D-day misstep: is it all over for Sunak?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 9 June 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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It's manifesto week - Lib Dems announce theirs on Monday. Tories Tuesday. And Labour Thursday.
But the cloud of Sunak's speedy D Day departure still hangs over him. Will this be terminal for Sunak?
Later Lewis is in Leigh with North West voters there.
And we have a QUIZ for you. Stay to the end.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
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| 0:12.5 | The itinerary for these events was set weeks ago before the start of the general election campaign. |
| 0:18.9 | And having participated in all the British events with British veterans, |
| 0:22.8 | I returned home before the international leaders event later in the day. On reflection, |
| 0:28.1 | that was a mistake and I apologise. I think it's important, though, given the enormity |
| 0:32.9 | of the sacrifice made, that we don't politicise this. The focus should rightly be on the veterans |
| 0:38.3 | who gave so much. I had the honour and privilege. That was the Prime Minister, still just about |
| 0:42.8 | the Prime Minister, entirely humbled. Humbolded by his own actions, by his own lack of actions. |
| 0:51.6 | He has had to explain to the country how it could possibly be that he would |
| 0:57.4 | choose to return to the UK to attend a meeting connected to his general election campaign |
| 1:04.4 | rather than see out the full itinerary of the 80th anniversary commemoration of D-Day. In so doing, he has angered, |
| 1:14.7 | made furious, not only members of his own party, his candidates, members of the armed forces, |
| 1:21.0 | but crucially even D-Day veterans themselves, many of whom, in short order, will no longer be with us. |
| 1:29.9 | On today's show, we're going to examine how it could possibly be that Sunak and those around |
| 1:35.8 | Sunak could be so politically feckless and what it means for the campaign, whether this will |
| 1:41.9 | prove to be one of those defining moments that we will |
| 1:45.9 | always remember. Welcome to the newsagents. The news agents. It's John in Braymar. It's Emily in |
| 1:58.1 | Sussex. And it's Lewis in London. And it still doesn't get any less shocking what happened with Rishi Sunak at the D-Day commemorations and deciding, yes, cool, I'll go back early. |
| 2:12.4 | I'll do an interview with ITV and attack here, Stama, and then I'll do a meeting about the general election manifesto, |
| 2:19.4 | and yeah, that'll be OK. No one will mind. It's only D-Day, 80th anniversary. There are only |
| 2:24.6 | those veterans who are about 100 years old standing around. I'll go back. Yes, it is hard to |
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