Hull MP slams the Coalition's latest cuts to the British Army

Army cutsHull North MP Diana Johnson has attacked the Coalition Government's announcement today of 5,300 more redundancies in the UK Army.

Speaking in the House of Commons, Diana Johnson MP said: "Hull has always been a strong recruiting ground for the armed forces, but alongside these redundancies, pay and pensions are being cut and many will be affected by the strivers' tax and the bedroom tax.

"As I understand it, the cuts that have already been announced will mean that the entire British Army will fit into Wembley stadium by 2020. Will the Minister tell me whether the Prime Minister's statement yesterday about being able to fight a decades-long campaign against global terrorism was realistic?"

The exchange took place today in the Ministry of Defence statement on the latest armed forces job cuts.

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