Good afternoon. Rishi Sunak must have thought his day could only look up, when at 8.01am he apologised to the nation for yesterday’s decision to leave the D-day commemorations early to give an interview to ITV.
It was, indeed, extraordinary – the image of Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz standing together, David Cameron looking very slightly adrift, only a foreign secretary among leaders. For Sunak to have created a photo op so personally embarrassing when he wasn’t even there is quite something. But perhaps the signal achievement was managing to embarrass Cameron, who has always seemed a stranger to the emotion.
