Mr Milliband on Radio 4 this morning - did not answer the question and did not provide any acknowledgement or recognition that his department should be assisting the MoD to resource/ fund operations that we are conducting on behalf of his department's request.
And if he and Mr Ainsworth really do not believe that more capable helicopters are not going to add and assist the protection of ground forces then I remain totally lost for words - as I am sure the British public now recognise.