Claim: The Conservatives cut the army from 98,000 personnel in 2010 to 72,500 in 2021 - a reduction of over 25,000.
Fact-check: Labour graph showing reduction in army size is misleading - Full Fact
Verdict: 72,500 represents the planned army size by 2025, not the actual army size in 2021. in 2021 at its smallest the army had 76,348 full-time trade-trained personnel—around  21,650 fewer than in 2010.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Pippa Allen-Kinross
Date published: 2022-03-18T00:00:00