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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Nicholas Cecil and Michael Howie

Ex-Marine son of Tory MP Helen Grant travels with group to fight in Ukraine

A Conservative’s son has gone to Ukraine to join the battle against the Russian invasion after seeing a family being bombed inside their home.

Ben Grant, 30, who spent more than five years as a commando in the Royal Marines, said he had not told his mother Helen Grant, a former Government minister, that he was heading for Ukraine.

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