BBC election debate: Penny Mordaunt says Sunak’s D-day snub was ‘very wrong’ in seven-party clash – as it happened
by Andrew Sparrow (now) and Martin Belam (earlier) from World news | The Guardian on (#6NBSB)
Mordaunt, for the Tories, faced Labour's Angela Rayner, Reform's Nigel Farage and candidates from Lib Dems, SNP, Greens and Plaid Cymru
I think it would be fair to say that children's minister David Johnston is not having a vintage media round today.
First he was ambushed by Rishi Sunak issuing his D-day absence apology while the minister was literally out defending Sunak by repeatedly pointing out that he had been in France earlier in the day and in Portsmouth the day before [See 8.18 BST].
Continue reading...