America made ‘huge’ decisions about withdrawing from Afghanistan without consulting Britain, a leading Conservative has said.
The so-called ‘special relationship’ between the UK and US is effectively over after America made ‘huge’ decisions about withdrawing from Afghanistan without consulting Britain, a leading Conservative has claimed.
Tobias Ellwood, chairman of the Commons defence committee and a former soldier, said many fellow MPs shared his fury at US presidentHe told Times Radio: ‘There’s been a demise in the special relationship. ‘Why is it that we didn’t stand up and tell the United States, “If you want to get Afghans out — you have a duty of care for these people who will be pursued by the— you don’t get your military out first, you get the civilians out, then you retreat yourselves”?’
Former prime minister Tony Blair, who involved the UK in US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, also lashed out at Mr Biden for the ‘tragic, dangerous, unnecessary’ withdrawal.Mr Blair said he feared Britain would now become a second-rate global power and — taking aim at Mr Biden — added: ‘We didn’t need to do it. We chose to do it.
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