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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Will Durrant

John Healey ‘wrong’ to suggest UK not ready to fight war, Conservatives warn

Defence Secretary John Healey (left) with the Coldstream Guards (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Wire)

Defence Secretary John Healey was “wrong” to say Britain is not ready to fight a war, the Conservatives have warned.

James Cartlidge warned fellow MPs the threat of “existential war” is “looming larger over our continent than it has done for many years”, during Monday’s Remembrance debate in the House of Commons.

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