SIR KEIR STARMER’S tottering authority crumbled further today as Defence Secretary John Healey quit in a row over arms spending.Mr Healey slammed Sir Keir for not overruling Chancellor Rachel Reeves in an argument over how fast to raise the military bill.He claimed that the £13.5 billion additional funding agreed would still leave the armed forces short in his global war-fighting plans.His departure, to paeans of praise from the Tories, is a fresh political crisis for a premier already all but overwhelmed by them.

SIR KEIR STARMER’S tottering authority crumbled further today as Defence Secretary John Healey quit in a row over arms spending.

Mr Healey slammed Sir Keir for not overruling Chancellor Rachel Reeves in an argument over how fast to raise the military bill.

He claimed that the £13.5 billion additional funding agreed would still leave the armed forces short in his global war-fighting plans.

His departure, to paeans of praise from the Tories, is a fresh political crisis for a premier already all but overwhelmed by them.

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