Sunak Goes Missing

[brainiac]

It's emerged tonight on Newsnight that the reason Sunak left the D-Day commemorations early - leaving Lord Cameron to be photographed in the leaders' line up and Keir Starmer to meet Zelensky -  was to come back to do an ITV interview to try to prove he's not a liar.

I think that's unforgivably disrespectful.  Why did nobody on his team tell him how bad it would look?

[ynnafymmi]

He knows he wont be PM after 24/7,so has nothing really to lose.TheTory voters dont like disrespect for the war heroes.The  Reform party might be the power-brokers after the election after all.

[brainiac]

I quite liked Sunak until this.  It's absolutely no use apologising - this was a never-to-be-repeated occasion with the last of the veterans, and he can never make amends for what he did.  He should hang his head in shame.

[Peter Pedant]

oh come on, it is not as tho he has given a girl a baby, or tried to. He turned up and left early

[naomi24]

Peter Pedant, please stop picking out my posts on thread after thread.  Constant badgering and digging at other members is harrassment and that will not be tolerated here.  You have been asked nicely.

[jourdain2]

I haven't read replies yet - but it's just unutterably unacceptable.  How could anyone not understand that?

It'll sound awful - but no-one with deep roots in this country would even contemplate doing what he did.  Something wrong with the man - and Cameron... why did he not stop him?

[jourdain2]

Actually, having thought a minute - Cameron is equally culpable.  He should have refused to act as stand-in.

It raises a deep question about the dissociation of our politicians with our people.

[DTCwordfan]

He's dumb to not have stayed, even if her had advice prior to the election that he didn't have to attend the intenational leaders' event. Having said that, it seems that the lefty-Trotskyites of Auntie Beeb are revelling in it, not least to 'push' their agenda for this evening's beano.

[jno]

not Cameron's fault - he's the one who did his duty, as he should have. In effect he did Sunak's duty too, but that's on Sunak.

[tomus42]

Whichever way you cut it, ignoring the racism in the previous posts, it was just both disrespectful and polotically stupid.

[Untitled]

we don't know what Cameron's advice was... he may well have implored sunak to stay. short of pinning him down he couldn't have stopped him leaving.