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Kemi Badenoch has hit back at suggestions she should apologise for claiming British forces are “just hanging around” in the Middle East.The Conservative leader insisted she was supportive of Britain’s armed forces and claimed the Government was using them as a “human shield” for criticism she directed at ministers.

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00:06You've got some flack over the weekend for suggesting that British forces were just hanging
00:11around in the Middle East. Do you think that's a remark that you need to apologise?
00:15I've been asked this several times. I was criticising the government that they're not
00:18doing enough and they are the ones hanging around. HMS Dragon is still in Portsmouth
00:24well over a week after it should have left. France has sent about 10 ships to the Mediterranean.
00:29The French president is in Cyprus. We have a base in Cyprus. We are the ones who have a base
00:34in
00:34Cyprus. What's our prime minister doing? And instead what he's trying to do is use the soldiers
00:38as a human shield so that he is not being criticised. I think that's absolutely disgusting.
00:43The prime minister knows that I'm criticising him and his actions and claiming that it's the military
00:49that are being criticised when it's them means that they actually do not care about getting this
00:54right. All they care about is covering themselves and I think that that is a disgrace.
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