It's 10:00. This is Sky News at 10:00, our top story. The Prime Minister says sorry for choosing to miss a D-day event and is accused of walking out on veterans.

I think he lets the country down. It's not representation of how we're trying to weld things together.

On reflection, that was a mistake, and I apologize.

Also, tonight, new CCTV footage of the missing TV doctor, Michael Moseley, as the search operation is stepped up in Greece. We asked why thousands of council homes are standing empty and derelict, while desperate families wait years to be housed. Joe Biden points to the echoes of 1944 as he links the sacrifices of World War II veterans with Ukraine's fight against Russia. Plus...

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We'll take a first look at tomorrow's front pages in our press preview from 10:30 right through to midnight. Good evening. It's the photograph which could become the defining image of this election campaign. Three world leaders on the cliffs overlooking the beaches in Normandy. The Prime Minister conspicuously absent, his Foreign Secretary taking his place. Richie Sunak was quick to apologize apologized today after choosing to miss an international D-day event to return to the UK. But that did little to contain the fallout. One of the men who waded onto the sand 80 years ago accused him of letting the country down. Mr. Sunack's own Veterans Minister admitted he felt raw at the decision, while his political opponents accused him of being unpatriotic. Sky's Deputy Political Editor, Sam Coates, has tonight's first report.

This, the Prime Minister walking out on the nation's veterans, departing early from events commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day, rushing back to the UK to record a TV campaign interview, leaving the Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron to stand with the world leaders instead. And in the middle of an election campaign, the leader of the opposition, too. This, now a question of judgment. Can you explain why yesterday, you prioritized a campaign TV interview over the opportunity to commemorate those who gave everything, everything for our country in June 1944. You left early. What were you thinking? Over the past two days, I've participated in a number of events in Portsmouth and France to honor those who risked their lives to defend our freedom and our values 80 years ago. The itinerary for these events was set weeks ago before the at the start of the general election campaign. And having participated in all the British events with British veterans, I returned home before the international leaders event later in the day. On reflection, that was a mistake, and I apologize. I think it's important, though, given the enormity of the sacrifice made, that we don't politicize this. It's men like Ken Hay, the Prime Minister, chose to leave behind.

He was just 18 when he landed on the beaches of Normandy. He was later captured forced to work in a Polish coal mine, and subjected to the infamous, 1,000-mile long march. His anger is not political.

I think he lets the country down. What are we doing? We bail out, let them get on with it. Because I want to stand in the election, I want my seat back. How soon they're on before they forget? Are we a five-minute wonder? It'll all be forgotten next week. I don't know.

Ken Hay, a 98-year-old D-day veteran, told us that you let the country down. Is he right? I participated in events both in Portsmouth and in France over two days because this is an incredibly important moment for our country to commemorate the sacrifice of all of those and their service. You feel no shame at all. As I said, on reflection, it was a mistake not to stay longer, and I've apologized for that. But I also don't think it's right to be political in the midst of D-day commemoration. The focus should rightly be on the veterans and their a service and sacrifice for our country. It's the veterans who's saying that you're letting the country down. Are they politicizing this? I've apologized for not staying longer. On reflection, that was a mistake. Hello. There is real fury from his own side. One candidate told me this shows the PM doesn't understand patriotism. Another said this is the biggest moment of the campaign so far. Could the campaign get any worse, Prime Minister? That's the Prime Minister leaving after a very tense this interview. Veterans are upset. His candidates are furious into the question of, Can it get worse?

There's no answer at the moment. Penny Morden, her party's face in a seven-way election debate, not defending her leader.

Look, I think what happened was very wrong, and I'm glad the Prime Minister has said that, and he's apologized.

He's apologized to veterans, but I think he also has apologized to everyone because was he was there representing us.

An open goal for opponents. If his instinct was the same as the British people, he would never have contemplated for a moment not being there. What we saw from the Prime Minister was panic, and I think it's the same pre-election panic that gave us that back of a fag-packet plan for a new national service.

It was not only politically shameful, but I think many of us feel personally quite insulted.

A potentially defining for a faltering campaign. It got worse. The PM heckled by a GP at a campaign stop in Wiltshire.

You cannot employ lesser qualified people instead of GPs. The country is not stupid.

He's good.

We have to keep going, do we? On a day like today, a question he could be forgiven for asking learning lessons the hard way. At a school located on Veterans Way. His problems follow him down every road. Sam Coat, Sky News, Swindon.

Let's take you to Central London now, and our Chief Political Correspondent, John Craig. John, the Prime Minister has apologized, but just how much damage has been done, do you think?

