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  1. John Healey wearing a dark suit and red tie standing before a microphone

  2. Sir Keir Starmer

  3. Keir Starmer and John Healey

  4. Majid Mahmood has dark hair and is wearing a navy suit jacket, white shirt and red tie

  5. Head and shoulders shot of Richard Stanley, wearing glasses, a white shirt and black tie looking at the camera and smiling. The image is taken in an office corridor with a banner about caring visible in the background.

  6. Graphic showing David Lammy, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves

  7. British Army 3 Rifles soldiers use a phone-sized electronic screen display, which forms part of the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK), at an undisclosed training ground less than 50 kilometres from the Russian border in Finland where Nato troops are taking part in Exercise Northern Star, led by the Finnish military.

  8. Chris Mason and Sir Keir Starmer walking up the stairs inside No 10 Downing Street

  9. John Swinney - a bald man with glasses and wearing a suit - speaks to media in a lobby

  10. A large group of woman stood together. They are wearing various colourful smart outfits.

  11. A man, Al Carns, pictured outside on a bright day. He is wearing a navy suit jacket with a white shirt underneath.

  12. Sir Keir Starmer, who is wearing a suit with a dark blue tie, sitting down for an interview with BBC

  13. (Left to right) A man with a grey suit, white shirt and tie with a North Northamptonshire Council-branded white and blue lanyard round his neck. A man in the middle with a blue jacket, white shirt and tie wearing a pin badge. A woman with a black jacket and brown dress with belt. All three are looking directly at the camera.

  14. British Minister of State for Armed Forces Al Carns speaks during an interview He has short grey hair and a trimmed grey beard, wearing a blue collared shirt under a dark jacket and a padded outer layer.

  15. Al Carns

  16. A man smiling at the camera

  17. Armed forces minister Al Carns speaking during a visit to RFA Lyme Bay in Gibraltar, a bay-class landing ship dock which is being upgraded by the Royal Navy to add new cutting-edge uncrewed equipment, allowing it to be used as a 'mothership' for autonomous systems, if needed for operations in the Strait of Hormuz. Picture date: Friday May 22, 2026

  18. Keir Starmer in a cabinet meeting at Downing Strreet looking stressed.

  19. A composite of two pictures: On the left a screengrab of Healey's resignation letter. On the right, John Healey carries a red folder

  20. A wire fence with a road in front of it. Double yellow lines are on the edge of the road. Behind the fence on the left is the glass domed roof of the Glasshouse and the top of the white curved roof of the Millennium Bridge can be seen on the right. There are overgrown plants immediately behind the fence which looks aged and run down.

  21. Secretary of State for Defence John Healey arrives for a cabinet meeting wearing a dark suit and red tie

  22. John Healey standing in front of the flags of the US, UK and Australia

  23. A photo of Abby Cripps. She has short brunette hair in a slight wave. She is smiling at the camera, wearing a white button up top with a blue lanyard around her neck. Behind her, she is in a school hall with blue plastic chairs and a white projector erected on the wall.

  24. A newborn baby in a mother's arms