PM defends Afghanistan strategy
Gordon Brown has insisted Britain has the resources "to do the job" in Afghanistan, amid claims troops serving there are under-equipped.
The prime minister told MPs helicopter numbers had increased 60% since 2006 and UK forces were the best equipped they had been in 40 years.
Tory leader David Cameron attacked the "scandal" of helicopter shortages.
UK forces in Afghanistan will also hold a memorial service later for eight men who died in a single 24-hour period.
Tributes will be paid at Camp Bastion, a day after it emerged that three of those killed on Friday were just 18.
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