It’s Rishi Sunak’s final day in Washington. Having ducked an invitation to throw the first pitch at a baseball game last night, he will today sit down for a formal ‘bilat’ with Joe Biden at the White House, host a joint press conference and hobnob with business bigwigs at a roundtable. What larks! But while Mr S applauds Sunak’s transatlantic travels, is there a danger perhaps that our California-lovin’ PM is getting a little too Americentric?
The Tory leader yesterday shared a post to mark the anniversary of D-Day when, in his words, ‘British and American soldiers were landing on the beaches of Normandy.’ He tweeted images of himself laying a remembrance wreath along with emojis of the British and American flags. But where exactly was the Canadian one? Some 14,000 Canadians landed or parachuted into the invasion area on D-Day, with the Canadian War Museum recording more than 1,000 casualties including 359 deaths.
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