Cash-strapped MoD blows £3million on ‘diversity’: Labour should put frontline soldiers first, say critics

The Ministry of Defence is forking out nearly £3million employing staff committed to promoting diversity and inclusion, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Despite Labour scrabbling to find more cash for defence, as many as 53 staff have been employed at the MoD to champion DEI under its watch.

It comes as the Chancellor is facing pressure from all quarters to raise defence spending at his Autumn Budget on Wednesday.

And Andrew Griffith, the shadow chancellor, called on Saturday for the chancellor to resign if he did not raise defence spending to three per cent of GDP.

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