On the recordJune 12, 2026
I cannot in good conscience stand at the dispatch box and defend a level of investment I know to be inadequate to the task.
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Al Carns
Labour Party
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mirror.co.ukI cannot in good conscience stand at the dispatch box and defend a level of investment I know to be inadequate to the task.
Resignation letter on defence investment inadequacy.
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John resigned for the same reasons I did. He is a man of his word and he has made it clear that he will deliver on the commitments that led him to leave government in the first place.
Until the country was spending what it needed to spend on defence, I would keep making that case from the backbenches.
We are no longer packaging up our military to deploy to a foreign field, but being ready to fight from here, right from the home base, for democracy, for the right to self-determination and for European security.