General election live: second minister says Sunak’s D-day absence was a mistake amid Tory anger

In an interview with BBC Breakfast on Saturday, Transport secretary Mark Harper said he agreed with Rishi Sunak that it was a mistake to leave D-day events early.

Asked whether he agreed with fellow Cabinet minister Penny Mordaunt’s assessment that it was “completely wrong”, Harper said:

I don’t know what the detail was of putting the prime minister’s…