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CND stepping up to resist Starmer’s dirty, deadly war drive
SOPHIE BOLT explains why Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is organising a national protest tour at nuclear bases, starting with a demo at BAE shipyard in Barrow, where Starmer and Healey have been banging the drum for war
SABLE RATTLING: Keir Starmer visits to a military base in south east England to meet with military planners mapping out next steps in the Coalition of the Willing on Thursday

KEIR STARMER and John Healey’s reckless nuclear sabre-rattling is increasing nuclear tensions — all to justify huge military spending.

Starmer’s visit to Barrow-in-Furness this week was all pomp and ceremony, trying to elevate the dirty, deadly war drive he is trying to drag the country into.

Laying the keel to one of the new nuclear “Dreadnought” submarines being built at the shipyard, he also announced the town will be given a “royal” title in recognition of the town’s “unique and critical contribution to national security.”

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