Sunak to Skip High-Profile D-Day Event with Biden, Macron
Emmanuel Macron with Rishi Sunak arrive for the UK national commemorative event.
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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak won’t attend an international gathering of world leaders during the D-Day ceremony in Normandy, missing the chance to represent the UK alongside US President Joe Biden and France’s Emmanuel Macron.
Sunak, who is in the midst of a UK election campaign where he trails the opposition Labour Party by an average of 21.9 percentage points in opinion polls, won’t attend the high-profile international event later Thursday, a senior government official told Bloomberg. The prime minister did attend a morning ceremony in France and delivered a speech.