Australia news live: Richard Marles left adrift as UK counterpart quits hours before scheduled visit to naval yard

Richard Marles wishes John Healey ‘all the best’ after he abruptly quit UK government 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 nation needs to defend the country at this time of rising threats”): But it’s also a blow to Richard Marles , who was in …