In enormous amount of damage. This is a terrible, terrible, unforced error by the Prime Minister and his aides inside number 10. This wasn't just a spontaneous gaffe, for example, the bigoted woman gaffe by Gordon Brown in 2010 when he left a microphone on. That was accidental. This was bad planning, crass, bad politics as well. A snub not only to world leaders like Joe Biden, President Macron, Chancellor Schultz, where David Cameron had to stand next to them for the photo call. It was an appalling snub, really, to all those very, very aged Normandy veterans who'd made the difficult journey over there, many of them in wheelchairs had to be aided throughout the day. Clearly, the Prime Minister recognized this straight away with his early morning apology, but the damage had been done. Then to make matters worse, Penny Mordent, here at a debate in Central London, without being asked about it, said, wrong, wrong, wrong, three times, completely wrong, was the first thing she said, then very wrong. Nigel Farage, as we've heard, waded in as well. Penny Mordent, a few days ago, it was claimed she was being kept in a box by number 10 and the PM's allies because she was seen as a threat.

Well, on this issue, she didn't do the PM any favors tonight by backing those who criticized Mr. Sunak. They will be pleased in number 10 that she took the fight to Labor and Angela Reina over tax and that controversial £2,000 tax grab claim, which Labor say is a lie, as a real ding-dong between Penny Mordant and Angela Reina over that. So on most, she was relentlessly on message, but she has heaped more trouble on the Prime Minister by criticizing him over that D-day snub.

John, thank you very much for the moment. And don't forget our Sky News Leaders event, the battle for number 10, next Wednesday, the 12th of June, with Rishi Sunak and Sakeer Starmer in our election target town, Grimsby. Do join us next Wednesday here on Skynews Live from 07:00 PM. Dogs, divers, and drones were all used to search for the TV doctor, Michael Moseley, today after he went missing on the Greek island of Simi. New CCTV footage was released earlier this evening, showing him shortly before he was last seen after going for a walk. Skye Sadia Chaudry reports from Greece.

Caught on CCTV just half an hour after he went missing. But for over 48 hours now, Michael Moseley hasn't been seen. The Greek island of Simi is only small, but right across it, they're searching on land, at sea, and from the sky, too.

Glucose is an essential fuel for your body, but it's also quite toxic.

Dr. Moseley is a familiar face on our screens and on the radio, known for presenting programs about healthy living.

The very sugary drink to simulate a carb-loaded meal.

And famous for the 5-2 diet, which encourages intermittent fasting. Dr. Moseley is understood to have left his wife on St. Nicholas Beach at 1:30 on Wednesday to go for a walk back to their accommodation. It should have taken under an hour, but he never arrived. The route he took was reportedly along the coastal path past the Peddy area, where he was seen on CCTV at around 2:00. He didn't have his phone on him. At 7:30, his wife raised the alarm after he failed to return to their hotel. She spent the next day searching for him, looking near a local supermarket.

She was asking if we saw him, if he came into the shop to buy something, but we didn't see him at all. Actually, the path from St.

Nicholas Beach to our shop.

It's about one kilometer, and it's very easy to come.

It's not dangerous.

Since yesterday, emergency services from nearby roads and Athens have provided assistance, and today, divers join effort, too. Simi has a population of just over two and a half thousand people. It's a sixth of the size of the Isle of White, and it's hot. Temperatures of over 30 degrees on Wednesday, nearing 40, raising concerns among locals and with Dr. Moseley's colleagues in the UK. Bbc Presenter Jeremy Vine said he was praying for Dr. Moseley and his family, and co-presenter Salihah Ihsan said she was sick with worry. A feeling familiar to Gary Russell, whose father, John, went missing on a neighboring Greek Island five years ago.

When I read the story, it was a cut and paste of my father.

It is, he went for a walk, I'm vanishing in the thin air.

Obviously, as a family, we on a phone, got together, We were like, This is surreal.

I know exactly what they're going through, and it must be awful for them out there at the minute.

For Dr. Moseley's friends, his wife, and for his four children, the wait for the news is undoubtedly unbearable. Their hope and the search efforts to find him still going on.

Sadia is live tonight on the neighboring Greek island of road. Sadia, what's the situation tonight?

We're going into a third night. As you can imagine, with situations like this, the more the time passes, the more the concerns mount. It is now over two days since Dr. Moseley was last seen, and that search for him continues. It's being led by the police, but they're being helped by the Coast Guard, by local volunteer groups, by fire and rescue teams, and they're really throwing everything at it: personnel, search dogs, drones, and helicopters. These islands are very picturesque, and they're very popular with tourists. But when something like this happens, it can really start to make that peacefulness disappear. They're also really small islands. I think that adds to the worry because the fact that it's been over two days and there's not a single clue as to what happened is actually really concerning. And it's really hot, so it's difficult for search and rescue teams who are out there working throughout the days. But it's also really difficult and not ideal if someone is lost without their phone or missing and or possibly injured. And at the heart of this is a family still searching for a loved one. We understand that Dr. Moseley's three sons and his daughter have now arrived here and likely to take part in this search operation.

