Will Chalk

457 UK military personnel never came back alive.

Rifleman William Aldridge, the youngest British soldier to be killed, was just 18 when he returned in a coffin.

His mother, Lucy Aldridge, says there's no excuse for President Trump's comments.

Trump isn't known for his historic prowess, but this isn't just misspeaking.

He has deeply...

offended certainly the families of those who never came home.

Britain was with America from the start of the war in Afghanistan right up until the chaotic end 20 years later.

But instead of expressing gratitude, as have previous US presidents, this one has caused outrage and offence.

I asked our North America correspondent, David Willis, what response there have been from the White House to Keir Starmer's angry words.

Defiance, I would say.

Well, the White House Deputy Press Secretary, Anna Kelly, released a statement which says as follows.

President Trump is right.

America's contributions to NATO dwarf that of other countries and his success in delivering a 5 percent spending plan.

pledge from NATO allies is helping Europe take greater responsibility for its own defence.

And the statement goes on to say the United States is the only NATO partner who can protect Greenland.

The president is advancing NATO interests in doing so.

Well, that statement really takes no account, does it, of the outrage and the indignation that's being expressed across the political spectrum in the UK and elsewhere over NATO.

Donald Trump's assertion that NATO troops shied away from the front lines in Afghanistan, the figures show that whilst 2,356 US servicemen and women died during operations there, Britain lost 457.

of its own, and other NATO countries made similar sacrifices, of course.

Now, the BBC has heard from the former US National Security Advisor, H.R.