Dead body of soldier found near his base
A SOLDIER has been found dead near his UK barracks.
The as-yet unnamed signaller was in his 20s.
He went missing from the Royal Corps of Signals base at Blandford Camp, Dorset, on Tuesday night.
It is believed he was due to go on leave within days but his body was discovered by local workers in a nearby field next morning.
The Army said: “Police are investigating but are not treating his death as suspicious. Our thoughts are with his family.”
Sources said he had not yet been on a tour of duty.
The tragedy comes two weeks after officer cadet Olivia Perks, 21, was found dead at Sandhurst Royal Military Academy, Berks. THERESA MAY HITS BACK AT CLAIMS MADE BY MPs WHO QUIT A THIRD of Theresa May’s Cabinet are ready to walk unless the PM rules out a no-deal Brexit, a Tory defector claimed yesterday.
No10 is braced for more Tory MPs joining the exodus to The Independent Group after three Conservatives quit, joining eight ex-Labour MPs.
Dr Sarah Wollaston warned her former party is “destroying itself ”.
She predicted more defections “in the coming week” unless Mrs May ruled out a no-deal Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn backed a second referendum.
The Commons health committee chair said: “I think a third of the [22-member] Cabinet would walk if they were looking at no-deal.”
Mrs May yesterday met two Remainer ex-ministers, Justine Greening and Phillip Lee, who Downing Street fears could jump ship.
She also wrote to the “three amigos” who quit – Anna Soubry, Heidi Allen and Dr Wollaston– blasting claims she had let the party lurch to the Right.
Mrs May denied hard-Right elements were forcing their way into the party, saying: “I do not accept the picture you paint.”
Tory Ms Greening said she is staying put “for the moment” but ex-Attorney General Dominic Grieve said: “I can’t predict where I might be if the party goes completely off the rails.”
Labour’s Siobhain McDonagh and Dame Margaret Hodge dismissed claims that they are poised to quit.
Corbyn critic Ian Austin said he is considering “very carefully” whether to leave the party and Lord Peter Mandelson felt “morally compromised” by anti-Semitism aimed at Jewish Labour MPs.
A Lib Dem source forecast a “nonaggression pact” with the new Independents in order to prevent a split of pro-EU votes.
Independent Group MP Gavin Shuker said its MPs could prop up Mrs May’s government... if she backed a second EU referendum. Sarah Wollaston
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