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Now we have it from the horse’s mouth. Labour’s commitment to properly invest in Britain’s Armed Forces, long suspected to be hollow, is proved to be nothing more than an apparition.
John Healey’s resignation as defence secretary has exposed the full, sickening truth: Sir Keir Starmer is planning to make Britain ‘less safe’.
Even this Starmer loyalist could not sit idly by and remain in charge of the MoD after reading the Government’s long-delayed Defence Investment Plan.
Mr Healey was handed the full proposals on Monday afternoon, his excoriating resignation letter revealed, and less than 72 hours later he nobly fell upon his sword.
His was the latest in a growing list of resignation letters from Starmer’s ex-ministers to lambast the PM’s weakness and his directionless leadership.
And underlining the point, Armed Forces Minister Al Carns also stepped down from the Government last night in sympathy with Mr Healey’s devastating critique of Starmer.
Mr Healey set out, searingly, how Labour’s plan ‘falls well short of what is required for defence and the country at this dangerous time’.
He told the PM: ‘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.’
Mr Healey then disclosed the grim reality of what the PM and Chancellor Rachel Reeves are planning – an increase in defence spending of a dismayingly tiny 0.08 per cent of GDP by 2030.
That is far below the level Mr Healey and so many others know is vital to protect against multiple threats in an increasingly volatile world.
The ex-minister told the PM there are ‘credible ways’ to find the full required sum – but, as we well know, Labour just does not want to do it.
Earlier this month it emerged that Cabinet minister Pat McFadden had told Peter Mandelson: ‘Every meeting I have is ‘who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others”.
Welfare budgets are soaring. Ed Miliband’s Net Zero zealotry is allowed to run rampant. Billions are spent on asylum.
Starmer and Ms Reeves will not contemplate obvious cuts in such areas to protect this country from Russia, Iran and whoever else plots against us.
Once this gutless PM is, inevitably, put out of his misery by his incalcitrant party the British people must not allow themselves the misapprehension that things would improve under the next Labour leader.
One of the main pretenders, Andy Burnham, is scattering multi-billion pound spending pledges like confetti as he bids to win a parliamentary seat next week in order to dethrone Starmer. Not a word uttered by the Manchester cavalier can be believed.
Other as-yet-undeclared candidates are sure to have the same spendthrift ways.
And so many on the Left tend to have a sniffy disregard for the military, even viewing them as their antagonists.
Traitorously, they much prefer taxpayers’ cash goes towards keeping the poor dependent on hand-outs, or to lanyard-wearers in the unionised public sector.
Perhaps the best hope for Britain’s Armed Forces would be if Mr Healey joins the Labour leadership fight, too.
If that turns out to be the case, while Labour remains in power it may offer a chance to arrest Britain’s lamentable slide towards irrelevance on the global stage.
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