Headline of the week

The UK Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, lost his defence ministers yesterday: Secretary of State for Defence John Healey, and armed forces minister Al Carns both resigned because they did not think the PM and Treasurer had agreed to allocate enough resources to the defence of the realm.

This is quite a serious matter, but the Sun Newspaper could not resist describing the position of the resigning minister in their inimitable way:


"Thanks but no Tanks." 

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