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Peace protesters to urge Starmer to 'Kick out Trump’s nukes' from RAF Lakenheath
US President Donald Trump during a press conference at Chequers, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, on day two of the president's second state visit to the UK, September 18, 2025

PEACE protesters will tomorrow call on PM Sir Keir Starmer to “Kick Out Trump’s Nukes" from RAF Lakenheath, marking the end of a nationwide series of actions opposing the US President’s state visit this week.

The demonstration by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and Lakenheath Alliance for Peace comes after two special nuclear material flights from the US were spotted landing at its airbase in Suffolk in July. 

The CND is warning that the arrival of these weapons of mass destruction comes amid heightened tensions between Nato and Russia.

The activists are to hand a letter to its base commander saying the weapons there “puts at risk the lives of millions of people, asserting the role the base has played in Israel’s genocidal war and making clear our determination for the base to be shut down.”

They have also vowed to “create a wall of noise against Trump and his nukes” at the base and hang hand-written messages to the president on its perimeter fence.

CND general secretary Sophie Bolt said: “Trump’s nuclear weapons don’t keep us safe. Instead, they make us all a target. 

“We need to break this dangerous military alliance with the US, kick out Trump’s nukes, and close the Nato network of bases in Britain.”

Angie Zelter of Lakenheath Alliance for Peace said: “The world is reeling from the destruction of the forever wars that feed the military and arms industry’s ever-growing appetite for control and profits. 

“USAF Lakenheath has been at the heart of too many wars that are destroying people, climate and planet, and that are undermining the international legal order that was set up to protect us all.”

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