Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Jul 2012 Army 2020
"Today’s announcement has succeeded in doing what our opponents in the first world war, the Boer war, the Korean war, Iraq and Afghanistan all failed to do. It has reduced the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to an ineffective fighting unit. The Argylls are recruited from part of my constituency, and …..." Gordon Banks - View Speech
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