Chris Gray
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first heard May 2026
last heard 11 Jun
Chris Gray’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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All of the pressures there are on other public services and this massive additional desire to spend on defence.
And that's the crunch point that this defence investment plan was thrashing through.
There was clearly the disagreement that I was trying to report on today's programme this morning, not realising that we were just hours away from the whole thing going, getting rather bigger.
OK, and we're seconds away from Shashank from The Economist being here.
Hello.
Hello.
Good afternoon.
Give me your instant reaction, Shashank, to when you heard that John Healy was going.
Right, let's go through John Healy's letter because it reveals quite a lot of things.
So I think if I start with paragraph one, two, three.
I printed it off.
Paragraph five.
He says, this new era for defence required further investment through the defence investment plan.
That's discussed.
The excellent and extensive cross-government work that completed in January, overseen by you, me and the Chancellor, confirmed the scale of the challenge and the rising demands on defence.
Now, why that's interesting to me is that this was almost like a done deal almost in January.
And they agreed what they needed to do in January, but it's taken till now for them to fall out this spectacularly.
And it's taken a long time.
It's been rumbling away, Chris, for a while.
It has.
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