ANTI-WAR campaigners have condemned the government for committing to a multi-billion pound package of investment in the UK’s nuclear weapons programme.

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) said the announcement by Defence Secretary Ben Wallace on Tuesday meant an extra £6 billion in spending over the next six years.

CND general secretary Kate Hudson said the decision, part of the government’s Defence Command Paper 2023, was a political choice “to deny crumbling public services vital funds while spending billions of pounds on maintaining and investing in these weapons of mass destruction.”