'It was a mistake': Sunak apologises for leaving D-Day events early to take part in TV interview

The Prime Minister sat down with ITV on Thursday to defend claims he had made earlier about Sir Keir Starmer’s tax plans, but missed the international ceremony.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says Rishi Sunak will “have to answer for his own actions” following the controversy, telling broadcasters “for me there was nowhere else I was going to be.”

In a YouGov survey, two-thirds of participants (65%) believe that Sunak leaving was either " somewhat unacceptable" or "completely unacceptable". Just one in five voters thought it was "somewhat acceptable" or "completely acceptable."

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