VC Gurkha Hero - seeks UK stay

Tory peer steps in to help war hero Gurkha banned from the UK

Tory Peer and Victoria Cross expert Michael Ashcroft has joined the fight to bring a veteran Gurkha hero back to Britain.

Tul Bahadur Pun, 84, was awarded the VC - the highest honour for military gallantry - after single-handedly storming Japanese machinegun positions during the Second World War.

But despite his astonishing bravery he has been banned from coming to live here because he does not have "strong ties with the UK".

An incensed Lord Ashcroft, who has a collection of 150 VCs, is determined to help the old soldier."Irrespective of anything else, this was a man who earned the Victoria Cross in the service of the British," he said.

"On compassionate and any other grounds, this is somebody that the population of this country would be delighted to have admitted to the UK. To tell him, at the age of 84, to 'bugger off' is despicable."Daily Mail UK

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