Afghan war costs UK over £37bn so far

Afghan war costs UK over £37bn so far: 
"Ledwidge, who has also been a civilian adviser to the British government in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan, says Helmand is no more stable now than when thousands of British troops were deployed there in 2006. Opium production that fell under the Taliban, is increasing, fuelling corruption and the coffers of warlords.
“Rendering the Afghan armed forces capable of securing the province [Helmand] is regarded by many ordinary British soldiers as little short of ridiculous,” Ledwidge writes.
Though British and other foreign troops were sent to Afghanistan to stop al-Qaeda posing a threat to Britain’s national security, “of all the thousands of civilians and combatants, not a single Qaeda operative or ‘international terrorist’ who could conceivably have threatened the United Kingdom is recorded as having been killed by NATO troops in Helmand,”