And they will go into tonight a third night with no news.

Sadia, thank you. To a developing story now, the Prime Minister of Denmark is said to be shocked after being attacked in the street in Copenhagen. Metta Fedritsen's office says she was beaten in an open street in the city center by a man who was then arrested. It's not clear whether she sustained any physical injuries. European Council President, Charles Michal, says He's outraged by the assault. Imagine living your whole life in one cramped room, your child learning to walk late because of the lack of space, your local council blaming a shortage of social housing, then finding out that 34,000 council properties in England sit empty, the highest number since 2009. For Rose, who has been waiting two years for new accommodation, it's proof that families like hers aren't being prioritized. She's been speaking to our Communities Correspondent, Becky Johnson.

Empty, unused, and unavailable for those who need them. Amid a national housing crisis in England, almost 34,000 council houses are boarded up and closed down. More than 6,000 have been vacant for over a year. We've been working with housing campaigner, Kuejo Tuenoboa, to reveal the numbers You've got people sleeping on the streets.

You've got people who are sleeping in garages and storage containers. Yet we've got thousands of homes, sat empty, council homes, up and down the country, which aren't being used.

Instead, councils are paying millions to private landlords to house families in substandard temporary accommodation like this. We first met Rose and her daughters earlier this year. They live in this one room and share a bathroom and kitchen with strangers. Rose is a student and can't afford private rent here in South London. They're waiting for a council house. Hi, Rose. Hi, how are you? I'm fine. Good.

This is great. Hey, lovely to meet you. How are you?

Nice to meet you. Pleased to meet you.

We've come to see if she's had any news. You're still here. How long have you been living here now?

Two years. Two years? Yeah. Now it's exactly two years. My first born still wears nappies because in the middle of the night, she can't just get up and go to a shared toilet with all these people that she don't know. My baby, it took her time to walk because she didn't have enough room and she couldn't use the baby walker.

A recent call with Croydon Council has left her worried.

She said to me that you would have to move out of London and find a house.

Is she saying there are no council houses?

She told me there's no council houses. There's no social houses. Those were her words. We have no social houses. We've been investigating and actually found there are, in fact, thousands of empty social homes across London, and many of them have been empty for more than a year. How does that make you feel? It makes me feel heartbroken, lied to and deceived.

A short drive away, we've brought Rose to Lambeth. Dozens of homes on this estate have been left empty since it was earmarked for demolition several years ago.

This lovely front garden, this could have been for us. I guess we don't deserve it.

The question is why so many homes are empty. We've come to Suddock to try to get some answers. This block of council flats was designated for redevelopment, but the cost of building has gone up so much, it's now due to be demolished. 144 homes unused since 2015. The local government association Delegation blames a shortage of funding for councils.

The council doesn't have the money in place to be able to refurbish them and bring them back into use as council homes.

So you seal it off to redevelop it and then realize you can't afford to redevelop it.

Bluntly, that's what's happened in so many cases. There's a complete false economy. If we're not able to spend the money on the actual solution, but we're using a sticky plaster of temporary accommodation, then the system is broken.

We asked Croydon Council why Rose had been told she would need to move out of London. Following our contact, the Council now says it's identified a permanent home for the family that they will be offered soon. But there are many thousands more like them still waiting despite Council homes lying empty. Becky Johnson, Sky News.

While Rishi Sunak has scramble to deal with the fallout from his decision to leave Normandy early, the US President was again on the cliffs overlooking Omar Beach, emphasizing his support for Ukraine. As American veterans looked on, Joe Biden referred to the echoes of 1944, hours after he apologized to Ukraine's Vladimir Zelenskyy for the political stalemate which has slowed down funding. Our Europe correspondent, Adam Parsons, reports from Normandy.

Under a heavenly sky, the American President came to the place where his troops once went through hell. The US rangers has scaled the cliffs of Point du Hoc on D-day using ropes, ladders, and bare hands. It was an audacious, ferocious assault. The President staring in wonder down the cliff face, and he then invoked the spirit of those rangers into the modern world.

Does anyone doubt that they would want America to stand up against Putin's aggression here in Europe today? They stormed the beaches alongside their allies. Does anyone believe these rangers want America to go alone today? They fought to vanquish a hateful ideology in the '30s and '40s. Does anyone doubt they wouldn't move heaven and earth to vanquish hateful ideologies of today.

