british workers to plug skills gaps in the job market and strengthen anti exploitation laws. meanwhile, the conservatives have promised to build 100 new gp surgeries in england and boost the number of available appointments if they win the election. and in the coming hours, john swinney, leader of the scottish national party, will formally launch the party s campaign, where he ll argue independence offers the country a better future . earlier, i discussed this week s general election campaigning with anthony pickles, former chief of staff to the conservatives in wales and sonia sodha, observer columnist and former adviser to ed miliband. i started by asking sonia sodha about the criticism labour has faced over its handling of diane abbott and if this is an indication that sir keir starmer is trying to push through his allies. i think it is a fair characterisation of what is happening. i think personally the diane abbott question, whether she was going to be allowed to stand
normandy. so they called me up. i was 18 and one month. april 1943. ijoined up the air force when i was 18. and i went to the infantry training centre at colchester. my speciality was guns and bombs. but that didn t matter. you re servicing commandos. you did anything to help anybody. we got posted to the 12 battalion, devonshire regiment. newsreel: these pictures take you right in among the men - who are putting dunkirk. the devons crossed to normandy on d day. dennis and alan arrived the day after. once we got ashore, we had to wade in. as you come across the beach, the ground went higher. and we had lunch on that bank there.