Latest editorial
Tory Blunt votes with Labour rebels against Trident
Birmingham’s striking bin workers and supporters bring waste sites to a standstill
CONSERVATIVE MP Crispin Blunt shamed Labour and Tory MPs who trooped together into the voting lobbies on Tuesday night to back Trident nuclear weapons.
Reigate MP Mr Blunt not only spoke out against Trident but joined 19 Labour rebels who voted against renewal of the submarine-based system.
A Commons motion against renewal of Trident was crushed by 364 votes to 35 after Tory and Labour front benches joined forces to back the weapons of mass destruction. A number of Labour MPs abstained.
More from this author
The Morning Star reprints an account of the event to mark Corbyn’s 30th anniversary of being an MP, from Wednesday September 4 2013, by then parliamentary correspondent ROGER BAGLEY
Similar stories
SOPHIE BOLT explains why Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is organising a national protest tour at nuclear bases, starting with a demo at BAE shipyard in Barrow, where Starmer and Healey have been banging the drum for war
As Macron and Merz propose French nuclear-armed jets be stationed in Poland and Germany, the dangerous implications for peace and the possibility of nuclear confrontation grow, warns SOPHIE BOLT
Speaking to Ben Chacko, CND’s new leader SOPHIE BOLT outlines her organisation’s ambitious plans, from peace camps to base blockades to mass mobilisation, to fight the rising nuclear madness our politicians ignore