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

The prime minister is facing questions after an ITV presenter said it was Mr sunak’s team who suggested the date for the interview

Call from the Liberal Democrats comes after Frank Hester allegedly told colleagues that looking at veteran Labour MP Diane Abbott makes you ‘want to hate all Black women’ and that she ‘should be shot’

Rishi sunak urged to give up money from party’s biggest donor after further allegations of racist behaviour

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

PM has once again been ruthlessly mocked by the internet over his latest election campaign gaffe

Ex-minister says his own party is guilty of a ‘factual inaccuracy’ days after Rishi sunak accused of lying about Keir Starmer and Labour’s tax plans

The Prime Minister left the event in Normandy early to attend an interview at a time that the Conservatives had reportedly offered themselves

Rishi sunak leaving D-Day 80th anniversary commemorations early on Thursday was an "embarrassing dereliction of duty," Labour's shadow housing minister has said. The prime minister apologised after skipping the major international c ...

UK prime minister says it was ‘a mistake not to stay in France longer – and I apologise’

PM, who left to attend an ITV interview, says ‘the last thing I wanted was for the commemorations to be overshadowed by politics’

 

Mark Harper repeated Rishi sunak’s claim that Labour will hike household taxes by £2,000 if they win the general election during an appearance on Question Time on Thursday, 6 June. During the first televised debate of the campaign, the prime ...