THERESA MAY’S claims that sinking Trident would put Britain’s security at risk were blown out of the water yesterday by the Tory chair of the parliamentary foreign affairs select committee.

In her first statement to Parliament since becoming Prime Minister, Ms May branded the campaign against Trident renewal a “reckless gamble.”

In a barb aimed at Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, she said: “We cannot abandon our ultimate safeguard out of misplaced idealism.”