Starmer quickly found a replacement for the resigning Defence Secretary Healey.

Amid plummeting approval ratings for Prime Minister Starmer and his Labour Party, key ministers are leaving the British cabinet one after another. This usually precedes the prime minister's departure. This will lead to the dissolution of the government and even to snap parliamentary elections.

They are the first to be seen on them stories The opposition far-right party Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, could well secure a majority. It has already defeated not only Labour but also the Conservatives in local elections.

Yesterday, John Healey resigned as the UK's Defence Secretary. In a letter to Starmer, the defence minister explained his decision by citing disagreement with the UK's defence funding levels. Healey believes the allocated funds are too insufficient to modernize the UK's armed forces and address the country's strategic security challenges amid growing "Russian and Iranian threats."

The resignation of the defence minister could be one of the first serious signs of divisions within Starmer's team on security and military spending.

The current Prime Minister hasn't hesitated and has already found a replacement for Healey. Yesterday, Starmer appointed 53-year-old Dan Jarvis as Minister of Defence. He previously served as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in the British government.

From 2018 to 2022, Jarvis served as Mayor of South Yorkshire, and in 2024, he became Minister for Security. Before entering politics, he served as an officer in the Parachute Regiment from 1997 to 2011, participating in operations in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Jarvis ended his military career with the rank of major.

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[Mouse]

. one after another, key ministers are leaving.

The rats are fleeing the ship...

[TermNachTer]

In England, the new minister is called "Captain of the Titanic"

[Soldatov V.]

There was a joke in the Soviet army: During exercises, a division commander points to a point on the map where he says he needs to install a barrier or a capable major. I think they also appointed a former major as the Secretary of Defense in the US.

[Melior]

Well, at least the majors won't do much harm - they haven't learned to steal on a grand scale!

[Irek]

Probably the same fool as the previous one.

[guest]

Quote: Irek

Probably the same fool as the previous one.

Well, there are no others there, only all sorts of substances that the rules do not allow to be named.

[Keperveem72]

These British ministers look like homeless people who've been hastily given a white shirt. This will continue until England gets hit. I was there. Honestly, there's nothing to talk about. Let's just fuck as many times as they fuck us. And by the way, we remember the cruiser Moskva and we mourn.

[TermNachTer]

What's so hard about that? Any kind will do.

[Couch analyst]

The previous one was the spitting image of Kisa Vorobyaninov; this one has the more respectable appearance of a slimmed-down Lyapis-Trubetskoy. We'll see if he'll get British submarines sailing under him for the money he'll get after the shorty in Kyiv.