Labour's Nuclear Weapons Stance Needs a Rethink

Posted: 1st March 2021

Letter Richard Norton-Taylor: The new Labour leadership in its rhetoric
seems more frightened of being accused at home of being weak on defence
than a nuclear attack by a foreign power. For years, Whitehall analysts
have considered a pandemic more likely than any real threat of a nuclear
attack. Yet for years, ministers and opposition frontbenchers ignored the
former while exaggerating the latter. Trade union leaders, meanwhile, back
a new Trident missile programme and spending more than £200bn on unusable
weapons, citing the need to preserve highly skilled jobs. Yet Britain has
had to bank on French engineers for civil nuclear power stations of which
Britain now appears to be in dire need.

Guardian 28th Feb 2021

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/28/labours-nuclear-weapons-stance-needs-a-rethink