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“Appalling” - Starmer reacts to Trump’s claim about NATO troops
The US president claimed that NATO forces hung back from the front line in Afghanistan.
Keir Starmer has hit back at Donald Trump’s claim that NATO forces stayed away from the front line in Afghanistan, calling it “insulting and frankly appalling”. We hear from an American who served alongside British troops and later became a senior Pentagon official under Trump.
Also on the programme: decision time for Andy Burnham, who has less than 24 hours to decide whether to plot a return to Parliament.
And Minneapolis grinds to a halt as opponents of immigration enforcement raids hold a general strike in the city.
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