Lord Cameron refuses to answer whether he gave advice to Rishi Sunak not to leave the D-Day commemoration events early to attend an ITV interview. The foreign secretary says "prime ministers have to make decisions all the time" and "he got this one wrong and he fessed up straight away" contrasting Mr Sunak with Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer. 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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00:00He went to the key event above the British D-Day beaches at our magnificent new commemorative
00:06centre that this government has helped to build and met the veterans there.
00:10Then he didn't go to the international event, which was quite sort of different in many
00:15ways.
00:16I'm not talking about my advice, I'm a part of a team and we act as a team and we defend
00:19each other as a team.
00:20As soon as he got back to the UK he said, I regret my decision, I wish I'd stayed longer.
00:25And that's the sort of person he is, instead of sort of digging in and trying to defend
00:28a difficult position.
00:29He just said, OK, you make lots of decisions as Prime Minister, I know that, and sometimes
00:33you make the wrong one.
00:34And he was very frank about that.
00:35But if anyone's trying to say that this Prime Minister doesn't care about our veterans or
00:39doesn't love his country or doesn't understand how these people served us, that is complete
00:43nonsense.
00:44Prime Ministers have to make decisions all the time.
00:47How long do I spend here?
00:48What do I do?
00:49Which Minister do I meet?
00:50And you get some wrong.
00:52He got this one wrong and he fessed up straight away.
00:54And that's the sort of person he is.
00:55There's been a huge contrast, frankly, with what we saw last night from Keir Starmer saying,
01:00when I said, you know, Jeremy Corbyn would be a great Prime Minister, I only said that
01:03because I thought we were going to lose the election.
01:05So he wasn't being straight with us.
01:06Rishi, I think, has been very straight about this.
01:08I'm satisfied this is a hugely vigorous campaign.
01:11I mean, often at the end of 14 years you find parties that are sort of struggling to come
01:15up with new ideas.
01:16But in this campaign, I would say the contrast is the Conservatives, new idea for national
01:20service, new idea to get the pension out of tax, new idea to cut stamp duty for first
01:25time buyers, new ideas for more apprenticeships.
01:28It's a campaign that's fizzing with new ideas and policy proposals from the Conservatives,
01:33all fully costed, and a pretty blank page from Labour, whose whole campaign seems to
01:39be we need change, but we need change to bring about stability.
01:42Well, change for stability is a pretty odd election strategy.