Politics Home | Keir Starmer Says Trump’s Claim Nato Troops “Stayed Off Front Line” In Afghanistan Is “Insulting” And “Appalling”
Minister Stephen Kinnock branded the comment “deeply disappointing” (Alamy) 3 min read23 January Keir Starmer has said that Donald Trump’s claim that Nato troops “stayed a little off the front lines” during the war in Afghanistan is “insulting and frankly, appalling”. In his strongest criticism yet of the US president, Starmer said he was “not surprised [Trump’s words] caused such hurt to the loved ones of those who were killed or injured,” adding that if he had said something like that, he would “certainly apologise”. Speaking to Fox News on Thursday, Trump said that he was “not sure” that the Nato alliance would be there for the US “if we ever needed them”. “We have never really asked anything of them,” Trump claimed, adding, “They’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan…and they did, they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines”. The US is the only country to have ever invoked Article 5 of Nato, which states “an armed attack against one Nato member shall be considered an attack against them all”. The UK, among other …


