It's a very special episode of the General and the Journalist this week. Patrick and Tom are joined by General Sir Nick Parker, who was Patrick's mentor in the army, to talk about a letter they and six other four-star Generals have signed, calling for an immediate end to retrospective legal cases being brought against former servicemen and women.
This is not only undermining the very basis of the compact between soldier and state, but it's also jeopardising operations in the field, a fact Patrick and Nick confirm when they discuss the departure of a "significant" number of Special Forces officers who've handed in their weapons rather than risk being dragged before the courts on some as yet unknown charge.
The army’s most senior former officers have accused the prime minister of allowing human rights law creep to undermine the effectiveness of Britain’s armed forces. In an unprecedented intervention, nine four-star generals signed an open letter in The Times to coincide with Armistice Day on Tuesday, the moment the nation remembers its forces’ sacrifices.
They warn that soldiers’ trust in the legal system has deteriorated so badly that it now “risks everything”.
The collapse of faith is stripping UK troops of their fighting edge, just as the threat of new wars rises again and a major new force is being prepared to keep any peace in Ukraine, the generals claim.
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Is Human Rights Law Destroying Britain's Military?
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It's a very special episode of the General and the Journalist this week. Patrick and Tom are joined by General Sir Nick Parker, who was Patrick's mentor in the army, to talk about a letter they and six other four-star Generals have signed, calling for an immediate end to retrospective legal cases being brought against former servicemen and women.
This is not only undermining the very basis of the compact between soldier and state, but it's also jeopardising operations in the field, a fact Patrick and Nick confirm when they discuss the departure of a "significant" number of Special Forces officers who've handed in their weapons rather than risk being dragged before the courts on some as yet unknown charge.
The army’s most senior former officers have accused the prime minister of allowing human rights law creep to undermine the effectiveness of Britain’s armed forces. In an unprecedented intervention, nine four-star generals signed an open letter in The Times to coincide with Armistice Day on Tuesday, the moment the nation remembers its forces’ sacrifices.
They warn that soldiers’ trust in the legal system has deteriorated so badly that it now “risks everything”.
The collapse of faith is stripping UK troops of their fighting edge, just as the threat of new wars rises again and a major new force is being prepared to keep any peace in Ukraine, the generals claim.
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