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Video: PM urged to take `courageous´ decisions on defence as he fights for his future

Sir Keir Starmer has suffered another hammer blow to his authority as the armed forces minister followed John Healey in leaving the Government over a dispute about long-term funding for the military.

Al Carns quit as a defence minister on Thursday evening, writing to the Prime Minister to tell him he could not defend "a level of investment I know to be inadequate to the task".

Mr Healey had earlier resigned as defence secretary claiming Sir Keir had been "unable, and the Treasury has been unwilling", to provide adequate funding for the defence investment plan (Dip).

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Al Carns resigns as defence minister after Healey's exit over military funding

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