SUNAK LET THE COUNTRY DOWN
Daily Record|June 08, 2024
98-year-old Normandy veteran Ken Hay sums up what everyone's thinking about Prime Minister
PAUL HUTCHEON
SUNAK LET THE COUNTRY DOWN

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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