During a visit to a craft brewery in north London, Sir Keir Starmer says it was his "duty" to thank veterans at the international D-Day event which the prime minister missed on Thursday but does not comment on whether Rishi Sunak's apology was enough. Report by Blairm. 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 felt it was very important to be there myself as leader of the Labour Party. I took a little
00:16 bit of time on Thursday just to contemplate what it must have been like for those young
00:23 men to run up the beach, 17, 18, 19 years old, into gunfire. And of course this was
00:31 allied troops, this was different countries all working together, that international effort,
00:38 and to consider that they didn't share a uniform, they didn't share flags, they didn't even
00:42 share a language, but what they did share was a determination to carry out the task
00:49 that was asked of them which led to the liberation of Europe. I found that very, very moving
00:54 and I thought it was my duty to thank the veterans who were there on their own behalf
01:01 but also on behalf of those that didn't return. I think that is important, I think everybody
01:07 80 years on, and with an election just around the corner, that's the freedom, that's the
01:12 democracy that they fought for, just to say thank you.
01:15 Let's see if we can do this.
01:18 Good morning.
01:20 Hi.
01:22 Good morning everyone.
01:24 Look at that.
01:30 That's not bad.
01:32 Look at that.
01:34 You might think I've done that before.