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

Pledge comes as parties prepare to launch their manifestos, with Labour to offer support for small businesses

Mark Harper agreed the PM had made a mistake, after Penny Mordaunt said his decision to leave early was ‘completely wrong’

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 ...

Penny Mordaunt was forced to open the second televised election debate with an apology Rishi sunak’s D-Day row

The Liberal Democrat’s deputy leader described Rishi sunak as “shameful” for leaving D-Day memorial events early as she recalled her late grandfather’s memories of the fateful day. Speaking on the BBC general election live debate ...

From ‘Blair without the flair’ to a Tory cabinet minister’s admission that Rishi sunak’s decision to leave the D-Day commemorations early was ‘completely wrong’

The seven-party television debate became a slanging match between Penny Mordaunt and Angela Rayner

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 ...

Officials say internal party WhatsApp groups full of horrified responses after PM apologises for misjudgment

‘If he was allowed to leave at exactly 3.05pm he would be leaving at 3.05pm’, former Royal Marine says

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, ...

Long-serving party members and MPs left aghast by unforced errors, poor strategy and a growing sense of resignation

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

Keir Starmer, Rishi sunak and Nigel Farage paid their respects to veterans on the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings

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

The prime minister, already behind in the polls, skipped an international commemoration to record a TV interview

Exclusive: Redfield and Wilton poll for The Independent also finds Tory supporters want Nigel Farage to suceed Rishi sunak as party leader

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

The PM slipped away from D-day events to give an interview, while the Lib Dem leader talked movingly about his son