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Press Association Political Staff

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

Defence Secretary John Healey answers questions at an event hosted by the Good Growth Foundation in London (Lucy North/PA) - (PA Wire)

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 party’s May elections mauling.

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