Good to be at the @PoppyLegion reception tonight at #LabourConference2021

“This isn’t going to stop people being investigated. It isn’t going to stop people being reinvestigated.” Judge Advocate General Blackett #OverseasOperationsBill

The #OverseasOperationsBill protects the MoD not service personnel as Charles Byrne, DG of @PoppyLegion made clear

Charles Byrne, Director General at @PoppyLegion sets out how Overseas Ops Bill protects MoD not troops. Gov need to think again

"It does look like political interference, or at least political bias"   Oral questions tabled to the Ministry of Defence by @UKLabour MPs on the welfare of veterans have been transferred.   The MoD can't pick and choose when it is held to account⬇

Labour want to ensure this Bill will not breach the Covenant nor deny troops the same employer liability rights as the citizens they defend. Today, the Government could not provide answers to these important questions.

Shadow Defence Secretary @JohnHealey_MP today asked the Veterans Minister why the Government is introducing a Bill that could breach the Armed Forces Covenant by disadvantaging troops serving overseas. Unfortunately the Minister did not provide the reassurance that it would not.