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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Millie Cooke

Starmer delivers powerful rebuke to JD Vance with tribute to Britons killed in Iraq and Afghanistan wars

Sir Keir Starmer delivered a powerful rebuke to US vice president JD Vance at Prime Minister’s Questions, opening the session with a roll call of the 642 British soldiers who lost their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The US vice president was accused of erasing the experiences of Britons who served overseas after his latest tirade against America’s European allies, where he suggested Britain hadn’t fought a war in more than 30 years.

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