Trident missiles are useless (unless we're prepared to point them at Brussels)

It would do us no end of good to get rid of our Trident nuclear missiles. It is time we stopped pretending we were a great power.

I should say here that I was a keen supporter of our nuclear deterrent in the days when the communist Soviet Union menaced Western Europe with its enormous army.

That is exactly why I don’t support it now. We won that war, which was a colossal game of bluff. Modern Russia poses no military threat to us, and isn’t even very interested in us. Nor is China, which has plenty to occupy her in Asia.

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