# Keir Starmer faces new crisis as John Healey quits over Defence Investment Plan, Trump floats peace deal signing this weekend, World Cup 2026 kicks off Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-smart-7-1227360/keir-starmer-faces-new-crisis-as-john-healey-quits-over-defence-investment-plan-trump-floats-peace-deal-signing-this-weekend-world-cup-2026-kicks-off Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-smart-7-1227360/keir-starmer-faces-new-crisis-as-john-healey-quits-over-defence-investment-plan-trump-floats-peace-deal-signing-this-weekend-world-cup-2026-kicks-off.md Podcast: [The Smart 7](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-smart-7-1227360) Published: 2026-06-12T05:19:43+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/thesmart7/episodes/keir-starmer-faces-new-crisis-as-john-healey-quits-over-defe Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/thesmart7/e/6a2b96f0440b9d7bbfab8f6e/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-smart-7-1227360/episodes/keir-starmer-faces-new-crisis-as-john-healey-quits-over-defence-investment-plan-trump-floats-peace-deal-signing-this-weekend-world-cup-2026-kicks-off Duration seconds: 442 ## Resource The Smart 7 is an award winning daily podcast, in association with METRO, that gives you everything you need to know in 7 minutes, at 7am, 7 days a week… With over 20 million downloads and consistently charting, including as No. 1 News Podcast on Spotify, we're a trusted source for people every day and we’ve won Gold at the Signal International Podcast awards If you're enjoying it, please follow, share, or even post a review, it all helps...  Today's episode includes the following: https://x.com/SkyNews/status/2065104859582345352/video/1   https://x.com/SkyNews/status/2065051867575452057/video/1   https://x.com/SkyNews/status/2065103363163713588/video/1   https://x.com/Reuters/status/2065042940603355419/video/1 https://x.com/atrupar/status/2065063337369457019/video/1   https://x.com/clashreport/status/2065022574203896179/video/1   https://x.com/BBCBreakfast/status/2064965760053662062/video/1   https://x.com/GMB/status/2065038571019313630/video/1   https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/2065057057342988499/video/   Contact us over @TheSmart7pod or visit www.thesmart7.com   or find out more at www.metro.co.uk   Voiced by Jamie East, using AI, written by Liam Thompson , researched by Lucie Lewis and produced by Daft Doris . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-smart-7-1227360/episodes/keir-starmer-faces-new-crisis-as-john-healey-quits-over-defence-investment-plan-trump-floats-peace-deal-signing-this-weekend-world-cup-2026-kicks-off/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-smart-7-1227360/keir-starmer-faces-new-crisis-as-john-healey-quits-over-defence-investment-plan-trump-floats-peace-deal-signing-this-weekend-world-cup-2026-kicks-off.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.