John Healey

Our adversaries do not follow timetables set by the Treasury.

We need a bigger view of national security. It’s not just the job for defence or the agencies. Every department has a part to play in national security and national resilience.

Readying Britain for an uncertain world was the "duty of our political generation".

The government's current plans to fund the military in the coming years fall "well short" of what is required.

At this dangerous time, I see the current defence investment plans falling well short of what is required, a rise at 0.08% from next year to 2030, no date for reaching 3%, no path to 3.5%.

We came into government, recognising Britain faced a new era of threat which demanded a new era for defence.

You know what defence needs... Without a DIP that meets the moment in this way, I am being forced to make decisions that would reduce the readiness of our Forces and increase the risk to personnel on operations, and could make the country…

The plan - which he was shown on Monday - "falls well short of what is required for defence and the country at this dangerous time".

The UK's defence investment plan "falls well short of what is required for defence and the country at this dangerous time".

The Government cannot warn about Russia, Iran and China, then produce a Defence Investment Plan that leaves the Armed Forces short of the money, people, stockpiles and industrial capacity needed to meet that threat.

This new era for defence required further investment through the Defence Investment Plan.

The government's plan for defense... falls well short of what is required for defence and the country at this dangerous time.

Your DIP financial settlement - which I was first given in full on Monday afternoon this week - falls well short of what is required for defence and the country at this dangerous time.

Unwilling to commit the resources that the nation needs

Falls well short of what is required

The nation needs to defend the country at this time of rising threats

I never expected to write this letter, but I am forced to make decisions that would reduce the readiness of our forces and increase the risk to personnel on operations, and could make our country less safe.

Sir Keir of failing to properly fund the nation's defence investment plan during a “dangerous time”.

The prime minister had been “unable, and the Treasury has been unwilling, to commit the resources that the nation needs to defend the country at this time of rising threats”.

I am being forced to make decisions that would reduce the readiness of our Forces and increase the risk to personnel on operations, and could make the country less safe.

I am now left with no other option than to submit my resignation as your Defence Secretary.

You spelled out the threats last week: 'it is our intelligence assessment, and the assessment of other countries in NATO, that there could be an attack by Russia on NATO as soon as 2030.'

Since then, you have been unable, and the Treasury has been unwilling, to commit the resources that the nation needs to defend the country at this time of rising threats.

The excellent and extensive cross-government work that completed in January – overseen by you, me and the Chancellor – confirmed the scale of the challenge and the rising demands on defence.

The government's defence investment plan falls "well short of what is required at this dangerous time"