Sunak Apologizes for Skipping D-Day Event in UK Campaign Blunder
- Premier returned early from France, filmed campaign interview
- Labour leader Keir Starmer was at D-Day event on Omaha beach
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Rishi Sunak apologized after skipping events to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day in France to return early to the UK, a major political and diplomatic gaffe that increases the risk of a landslide defeat for the premier’s Conservative Party in the July 4 election that many polls already predict.
Sunak did attend a British event with King Charles III on Thursday morning in Normandy, but he then opted not to represent the UK alongside US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron at a gathering at Omaha beach in the afternoon. It later emerged that back in Britain, Sunak filmed a pre-recorded interview with ITV as part of his election campaign.