Politics · 6 hours ago
Lisa Nandy Slammed For Linking Remembrance To Erasmus Return
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Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is facing a fierce backlash after a Remembrance Sunday statement linked the UK's return to the Erasmus+ student scheme with the European friendships veterans helped secure. Tory chairman Kevin Hollinrake called it tone deaf and shameful and demanded an apology, while Reform's Robert Jenrick accused her of overlooking the 7,193 British troops killed in conflicts fought since the Second World War.
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