Keeping Those War Widows Off Your Tax Money

It appears that there can be difficulties in obtaining insurance cover for first-time buyers when "applicants have already been placed under readiness for operational deployments", as a plain-speaking spokesbeing at the Association of British Insurers hath it. In Standard English, this means roughly that people in the armed forces, particularly the children Tony likes to use, may have trouble providing for their dependents in the event of something happening to them that Tony would find regrettable but deeply, deeply necessary. During the time when almost everyone who mattered knew for certain that we were all forty-five minutes from doom, for example, many public-spirited insurance companies refused new applicants, bumped up their premiums or refused to cover for terrorist attack. Of course, nothing could be done about this; it is a matter of natural law that every swing of the scythe by the Grim Reaper must have an equal and opposite commercial reaction.

Accordingly, the Ministry of Defence has come to the rescue by offering armed forces personnel the opportunity to buy protection for their families, presumably at a reasonable profit for Insurer Sterling Life. Dashed decent of them.