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THE Tories have failed to make the case for the renewal of Trident, shadow defence secretary Emily Thornberry said yesterday before a once-in-a-generation vote on Britain’s nuclear weapons.
The government is fully signed-up to the replacement of four nuclear submarines despite the costs soaring to a staggering £205 billion.
David Cameron is expected to put the decision to Parliament this summer in a bid to reunite his party after the fractious EU referendum campaign.
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
SOLOMON HUGHES explains how the PM is channelling the spirit of Reagan and Thatcher with a ‘two-tier’ nuclear deterrent, whose Greenham Common predecessor was eventually fought off by a bunch of ‘punks and crazies’