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Free care parcels to troops welcome

Responding to the Royal Mail’s announcement that families will soon be able to send care parcels free of charge to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, Leader of the Liberal Democrats Ming Campbell said: “I am pleased that families can now …

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Brown must listen to his generals

Commenting on senior military commanders’ advice to the Government to withdraw troops from south-east Iraq without further delay, as reported in The Independent on Sunday, Liberal Democrat Leader Ming Campbell said: “Gordon Brown must listen to his generals in Iraq …

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Guardian: “Lib Dems are right on Iraq”

Writing in today’s Guardian, Polly Toynbee, who discussed the issue of Iraq with Ming Campbell yesterday, declares the Liberal Democrats “right, right and right again about the Iraq war”. The Liberal Democrat leader, Menzies Campbell, wrote to Gordon Brown yesterday: …

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Time for coalition forces to withdraw from Iraq

Commenting on the killing of 200 Kurds in a series of bombings in Iraq, Liberal Democrat Leader Ming Campbell said: “The security situation in Iraq is deteriorating in spite of the policy of ‘surge’ followed by the United States. These …

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Shocking Afghanistan casualty figures should change strategy

The Liberal Democrat Leader Ming Campbell has called for the Government to review its strategies in Iraq and Afghanistan following the revelation that British troops in Afghanistan are more likely to be killed in action that at any time since …

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