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Penny Mordaunt and Angela Rayner were all smiles minutes after a heated exchange over taxes at Friday’s election debate.The pair clashed repeatedly during the 90-minute discussion, broadcast by the BBC, with the Tory Commons leader appearing to focus her attacks on Labour’s deputy leader rather than the rest of the seven party representatives.After a shouting match over Ms Mordaunt’s claim that Labour would raise taxes by £2,000 – which Ms Rayner described as a “lie” – the pair shared a friendly handshake and a smile as the debate went off the air. More

Nigel Farage has suggested Rishi Sunak is “not a patriotic leader” after his D-Day blunder.The prime minister left the 80th anniversary events in Normandy early on Thursday 6 June to record a general election campaign TV interview.He later apologised for his decision to leave France before a major international ceremony to mark the anniversary of the Allied landings but urged people not to politicise the event.“That says a lot about him,” Mr Farage said of Mr Sunak.“He is completely disconnected from the centre of this country and he has proved to me that he is not a patriotic leader of the Conservative Party.” More

The Liberal Democrat’s deputy leader described Rishi Sunak as “shameful” for leaving D-Day memorial events early as she recalled her late grandfather’s memories of the fateful day.Speaking on the BBC general election live debate on Friday (7 June), Daisy Cooper said: “It was not only politically shameful but I think many of us feel personally insulted. “I started yesterday morning watching a recording made by the Royal Mint of my late grandfather where he recounts catching his best friend who fell from the top of a Sherman tank and who was shot in the head as he waded through the water. “He recounted in his words, men blown to pieces, hands, legs and heads. If he had been there yesterday and seen the prime minister walk away from him, I would find that completely and utterly unforgivable.” More

Penny Mordaunt and Angela Rayner became embroiled in a heated clash over defence as the Labour deputy leader claimed: “I won’t take lectures from you”.The candidates were taking part in a BBC live election debate on Friday (7 June), when the subject of the UK’s defence came up.Conservative candidate Ms Mordaunt accused Rayer of voting to end the UK’s nuclear deterrent. She said: “If you are doubting that they would use that force, imagine what Putin is thinking. Without credibility, we become a target. If we become a target we are less safe.”Ms Rayner hit back and told Ms Mordaunt: “You can tell as many lies as you want.”“My brother served in Iraq and I won’t be lectured by you.” More

Rishi Sunak laughed as he was heckled by a GP at a general election campaign event in Wiltshire on Friday evening (7 June).Dr Jane Lees-Millais, a Conservative member, warned there were 37,000 GPs across the UK angry with the government about what she described as “constructive dismissal” because of funding changes.As Mr Sunak said the UK was “on the right track”, due to economic growth and rising wages, the GP shouted: “But the NHS is disintegrating. I am one of 2,500 GPs in this country who are currently unemployed due to your policies.“What are you going to do about that? More

Rishi Sunak made sand “ice-cream” cones with children at a childcare centre in Swindon on Friday, 7 June, as he continued on the general election campaign trail.The prime minister met staff and youngsters at Imagination Childcare, and Conservative candidate for Swindon North Justin Tomlinson, as he sought to promote the Tory election offer aimed at helping higher earners keep more of their child benefit.It came after Mr Sunak was forced to make an apology for leaving D-Day commemorations in France early to take part in a TV interview. More

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 ceremony remembering the 1944 landings in order to carry out a general election TV interview, prompting intense criticism.Mr Sunak described his decision as a “mistake.”Speaking to Sky News, Matthew Pennycook called Mr Sunak’s decision to leave France “embarrassing.””I’m glad he’s apologised, because it was absolutely a mistake,” he added. More

An NHS nurse clashed with a Tory minister during a heated Question Time debate on Thursday (6 June) as she told him “You talk absolute rubbish”.The nurse, who had worked in the NHS for 37 years, addressed Mark Harper, telling him social care had been “decimated”. She said: “Patients are dying in corridors. If you sorted out social care and put your money where your mouth is, then all these issues would be sorted.“You are talking absolute rubbish because you are trying to decimate the NHS and we all know that. You don’t want it and you never have wanted it.”“Are you going to let me come back on it?”, Mr Harper asked. More