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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Trident update seen as weapon against Tories

Vanguard-classNick Harvey, armed forces minister, has said that the Liberal Democrats and Labour could fight the next election promising to scale back or abandon the £25bn Trident nuclear submarine programme.

Mr Harvey has been put in charge of an official government review of whether the Trident upgrade is the best way to provide a British nuclear deterrent in future and plainly believes there are more flexible and cheaper alternatives.

Speaking to the Financial Times, the Lib Dem minister said the question of Britain’s nuclear deterrent would be a bigger issue at the planned 2015 election than “at any time since the 1980s”.

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