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Proceeding contribution from Bob Stewart (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 2 February 2017. It occurred during Backbench debate on Armed Forces Covenant.


Armed Forces Covenant

I absolutely—and graciously—accept that point.

When I went to Bosnia, I learned this lesson. The three main opponents always came to me and said, “How many men and women do you have under your command?”, and I would say, “Lots. How many do you think?” They would say, “Between 3,000 and 4,000.” I had 800. Those men and women were acting like that because of their morale. We have the best armed forces in the world thanks to high morale and training. We give them everything we can, but we have the best armed forces in the world, and the armed forces covenant is going to make them even better.


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
620 c1277 
Session
2016-17
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Armed forces Armed forces covenant
Link
View this Proceeding contribution on hansard.parliament.uk