GB News presenter Tom Harwood questioned how long Keir Starmer will remain prime minister following the bombshell resignation of John Healey. The programme aired the breaking alert that the defence secretary has resigned from his position, prompting the host to issue a brutally honest response. “Frankly, how long is he going to be prime minister?” Harwood asked. “This is another nail in his political coffin. It does seem like this government has completely run out of steam on just about every front.”

The presenter claimed the Labour government is unable to make any big decisions before listing off the senior politicians who have resigned in recent months. He added: “How many resignations have we had across the junior levels of government? I have lost count. This is a government that is collapsing in slow motion before our eyes.

“This is a prime minister who is not long for this political world.”

GB News’ Home and Security Editor Mark White argued that if Sir Keir does survive this, his next biggest challenge will be at the NATO summit in Turkey in July.

He said: “That is going to be, if things aren’t resolved, excrutiating for him because he’s on a world stage with other leaders. There will be inevitable press conferences where people are obviously going to ask the question about Britain’s committment to its own defences and compare and contrast us to Germany and other nations in Europe that are stepping up to the plate.”

With Donald Trump at the centre of the summit, White acknowledged the increasingly fragile relationship between Sir Keir and the US president.

He remarked: “Given just how difficult relations are between Donald Trump and Sir Keir Starmer because of his response to the Iran war and his perceived failure to back the United States.

“He let the US use its own bases here in the UK. It might well be that Trump decides this is an opportune moment to let him wriggle on the end of the hook.

Healey left his role after a row over defence spending. In a letter to the prime minister, he said he was left with “no other option” after disagreement over the delayed Defence Investment Plan.

He claimed Sir Keir had been “unable, and the Treasury has been unwilling, to commit the resources that the nation needs to defend the country at this time of rising threats”.