Last July, one of Theresa May’s first acts as Prime Minister was to stress her support for the renewal of the United Kingdom’s Trident nuclear programme. Asked by Scottish National Party MP George Kerevan if she would be prepared to authorise a strike which ‘could kill a hundred thousand innocent men, women and children’, she replied: ‘Yes. And I have to…
She was meant to be leading her first cabinet meeting and preparing for her first conflabs with Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande. But today Theresa May instead remained caught up in Parliament, proudly listing the names of all those places upon which she would happily drop a nuclear bomb. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn may have erred on the side of…
Jeremy Corbyn might have shown a lifelong commitment to nuclear disarmament, joining the CND as a teenager all the way back in 1966 and campaigning resolutely on its behalf, before becoming vice chair of the organisation and finally vice president last October. But this sort of conviction politics is old hat, quite out of place from the perspective of the…
Crispin Blunt, the Conservative MP for Reigate and Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, believes that even in today’s increasingly hostile geopolitical climate he can make a paradisiacal island for himself on reasoned argument’s milk and honey. What folly Mr. Blunt! For Mr. Blunt was the only Conservative MP to vote yesterday against the renewal of the United Kingdom’s Trident nuclear…
