Lord Malloch Brown tries to square the circle

Lord Malloch Brown tries to talk his way out of a real problem for him & Gordon Brown and more importantly the UK armed forces.

Lord Malloch-Brown, Daily Telegraph interview, 17 July 2009:
Question: "Are our troops under-resourced?"

Answer: "We definitely don't have enough helicopters."


Lord Malloch-Brown, BBC interview, 22 July 2009:
"I actually didn't tell The Daily Telegraph that there weren't enough helicopters in Afghanistan."


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