There was a political dimension to this, too. Biden believes his resolve to back America's place in the world is what truly sets him apart from Donald Trump. Joe Biden's speech here in Normandy was a commitment to support democracy and oppose tyranny. This is a President who was alive during D-Day. It shaped the world in which he grew up. Maybe that's why he is so determined to support Ukraine against Russia. And in France's National Assembly, Ukraine's President welcomed warmly. The only thing needed is for Ukrainians not to be left alone.

For us to have effective support, continuous, timely, long-range enough, and with leadership.

And then we will definitely do our job. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has long worried that support for his country would fade. Instead, here, amid the echoes of dee day and the specter of tyranny, it has been reaffirmed. Adam Parson, Sky News, Normandy.

From Joe Biden to Donald Trump, who is the first US President to be convicted of a felony. He faces at least three other criminal cases, even as he is campaigning to return to the White House. But he's facing legal troubles here in the UK, too, having breached a high court order to pay £300,000 to former British spy, Christopher Steele. Paul Kelso can explain why.

Donald Trump has just become the first American President to be convicted of a felony, but he faces legal troubles here, too. The former President is in breach of a high court order to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds in legal costs to a former British spy he tried and failed to sue. I think he's just got contempt for the legal process. The fact is that we were awarded a £300,000 initial cost order in February, which was confirmed when his right of appeal was turned down at the end of March. He's been in breach of that order for two months now. Get out and vote. Get out and vote. Thank you. Christopher Steele has been a thorn in Donald Trump's side since the 2016 presidential campaign, when his company produced a salacious dossier for Trump's political opponents, alleging Russian election interference, including claims of blackmail and the use of sex workers, which the former President denies. I think it was disgraceful, disgraceful, that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out.

I think it's a disgrace.

When the dossier was leaked to the media after the election, Mr.

Trump sued and lost, first in the US and then here. In February, a judge here at the high Court dismissed Donald Trump's case against Christopher Steele and ordered him to pay £300,000 in costs, a figure that could end up even higher. The former spy has since made a formal offer to accept just 70% of what he's owed, but he's still waiting to hear back from the former President. With four legal cases against him still active in the US, this British Court ruling may not be a priority.

He's focused on all of the other cases, criminal cases against him, on top of which he is now running as the Republican nominee for President of the United States.

It could be as simple as this is the last thing on his mind.

Christopher Steele is unapologetic.

You produced a dossier which was commissioned by his political opponents, designed to discredit him and possibly stop him getting into the White House. You surprised he's after you.

I stand by the work we did, the sources we had and the way we handled it. And of course, it's important to realize that we didn't leak the dossier, and yet we are the ones that have been, I would say, persecuted subsequently by Trump and others for it.

Donald Trump has not responded to Sky News' request for comment.

If he wins in November, it raises the prospect of his returning to the UK as President in defiance of the British courts. Paul Kelso, Sky News.

Just Stop Oil protestors have attempted to disrupt the Duke of Westminster's wedding in Chester, where the Prince of Wales acted as an usher. Two women aged 69 and 73 let off orange smoke from a fire extinguisher. They were removed from the crowd by police and taken into custody. What happened as guests were leaving after the ceremony in which Hugh Rodner, who's 33, married his bride Olivia Hensen, who's 31. It was a disappointing night for both England and Scotland in their final matches before they head to Euro 2024 in Germany. Gareth Southgate's England lost 1-nil to Iceland at Wembley. It's the first time they've lost their final match before a major tournament since 1968. Well, Scotland lets slip a two goal lead to draw 2-2 with Finland. Scotland play Germany in the opening game of Euro 2024 next Friday. It's the highest grossing global tour of all time, and tonight it's kicked off in Edinburgh. Fans queued for two days to see the artist whose UK shows could add £1 billion to the UK economy. Our entertainment correspondent, Katie Spencer, was watching as Taylor Swift stepped on stage.

Welcome to the RSC.

A pinch yourself moment for those Swifties fortunate enough to be here. Opening night at the UK leg of Taylor Swift's billion-pound grossing tour, beginning way before the start of the stage. Lyrics memorized, costumes perfected. A weary handful camping out overnight to be first in line.

Anything's worth it for Taylor.

I would kill for her. Say my kidneys, both lungs, probably.

In the city center, drag artists happy to substitute for Swift.

It takes a lot of hairspray, duct tape, and a dream.

Edinburgh fully embracing the spoils of Swift dynamics, as it's been dubbed.

