Rishi Sunak and world leaders will today gather with veterans in Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

Commemorations are set to begin with a military piper landing on the beach of Arromanches-les-Bains in a Royal Marines landing craft at 7.25am local time - the exact time the invasion began in 1944. 

The Prime Minister, along with King Charles and Queen Camilla, Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, will then pay tribute to fallen soldiers at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer.

Mr Sunak is set to lead a “heroes welcome” and deliver a short speech, with performances from a range of artists including Sir Tom Jones to follow.

It will be the first major anniversary event hosted at the memorial, and King Charles and Queen Camilla will later officially open the Winston Churchill Centre for Education and Learning.

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