Summary
A MINISTER was forced into an astonishing U-turn by Gordon Brown after publicly admitting that British troops in Afghanistan have too few helicopters.
Just days before he is due to leave the Government, Foreign Office minister Lord Malloch Brown became the first serving minister to break ranks and state openly that British forces 'definitely don't have enough helicopters' in Helmand Province.See the full content of this document
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Humiliation of Brown's Mouthy Minister of War [Edition 2]
It caused the Prime Minister huge embarrassment, after Mr Brown had made repeated denials of shortages.
But the No 10 political machine swung into action and the peer was told to issue an excruciating 'clarification' - completely reversing...See the full content of this document
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