Accommodation has skyrocketed. It's not normal for hotels to charge the rates that we're charging this weekend, and people are coming from all over the world to see her. So it's not just people from the UK. We have guests coming over from the States just to watch Taylor in Scotland, from Denmark, from all over Europe.

It's just people love Taylor, and they'll travel the Shampagne problems, please.

Taylor Swift, a one-woman economy boosting machine. Such as the spending power of Swift's that her 15 UK shows are projected to boost the economy, thank you very much, by almost a billion pounds, with the average fan estimated to be spending around £850, not only on things like tickets, but on accommodation, travel, and free parties like this. Fans traveling from all over the world to be here. Kylie and Mallory from America. A reward for doing well in your studies.

Yes, for graduation and birthdays.

And yeah, birthdays, Christmas, every holiday.

Yeah. You've had flights as well to get here.

It would have been more expensive for us to see her in the US.

Friendships forged along the way. Bracelet workshops laid on, so fans have something to swap.

Mine's a sports flag. Mine just says haze.

For lavande haze.

Of course, this level of pop obsession is nothing new.

It's me high on But in this era that one artist can galvanize so many at a time when we're swamped with musical choice, speaks volumes of the power of Taylor Swift's music.

Welcome to Edinburgh, Taylor.

We love you. I love your personality, Taylor.

You say we love you, Taylor.

Forget about politicians touring the country. Taylor Swift's whereabouts will be what's dominating the national conversation for vast swathes of the country over the next month. A cruel summer for those who haven't got a ticket. Katie Spencer, Sky News in Edinburgh.

Well, that was Sky News at 10:00. Coming up, we'll take a first look at tomorrow's Newspapers and the Press Preview. Tonight, we're joined by Daily Mirror Commonist, Susie The Face, and political commentator, Benedict Spence. Amongst the stories, we'll be discussing this on the front of the Financial Times. It's headline, Sunak Ac Accused of Handing Gift to Reform by Skipping D-Day Event. More on that and other stories when we come back. You stay with us.

Welcome back. You're watching Sky News. In just a moment, the press preview. First look at what's on the front pages as they arrive. But first, our top stories. The senior conservative, Penny Mordant, has said Richie Sunak was wrong to leave yesterday's D-Day events early to record a television interview, leading Lord Cameron to take his place. New CCTV footage has been released of the TV doctor, Michael Moseley, who's still missing in Greece. The Danish Prime Minister, Metta Fredrickson, is said to be in shock tonight after being beaten in the street by a man in Copenhagen. You are watching the press preview. First look at what's on the front pages as they arrive. It's time to see what's making the headlines with Daily Mirror columnist, Susie Boniface, and political commentator, Benedict Spence. They'll be with us from now until just before midnight. So let's see what's on some of those front pages for you now. The Richie Sunak D-Day controversy leads the Financial Times Weekend Edition with the headline Sunak Accused of Handing Gift to Reform by Skipping D-Day Event. It's the same lead story in the eye where it says the Tories are in despair over a gaffe which they fear could destroy their election hopes.

According to Susie's paper, The Mirror, that's already happened. The headline, It's Over. The Guardian says grassroots party members have reacted with fury. While the Times carries tonight's criticism of Mr Sunak by Commons leader Penny Mordant, who called his actions completely wrong. As for the election itself, the Telegraph reports that the Prime Minister is planning to ax stamp duty for first-time home buyers. The Mail carries the latest on a missing TV doctor and one of its own columnists, Michael Moseley in Greece, asking if he may have taken what the paper calls a wrong turn to disaster. And a reminder that by scanning the QR code you'll see on screen during the program, you can check out the front pages of tomorrow's newspapers while you watch us. And we are joined tonight by Daily Mirror economist, Susie Boniface and political commentator, Benedict Spence. Welcome to both of you. Let's start with the story on many of the front pages, and that is the D-Day commemoration fiasco as was, because Richie Sunak returned early. How's it being handled in tomorrow's newspaper, Susan?

Gosh, it It hasn't gone away. It's not going to go away. If it gets to the point where a D-day veteran says, You've let your country down, it's pretty much game over for anybody. If there wasn't a general election going on, there would be letters of no confidence going in for the Prime Minister at this point. There's a couple of things here which is worth unpacking a little bit. The fact that the FT here is saying that this is a gift to reform, the idea that support for our military is purely a right-wing phenomenon and that left-wing voters labor voters, older people of all types, younger people of all political persuasion, do not support D-day veterans, and armed forces in general is mad, is not just handing a gift to reform. He's handed a gift to Kyrstamr. He handed a great political gift to him of having the photograph taken with Zelensky and of not having his picture with the world leaders. He's handed a moral gift to whoever his opponents are in any seating the country. Stephen McGann, who's called the Midwife, said on Twitter earlier on that his grandad spent more time on the beach than Richie Sunak did.

