Few senior officers had the capacity to give their troops a laugh, and the single feature that made tolerable my vision of D Day, if there was such a feature, was that Happy Halloran would be the one to lead me into the jaws of death.

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Recently, however, the Tory shadow chancellor of the exchequer proposed abolishing the stamp tax for most first-time home buyers, as well as removing millions of people from the jaws of Britain's death tax.

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