Liam Fox, the Shadow Defence Secretary, told his party conference yesterday that he had asked civil servants to draw up plans to massively reduce the MoD bureaucracy as part of Tory plans to cut overall Whitehall budgets by a third.
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Fox: MoD cuts will hit civil servants, not troops
The Conservatives plan a huge cull of civil servants in the Ministry of Defence, aimed at making a 25% saving in the UK military budget without cutting the number of frontline troops.
