Sunak's D-Day 'mistake': How damaging is it for his campaign?
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🗓️ 7 June 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Rishi Sunak has since apologised - saying that "on reflection" leaving early "was a mistake", but also that it shouldn't be politicised.
Niall Paterson looks at how damaging this misstep is for Mr Sunak with Claire Pearsall, former Conservative special adviser at the Home Office, and Joe Twyman, the co-founder of the polling company Deltapoll.
Plus, our chief political correspondent Jon Craig tells us just how big of a political blunder it was.
Producer: Sydney Pead
Promotions producer: Jada-Kai Meosa John
Editor: Wendy Parker
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| 1:01.1 | I'm Neil Patterson. Welcome to the Sky News Daily and it is usually at this point that I would |
| 1:07.2 | take a minute or two to explain the story we're about to cover. Maybe mention some of |
| 1:12.4 | the intricacies you'd need for a fuller understanding of the topic at hand. Well, today, I can do it |
| 1:18.4 | in a single sentence. Rishi Sunak has apologised after he left the events commemorating the 80th |
| 1:24.8 | anniversary of the D-Day landings to record an election interview, |
| 1:29.4 | prioritising an ITV journalist over the dwindling band of Second World War veterans still able to attend. |
| 1:37.2 | You couldn't make it up. |
| 1:38.4 | Here is Sky Sam Coates speaking to the Prime Minister earlier. |
| 1:42.6 | Prime Minister, can you explain why yesterday you prioritised a campaign TV interview |
| 1:50.0 | over the opportunity to commemorate those who gave everything, everything for our country in June |
| 1:58.0 | 1944. You left early. What were you thinking? Over the past two days, |
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