A Pay Review, Mr Blair? Just Give Our Exploited and Overstretched Armed Forces the Wages They Deserve
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THE DOWNING Street announcement that the Prime Minister has asked for 'a full review' of service pay represents a belated response to a scandal.
Tony Blair has been told repeatedly - and some of us have written again and again - that soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan are shamefully underpaid.See the full content of this document
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A Pay Review, Mr Blair? Just Give Our Exploited and Overstretched Armed Forces the Wages They Deserve
Yet only when Tory leader David Cameron promises to consider tax breaks for soldiers fighting abroad does the Government grudgingly move.
Last month, when I visited Helmand province with the head of the Army, Sir Richard Dannatt, senior officers described their acute concern about pay.When 3 Para's battlegroup returns to Britain in...See the full content of this document
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