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Miliband refuses to apologise to Pickles

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Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Conservative chairman Eric Pickles have clashed on the BBC's Politics Show over comments Mr Miliband made about the Tories having links with far-right politics in Europe.

At the Labour party conference Mr Miliband criticised the Tories' new allies in the European Conservatives and Reformists Group.

He said they included a Latvian party which celebrates the "Latvian Waffen SS with a march past of SS veterans".

Mr Pickles said he felt he was owed an apology and defended his party's alliance.

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