Sify (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
British Cabinet ministers have begun to question the future of the combat mission in Afghanistan as pressure on Gordon Brown mounts over the conflict, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Their comments followed last week's public comments from Kim Howells, the former Foreign Office minister who is now Mr Brown's intelligence and security watchdog, who called last week for the "great majority" of Britain's 9,000-strong force in Afghanistan to be withdrawn.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Tories accuse Phil Woolas of 'crass' remarks A government minister was today accused of being "crass" after he claimed British troops were in Afghanistan to stop asylum seekers fleeing to the UK, hours after five more troops were killed. The immigration minister, Phil Woolas, made the remarks while giving evidence to MPs on the Commons home affairs committee. "If this...
Labour Friends of Iraq (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dave Anderson MP has writen the following letter to Mr Al Maliki, the Iraqi Prime Minister and aims to see the Foreign Office Minister Ivan Lewis about the issue in the near future. Defending the Iraqi trade union movement and...
Radio 4 - Today (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Britain's presence in Afghanistan has been seriously questioned this week following the deaths of seven army personnel, and calls from former junior Foreign Office minister Kim Howells MP to withdraw all troops from the country. Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday defended Britain's continued presence, saying that troops there are "our first line of defence"...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The dimensions of the unfolding disaster in Afghanistan are becoming bigger and more daunting by the day. Once-staunch defenders of the "good war" are starting to break ranks. Kim Howells, a former Foreign Office minister with responsibility for Afghanistan and current chairman of the parliamentary intelligence and security committee, questions in our newspaper today...
icWales (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... and the wider public, Mr Brown set out five tests for the administration in Kabul to meet.The Prime Minister called for the appointment of an “anti-corruption tsar” to work alongside Mr Karzai to root out criminals and Taliban sympathisers in the Afghan police and armed forces.Support for the war has hit a new low this week with the murder of five British troops by an Afghan policeman.Pontypridd...
Whitehall 1212 (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... numbers of voters questioning why British troops are losing their lives in Afghanistan the Prime Minister will use speech to define the mission to deny Al Qaeda at training ground on the Afghan-Pakistan border from which to plot attacks on the UK. With Remembrance Day approaching Mr Brown is due to set the mounting British losses in Afghanistan in the context of the sacrifice of British...
ID in the News (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Henry Porter writes on the “Liberty Central” section of the Guardian Comment is Free web site: The former foreign office minister Kim Howells suggests that the policy in Afghanistan is not working and it is time to consider withdrawing troops and putting the money saved as result into the UK Border Agency and greater surveillance and [...]
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
A former Foreign Office minister has dramatically broke with Government policy on Afghanistan by calling for the phased withdrawal of the bulk of Britain's military force from the country.
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - Liverpool News (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
A former Foreign Office minister has dramatically broke with Government policy on Afghanistan by calling for the phased withdrawal of the bulk of Britain's military force from the country.
icWales (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
A former Foreign Office minister has dramatically broke with Government policy on Afghanistan by calling for the phased withdrawal of the bulk of Britain's military force from the country.
British National Party (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
THE former Foreign Office minister Kim Howells, has broken ranks and called for the Government to follow the British National Party's policy on Afghanistan.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The fatal shooting of five British soldiers by an Afghan policeman has dealt a blow to the heart of the UK's exit strategy from the country, a former foreign office minister warned today.
The Heathlander (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Today Kim Howells, Labour MP and chairman of the British Intelligence and Security Committee, urged a withdrawal from Afghanistan – significant given that he was the former Labour foreign office minister and a strong supporter of the war. Support for the war is waning in both the US and Britain while, as Johann Hari points [...]
