ANDREW GRIFFITH: Healey must quit this job too if he fails to ramp up defence spending

This week is make-your-mind-up time for Chancellor John Healey. 

After weeks of showing more evasion than an SAS patrol behind enemy lines, he needs to either pull the trigger on properly funding our Armed Forces or – if by the end of his Budget speech he has not done so – he must resign.

We are living in an era of extraordinary threats. This summer, Russia’s embassy in London warned that the more Britain helps Ukraine, ‘the higher the price it will pay’.

Russian vessels have been caught live firing in the English Channel, and the security services talk of ‘grey zone’ warfare –

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