The Labour leader has told broadcasters ‘there was nowhere else I was going to be’ other than at D-day commemoration events after Rishi Sunak left Normandy to film an ITV segment to be broadcast next week.
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During a campaign stop on Friday, Keir Starmer said: ‘For me there was only one choice, which was to be there, to pay my respects, to say thank you and to have the opportunity to speak to those veterans.’ Asked whether the prime minister’s apology draws a line under the row, Starmer said he ‘will have to answer for his choices’
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