EXCLUSIVE: THOUSANDS of British troops resign ‘due to low morale’, sparking safety fears

Sunday, May 15, 2016
By Paul Martin

FOREIGN soldiers are urgently being drafted-in to fight for Britain because thousands of regular troops are resigning, official figures show.

By PATRICK CHRISTYS AND MARCO GIANNANGELI
Express.co.uk
Sun, May 15, 2016

Droves of military personnel are handing-in their notices – largely due to low morale – meaning rules are being changed so hundreds of foreign fighters can sign-up to defend this country because there are not enough British nationals available.

Staggering new figures from the Ministry of Defence show 7,260 troops from the Army, RAF and Navy have applied to resign since April 2015.

It is believed service personnel are feeling the pinch after drastic cuts were introduced in 2010, prompting the UK National Defence Agency think-tank to warn: “We cannot afford to go on squeezing our armed forces till the pips squeak.”

It comes as Britain faces a severe terror threat from Islamic terrorist groups and as the MoD prepares for engagement in Libya, which could see as many as 1,000 troops join coalition allies in supporting local forces to vanquish IS fundamentalists.

Now, Defence Minister Penny Mordaunt has relaxed the rules imposed in 2013 banning Commonwealth soldiers signing-up unless they had lived in Britain for five years, and is allowing 200 Commonwealth citizens to fill roles in regular forces every year.

According to the Ministry of Defence’s latest Service Personnel Statistics, the UK can field a total number of 140,570 fully-trained troops across all branches – well short of the MoD’s declared minimum number of troops needed for each service, which is 146,950.

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