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Nigel Farage has described Rishi Sunak as “utterly disconnected by class and privilege” from “ordinary” people.The Reform UK leader launched another attack on the prime minister over his D-Day blunder, suggesting Mr Suank has lost “millions” of Conservative voters after his early return from commemorations in Normandy.“He is utterly disconnected – by class, by privilege – from how the ordinary folk in this country feel,” Mr Farage said of Mr Sunak.“He revealed that – I think spectacularly – when he left Normandy early.”Mr Farage added that the PM made the “biggest mistake of his political career” on D-Day. More

A Reform UK candidate has bizarrely suggested he realised the UK needed to “re-examine” immigration after coming through an airport arrivals lounge.George Woodward, who is standing in the Leigh and Atherton Constituency, told The News Agents podcast that he wanted to get involved with Reform due to “the state of the country”.“Mainly migration is what drives me to get involved,” he said.“I had a moment last year – I was coming through an airport. I was at the arrivals, the British border. And I was like ‘wow, there’s a lot of people coming in here’”.Mr Woodward went on to accept that “some” of the people he saw in the arrivals lounge would have been tourists or British people coming back from abroad. More

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