{"id":2052,"date":"2024-06-07T13:16:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T13:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/rishi-sunak-apologises-for-leaving-d-day-events-early-calling-it-a-mistake\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T13:16:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T13:16:13","slug":"rishi-sunak-apologises-for-leaving-d-day-events-early-calling-it-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/rishi-sunak-apologises-for-leaving-d-day-events-early-calling-it-a-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Rishi Sunak apologises for leaving D-Day events early, calling it a ‘mistake’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rishi Sunak apologises for leaving D-Day events early, calling it a ‘mistake’<\/p>\n

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What an extraordinary own goal.<\/p>\n

For days, the leaders’ teams for the Conservatives and Labour had been telling me things would be different on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.<\/p>\n

Politics would take a backseat, the focus would be on the D-Day commemorations.<\/p>\n

It did, and it was. Until that is, it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Rishi Sunak\u2019s decision to leave the most photographed, remarked upon and most poignant event in Europe early was always likely to be spotted.<\/p>\n

Sunak was hurtling back to the UK to get stuck back into campaigning – recording a lengthy interview with ITV.<\/p>\n

We know that because ITV released an extract of it last night, in which the prime minister insisted he hadn\u2019t lied about Labour\u2019s tax plans.<\/p>\n

Yes, that\u2019s right – the prime minister left D-Day events early in order not to apologise for misleading claims about his opponents, only to apologise for leaving early in the first place.<\/p>\n