Sunak asked if he caught pneumonia after his general election speech

Rishi Sunak shared a joke with voters in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, about his general election speech which was muted by heavy rain.

A constituent told the Prime Minister she thought he “would be in bed with pneumonia” as he met local ex-servicemen at one of their regular Saturday breakfasts.

At the Buck Inn, a Wetherspoons pub, Vicky Rudd, sitting next to her husband Doug, from Richmond’s British Legion, asked Mr Sunak about his health.

“No pneumonia yet, my suit on the other hand… I don’t really know what state it will be in when I return to London,” replied the Prime Minister.