Veterans and bereaved families call the comments "very disrespectful" and "soul-destroying", as Keir Starmer says they are "insulting and frankly appalling".

US President Donald Trump's claim that Nato troops stayed back from the front lines during the 20-year war in Afghanistan has sparked widespread outrage among European military veterans and relatives of the fallen.

European veterans, families of the fallen, and politicians are voicing outrage over Trump's claim NATO allies stayed behind the front lines in Afghanistan.

President Trump said that NATO soldiers stayed “a little off the front lines” during the conflict. In Britain, which lost 457 soldiers in the war, the response was swift.

It’s just a childish man trying to deflect from his own actions,’ says Diane Dernie, the mother of Ben Parkinson

Prince Harry joined Sir Keir Starmer who earlier condemned Donald Trump’s remarks about Nato troops in Afghanistan as “insulting and frankly appalling”. The Prime Minister also suggested the US President should apologise for the comment which has sparked a huge backlash in Britain.