By Oliver HothamCuts to the defence budget will leave critical skills shortages and weaken the military, according to a damning new report.The National Audit Office (NAO) report found the department had failed to predict how it would maintain functions while cutting staff."This is astonishing criticism from the government's own spending watchdog," shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy said."This report spells out what the country suspected: a spending exercise devoid of strategy has depleted and demoralised our forces. ...
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