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Can it really be only a week ago that I said on this podcast

that you only really lost your job in politics?

If you weren't liked and you were dispensable,

that, I said, was why Jared Amara was in trouble with the Labour Party,

well sometimes there is another reason that perhaps I forgot last week.

It if you're accused of setting one standard for others

are not meeting that standard yourself.

13 minutes to 9.

Once it, a new defence secretary, the man or woman who takes over from Sir Michael Fallon,

will do so in the middle of a funding crisis

and with the new head of Britain's armed forces to be appointed

in the next few weeks.

We can talk now to Lord Danut.

He was chief of the General Staff in other words, head of the army

between 2006 and 2009.

And morning to you Lord Danut.

Nick, good morning.

Do you think he did the right thing?

Because so far at least the allegations against

Sir Michael do not date back to his time in office as defence secretary.

They date back much further than that.

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