Politics latest: Defence Secretary John Healey facing questions on Sky News about details of UK’s plan to rearm

Is an invasion of Taiwan by China ‘imminent’? Defence Secretary John Healey is now joining Trevor Phillips on Sky News, first discussing an American warning that an invasion of Taiwan by China is “imminent”. Pete Hegseth, the US secretary of defence, delivered this warning on Friday, while urging Asian countries to boost defence spending to help deter war. Asked if he agrees, Healey says Hegseth was just “restating what we all understand, which is the Chinese Communist Party have said that they want to reunify Taiwan with mainland China”. He says: “We’ve always argued that it should be diplomatic. We’ve…