John Healey
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Jul
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This was completely out of the blue.
It was within a few days of Putin first launching his full scale invasion of Ukraine in twenty twenty two.
He came in for lunch.
He said, Mum, Dad, if I was in Ukraine, I'd join up.
And then within a few weeks, he broke the news he was joining the reserves.
And for me, subsequently then as Shadow Defence Secretary.
Secretary and Defence Secretary, that added a very personal dimension to my commitment and some of the heavy decisions that a Defence Secretary has to take.
Have lost their lives in the service of the country.
Yes, one of the unique dimensions, and I share this with other defence ministers, the hardest calls to make are those two families when we've lost men and women in our forces.
And I remember the call to Geor George Hooley's parents before Christmas.
He was killed in that tragic accident in Ukraine.
And nothing that I could say could reduce the the agony
and the anguish that they felt, but I wanted them to
know how proud the nation was.
I wanted him to know that those in his team in Ukraine described him and because I'd met them as the best bloke they'd ever worked with.
And hard because he was in Ukraine, and I knew more about what he was doing than they did.
But those calls, whether those are uh helicopter pilots and crew recently killed, or George Hooley's parents, and sadly the son they lost and loved so much.
really mean?
What does it amount to?
It doesn't mean that, but what it does mean is that we need to take the plan set out in our defence review, our strategic defence review last year seriously.
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