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Blair to plead case over plan for anti-mercenary law

Outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair is to intervene this week to try to prevent 700 South Africans - the equivalent of more than one battalion - being forced to quit the British Army because of a proposed anti-mercenary law.

Outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair is to intervene this week to try to prevent 700 South Africans - the equivalent of more than one battalion - being forced to quit the British Army because of a proposed anti-mercenary law.