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Personnel shortages in the British army are so pronounced that its reserves are “now almost non-existent”, the chief of the general staff has admitted. General Sir Richard Dannatt said in a leaked document that the strain of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan meant the army now had “almost no capability to react to the unexpected”…. Read more »
Gordon Brown will include House of Lords reform in his election manifesto, justice secretary Jack Straw has told MPs. Mr Straw said the government was determined to reform the House of Lords and would be seeking cross-party consensus. The justice secretary told the Commons he wants to remove the “anomaly” of hereditary peers. Attempts to… Read more »
