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D-day

The latest news, comment and pieces from the archive on the D-day landings

29 June 2024

  • Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver photographed in London for the Observer New Review by Perou, June 2024.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer Photography

    The best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in June 2024

13 June 2024

  • Craig Williams (left) pictured with Rishi Sunak in 2023.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Sunak refuses to say if aide who bet on election date knew about timing – as it happened

    PM says it ‘would not be appropriate’ to say whether Craig Williams knew that he was going to call a July election

12 June 2024

  • Survivors of a German bombing raid during the siege of Leningrad in 1942.

    D-day, Rishi Sunak and the eastern front

    Letters: D-day commemorations have failed to mention equally important turning points in the war, says Prof Colin Green. Plus a letter from Ben Summerskill
  • Adrian Chiles

    I feel squeamish talking to Germans about the war. Is it a British thing?

    Adrian Chiles
    The D-day commemorations have made us all reflect on the second world war. But I hesitated to talk to my German neighbour about it

  • Rishi Sunak apologises to ITV interviewer after D-day event 'ran over' – video

    Sunak apologised for his lateness as he arrived for an interview with ITV’s Paul Brand that created a big election headache for PM last week

10 June 2024

  • Simon Jenkins

    Cut Rishi Sunak some slack – his D-day blunder is hardly the worst thing he’s done

    Simon Jenkins
    The real problem is how past wars are invoked not only to ramp up today’s defence spending, but to agitate for fresh conflict, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

9 June 2024

  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    After Rishi Sunak’s D-day disaster Labour need not worry about Tory tax claims

    Larry Elliott
    ‘Tax bombshell’ claims undid Labour in 1992 but the Tory ‘catalogue of chaos’ and now the PM’s ineptitude mean fears are misplaced
  • Martha Gill

    D-day deserter Rishi Sunak didn’t do his duty, so why should gen Z be expected to do theirs?

    Martha Gill
    Postwar generations grew up in comfort on gilded tales of heroic conflict. What hypocrisy to push for national service for the young
  • Rishi Sunak attends the UK ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of D-day near the village of Ver-sur-Mer.

    The Observer view on D-day furore: Rishi Sunak is driving Tories over an electoral cliff edge

    Prime minister’s gaffe was a defining moment in his campaign symbolising a party that does not know what it stands for and has nothing to offer

8 June 2024

  • David Simonds cartoon of Rishi Sunak's failing campaign manoeuvres

    Observer comment cartoon
    David Simonds on Rishi Sunak’s failing campaign manoeuvres – cartoon

  • Rishi Sunak chats to volunteers during a visit to Bishop Auckland in County Durham.

    Sunak dodges questions from press amid criticism for D-day exit

7 June 2024

  • Participants in the BBC election debate, left to right: Nigel Farage, Reform; Rhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru; Daisy Cooper, Liberal Democrats; Stephen Flynn, SNP; Carla Denyer, Green party; Angela Rayner, Labour; Penny Mordaunt, Conservatives.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    BBC election debate: Penny Mordaunt says Sunak’s D-day snub was ‘very wrong’ in seven-party clash – as it happened

  • David Cameron, Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz and Joe Biden posing for photographs on Omaha Beach

    Furious Tories turn on Rishi Sunak over D-day commemorations snub

  • Rishi Sunak left the 80th D-day anniversary in France early to record a TV interview while world leaders gathered in Normandy

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    Rishi Sunak leaving D-day early was 'very wrong' says Penny Mordaunt during TV debate – video

  • Joe Biden makes a speech from a lecturn with the sea behind him

    Biden: D-day heroes would ask US to stand up to aggression ‘abroad and at home’

  • Brief letters
    Does Charles deserve a chestful of medals?

  • Sunak’s D-day failure is a campaign disaster – and a sign he’s forgotten the very recent past

    Jonathan Freedland

  • Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Martin Rowson on the lip service paid to the lessons of D-day – cartoon

  • Rishi Sunak’s D-day blunder and what it could mean for the UK election

  • Biden apologises to Zelenskiy for US military aid delay to Ukraine – video

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