There’s no distance these Conservative heroes won’t travel to serve … themselves | John Crace

There’s no distance these Conservative heroes won’t travel to serve … themselves | John Crace

Richard Holden shows his mettle with a shock appearance on the Basildon and Billericay ballot, a Tory safe seat

Just for one day the election campaign took a back seat as the country’s eyes turned towards northern France where the commemorations for the D-day landings and the Normandy campaign were taking place. A time to remember both those who came back and those who didn’t.

No one came out of the war unscarred. My dad could never speak of the horrors he had witnessed, nor the gallantry that won him a Distinguished Service Cross. Here were the last survivors of the war generation: most of them 100 years old or more who had fought for our freedoms. A freedom that many now take for granted.

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