Why did Sunak leave the D-Day commemorations early?

Politics took a back seat on Thursday as the great and good of the British establishment marked the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. Both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer took a break from election campaigning to head to Normandy, where they joined the King and other world leaders in commemorating the occasion. But when the time came for the official photographs in the afternoon with Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron, it was Lord Cameron, not Rishi Sunak, who did the honours for Britain. So why was the Foreign Secretary left to pose for pictures with the three heads of government, rather than the Prime Minister?

The answer could lie in an interview which Sunak chose to do with ITV shortly after returning from the commemorations on Thursday afternoon. The full interview was intended to be broadcast next Wednesday as part of a special episode of current affairs programme Tonight. But a clip from the interview, in which Sunak rebuts claims that he has lied about Labour’s tax plans, was published on Twitter on Thursday night.