Craig Allison

Chartered Fellow of the Securities and Investment Institute. All views my own. 🇬🇧

[Bob Seely @IoWBobSeely]

There is something deeply humiliating about our closest Alliance partner telling us to raise our game.

it’s like when a friend puts their arm around your shoulder and says: ‘what the hell are you doing?’

US urges Starmer to boost defence spending https://t.co/X00ewPV9A7

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

The US - specifically Elbridge Colby, Donald Trump’s under secretary of war - has told Sir Keir Starmer that there is a “great need” for him to boost defence spending.

🖇️ https://t.co/obrQU1GXDa

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has appointed new Ministers to replace the recent resignations

Angela Eagle as Security Minister

Stephen Morgan as Farming Minister

Louise Sandher-Jones as Armed Forces Minister

Calvin Bailey as Veterans Minister

[Navy Lookout @NavyLookout]

3 Type 45 destroyers at sea!

@HMSDauntless sailed from Portsmouth today on completion of maintenance period.

Via @PortsmouthProud

[Deborah Haynes @haynesdeborah]

🚨 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

https://t.co/PpWJQm2Xkq

[Sky News @SkyNews]

The prime minister and chancellor need to "meet the moment" and agree to reach 3% of GDP spending on defence by 2030, says the chair of the Defence Select Committee.

https://t.co/B2FY2FUbYk

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[The Mercian @TheMercianNews]

🚨 BREAKING: Former Armed Forces Minister Al Carns has slammed the Labour party's witch-hunts against British veterans who fought in Northern Ireland.

"Who is this playing to? It is playing to Republican Sinn Fein. They lost the war through physical means and now they're trying to achieve it through political means. I don't want to see anybody rewrite history to see Britain as in the wrong. We were in the right."

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

Al Carns warns UK looking at last war instead of readying for the next https://t.co/2besEiOP5R

[Craig Allison @CraigAAllison]

@PolitlcsUK @keiranpedley He is deluded

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: A top U.S. defence official responds to the resignation of the UK's defence secretary John Healey by urging the UK to strengthen its military with "urgency, scale and determination".

https://t.co/AIES4992pj

📺 Sky 501

[Brendan May @bmay]

Ouch. @BarryGardiner nails it here. And the problem, as I keep saying, is Rachel Reeves…

[Larisa Brown @larisamlbrown]

The chief of the defence staff, Sir Richard Knighton, is not on resignation watch and is not going to resign, @thetimes has been told. He did however write a letter to Starmer on Wednesday raising his concern with the funding pledge, as first reported by @haynesdeborah

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

Soviet-style...

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

Rumours are circulating that Yvette Cooper could be the next senior figure to walk away from Keir Starmer’s Cabinet.

This would be another major blow for this government.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Immigration officers raided DPD depots in Newbury and Basingstoke yesterday

7 Indian nationals, 1 Ghanaian national and 1 Pakistani national were arrested for suspected illegal working

[Deborah Haynes @haynesdeborah]

🚨New Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis says defence of the nation “is the first duty of government”

After yesterday’s extraordinary resignations, I guess time will have to tell

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'The two most principled and honourbale members of the cabinet have now gone.'

Former Army Officer Hamish De Bretton-Gordon calls on Army Generals to stand down in protest against the Labour government's approach to Britain's defence.

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

Every war now shows up on your energy bill. Defence isn't separate from the economy any more. It is the economy.

And the countries that invest in it get to write the rules. Everyone else lives by them.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'Losing seven ministers in four weeks is a moment of great peril... What is the PM for if not to keep us safe?'

GB News Political Editor @ChristopherHope on Keir Starmer's position as Prime Minister after more cabinet resignations over defence spending.

[Stephen Kerr MSP @RealStephenKerr]

@TomTugendhat is right.

The first duty of government is to protect the country.

If Britain's Defence Secretary has resigned because he believes the Government is failing to provide the resources needed to meet growing threats, that should concern every one of us.

At a time when Russia is becoming more aggressive and the world more dangerous, defence cannot be treated as an optional extra.

Governments exist to keep their people safe. Everything else comes after that.
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