It may not be accurate, I don't know, but everybody's grandad has Probably passed across that beach, or could have passed across that beach, or knows someone who passed across that beach. And if that applies to so many people from so many different walks of life, Richie Sunak has managed to insult a broad range of human beings from different demographics. It's not just a thing for reform. It's not just something Nigel... And that's why Penny Morton had to go in that debate today. And immediately, minute one, go, That was very wrong. Throw him under a bus. Well, actually, she didn't have to throw him under a bus. He was already under the bus. He put himself under the bus. She just kicked him in a bit further.

And as if to add insult to Injury in Richie Sunak's explanation himself, he said that the itinerary for these events was set weeks ago before the start of the general election campaign, which means that he never had any intention to attend that event, Benedict?

Yeah, it's not a very good explanation. It's not particularly reassuring. What I think is really interesting about this is it's appalling optics. It's happened because actually this is a government that is entirely focused on the press and how it looks in the press. It was very keen, therefore, to get in that slot for that interview with ITV. So focused was it on what it perceived as being the most important thing. It was the most open goal.

But it wasn't even a time critical interview.

Exactly. It completely lost sight of, in fact, what was important, possibly because this was not something that you can make a big show and dance about Rishi Sunak. They thought, he'll be obscured by the fact that there are other, dare we say, more important things going on. This is the problem when you have a government that is so obsessed with its media strategy that it loses sight of and therefore causes perhaps the biggest media blunder, certainly that I can remember. That's how these things happened. A government that isn't focused on policy, it isn't really focused on anything apart its image in the media. This is how you get those.

From a cynically political point of view, to be really cynical about it, if you call a general election campaign, and you know there is a two-day period in the middle of that when everyone else is taking a back seat because You're the Prime Minister, there will be no campaigning in that 48 hours. The other side is going to have to shut up, and you're going to get to prance about with Olaf Scholz, Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron, and have your picture taken, and be with the veterans, everything else. Then that is one of the reasons, one of the calculations, one of the things your media team goes, hooray, those 48 hours are going to be good for us. And they somehow managed to even screw that up. But even more importantly, I've reported on D-day events for years, and I've been speaking to veterans for years. And even if you go to an event and you think, well, this is just a bit... It's a job. I have to do this. I have to go there. There is always a moment where someone says something, someone does something, where you're taken aback and you... Gosh. And any normal human being is going to sense the importance of what you're doing, even if it was only for a second.

And soon I could have spent a day and a half at different veterans events and plainly hadn't heard a word of what was going on around him, had any sense of what he was laying the poppy rees in that for. He went through the motions. That's what it looks like. And I think there's been lots of comparisons with Gordon Brown's Gillian Duffy moment, talking about that bigoted woman. And it was a bit different. It appeared to be that someone who was civil in public was being a bit rude in private. There was a conversation. Was she bigoted? Was she not bigoted? People could argue about it. This has all been played out in public. It's blatant. It was planned and intended in advance that he was never going to give them any attention. It's something where no one, even people who are saying, Well, maybe he did have to come home for something. They still say, It was wrong. There's no one saying that he was in the right there.

It's interesting that you say that this While we're talking, we'll just bring up some of the other papers.

But go ahead, Ben.

It's interesting that you say that this isn't so much a gift for Faraj. It's a gift for Starmer, because actually, Faraj has talked a lot about this, about how it's disgraceful, it's unpatriotic. Starmer, as far as Moher, hasn't really said very much at all. It's given Starmer the opportunity to He looked incredibly statesmanlike by understanding that this is not the moment for political point scoring. He is not out there giving it both guns. He just turned up. He met people. He understood that this was not about him. My word, doesn't he look like the better person out of this as as a result. But there is also this very strange phenomenon now of lots of conservative or former conservative voters saying, This is the final straw. This is the straw that broke the camel's back because it's the disrespect. This, for me, from a personal perspective, I'm sat here looking at the state of our current armed forces. I'm saying, Really? This is the moment that broke the camel's back. Actually, what's more disrespectful? Not turning up or leaving early from a Remembrance event or actually squandering the legacy of the piece that those people won by underinvesting in your armed forces, getting to a point where we have former defense ministers going on national radio saying, We no longer have the industrial base to fight Russia if there were an invasion, where we have former defense ministers turning around saying, We might need to introduce conscription because we haven't actually staffed our own forces properly.

I sit there and I go, Really? This is the moment that broke the camel's back? Actually, I think there have been many things leading up to this where if defense is the important thing for you, the alarm bells were ringing for some time.

