Lisa Nandy on whether Dan Jarvis will get more cash than Healey was offered, Lisa Nandy said on Sky News:
“I don’t know. I don’t know what stage the negotiations had reached when John Healey decided to resign.
I like him and respect him. And I think he will have taken that, not taking that decision lightly. He took that responsibility very seriously.
But I do know that the prime minister has asked every member of the cabinet to look at our own budgets, to make sure that we can increase funding to defence, and that is what we will announce as part of the Defence Investment Plan when we publish it ahead of the NATO summit next month.”
To the BBC she added “discussions are ongoing” in “real time.” Oh boy…
Burnham confirms he spoke to Trump last night about drilling in the North Sea:
“I indicated in the phone call that we had a week last Monday that I would take a pragmatic approach when it comes to the North Sea, and that is my intention as we go forward from here. There is a resource there. When people are struggling, we can’t ignore that. Hence, me indicating that to the president…”