Rishi Sunak defends wet election announcement as he meets veterans at breakfast in North Yorkshire

At a breakfast meeting with ex-servicemen in a Yorkshire Wetherspoon's pub, the prime minister said he was unsure what state his suit would be in when he returned to London.

Rishi Sunak has defended calling the election in the pouring rain - and allayed one woman's concern he could have caught pneumonia.
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