Yeah, but this is the point at which he's been rude to grandad. That's what matters. That's what really brings it home. But he's been terrible. Despite what Johnny Mershaw said today, Richie Sunack has been pretty bad to veterans for the entirety of his time in office.

He has refused-Johnny Mershaw was saying otherwise that he'd been his big supporter.

Yeah, but he didn't manage to get a veteran's ID cards to be a voter ID in time. Although he announced a medal for nuclear veterans who actually secured the piece that was won by the guys at D-Day, he's refused twelve times to meet the veterans that I work with who've got evidence of crimes being committed against them by the British State. And he's just not able to... And it's a relatability thing. It's not about being wealthy. It's about being slightly just divorced from the rest of the planet and not being able to see what matters, not to you, but to somebody else.

But will he have done this on advice? There are some people saying his advisors need to be sacked and those around him are the real cult.

Who is in charge of his advisors?

Who's in charge of them? No, I take that At this point, he is ultimately where the buck should stop. However, I think we all agree, as the mirror says, it's over for Richie Sunak. His political career is done. An awful lot of these people, anybody has been paying attention to the efforts to stitch up selections by CCHQ of candidates for this election, will notice that a lot of these people are former advisors, either to Rishi Sunak or people close to him. These are clearly people with one eye on their own political futures. If these are the people who plan on being MPs, and clearly, as most Tori MPs want to be Prime Minister or somebody serious at some point. I think it's actually very right that we put a lot of scrutiny on the strategy because these are the exact same people who will be trying to get into government in a couple of years time. Who knows? Strange as it may seem, one day they might succeed. I think they do need to be put under the spotlight. What part did you play in all of this? Why did you give the Prime Minister that advice?

Do you really think this is a job that you should be doing?

The problem is they've been doing so badly for so long that number 10 has got this bunker mentality. Minsters can't get in to talk to Richie about things. The MPs These aren't able to influence and get into there to discuss and say what's going on in the party management or anything else. They just gather around and they talk to themselves and then they've decided what they think is important, and they're not relating it to the country at all. It's beyond over. It was over some time ago. It's dragging out now. This is now a zombie Prime Minister with a rotting government that's dragging this festering corpse around the country on some battle bus going, Can you vote for me.

You're saying it's over?

In Wiltshire, where they shouldn't need convincing to vote Tori.

Don't sit on the fence, Susie.

That's exactly what you think. The demestos of democracy needs to clean this up and get rid because it just smells bad.

You can tell she's a columnist, can't you?

Look at these messes. Actually, I say my eight-year-old came up with a demestos of democracy. So that's actually her. She's got a future. More nepotism.

I can't believe it.

Let's turn to to the debate tonight, that seven-handed debate. And in the Times, they're still talking about the D-day fiasco. And Penny Mordent didn't hold back her criticism, really, of Richie Suneck.

She didn't. And I think Penny Mordent has got two things. Everybody knows that Penny Morton also would like to be a leader of the Conservatives Party. She's stood twice to be. And if she survives, she will almost certainly do again. But that's the big question. If she survives, she is in an incredibly difficult situation where, odds are, I would say, actually, she probably will lose her seat. She obviously comes from a naval background. Her constituency has been given that it's Portsmouth, obviously, a lot of links to the armed forces. I couldn't envisage a world in which Penny Morton wasn't going to come out and, as Susie says, throw the Prime Minister slightly further under the bus that he was already under. She had to do that, not just for the state of the Party, but for her own political skin. If she has any hope at all, this tonight was not so much a please vote for Rishi Sunak, he's not a bad guy, situation. This was as much an appeal, I think, directly to her constituents to say, I'm not Rishi Sunak, I'm separating myself from this.

I think it was mostly an advert for hairspray because that helmet is astonishing. I didn't watch much of the debate, but when I did see anything of it, all I could look at, I wasn't listening to anything. I was looking at the hair. It's astonishing. It's like Bridget Jones in the first film when she's in Daniel Cleaver's soft top.

We shouldn't really comment on personal appearance because we probably wouldn't if it were a male politician.

If a male came out with hair, that bouffon, I definitely would.

Okay, let's move on to actually the campaign trail. And in the Times, Richie Sunak, vowing to abolish stamp duty for the first time. First-time buyers.

