RISHI Sunak has been hammered for for his "breathtakingly terrible" decision to snub a D-Day ceremony in favour of a telly interview.
The Prime Minister issued a grovelling apology after he received almost blanket condemnation for his Normandy clear-off.
He decided to return to the UK from France early, for a hastily arranged TV interview, after his £2000 tax attack on Labour was exposed as a "lie".
In doing so he missed a key event where world leaders including US president Joe Biden paid tribute to the fallen heroes on the landmark D-Day 80th anniversary.
It marks a new low for the Tory election campaign.
Labour leader Keir Starmer, who attended the full event, said: "Rishi Sunak will have to answer for his own actions.
For me, there was nowhere else I was going to be." First Minister John Swinney said the embattled PM had made a "foolish decision" to "turn his back on the D-Day commemorations".
He said: "It's a breathtakingly terrible decision on a number of counts.
"One, it was disrespectful to the veterans for the Prime Minister to leave as he did.
"Secondly, there was a major gathering of international leaders at which the president of the United States, the chancellor of Germany, the president of France, the president of Ukraine, a variety of leaders were present where I would have thought the Prime
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