{"id":42273,"date":"2026-06-11T22:03:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/42273\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T22:03:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:03:05","slug":"defence-secretary-and-armed-forces-minister-resign-in-defence-spending-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/42273\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence secretary and armed forces minister resign in defence spending row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Defence secretary and armed forces minister resign in defence spending row\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hL1ekIUc8sM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nDefence secretary and armed forces minister resign in defence spending row<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDefence Secretary John Healey and Armed Forces Minister Al Carns have resigned in protest over a lack of funding for the military.<\/p>\n<p>In his resignation statement, Mr Healey accused Sir Keir Starmer of failing to properly fund the defence investment plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Carns quit shortly after telling Sky&#8217;s Cathy Newman he was &#8220;considering&#8221; his position.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister rejected the claim, saying the plan delivered &#8220;unprecedented increase in defence spending in a sustainable way&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Live updates: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/politics-latest-keir-starmer-peter-mandelson-files-defence-investment-kemi-badenoch-12593360<\/p>\n<p>#skynews #defence #labour #politics #uk <\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynews<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@skynews <\/p>\n<p>For more content go to http:\/\/news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sky-news\/id316391924?mt=8 Android https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&#038;hl=en_GB <\/p>\n<p>To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/info\/library-sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defence secretary and armed forces minister resign in defence spending row Defence Secretary John Healey and Armed Forces&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[11618,1076,2177,9924,264,46,31,190,247,28207,40424,1520,296,19459,279],"class_list":["post-42273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sky-news","tag-al-carns","tag-defence","tag-government","tag-john-healey","tag-labour","tag-military","tag-news","tag-plan","tag-politics","tag-resigns","tag-secretary","tag-sky","tag-sky-news","tag-spending","tag-uk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116733770647544987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}