Sir Jock Stirrup, the Chief of the Defence Staff, said that British forces would be fighting the Taleban in Afghanistan until at least 2014, by which date the Afghan National Army would ‘be able to take the lead on security across the country’.
Sir Jock Stirrup, the Chief of the Defence Staff, said that British forces would be fighting the Taleban in Afghanistan until at least 2014, by which date the Afghan National Army would ‘be able to take the lead on security across the country’. In a ComRes opinion poll, 63 per cent said they wanted British troops withdrawn as soon as possible. Sections of the press criticised Mr Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, for orthographic errors in a letter of condolence to the mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan. During a G20 conference in St Andrews, Mr Brown had proposed a universal tax on banking transactions.
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