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Think again before Trident is all at sea

B ritain is engaged in a strategic defence review. Nothing, we are told, is off the table. So precarious is our economic position that tradition and nostalgia must be put to the sword. But then there is Trident, whose capital cost is about £20bn, and …

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CAMPBELL URGES FOX TO PUT TRIDENT UNDER REVIEW

Sir Menzies Campbell MP has repeated his call for Trident to be included in the Strategic Defence Review in a letter to Defence Secretary Liam Fox. Following the announcement by the Chancellor that the Ministry of Defence will be responsible …

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Blair rushing into Trident decision

Speaking at today’s Prime Minister’s Questions Menzies Campbell called Tony Blair’s decision to renew the Trident nuclear weapon system “hasty”. The Liberal Democrats would cut Britain’s nuclear arsenal by half and kick-start disarmament talks.

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Cut nuclear weapons by half

Ahead of the publication of the Government’s White Paper, Liberal Democrat Leader Ming Campbell today launched the proposals of his party’s policy working group on the future of Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons system. The proposals, to be debated at the …

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