Hundreds march out on the Army
HUNDREDS of recruits are quitting the Army during basic training.
Government figures show that out of 2,350 who joined in 2016-17, some 400 quit during training.
Sixty more quit after their basic training.
An Army source said: “The experience might be too tough, there might be medical grounds or it might just not be for them.”
The figures are for recruits aged under 18 when they started training.
They follow National Audit Office criticism of a recruitment website that cost three times its budget and was 52 months late.
Capita won the £ 495million recruitment contract in 2012 but failed to hit targets every year.
A Capita spokesman said that it had “underestimated the complexity of the project”.
“They don’t care if she is in pain or her life is at risk by not giving her medical treatment, they just don’t want her to die as that serves no purpose as it gives them no leverage.”
Accountant Richard, who has been denied a visa to visit Iran, also reveals:
He will approach Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt with a bold new plan to free his wife.
His daughter Gabriella, four, had an emotional Christmas reunion with her mother across a prison table.
Nazanin is desperate for a second child – but fears time will run out.
Charity worker Nazanin, from Hampstead, North London, has been held since April 2016 on fabricated charges of spying – which she denies.
She was arrested at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport as she and Gabriella were leaving Iran after visiting family.
Nazanin was jailed for five years. Richard sought the help of then Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson but the Tory bigwig made things worse by wrongly saying Nazanin had been teaching journalists in Iran.
Tehran authorities used that to build a case against her.
Distraught Richard now plans to seek diplomatic protection for Nazanin. And he will demand Mr Hunt – who met Gabriella during a visit to Iran last month – takes the case to the UN Security Council.
Richard said: “When Mr Hunt took over he said to give him time to build a relationship with Iran, which was fair enough and I understood. But enough is enough. The world needs to stand up to Iran.”
R i c h a rd ’ s immediate concern is with the