Simon Mainwaring is the author of the New York Times bestseller, We First.

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Noah's Ark Appeal director, Suzanne Mainwaring, said most of the funding had been provided by a UK charity.

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It called Mr Gill a "Captain Mainwaring" character, "fine on rousing speeches, fine on setting out tactics, but in the field it all goes horribly wrong".

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The prime minister appears to have confused Sergeant Wilson, the calmly well-spoken deputy to Captain Mainwaring with Corporal Jones, the excitable butcher and World War One veteran.

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