Decision to allow women to fight on the frontlines will ‘cost lives’, says Iraq hero

THE landmark decision to allow women to fight on the front line will cost comrades’ lives, says a former British Army commander.

Iraq war hero Colonel Tim Collins said David Cameron’s decision to lift a ban on women in close-combat units was an “attempt to play politics or mount social experiments with the armed forces”.

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The veteran, 56, described the move as one that “inevitably will cost lives”.

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Tony Blair may feel pain over Iraq but it’s nothing like that of the families of our dead soldiers

He told The Sunday Telegraph: “The infantry is no place for a woman, and to permit them to serve in close-combat roles is a pure politically correct extravagance.”