Starmer: ‘Trump’s words on the role of British soldiers in Afghanistan are insulting’

London (United Kingdom), 23 Jan. (LaPresse/AP) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has urged US President Donald Trump to apologise for his claim that NATO troops – with the exception of American troops – stayed away from the front line during the war in Afghanistan. Starmer called Trump’s remarks ‘insulting and frankly baffling.’ More than 150,000 British soldiers served in Afghanistan in the years following the US-led military action in 2001, the largest contingent after the American one. More than 450 of them lost their lives.