The Leader of the Opposition has laid into Labour’s treatment of veterans in a fiery exchange during Prime Minister’s Questions.
Kemi Badenoch fumed the Armed Forces were being “treated worse than terrorists” in a scathing dressing-down in the House of Commons.
She blast across the despatch box: “Last week, seven former SAS commanders, seven former SAS commanders warned that Labour’s Northern Ireland Troubles Bill will wreck our special forces.
“Not me, that’s the SAS. In November, nine retired four star generals warned that his bill was a direct threat to national security, and even his own Northern Ireland Veterans Commissioner has said our veterans are being treated worse than terrorists.
“So, Mr. Speaker, is it not madness to be putting veterans in the dock for serving their country? At the same time he is deploying today’s soldiers into Ukraine?”
But Sir Keir Starmer pivoted the discussion to centre on the Shadow Attorney General who is currently advising Roman Abramovich, who is “trying to escape sanctions”, he said.
Mrs Badenoch fired back: “But why don’t we talk about the actual Attorney General who is sitting in Cabinet?
“The man who defended Gerry Adams, the man who is trying to bring Shamima Begum back into the country.
“The man who is helping to surrender the Chagos Islands. I will take our Shadow Attorney General every day of the week against his Attorney General.”
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