David Blackburn

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Memory for Michael Foot and the four servicemen who have been killed in the last week.

12:03: And we’re off. Tory backbencher Richard Benyon wants assurances that soldiers serving overseas receive a postal vote. Brown gives him such.

12:05: Here’s Cameron. He starts with the examination into the deaths of soldiers in Afghanistan which suggests that inadquately strong motorised equipment was responsible for their deaths. Prepare for Brown’s Chilcot evidence, contradicted by Lord Guthrie among others, to come under sustained attack. Brown is at his most vulnerable on defence. That said, Brown apologises for the defence minister who suggested that the deaths had nothing to do with the Snatch Land Rover, which I think is a first.

12:08: Cameron quotes the former defence chiefs who described Brown’s Chilcot evidence as ‘disingenuous’ and ‘dissembling’. Some Labour backbenchers call Guthrie et al ‘Tories’. This puts Brown on the backfoot and he refuses to distance himself from members of his party who have questioned the loyalties of those who have served Britain.

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