Planned MoD changes to compensation payments are more about saving money than protecting our frontline troops. New figures obtained by shadow Defence Secretary John Healey show that for every claim of mistreatment by British soldiers in warzones there are 25 against the MoD for injury or negligence by the soldiers themselves.
Ministers claim their new Overseas Operations Bill will protect troops by making it harder to prosecute them for serious crimes such as torture.
But it will also set a six year time limit for soldiers to make their own claims, which means they will have fewer rights than convicted criminals.
In 15 years the MoD settled 300 claims totalling £20million by Iraqis alleging ill treatment by British troops. But over the same
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