Lisa Nandy insists government will ‘meet that moment’ with defence budget
Keir Starmer’s premiership is now under enormous strain, after John Healey, the former Defence Secretary, resigned weeks before the Nato summit in Ankara. In his resignation letter, Healey said he could not ‘accept a defence investment plan… that does not give our forces the resources they need’. On Sky News this morning, Lisa Nandy, the Culture Secretary, told Wilfred Frost that new Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis would be taking his role ‘very seriously’, and that Starmer had asked the Cabinet to find cuts in their departments in order to find more money for defence. When asked to clarify if that meant Jarvis would be provided more money than had been offered to Healey, Nandy was evasive, but said the Government would be announcing higher spending when they publish their defence plan.
Nigel Farage claims the UK is anti-white
In his first Substack essay, Nigel Farage declared today that Britain is a ‘two tier state against white people’, and that a Reform government would ‘repeal the Equality Act’. On Sky News, Wilfred Frost asked Reform’s Suella Braverman, who had previously made claims about two tier policing while Home Secretary, why she had never said the country itself was ‘anti white’. Braverman said Reform are arguing that Britain’s institutions ‘treat white people less fairly than non-white people’, and that the purpose of scrapping the Equality Act is to create a country where everyone is treated ‘on meritocratic grounds’. She claimed that the justice system currently treats non-white people ‘less harshly’ than white people.
