as frank gardner reports. war planes from another time. memories from 80 years ago. today, a chance to honor those men and women who took part in d day, the operation that helped end the second world war. service chiefs, prime ministers past and present, the royalfamily and of course, the veterans. roy haywood was 19 on that day, a trooper in the sherwood rangers. i landed in on the evening of d day, and three weeks later i was so badly damaged that they had to amputate both my legs below the knee. i returned home eventually, and i have to say that i always considered myself one of the lucky ones that survived because so many of us didn t. this was the largest ever amphibious invasion in human history, over150,000 british, us, canadian and french troops landing on normandy s beaches under withering fire from german defenses. let us once again commit ourselves always to remember, cherish and honor those who served that day and to live up to the freedom they died for. honoring
how that £2000 figure is generated. the tories have added up what they say are the net cost of labour public spending commitments over the next four years and have come to any curated sum of £38.5 billion. they have divided that figure by the number of households in the uk with one person working at least, 18 million and that produces the figure of £2000. but this morning a letter emerge from the chief civil servant at the treasury written on the 3rd ofjune which casts further doubt on the basis of that figure. it says the basis of that figure. it says the £38 billion figure used by the conservative party s publication conservative pa rty s publication uses conservative party s publication uses costs beyond those produced by the civil service and published online by hm treasury. any costings derived from other sources are produced by other organisations should not be presented as having been produced by the civil service. and finally, i have reminded ministers and advisers they sho