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Dear Louise – Can trident take the heat?

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 at 9:09 pm Written by:

Dear Louise Ellman,

I note that you did not cast your vote in Parliament on 8 June 2010 on the issue of whether to include the Trident nuclear missile system as part of the Strategic Defence Review, whilst you did vote a few minutes later on another motion.

Can I assume that this was an abstention?

As I recall you explaining once, the Trident nuclear missile system is part of the UK’s defence against an undefined threat in an “uncertain future”.

If it is part of the UK’s “defences”, what possible reason is there for not including it in a Strategic Defence Review?

Can you confirm that you lack complete confidence that the case for this nuclear weapons system will stand up to the scrutiny of a review?

Yours sincerely,

Julian Todd.

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