Labour MPs say Gordon Brown has personally intervened to reverse a planned £20 million cut to the Territorial Army training budget. Skip related content
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PM 'intervenes' to reverse TA cuts
The former defence secretary John Reid, one of several Labour MPs who challenged the cuts in Parliament on Monday, applauded the decision.
"I very much welcome the fact that the Prime Minister has been prepared to listen to the issues and personally intervene to make sure that the Territorial Army training budget is retained," he said.
Under the planned cuts, the TA had faced the cancellation of all routine training for the rest of the financial year.
In the Commons on Monday, the Armed Forces Minister Bill Rammell staged a partial climbdown, announcing a "small adjustment" of £2.5 million to allow TA soldiers to attend one drill night a month.
However, the concession failed to satisfy critics on all sides of the House, with a number of prominent figures on the Labour benches calling for a full re-think of the cuts plan.
Mr Reid confirmed that, after a series of conversations with Labour MPs, Mr Brown had agreed that the full budget should be reinstated.
The disclosure of the latest Government climbdown comes just before a high-profile opposition day debate on the TA in the Commons later.
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