Sixteen months. That is how long it took Boris Johnson to break his election promise not to reduce the size of the armed forces. On 24 November 2019, the prime minister said: “I have made clear repeatedly we will not be cutting our armed services in any form, we will be maintaining the size of our armed services and I’m delighted to see the secretary of state for defence nodding fervently in the front row.”SponsoredYesterday, the same defence secretary, Ben Wallace, announced that the Conservatives are again cutting the size of the army, this time by 10,000. This is on top of the 45,000 that have been cut from the whole armed forces since 2010. The Tories have overseen a “decade of decline” for

Source: The Times March 23, 2021 00:07 UTC