John Healey has resigned as Defence Secretary amid a major row over funding for the Armed Forces.
The move turns a simmering argument over the Defence Investment Plan (DIP) into a full-blown crisis for Keir Starmer’s government.
Starmer has committed to publishing the plan before next month, following months of bitter negotiations between the Ministry of Defence and Rachel Reeves’ Treasury.
In a letter to the Prime Minister, Healey wrote: ‘The excellent and extensive cross-government work that completed in January – overseen by you, me and the Chancellor – confirmed the scale of the challenge and the rising demands on defence.
‘Since then, you have been unable, and the Treasury has been unwilling, to commit the resources that the nation needs to defend the country at this time of rising threats.’
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