Could would-be PM Rory be a holiday rep?

TV fans of a certain age might remember the wonderful Judith Chalmers.

Waaay before David Dickinson, she was a deep mahogany-coloured presenter of the weekly holiday show Wish You Were Here…?

Warm and smiley and with a permatan from her constant trips to the Caribbean, the Med and posh cruises, she never stopped travelling.

I thought of her the other day as I clicked from Barking to Wigan and onto Woking, watching Rory Stewart fly around the country, filming himself as part of a Twitter campaign with the hashtag #Rorywalks.

Not as glamorous as Judith’s journeys admittedly, but he was always smiling, always having a good time.

The Penrith and the Border MP is bidding to become the next leader of the Tory Party and our new PM.

He has to convince his fellow Tory MPs to vote for him, but instead of schmoozing over lunches and in tearooms, he’s making his trips to ‘connect with the country’ and get his message out that he’s the one to lead the country.

I wish him well, but pounding the mean streets of Barking and those of wet Wigan just hit me as a low-budget version of a travel show. Probably not something Judith would want to be part of.

Still, if it all goes wrong, he could get signed up as a holiday TV presenter, or maybe even a tour rep - though I can’t quite see him on one of those Club 18-30 booze cruises.

Judith was a racy lady and admitted that she never worse knickers when presenting her travel show.

Makes you wonder whether Rory goes Commando on his walkabouts...

n Tomorrow marks the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

Sadly, very few veterans of that heroic and hellish offensive are left in Cumbria.

Hollywood tends to give a biased angle of what happened, but it's important to remember that 890 of the 1,200 warships involved were British/Canadian. Just 200 were American.

Of the 4,126 landing craft involved, 805 were US and 3,261 British.

Two-thirds of the 12,000 aircraft involved in D-Day were RAF/RCAF.

Two-thirds of the troops landed on the beaches were British/Canadian.

Omaha beach saw heavy US casualties, but we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that our lads bore the brunt of the action. Something to remember long, long after they have gone.