The Guardian view on John Healey: the defence secretary’s resignation undermines Labour as well as Keir Starmer | Editorial

The party stalwart’s blistering attack is not just a problem for the prime minister – it makes the task of a successor far harder John Healey’s resignation as defence secretary on Thursday morning was genuinely shocking. Mr Healey is not just a veteran minister, but a Labour loyalist who previously served both Tony Blair and Jeremy Corbyn. In an interview in March, he observed that he didn’t toil to rebuild confidence in Labour “just to see that wasted with internal chatter and commentary”. Now he has maximised external chatter with a withering denunciation of the prime minister and chancellor

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