PM appears to dodge being questioned by media amid row as press event cancelled on campaign trail

Prime minister’s gaffe was a defining moment in his campaign symbolising a party that does not know what it stands for and has nothing to offer

The party’s deputy leader, putting tax furore behind her, is taking her fighting spirit on a 5,000-mile campaign tour, armed with a fridge and a Liz Truss-lookalike lettuce

Cutting the D-day anniversary early to record an ITV interview left the prime minister’s election tactics in tatters

Prime minister is not the first party leader to make bad decisions during the heat of a general election campaign

An eventful 2024 general election campaign went into its third week, bringing unprecedented poll projections, candidate U-turns and moments to forget for Rishi Sunak

Rishi Sunak’s early departure from D-Day events comes up before Angela Rayner and Penny Mordaunt have unedifying scrap over the £2,000 tax row

Nigel Farage has suggested Rishi Sunak is “not a patriotic leader” after his D-Day blunder. The prime minister left the 80th anniversary events in Normandy early on Thursday 6 June to record a general election campaign TV interview. He late ...

Republican presidential candidate and convicted felon continues campaign swing across western states

Rishi Sunak laughed as he was heckled by a GP at a general election campaign event in Wiltshire on Friday evening (7 June). Dr Jane Lees-Millais, a Conservative member, warned there were 37,000 GPs across the UK angry with the government about what s ...

Official claims ‘disingenuous’ and ignore evidence on health and sustainability, according to Doctors Association UK

Rishi Sunak made sand "ice-cream" cones with children at a childcare centre in Swindon on Friday, 7 June, as he continued on the general election campaign trail. The prime minister met staff and youngsters at Imagination Childcare, ...

In today’s newsletter: Zoe Williams recaps the worst day (yet) for the Conservative leader, and the rest of the day’s action on the campaign trail

The prime minister had only to look back a few years to see he was making a huge mistake, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

US president compares storming of Normandy beaches to defeat the Nazis to the current campaign to oppose Russia

Biden-Harris HQ trolls Trump as his interview with Dr Phil, in which he toold several hits at Biden, was being aired

The disappearance of social media advertising comes as Rishi Sunak faces heavy criticism for missing D-Day events

Trump sits down with TV host Dr Phil to discuss the impact that the trial, as well as his 2024 election campaign, has had on his family

‘I should have found out before I came on here’, David Johnston says in latest Tory gaffe of campaign