Treasury minister Bim Afolami rubbished claims the PM was not campaigning on Saturday.
A minister has dismissed suggestions that Rishi Sunak is “taking the day off” as the Prime Minister campaigned in his constituency on Saturday morning. Mr Sunak met local veterans in Yorkshire at the start of the weekend after completing a whistlestop two-day tour of the UK on Friday, though his plans for the rest of the day had been unclear.
He joked that he avoided catching pneumonia after giving a rain-soaked statement outside 10 Downing Street in which he announced the July 4 election, but admitted he was not sure what state his suit was in. Labour had accused Mr Sunak of “hiding away in his mansion” while Sir Keir hit the doorsteps in the Midlands on Saturday after a report in the Guardian suggested that the Prime Minister was spending time away from the trail.
His trip included a visit to the Titanic Quarter in Belfast, which invited undesirable “sinking ship” comparisons with his party’s fortunes, as well as a brewery in Wales where he made a footballing gaffe about the Euros. An admission that flights to Rwanda as part of the Tories’ flagship immigration scheme will not take off before the election overshadowed Mr Sunak’s initial economy-focused pitch to voters and the final visit of his trip in Staffordshire was delayed by pro-Palestinian protesters outside the venue.
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