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Trident costs soar by £6bn
Cameron puts more cash aside for cold war weapons system
THE COST of renewing Britain’s cold-war nuclear submarines could spiral past £40 billion, David Cameron revealed yesterday.
The government originally estimated the cost of replacing Britain’s four Trident submarines would set back taxpayers £25bn.
But manufacturing costs have now been revised up to at least £31bn, according to the Prime Minister’s defence review.
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