BBC NEWS 24 138 08 Oct 17:24/20
DEFENCE CUTS "DEVASTATING" TO FORCES
The Government is planning defence cuts
as international tension increases,
the Tory party conference was warned.
Shadow Defence Secretary John Maples
said the armed forces were being asked
to do "more with less".
"The world looks to me like a very
dangerous place and now is not the time
to reduce our defence capabilities," he
told members at Bournemouth.
He promised to fight proposed cuts of
20,000 men in the Territorial Army.
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