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July 2024

  • John Healey shaking hands with Volodymyr Zelenskiy

    UK will not help Ukraine hit targets in Russia, defence secretary says

  • George Robertson

    UK and its allies face ‘deadly quartet’ of nations, says defence expert

  • John Healey, the defence secretary

    UK will be ‘leading European nation’ in Nato, defence secretary pledges

  • Smiling Rachel Reeves holding red folder

    Rachel Reeves pledges to ‘fix foundations’ of UK economy with growth plan

May 2024

  • The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, clapping his hands together

    Blinken delivers message of US support to Kyiv as thousands flee Kharkiv region

    US secretary of state promises long-awaited $60bn Ukraine aid package will make ‘real difference on battlefield’

April 2024

  • Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps standing to attention during a drill

    Sunak faces new calls to proscribe Iran’s Revolutionary Guards after Israel attack

    PM under pressure to designate IRGC as terrorist group as former Tory leader calls government reasoning ‘absurd’

March 2024

  • John Healey MP  outside the houses of parliament

    John Healey: frontbench veteran uniquely equipped to ready Labour for office

    Shadow defence secretary’s experience in Blair-Brown governments and Miliband, Corbyn and Starmer shadow cabinets is a boon to a party where few have governed before

February 2023

  • Undated handout photo issued by the Ministry of Defence of an Nlaw anti-tank missile being fired during training.

    Labour to pledge rapid action on replenishing UK weapon stocks

    Party wants to shift MoD procurement to ‘urgent operational footing’ with stockpiles depleted by gifts of military aid to Ukraine

December 2022

  • A model of the Tempest fighter jet at the Farnborough airshow in 2018

    UK to develop next-generation fighter jets with Italy and Japan

  • One of the many roles of the British army has been weapons training in the UK for Ukrainian recruits.

    British army could be overstretched by stepping in during strikes, says Labour

January 2022

  • One of the Royal Navy's seven Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarines.

    MoD has wasted £13bn since Tories came to power, Labour claims

    Labour publishes document highlighting failed procurement projects, overspends and other administrative errors

November 2021

  • Members of British armed forces marched to Parliament. The government has announced a reorganisation of the army.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Labour says Johnson is breaking election promise with army reorganisation – as it happened

    Latest updates: Labour says PM has broken promise not to cut size of the army after restructuring announced

April 2021

  • John Healey MP, the shadow defence minister, who edited the report, campaigning in Hartlepool ahead of the 6 May byelection.

    Labour will never govern unless it can appeal again to working class – report

    Exclusive: publication by Labour MPs in once safe seats warns party’s problems predate Corbyn’s leadership and Brexit

March 2021

  • John Healey, shadow defence secretary, has asked whether cuts would enable Britain to meet its stated goals.

    UK defence cuts show gulf between ambition and action, says Labour

    Ministers challenged over size of army as reduction of 10,000 in troop numbers expected to be announced

February 2021

  • The British Royal Navy submarine HMS Vengeance returning to HMNB Clyde, Faslane. HMS Vengeance carries the Trident ballistic missile, the British nuclear deterrent.

    Labour’s nuclear weapons stance needs a rethink

  • John Healey

    Labour to state 'non-negotiable' support for UK's nuclear weapons

March 2020

  • Row of houses

    Home evictions rising in Covid-19 crisis, warns Labour

  • a bailiff serves an eviction notice

    UK eviction ban promise broken, say critics

February 2020

  • Houses under construction.

    Key workers to be given 30% discount in new housing scheme

    Shadow housing secretary has labeled the Tory’s initiative ‘another empty promise’

November 2019

  • Houses under construction

    Labour to unveil £75bn social housing plan to 'build for the many'

    Party to launch manifesto with vow to fund biggest increase in council home construction since second world war
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