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  Joining #BBCLauraKCulture Secretary Lisa Nandy MP Shadow Defence Secretary James Cartlidge MP Leader of the Liberal Democrats Sir Ed Davey MP Sunday 9am
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  Defence row exposes tensions over how to keep UK safe
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  On this week’s Any Questions,
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  What's happened to UK defence spending?
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  I have a duty to stay on, says PM as he justifies defence spending
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  Keir Starmer defends "hard-edged decisions" on defence spending and tells BBC it is his duty to carry on as UK prime minister
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  "We are fighting amongst each other to get more money to protect this nation." Al Carns, who resigned last night as Armed Forces Minister over military funding, tells
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  the government 'cannot bluff the taxpayer' over how money is spent on defence.
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  "It would be ridiculous to put Dan Jarvis at the dispatch box next week." Labour MP Barry Gardiner says the Prime Minister will have to "revisit the maths" of the Defence Investment Plan after the resignations of John Healey and Al Carns. #Newsnight
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  "I think it is terminal and it has been for some time."
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  hears from a serving minister about the Prime Minister's future, following the resignation of John Healey MP and Al Carns MP from the Ministry of Defence.#Newsnight
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  “It certainly looks like time is running out for the prime minister.” Lord Simon Case, the former cabinet secretary who worked closely with John Healey, says ‘sometimes the best way of saving a premiership is to be bold’.
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  'That's pretty damning isn't it?' Business Secretary Peter Kyle was challenged on #BBCBreakfast over the resignations of John Healey as Defence Secretary and Al Carns as Armed Forces Minister with a warning that the upcoming defence investment plan "falls well short of what is
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  'They are making a decision to fund benefits not bullets, welfare not warfare' Richard Tice from Reform UK spoke to #BBCBreakfast after Al Carns quit as Armed Forces Minister and John Healey resigned as Defence Secretary in a dispute with the Prime Minister over military funding