No, he hasn't. It's rubbish. It's utter rubbish. So what they're doing now, because they have got all this problem, they are now, as Dan Hodges, another one of your commentators, saying on Twitter, that they're throwing everything at the manifesto now, just trying to move things on a little bit from the disaster we just had. So there's this line that we're going to abolish stamp duty for first-time buyers on properties under £425,000. But Theresa may abolish stamp duty for first-time buyers in 2018 on properties under £300,000. She reannounced it in 2019, and Boris Johnson mentioned it in 2019, and again in 2020. It's been a temporary measure for six years, and umpty-tumpty Prime Minister ministers who keep saying they're going to do this and you're going to make it permanent and we're going to, Don't worry. It has made no difference whatsoever to any first-time buyers, really, that anyone's noticed.

The Telegraph reporting that the new stamp duty policy makes permanent something which Liz Truss and Quaisieze Cortein in Everybody's that.

You can literally every single conservative prime minister, no matter how brief, has tried to have this at the forefront. The Telegraph says 200,000 households will benefit from this. Well, clearly, it's not an increase in the numbers that would already benefit it because people People already do benefit from it. But I would just take this back slightly. Why is this so important? It's because there is a housing crisis in this country, especially for first-time buyers. Many people are struggling to get on the housing ladder. What was really evident from the debate, as far as I was aware, nobody touched upon that as an issue. It wasn't mentioned at all. It is so core, so fundamental to so many of the economic and social issues that we have in this country. There is not enough housing, there is not enough building going on. None of the parties were prepared to touch it because they are too scared to address it and say to their voters, Look, you are going to have to have houses where you don't want them. And that's tough.

Labor has said that. Not during that debate. No, but they have said that they will have more planning and they'll loosen things up.

Michael Gove said that as well. It went really well.

Ben Dixon, Sophie. Thank you. Sophie. Susie, why am I calling you Sophie? She's going to leave now. Thank you very much for the moment coming up. This on the front of the Mail, focusing on the desperate search and rescue efforts of health writer Dr. Michael Moseley. We'll be back.

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Welcome back. You are watching the Press Preview. Still with me, Daily Mirror Economist, Susie Boniface, and political commentator, Benedict Spence. Let's take a look at this story in the Times, and this is about the the cyber attack, this NHS hacking attack, presumed to be a Russian or criminal cyber attack, and the effect that it's having on patients health. Significant?

It's obviously something that you never want to think about is that an IT failure or hack could end up impacting the ability of the healthcare system to work. But this story talks about how blood transfusions have been affecting. I'll just read what it is that King's management sent out to medical staff. We are unable to perform any of the many automated processes and electronic safety checks that would normally do as part of standard issuing, meaning that we cannot guarantee antibody history, special requirements, and full unit compatibility. Just think about what that entails. Blood transfusion is, of course, essential when it comes to all kinds of operations. It has a massive knock-on effect. Given that it is one of the constants that we've spoken about for so long, delays in NHS care, be it critical care, cancer care, all sorts of different things. This is the exact worst situation that you could possibly envisage, an extra added delay that also puts immediate life, lives at risk. It creates an awful bottleneck of a situation where people could die as a result of this. Again, we have to talk about... People will talk about things like NHS efficiency, how much money is there for the health service.

The fact of the matter is, the NHS's IT systems are not fit for purpose. They are outdated, and they have been for a very long time. This is one of those issues that always is brought up as a political football. Whose fault is it? This NHS service in this country, where it's slightly worse than this one, be it Walesby or wherever. Ultimately, what is required is a major injection of cash to effectively update the system. Otherwise, we are going to continue to be vulnerable to external and malicious attacks like this, because this is a state actor. This is exactly the thing that you'd be doing to basically test our systems. Just think about this, this is at a time of peace, albeit during a general election. Imagine if we were at war or imagine if this was in the middle of another pandemic, that a hostile nation could just go at the press of a button, not literally the press of a button, but could cause so much carnage on a much larger scale. That's what we have to think about. This is not necessarily an effort to disable us, but if it can be done on this scale, the knock-on effects are catastrophic.

Part of the issue is not this isn't hacking NHS, it's hacking an outside lab which provides blood services to multiple NHS hospitals, because to save money, they have outsourced to someone. And so therefore, it is without outside the NHS, it is more vulnerable, perhaps. But once that outside source then gets attacked, multiple hospitals are affected, and thousands more patients if you just went after one hospital.

Susie, we're just running out of time. I wanted to bring in our final story, and that is the continuing search for Dr Michael Moseley on the Greek island of Simi.

Obviously, it's very sad. Dr Michael Moseley is somebody who I think a lot of people are aware of, and always comes across as a very upbeat, very well-informed, a very jovial person with what you might call a very good bedside manner. Obviously, I think everybody hopes that he is found, but given the circumstances on the island, the temperatures, his situation, one hopes that this happens very fast because there is a very short window.

Benedict and Susie, thank you very much. We'll see you at the top of the hour.