The Defence Secretary has justified the decision to cut troop numbers because of evolving threats, but there is a hole in that logic. If the threat has changed so much, so quickly, what is there to say it will not change again? Given the uncertainty, it seems unwise to cut the one thing that, above all else, gives us our edge: our people. I ask the Secretary of State to think again.
Integrated Review: Defence Command Paper
Proceeding contribution from
Dan Jarvis
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 22 March 2021.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Integrated Review: Defence Command Paper.
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