There will be a reshuffle when Starmer goes anyway so everyone is just temporary at the moment and knows it. Those who are going are doing a big if virtue signalling in the hopes of a job in the next Government.
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That would be a very clear message. We’ll wait and see!
Apparently Carns resigned after Jarvis was appointed, and Healey told his ministers to stay in post.
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I think it unlikely - he’s already put out messages about remaining apolitical and suspect this course of action, warranted as it would be, could be acting against his own words.
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Just read that the resignations have been triggered due to the size of funding shortfall.
Defence asked for £28bn, Government pledged £13.8bn - less than half of what was asked for.
Whilst it would be a 22% increase by 2030, versus the £60bn currently spent, inflation has been running between 2.5% - 10% annually for the past few years. Assuming a bad year ot two for the economy, this could easily be a “stand still” budget increase.
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I read somewhere that it was only due to rise from 2.6% to 2.68% by 2030: well short of the 3.5% agreed at NATO.
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And they’re including Security in that too, another farcical accounting trick by Reeves. When has part of the Home Office ever been included in defence?! Disgusting.
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The headline figure for the defence budget used to exclude the nuclear deterrent, pensions, veterans care, the intelligence agencies, etc. – and it was still 4%+
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There was some quite shoddy reporting last night from the Been, we had Penny Mourdaunt and the Department of Defence! 
Both now corrected
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This is the sort of delusion within the Labour party around defence. Make no mistake - should conflict arise, people will die as a result of these extremely naive and dangerous views.
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The fact that “only some accounts can reply” says a lot.
It suggests that the people putting these messages out there don’t believe them, and are worried people with competence in the area may share their views openly.
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He’s got Sandher-Jones’ job, and she’s got Al’s
Not resigning, but also quite clearly not happy. I think he’s been as political as he can be here without becoming political.
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All will be revealed tomorrow:
Long-delayed defence investment plan to be published on Tuesday - BBC News
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Which will last 3 weeks - AB has publicly said it’s not enough..
You can see how KS gets his reputation as a stiff necked
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Apparently he’s seen it and rubber stamped it - whether that’s true or not I don’t know, and I can’t find where I saw that now
So 13bn short then?!
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