Thornberry refuses to be cowed by MPs’ pro-Trident heckling
EMILY THORNBERRY stuck to her guns in the increasingly fractious debate over Trident renewal yesterday after being barracked by hawkish Labour MPs.
The shadow defence secretary was repeatedly heckled during her defence review presentation at Monday night’s meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party.
She argued that the party was not facing a binary choice between “Trident or nothing” but should consider other security options.
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