BRITAIN’S largest high-pressure gas pipeline sits underneath one of the new weapons factory sites announced by the government, anti-war campaigners warned today.

Defence Secretary John Healey announced on Wednesday that at least 13 sites across Britain had been identified for new factories to make munitions and military explosives.

In a statement, the Parc Against Darc campaign against proposals for a US-run military space radar in Pembrokeshire said: “John Healey’s suggested 1,000 jobs across 13 sites is not a very significant number of jobs at all for the privilege of making Milford Haven — which sits on the UK’s largest high-pressure gas pipeline and is known for a nearby major oil refinery — into even more of a target in wars that the UK Labour government, and perhaps the US arms interests adjacent to it, seem to be only too excited to try and start.”

It described the plans as Britain’s “current drive to war at the behest of the US and Trump,” warning Labour that they could cost it dearly in next May’s Senedd elections.

They are to see the first-past-the-post voting system replaced with a proportional system known as D’Hondt alongside a rise in the number of MSs and reduction of the voting age to 16.

With both Plaid Cymru and the Green Party having officially supported the Parc against Darc campaign, Labour could face “a progressive coalition government in Wales comprised of Plaid Cymru, Greens and Lib Dems which is likely to be far less sympathetic to Darc or any further militarism of Wales,” the campaign group warned.

A Ministry of Defence spokesperson said: “This investment will strengthen our deterrence and make the British people safer, driving defence as an engine for growth by creating over 1,000 new jobs across the UK.”