Gary Gibbon
Jeremy Corbyn, unilateralism and Trident
Scottish Labour has voted against Trident. Jeremy Corbyn’s team may think the wider party could follow suit.
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Trident: what went wrong?
So as MPs protest they’re being left in the dark about Trident, how much can we glean about what went wrong last summer? And can we still rely on our nuclear deterrent?
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Trident: was there a cover-up?
While the media in America are being presented with “alternative facts” by the White House, it’s been all but impossible in the House of Commons to get any facts at all about what went wrong in our nuclear deterrent system last summer.
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Failed Trident missile test
The Prime Minister is under pressure to reveal whether she knew about a failed test-firing of one of Britain’s Trident nuclear missiles before urging MPs to renew the system. A report in the Sunday Times said the unarmed missile had veered off course after launching in June last year. But in a Commons speech on…
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FactCheck Q&A: Britain’s real military strength
The government is putting a positive spin on today’s big announcement on defence spending. How strong will the armed forces really be in 2020?
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FactCheck: Does Britain want to scrap Trident?
Neil Kinnock thinks the public will not back Labour’s renewed enthusiasm for unilateral nuclear disarmament. But could public opinion be swinging behind Jeremy Corbyn?
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Hilary Benn bumped off NEC as Trident debate looms
The shadow foreign secretary is quietly dropped from Labour’s governing body as the party tries to avoid a damaging row over the renewal of Trident.
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Labour: what does it stand for now?
Labour party policy on issues like Britain’s membership of the EU and nuclear weapons is becoming increasingly hard to pin down.
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Alex Thomson
Trident: is our nuclear deterrent really independent?
Both main English parties pretend incessantly that our Trident missile system is an “independent” nuclear deterrent when it never was, is, or could be and both Cameron and Miliband know this well.
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Gary Gibbon
No more non-doms: Tories change the conversation
Following the apparent success with voters of Ed Miliband’s non-dom policy, the Tories have focused on Trident and the effect the SNP in a kingmaker role could have on the UK’s defence policy.
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Kylie Morris
US congressman: ‘We rely on Britain like no other country’
On UK independence, it’s clear where Washington sits. It’s all about ensuring that the country with which it enjoys a “special relationship” stays as strong and reliable as possible.
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FactCheck: a nuke-free Scotland?
The SNP says it wants to rid Scotland of Trident nuclear missiles. Will it be able to keep the promise if Scots vote for independence?
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Gary Gibbon
Why Miliband’s Labour reshuffle is no purge of the Blairites
With Jim Murphy retained and Tristram Hunt promoted, it’s hard to justify Tory Chairman Grant Shapps’s claim that today’s shadow cabinet reshuffle is a clear-out of the new Labour old guard.
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Jon Snow
Nuclear policy: hypocrisy and inevitability?
Sixty-eight years ago today America detonated the world’s first nuclear bomb at its Trinity testing site in New Mexico. Today the most intriguing aspect of the nuclear debate is that it is so low-key.
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Gary Gibbon
Ed Miliband ponders Trident options
To keep, scale back or totally abandon Trident? The future of our nuclear deterrent remains a thorny policy problem for all parties.