Sir Keir Starmer says the prime minister "will have to answer for his choice" after leaving D-Day commemorations in Normandy early to take part in a TV interview. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 I was in Normandy yesterday for the D-Day commemorations and early yesterday just before the event
00:08 I went down just to look at the beaches where those young men and women ran up on D-Day.
00:16 And I found that very humbling just to think of the bravery.
00:20 They were under fire as they came ashore.
00:23 And then obviously during the course of yesterday I met many veterans,
00:27 usually in their late 90s, who had made it back to Normandy.
00:31 Some of them for the first time, almost all of them in wheelchairs.
00:36 And I was able to say thank you, thank you to them on behalf of the Labour Party,
00:41 also on behalf of my children who live freely because of their actions and the actions of their fallen comrades.
00:47 That was really humbling, it was really important to me.
00:50 It was a privilege to be there and Rishi Sunak will have to answer for his choice.
00:58 For me there was only one choice, which was to be there, to pay my respects, to say thank you
01:03 and to have the opportunity to speak to those veterans.