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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Kiran Stacey Political correspondent

Foreign Office officials said Rishi Sunak should attend D-day event, book reveals

Emmanuel Macron and Rishi Sunak
Rishi Sunak with Emmanuel Macron at a British D-day memorial event on 6 June, before the international event that the then PM missed. Photograph: Chris Jackson/Reuters

Senior officials at the Foreign Office repeatedly warned No 10 that Rishi Sunak should not leave June’s D-day commemoration in Normandy early, according to new revelations in a book about the Tories’ 14 years in power.

The department passed on two messages to Downing Street in the weeks leading up to the event, which were then ignored in what has gone down as the worst election campaign blunder of the last 14 years.

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