# John Healey Resigns

An episode of [Politics Unpacked](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/660638948), 11 Jun 2026, 38 min.

Audio: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/timesredbox/e/6a2ac93b438158000be8f810/media.mp3

The Defence Secretary John Healey resigned, claiming Keir Starmer's lack of funding for the military will make the UK "less safe" Hugo Rifkind spoke to The Times' Chief Political Commentator Patrick Maguire and Times Radio's Political Editor Anna Mikhailova about the damage the resignation has done to the Prime Minister's authority. And before the news of Healey's resignation broke, Hugo spoke to the New Statesman's Political Correspondent Megan Kenyon and the academic and podcaster David Runciman about whether social media was fanning the flames of unrest in Belfast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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