EU Army outrage as British troops risk being forced into EU defence force after Brexit express.co.uk

BORIS JOHNSON was last night facing a revolt by Tory MPs over fears that British troops could be dragooned into an EU defense force after Brexit. Members of the European Research Group of backbenchers will today meet senior figures from the Veterans for Britain pressure group that is campaigning against close military ties with Brussels.

Both groups are expected to discuss tactics for putting pressure on the Prime Minister to scrap significant sections of his proposed EU divorce deal. The meeting in the Commons follows concerns that the Prime Minister’s revised offer to the EU contains a range of commitments that will leave the UK tied into the bloc’s Common Security and Defence Policy that some critics see as the beginning of an EU army. Some Tory MPs have not ruled out voting against the deal in Parliament if the military cooperation clauses are not removed.