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Peace activists cursed "an historic opportunity missed" yesterday after Liberal Democrats backed their leaders' "Trident-lite" nuclear weapons programme.
The ageing nuclear submarines are due for a £65 billion overhaul by 2016, which anti-war and anti-austerity movements warn could top £120bn over the fleet's lifetime.
But the Lib Dem leadership have insisted that Britain should keep the fleet, but drop continuous at-sea patrols and cut the number of subs from four to two.
BILL KIDD MSP says increasing Britain’s nuclear arsenal at this time is dangerous and expensive folly
SOLOMON HUGHES explains how the PM is channelling the spirit of Reagan and Thatcher with a ‘two-tier’ nuclear deterrent, whose Greenham Common predecessor was eventually fought off by a bunch of ‘punks and crazies’
