The Prime Minister admitted he made a mistake leaving the anniversary commemorations in Normandy early.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a visit to Great Oldbury Primary Academy in Stonehouse while on the General Election campaign trail
Mr Sunak insisted he “stuck to the itinerary that had been set for me as Prime Minister weeks ago”, suggesting he had never intended to go to the centrepiece of the D-Day commemorations, even before he called the election. Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer, who stayed on in France to mingle with Mr Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky, said Mr Sunak “will have to answer for his own actions”, but “for me there was nowhere else I was going to be”.The debacle leaves Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt, a Navy reservist, in a tricky spot as she faces off against deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner, Mr Farage and others in a seven-way BBC debate on Friday evening.
The finer points of Labour’s policy document have been kept tightly under wraps after 2017’s draft manifesto was leaked, with attendees of the gathering only told its location on Friday morning. Jaymey McIvor is no longer the Conservative candidate for the previously Tory-held Hemel Hempstead seat after the party flagged “an anonymous complaint against his prior conduct which requires investigation”. He was replaced by councillor Andrew Williams.
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