Vance comments: Mandelson must demand the Vice President apologises for his remarks

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Responding to US Vice President JD Vance’s comments that Putin will not be deterred by “20,000 troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years”, Liberal Democrat Defence Spokesperson Helen Maguire MP, a former Captain in the Royal Military Police who served in Iraq, said:

"JD Vance is erasing from history the hundreds of British troops who gave their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. 

“I saw firsthand how American and British soldiers fought bravely together shoulder to shoulder. Six of my own regiment, the Royal Military Police, didn’t return home from Iraq. This is a sinister attempt to deny that reality.

“As the UK’s representative to the US, Peter Mandelson should call on Vance to apologise for these comments.”

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Notes to Editors:

The remarks are reported here.