Fact check: have the armed forces really had a pay cut?

Labour says austerity policies have hit soldiers’ salaries and it would pay them a ‘proper wage’. Claim The UK’s armed forces have “effectively had a pay cut over the last few years,” the shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, told the Today programme on Monday morning. She said they would be paid a “proper wage” under a Labour government. Background In an announcement timed for Armistice Day, Labour outlined five pledges to military staff, in