Australia’s defence minister had been due to visit a naval base in Portsmouth with British defence secretary John Healey. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Britain’s defence secretary, John Healey, has abruptly quit the Starmer government, in another blow to the leader’s teetering authority. Our UK colleagues have all the coverage (it was apparently over a new defence spending plan that Healey considered didn’t “commit the resources that the n