THE STUC voted to maintain its anti-Trident position on the last day of congress yesterday, voting down a GMB Scotland bid to change its historic opposition to renewal of the nuclear weapon system.

Moving the motion in support of a Trident successor programme, GMB delegate Drew Duffy warned that thousands of well-paid highly skilled and unionised jobs were under threat.

He said that that there was “a danger of wishing away jobs on a point of principle.”