Keir Starmer visits UK troops at NATO base

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Sir Keir Starmer and shadow defence secretary John Healey have visited British troops deployed near the Russian border on a visit to Estonia. Starmer used the visit to stress Labour’s commitment to NATO and also pledged his party's support for Estonia, other NATO allies, and for Ukraine.   Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00 In the middle.

00:07 In the middle.

00:14 [indistinct chatter]

00:21 This is Chris Norton.

00:22 Chris.

00:23 Nice to see you.

00:24 And Nathan.

00:25 Good morning, Nathan.

00:26 Nice to see you.

00:27 And Colonel Andrews.

00:28 Good morning.

00:29 And then we've got Chris Creason.

00:31 Right, so what we've got in here, this is my tactical flying post as a training post.

00:37 Two of our repair watch ones are quite standard.

00:40 Oh, brilliant.

00:41 So whilst it's the same equipment and it's the same terrain.

00:43 But the weather is completely different, isn't it?

00:45 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:46 [indistinct chatter]

00:53 I'll just pick up some of the rest of the team as well, if you'd like.

00:56 A little bit of the strategic context of the operation in the stadium and the wider regional context.

01:02 And then I'll talk to you about the battle group, our mission, our task and what we've been up to over the last few months.

01:09 [indistinct chatter]

01:16 All good?

01:17 Yeah.

01:18 Thanks.

01:19 Thanks, everybody.

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