Not even the resignation of a respected defence secretary will stop one Sir Keir Starmer from ploughing ahead with his tumultuous premiership. Despite John Healey’s blistering warning that the Prime Minister is incapable of keeping the country safe, Sir Keir today vowed to take the fight to Andy Burnham should he triumph – as currently expected – in the Makerfield by-election.
The Prime Minister insisted to the BBC that battling on without the confidence of more than half his party is ‘not about personal vanity’. He argued:
It’s not about stubbornness. It’s out of a very deep sense of duty. I was elected to serve this country notwithstanding the difficult circumstances, that is what I am doing.
Sir Keir also trumpeted that he has made ‘hard edged decisions’ to boost defence spending, which will be the ‘number one priority at every spending review’.
Meanwhile, Al Carns has been busy bashing out some not-so-subtle posts on social media that read rather like a manifesto in search of a launch event. One of his many interventions reads: ‘The next war won’t be won by armies, navies or air forces alone. It’ll be won by the country whose 19 year olds can code, whose factories can build drones in weeks not years, and whose grid stays on when someone tries to switch it off. Industry. Society. Economy. That’s the fight now. We’re not ready. And we’re not being honest about what getting ready will cost.’
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