Pounds 3.5bn Boost On Blunkett's Beat ; Inflation-Busting Increase for the Armed Forces, but the Axe Will Still Fall As 20,000 Community Support Officers Beef Up Blitz On the Villains, Police Warn Against Crime-Fighting On the Cheap Can He Deliver?

Daily Mail › July 13, 2004

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THE Armed Forces will receive inflation-busting budget rises over the next three years to help them modernise.

But critics warned that the realterms increase of 1.4 per cent a year promised yesterday would not be enough to ease the financial crisis already gripping the Ministry of Defence.

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Pounds 3.5bn Boost On Blunkett's Beat ; Inflation-Busting Increase for the Armed Forces, but the Axe Will Still Fall As 20,000 Community Support Officers Beef Up Blitz On the Villains, Police Warn Against Crime-Fighting On the Cheap Can He Deliver?

Despite the Chancellor's apparent generosity, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon is expected to announce a wave of cuts later this month under the g...

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