Tory MP Tobias Ellwood resigns as Commons Defence Committee chair
The Conservative former defence minister had faced a backlash over remarks he made about Afghanistan.
The Conservative former defence minister had faced a backlash over remarks he made about Afghanistan.
Tobias Ellwood has again urged the Government to rethink its strategy on Afghanistan, two years on from the fall of Kabul to the Taliban.
MPs are being urged to turn up and be counted ahead of a vote on the privileges committee report set to take place today.
The long-time critic of the Prime Minister will no longer be able to vote in the Conservative leadership election.
It comes as the UK prepares for two more days of industrial action by RMT members on Thursday and Saturday.
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“We have to recognise that the old concepts of fighting big tank battles on European land mass are over and there are other better things we should be investing in," the prime minister said in November 2021, when there were warning signs about Russian troops at Ukraine's border.
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