Clegg queries Afghanistan tactics

Clegg queries Afghanistan tactics

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The Liberal Democrat leader has questioned whether the government has the political will to see through the UK's military campaign in Afghanistan.

While Nick Clegg insists he supports the mission's aims, he says he has recently begun to query whether "we're going about things in the right way".

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, he said the current situation was a "halfway house that lets our troops down".

Seven UK service personnel have been killed in Afghanistan in the past week.

Mr Clegg said he had been keen to maintain the cross-party consensus on Afghanistan, formed after

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