All Quiet On The Western Front screenwriter said it is “frustrating” her speech was cut during the BBC’s coverage of the EE Bafta film awards “especially” because she started the project 16 years ago.

The force said it had not yet started an investigation into the claims made in the media and raised in Parliament by SNP MP Peter Wishart

Allied (15A) opens with Canadian intelligence officer Max Vatan (Brad Pitt) parachuting into French Morocco in 1942 before linking up with French resistance veteran Marianne Beauséjour (Marion Cotillard) in Casablanca, where they plot the assassination of the German ambassador.