When I joined David Lammy’s Foreign Office, I wasn’t sure if getting closer to Europe was a good idea, says Ben Judah , but John Healey’s resignation has shown us that we have no choice if we want to fund our armed forces W hen I entered government in July 2024, as a Labour special adviser in the Foreign Office to the then foreign secretary David Lammy, I was still genuinely unsure in the privacy of my own thoughts whether Britain needed more Europe . I recall thinking that perhaps Keir Starmer’