Sunak Criticized for D-Day Gaffe by Tory Mordaunt in TV Debate
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Cabinet minister Penny Mordaunt said it was “very wrong” of Rishi Sunak to leave Thursday’s D-Day commemorations in Normandy early, strongly criticizing her own leader in the latest UK election debate, as Reform UK Party leader Nigel Farage sought to capitalize on the prime minister’s gaffe by calling him unpatriotic.
“What happened was completely wrong, and the prime minister has rightly apologized for that,” Mordaunt said during the BBC’s televised debate late Friday, which included representatives from Britain’s seven main political parties. Sunak “was representing all of us,” Mordaunt said, as the controversy dominated the opening exchanges of the event.