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The electors of Makerfield decided who might be prime minister. After John Healey resigned as defence secretary, Al Carns resigned as armed forces minister. Mr Healey had declared that Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, had ‘been unable, and the Treasury has been unwilling, to commit the resources that the nation needs to defend the country’. Dan Jarvis was appointed Defence Secretary. Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, the Chief of the Defence Staff, said the armed forces would have to ‘dial back’ operations without more funding. Belfast had multiple nights of anti-immigrant rioting in response to the terrible knife attack on Stephen Ogilvie. Two Ukrainian men were found guilty of plotting firebomb attacks on properties linked to Sir Keir Starmer. They were said to have been in the pay of a Russian handler known as EL Money. In the Channel, British forces boarded a Russian shadow fleet oil tanker, Smyrtos, with 704,962 barrels of oil. Two days later, the Russian frigate Admiral Grigorovich fired warning shots towards a 40ft British-registered yacht, Bright Future, in the Channel. The government promised to ban the import of diesel and jet fuel made from Russian oil by 1 January 2027. Scotland beat Haiti in the World Cup.
