Sunak to take a day at home after hapless election campaign start

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PM will spend first campaign Saturday holding private discussions but aides deny he is seeking reset

Rishi Sunak will retreat from the campaign trail on Saturday, spending the day at home in his constituency and in London after a difficult first few days of the general election campaign.

Conservatives aides said the move was not part of an attempt to reset his campaign after a first week plagued by missteps and high-level resignation announcements. Sunak’s decision to take a day away from public campaigning comes after an error-strewn start to the campaign for the prime minister.On Friday the prime minister travelled to Belfast where he visited the Titanic Quarter and was asked by a journalistand will not contest the election. Leadsom is reported to have been so unhappy at the decision to call a July election that she considered submitting a letter of no confidence in the prime minister.

 

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