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» Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Prime Minister in the US

Asked why the Prime Minister described the UK as the United States’ junior partner in 1940 when the United States did not enter the Second World War until a year later and didn’t that belittle the efforts of British armed forces who were fighting a lone battle that year, the PMS said that the last thing the Prime Minister would have wanted to do was to create that impression. The PMS added that the Prime Minister held our Armed Forces in the very highest regard.

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