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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Reged Ahmad

‘It’s over’: what the papers say after Rishi Sunak’s D-day departure

Composite of UK newspaper front pages
UK newspaper front pages are dominated by controversy over Rishi Sunak’s decision to leave D-day commemorations in France early. Composite: Financial Times/Guardian/Daily Star/Daily Mirror/Daily Express/Times

There may have been another TV general election debate – this time a seven-way debate including the Conservative party’s Penny Mordaunt and Labour’s Angela Rayner as well as other smaller parties - but many of the papers are consumed by Rishi Sunak’s D-day misstep.

The Guardian leads with “Furious Tories turn on Sunak over D-day snub”, reporting that the prime minister has “provoked fury” from the Conservative grassroots after he was forced to apologise for skipping a key part of the D-day commemorations in northern France. It’s described as “the biggest misstep yet of an already faltering election campaign”.

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