Conservative Shadow Defence Secretary James Cartlidge said it was “deeply disrespectful” of Vance “to ignore such service & sacrifice.”
Liberal Democrat Defence Spokesperson Helen Maguire, a former captain in the Royal Military Police who served in Iraq, said Vance was “erasing from history” the British troops who gave their lives in the conflicts, adding his words were a “sinister attempt to deny that reality.”
Conservative former Armed Forces Minister James Heappey, an ex-soldier, said serving alongside American and French forces had been “defining moments of my military career,” and said in response to Vance’s comments that he was “sad to hear the relationship reduced to this.”
Even Nigel Farage, a key British ally of Trump who has backed his strategy in Ukraine, told GB News when pressed on the remarks: “JD Vance is wrong. Wrong wrong wrong.”
He added: “For 20 years in Afghanistan pro rata our size against America’s we spent the same amount of money, we put the same number of men and women in. We suffered the same losses.
“We stood by America all through those 20 years putting in exactly the same contribution. And alright, they may be six times bigger, but we did our bit. So, on this one JD is wrong.”
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