile couple share domestic duties" ahead of International Women's Day.

In the five-minute clip, the couple reveal who is more likely to make the bed ("Definitely Rishi," says Ms Murty), who is better at loading the dishwasher ("That's me," says Mr Sunak), and who reads more books.

On that last point, the answer is Ms Murty, as Mr Sunak explains: "I'm too exhausted when I get home every day so I watch an episode of Friends then go to bed."

"We have watched the same episodes of Friends I don't know how many times," adds Ms Murty. The couple agree the US sitcom "never gets old".

Making the bed appears particularly important to Mr Sunak.

"It bugs me so I actually sometimes come up, back into the flat, from the office after we've all left to make the bed. I'll be irritated if it's not been made," he says.

Ms Murty calls it "one of his special skills".

Mr Sunak is the better cook, the couple says. Though he doesn't have much time to do it. "It's mainly just breakfast on a Saturday morning. Gordon Ramsay scrambled eggs," he says.

The couple says their children put away their own clothes, make the table, and of course make their own beds. But Mr Sunak adds he would like it if they walked the dog "a bit more often".

On their least favourite chore, for Ms Murty it's making the bed while for her husband it's taking out the rubbish.

And the prime minister struggles to choose between making the bed and stacking the dishwasher when asked to name his favourite household task. "Both have a nice, satisfying ending," he says. But he chooses making the bed.

'People call me Dave' - when prime ministers go 'relatable'

Mr Sunak is not the first prime minister to give an interview revealing the details of his domestic life. Politicians often take this approach, particularly during election years, in the hope of appealing to voters.

When David Cameron was prime minister, he told Richard Bacon's XFM drivetime show that he was a big fan of the TV series Spooks. He also said: "Lots of people call me Dave."

In the run-up to the 2017 general election, then-prime minister Theresa May was asked to share the "naughtiest thing" she ever did in an interview with ITV News.

Her answer, that she used to "run through fields of wheat", became so infamous that it now has its own Wikipedia page.

During the same election campaign, Mrs May appeared on The One Show with her husband, Philip May.

She revealed that in the May household there were "boy jobs and girl jobs". The "boy jobs" included taking out the bins.

Philip May and Theresa May during their One Show interview

Gordon Brown was accused of sidestepping a question about his favourite biscuit during an online chat with parents' website Mumsnet when he was prime minister.

He later set the record straight saying he liked "anything with a bit of chocolate".

One former prime minister took a different approach. During a BBC Breakfast interview, Naga Munchetty asked then-prime minister Boris Johnson what made him relatable ahead of the 2019 general election.

Mr Johnson replied: "Am I relatable? I don't have the faintest idea. That is the most psychologically difficult question anyone has ever asked me."