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Guido Fawkes12 Jun 2026

Starmer Insists Healey Is Wrong and Says He Will Fight a Leadership Election

Starmer has disagreed publicly with Healey over his resignation and promised to fight a leadership contest. Still going… In an interview with Chris Mason on the BBC Starmer said of Healey: “I have the highest respect for the individuals that you have quoted and they say there’s not enough. But I don’t agree.” He also…

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Guido Fawkes12 Jun 2026

Downing Street Says Defence Investment Plan Is Still Being “Finalised” With Dan Jarvis

The Defence Investment Plan is still being “finalised,” Downing Street has said just now. Clown government latest… At the Lobby briefing of political journalists Starmer’s spokesman said: “Work to finalise the Defence Investment Plan continues at pace with the new Defence Secretary.” Still not ready… The spokesman would not say if Dan Jarvis had approved…

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Sky News Politics12 Jun 2026

Little love lost for Labour in Makerfield - but will Burnham's personal brand win him victory?

Andy Burnham makes a lot of the Westminster political class being out of touch with the places and the people beyond its tight boundaries of the Palace of Westminster and Whitehall, and the sense it's populated by people of privilege who attended private schools and Oxbridge and who hail from the capital or the shires of the south.

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The Guardian Politics12 Jun 2026

As John Healey goes, the political vultures circle Starmer. And so continues our history of PM-icide | Simon Jenkins

A small, eccentric electorate gets to oust the UK’s leaders and then chooses largely inadequate replacements. It’s an absurd process and we’re locked into it again One thing is clear. British politics has yet to rid itself of the torments of the past decade. The resignation of Keir Starmer’s defence secretary, John Healey, and the armed forces minister, Al Carns, indicates that the prime minister lacks cabinet support for his chancellor’s desperately needed budgetary balance. This gives ever gre

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Guido Fawkes12 Jun 2026

Swiss Vote on Permanent Population Cap on Knife Edge

A Swiss referendum on whether to cap the total population of the country – a world first – is on a knife edge. Swiss citizens go to the polls on Sunday… The proposal championed by the Swiss People’s Party (SVP) would institute a cap at 10 million from a current total of 9.1 million people.…

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Guido Fawkes12 Jun 2026

Farage: Right Now I’m the Only Person Who Could Be Prime Minister

Farage’s answer to Nick Ferrari’s question “do you want to be Prime Minister” is more caveated than most: “Do you know something? Not for the sake of the office or the title because I couldn’t give a damn about that. Never been interested in that. For me, politics is not about what I become in…

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Guido Fawkes12 Jun 2026

Downing Street Releases Desperate Stock Footage of Dan Jarvis in No10

Footage of the new Defence Secretary this morning meeting Starmer and Richard Knighton, Chief of the Defence Staff. Putin quaking in his boots…

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The Guardian Politics12 Jun 2026

UK’s defence plan is underfunded and outdated, says Al Carns after resignation

Former armed forces minister, who quit hours after John Healey, heavily hints he would run for Labour leadership UK politics live – latest updates Al Carns has delivered a withering assessment of the government’s defence plans after quitting as defence minister, accusing ministers of not spending enough money on the military and spending it on the wrong weapons. Carns quit the government on Thursday night, hours after the resignation of his boss, John Healey, after a protracted row over the de

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The Guardian Politics12 Jun 2026

Starmer’s leadership under further pressure after defence ministers quit – UK politics live

Both John Healey and Al Cairns resigned from their ministerial positions on Thursday over the government’s defence investment plan Good morning. This time yesterday Keir Starmer’s leadership was already in peril, with many in his party assuming that he will be replaced by Andy Burnham at some point later this year, but there was a consensus that, on defence and international security, his record was impressive. John Healey’s surprise resignation as defence secretary blew that apart. Later, after

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Express Politics12 Jun 2026

Labour slammed for 'using voters as pawns' in 'engineered' Andy Burnham by-election

Michael Winstanley, the Conservative Makerfield candidate, vowed to keep fighting socialism despite polling at just 1%.

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The Guardian Politics12 Jun 2026

Left, right and centre – I see all strands of the Labour tribe pulling together in Makerfield. This is bigger than Burnham | Polly Toynbee

Everyone here knows this is a sliding doors moment. A win could be a new beginning for the party, a loss an unimaginable calamity They flock to Makerfield from everywhere: canvassers and camera crews, MPs, peers and volunteers, from Swansea to Gateshead, 700 a day to help the Labour campaign. Every door has already been knocked four times, boasts the Burnham team. How does it feel for voters to be the most important constituency in living memory? Most are quite pleased, bar the usual “we only

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Express Politics12 Jun 2026

Politics LIVE: Keir Starmer in meltdown after more shock resignations

Sir Keir Starmer's premiership is in crisis following a series of resignations.

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