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Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots.

I'm James Seal and I'm joined today by the spectators Isabel Harmon and John Maternal and former advisor to Tony Player.

Now we've already done a daily politics podcast on the row about Sunak and D-Day, but since then the Prime Minister himself has come out and

apologized for leaving the events yesterday early.

Isabel, can you talk through your choreography of the last five hours or so?

Yeah, so excitingly for Coffey House Shops listeners,

this is our second of the day.

So earlier today, Katie and I

chats about the Prime Minister's Twitter apology,

and then he's since given a, uh terse, techie, broadcast clip where he's repeated that apology

and explained, I don't think is quite the right word, offered a formulation of words on why he didn't stay for the whole

commemorations right to the end as everyone else did. And that has basically been that he didn't at any point

consider not going at all to the D-Day commemorations which has been reported by

some outlets and that's being flatly denied by Sunak and Conservative sources but

those who reported that claim are saying that their sources are insisting that that's a

lie anyway he also said that this was a long-standing plan that was in the diary weeks before the general election.

Well, I mean, yes, it was because D-Day has been in the diary for 80 years but also it continues this strange sense

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