Spectators lined bridges and banks to watch as the boats covered the 21.6-mile course along the River Thames from Millwall to Richmond.
Operation Market Garden aimed to push through the Netherlands and into Germany just a few months after the D-Day landings.
Sir Keir Starmer said Labour was “rebuilding our country”, as he arrived at his party’s conference intent on shifting attention away from rows over donations and internal No 10 infighting. The Prime ...