Nick Robinson

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Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Treasury was in denial: John Healey on why he resigned as defence secretary · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

Doesn't the fact Dan Jarvis, the new Defence Secretary, has now got more money than you had?

The fact that there is currently no path to that target, a problem.

as the Prime Minister goes to this NATO summit?

Are we seen, as one defence source said to the Times, to be, quote, bumping along at number twelve in terms of defence spending, the worst in terms of meeting the commitments laid upon us by NATO, less Iceland, he said, which doesn't have armed forces.

I mean is it is it a problem for Kirstarmer though?

Moving away from the figures for a second, General Sir Richard Sheriff, who you will know well, former Deputy Supreme Ally Commander of NATO, said on the Today programme, This is smoke and mirrors this plan, 'cause there's five billion that hasn't been found, that it d relies on efficiencies that might not happen.

Is smoke and mirrors a fair description.

Wanna come back to how

we might pay for this, what you call bigger politics and bolder priorities and harder choices.

But before we do that, it seems to me you've been on a journey.

And this program political thinking always examines why people think what they think, not just the politics itself.

Now you're not a military man, you're not from a military family.

In fact I discovered when I read into your life story that it was working in a mental hospital that led you into

Well made John Ealy.

But then you declare in the House of Commons in your resignation speech, to much laughter, that the Labour Party became your family.

Why the laughter?

on the off the mark.

The thing that produced the laughter at the House of Commons was when you said that you'd met a

How many weeks before proposing?

You've a family you love.

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