Home secretary says climbdown was ‘as good as it gets’ from US president despite failure to apologise for remarks
Donald Trump’s climbdown over his claim that UK troops avoided the frontline in Afghanistan has been greeted with cross-party relief in Westminster despite his failure to apologise for remarks widely condemned as offensive and false.
In a rare clarification, the US president praised British troops as being “among the greatest of all warriors” and acknowledged that 457 had died in Afghanistan.
“The UK military, with tremendous heart and soul, is second to none (except for the USA). We love you all, and always will!” he wrote on Truth Social on Saturday.
His post came two days after he told Fox News that the US had “never needed” its allies in Afghanistan and that Nato troops had “stayed a little back, a little off the frontlines”.
