Friday night’s BBC debate kicked off with a question about defence.
The opposition parties seized the chance to attack Mr Sunak over his early departure from the D-Day commemoration.
Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper said Mr Sunak’s decision was “politically shameful”, bringing up her grandfather, who was on the Normandy beaches on D-Day.
Leader of Reform UK Nigel Farage said Mr Sunak’s “dreadful” decision to leave early showed that “we actually have a very unpatriotic prime minister”.
Following what has been widely seen as the biggest blunder of the general election campaign so far, Mr Sunak apologised on X, external, saying he hoped the “ultimate sacrifice” made by those who put their lives on the line would not be “overshadowed by politics”.
He admitted that “on reflection” he should have stayed for the event where world leaders, including US President Joe Biden, marked the sacrifice made by troops in 1944.
Ms Mordaunt said: “What happened was completely wrong, and the prime minister has rightly apologised for that, apologised to veterans but also to all of us, because he was representing all of us.”
The leader of the House of Commons added that the issue should not become “a political football” but Mr Farage, who went to Normandy himself, said it had already become one.
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