Rishi Sunak’s D-Day snub: What happened and what it means for his campaign
Rishi Sunak’s election campaign has been thrown into disarray after the Prime Minister was forced to apologise for skipping a major international ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day in order to take part in a TV interview.
– How did the saga unfold?
The Prime Minister attended the UK national event at Portsmouth on Wednesday and then the British ceremony in Normandy on Thursday, the anniversary of the allied landings on D-Day.
But he then left France before the high-profile gathering of world leaders, including Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron, on Omaha Beach for the international ceremony on Thursday afternoon.
Instead, he left Foreign Secretary Lord to be pictured alongside the US, French and German leaders paying tribute to those who made the
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