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Labour MP Al Carns
Crossbench peer Baroness Kidron
Broadcaster Richard Madeley
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Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy MP
Shadow Defence Secretary James Cartlidge MP
Leader of the Liberal Democrats Sir Ed Davey MP
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On this week’s Any Questions, @AlexForsythBBC is joined at Crail Parish Church in Fife by Stephen Gethins MSP, Helen McDade MSP, Michael Shanks MP and Lorna Slater MSP.
Listen 8pm Friday / 1.10pm Saturday on @BBCRadio4 or on demand on @BBCSounds. #BBCAQ
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I have a duty to stay on, says PM as he justifies defence spending bbc.in/3PYfMi9
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Jun 12
Keir Starmer defends "hard-edged decisions" on defence spending and tells BBC it is his duty to carry on as UK prime minister
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Jun 12
"We are fighting amongst each other to get more money to protect this nation."
Al Carns, who resigned last night as Armed Forces Minister over military funding, tells @amolrajan the government 'cannot bluff the taxpayer' over how money is spent on defence.
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Jun 11
"It would be ridiculous to put Dan Jarvis at the dispatch box next week."
Labour MP Barry Gardiner says the Prime Minister will have to "revisit the maths" of the Defence Investment Plan after the resignations of John Healey and Al Carns.
#Newsnight
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Jun 11
"I think it is terminal and it has been for some time."
@nicholaswatt hears from a serving minister about the Prime Minister's future, following the resignation of John Healey MP and Al Carns MP from the Ministry of Defence.
#Newsnight
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Jun 12
“It certainly looks like time is running out for the prime minister.”
Lord Simon Case, the former cabinet secretary who worked closely with John Healey, says ‘sometimes the best way of saving a premiership is to be bold’.
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Jun 12
'That's pretty damning isn't it?'
Business Secretary Peter Kyle was challenged on #BBCBreakfast over the resignations of John Healey as Defence Secretary and Al Carns as Armed Forces Minister with a warning that the upcoming defence investment plan "falls well short of what is required for defence and the country at this dangerous time"
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Jun 12
'They are making a decision to fund benefits not bullets, welfare not warfare'
Richard Tice from Reform UK spoke to #BBCBreakfast after Al Carns quit as Armed Forces Minister and John Healey resigned as Defence Secretary in a dispute with the Prime Minister over military funding
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Jun 12
Dissent fizzes again at the top of the Labour Party, @ChrisMasonBBC writes
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Jun 12
'John has effectively said I will not preside over the death of the Royal Navy'
Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, a former Security Minister, spoke to #BBCBreakfast after John Healey resigned as Defence Secretary and told Keir Starmer the upcoming defence investment plan "falls well short of what is required for defence and the country at this dangerous time"
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Jun 11
Dan Jarvis named as new UK defence secretary after John Healey's resignation - follow live bbc.in/4v7zS8X
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Jun 11
John Healey's resignation is a devastating critique of Keir Starmer's government, @ChrisMasonBBC writes
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Jun 11
"It's actually a very sad day for British politics"
Former Conservative chancellor Jeremy Hunt reacts to John Healey's resignation as defence secretary
#PoliticsLive: bbc.in/4vHiWpl
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