Director, Government Affairs, BMNT Ltd. | Senior Associate Fellow @RUSI_org | Visiting Senior Research Fellow @warstudies | Vice Chair, RISC | War Studies PhD |

Joined February 2009
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The UK's seizure of a Russian tanker and an op-ed by Reform leader Nigel Farage were hot talking points on Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, hosted by @WilfredFrost
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EXC: Keir Starmer will not commit more money to the Defence Investment Plan for Dan Jarvis. Jarvis is expected to receive the same settlement of £13.5bn that led John Healey to quit the Government in anger last week, despite the new defence secretary’s pledge to ensure the Armed Forces have “what they need”. He will instead be told to supplement the existing budget by finding savings at the MoD when fresh negotiations kick off this week, two sources familiar with the situation told @Telegraph. Jarvis will, however, be given the chance to tweak the DIP *within the existing envelope* if he wishes. The news will dash hopes that John Healey’s resignation last week would force the PM to change course.
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Lisa Nandy confirms to @BBCPolitics our story on Saturday that there could now be more money for defence. Discussions are happening in "real time"
Dan Jarvis, the new defence secretary, has been given two weeks to come up with a better defence investment plan with more money, The Times has been told thetimes.com/article/15aa7e7…
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Nandy suggests govt WILL find more money for defence, even tho John Healey quit because he was told there was no more - his allies are frustrated, telling me, "more money is coming, but only as a result of Healey resigning… this is another unbelievable U-turn"
"Discussions are ongoing” Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says the government is still looking at where it could find further funding for an increase in defence spending, after Defence Secretary John Healey resigned over the amount proposed #BBCLauraK bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bv0…
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Welcome to the Home Office @AngelaEagle.
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🚨 Some of Britain’s leading industry bodies have attacked the government over "crippling" delays to its key defence spending plan, piling further pressure on Sir Keir Starmer 24 hours after his defence secretary and armed forces minister quit in protest - exclusive by @MarkKleinmanSky news.sky.com/story/mark-klei…
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- on Tues MOD warned No 10 settlement was too low 'the deal was so bad they didn't know how to present it' - late night Weds, Healey threatened to quit - No 10 political team told him on Thurs morn PM wouldn't budge, so he walked - Starmer ally “perplexed” “No one around the Cabinet table has done more to sort defence spending than Keir - but probs on defence cash have been long in the making - are the dominoes starting to fall? More here.. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c621…
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Dan Jarvis, the new defence secretary, has been given two weeks to come up with a better defence investment plan with more money, The Times has been told thetimes.com/article/15aa7e7…

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This is a damming indictment on @Keir_Starmer from former Health Secretary @wesstreeting. Utterly damming.

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“I haven’t been included in the defence investment plan from the start. I only got read into it two weeks ago.” Al Carns shares what “ruffled [his] feathers” enough to prompt him to resign as armed forces minister and says that in the event of a leadership race, “if someone fires a starting gun, I’m not scared of gunfire.”
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One hell of a letter in The Times today from General Sir Nick Carter, a former head of the armed forces He warns that Britain risks becoming ‘Belgium with nuclear weapons’ unless it spends more on defence ‘Successive governments have hollowed our armed forces out to such a degree that if we do not spend what is needed now to arrest that decline, and transform them for the modern world, we risk becoming Belgium with nuclear weapons. And our enemies are watching’ Times letters: Britain’s slide down the Nato league table thetimes.com/article/5c37102…
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Is Rachel Reeves to blame for the defence secretary leaving his role? And why is John Healey's letter such a problem for Keir Starmer? @HarrietHarman on the questions being asked in government at the end of the week
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'It would have been better to just have a review and make some cuts.' Sir Richard Barrons spent much of the last year on a strategic defence review, only to have to it rejected by the government, and @AndrewMarr9 thinks he sounds 'angry' about it.
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🚨 BREAKING: Al Carns suggests he will resign as Armed Forces Minister if Keir Starmer doesn't increase defence spending When asked if he thinks he will be sacked for not seeking No 10 permission for the interview, he says: "What will happen, will happen"
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The armed forces minister Al Carns has told Times Radio's political editor Anna Mikhailova that the defence investment plan is "not fit for purpose" in reaction to John Healey's resignation. He then said of Keir Starmer "he has got to sort it out." @AVMikhailova
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Former defence secretary John Hutton says John Healey was facing “an impossible dilemma” and had to resign. "I’m baffled by how we can find almost endless amounts of money for welfare projects...net zero and all sorts of other things." @Dannythefink
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General Sir Richard Barrons told Sky's @CathyNewman he believes 'the country is now much greatly at risk than it was yesterday' following John Healey's resignation. Watch the full interview on The Cathy Newman Show at 7pm. Latest: trib.al/LB6YSO3
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An army source says of @JohnHealey_MP: "He is a man of principle has put the defence of the nation ahead of the party which we fully respect him for. Any right minded person would respect him"
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The credibility gap between the rhetoric on urgency/need and the volume/rate of any increase in defence spending.
My letter to the Prime Minister
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Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Sir Mark Rowley has revealed the Deputy Mayor of London’s decision to block Palantir’s contract has led him to make the decision to “cut frontline services”. @KateEMcCann
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