A letter to those who fought for freedom...

FROM KEIR STARMER

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TO our veterans, as we approach the VE Day anniversary, I want to salute your ongoing dedication to keeping our country safe.

This week, we celebrate the greatest victory our armed forces ever secured.

Like so many families across the country, my relatives served and fought in the Second World War.

Therefore, it is the highest honour of my role to meet veterans of that conflict.

I think of people like Stanley Fisher and Mervyn Kersh, two Jewish veterans of the Normandy landings, who went on to become eyewitnesses to the horrors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in the early days of its liberation by British forces.

Their stories - and countless others we will hear this week - are a reminder that our victory was not just for Britain.