U.K. Defense Minister John Healey resigned on Thursday over a lack of funding to the United Kingdom’s national defense from Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government.
In his resignation letter, posted on X, Healey complained that his warnings had gone unheeded and left the country in a precarious position.
“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,” Healey said in his letter to Starmer.
Starmer’s defense investment plan, he argued, falls “well short of what is required at this dangerous time.”
His resignation is the latest of a cascade of major crises to hit Starmer’s beleaguered government, which is grappling with abysmal approval ratings.
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