UK defense secretary tells Labour leadership hopefuls: ‘Don’t you know there’s a war on?’

Healey warns Labour must ‘get serious’ as leadership row puts ‘credibility at stake’

The Defence Secretary urged colleagues to ‘get serious’ and put Britain’s security before politics. John Healey warned Labour’s “credibility in Government is at stake” in an apparent rebuke of leadership jockeying among rivals looking to oust Sir Keir Starmer. The Defence Secretary urged colleagues to “get serious” and put Britain’s security before politics in a speech in Westminster on Tuesday after more than a week of turmoil following the par…

UK defense secretary tells Labour leadership hopefuls: ‘Don’t you know there’s a war on?’

John Healey warned about the risk of losing political credibility as the Labour leadership drama escalates.