Defence Secretary Forced To Defend 11,000 ‘Sad’ Job Cuts After Redundancies Branded 'Disgraceful' -- The Daily Mail
Defence Secretary Liam Fox has been forced to defend the decision to make 11,000 redundancies in the armed forces, insisting that personnel who have recently returned from Afghanistan will not be sacked.
His Labour counterpart Jim Murphy summoned Dr Fox to the Commons to make a statement on the redundancies, after the RAF yesterday became the first service to give detailed plans.
Mr Murphy said it was 'disgraceful' that some forces serving overseas would be 'welcomed home as heroes by the public and sacked by their Government'.
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