Monitoring Desk
LONDON: According to a poll conducted by Savanta for The Independent, a majority of Britons (63%) believe that Prince Harry put the United Kingdon (UK) in danger with his claim that he killed 25 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.
The admission is contained in Prince Harry’s recently released memoir “Spare” and has been widely criticized by military veterans.
Of the 2,064 British adults polled, 58% said Prince Harry was “unjustified” in revealing details about the number of Taliban militants he had killed throughout his military service. The figure peaked at 82 percent for the respondents aged 55-64.
Youth response to Prince Harry’s claim
Only 23 percent thought the remarks believed no danger, although he generally received good support from younger cohorts, with 52 percent of respondents aged between 25 to 34 years thinking he was justified.
Those in England were slightly less concerned (58%) over the ramifications compared to Scotland (66 %), Northern Ireland (60%), and Wales (68 %).
Political colors evidenced a wider divide, with a strong majority of 80 percent of those who voted Conservative in the 2019 parliamentary election believing that Prince Harry‘s comments had damaged endangered national security, compared to 62 percent of those respondents who voted Labour.
Prince Harry, who conducted six duty visits in Afghanistan between 2006 and 2015, said he was compelled to open up as part of his “healing journey.” He added that “detailing and expressing my experience is how I chose to deal with things, in the hopes it would help others.”
