Thousands of protesters have assembled in central London for Britain’s biggest anti-nuclear weapons rally in a generation. Campaigners gathered from across the world: some said they had travelled from Australia to protest against the renewal of Trident. Others had come from the west coast of Scotland, where Britain’s nuclear deterrent submarines are based. As the huge column of people began moving from Marble Arch after 1pm, the mood was buoyant and spirited despite the cold.
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Jeremy Corbyn cites horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Jeremy Corbyn cites horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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‘Barmy’ Corbyn sparks Labour civil war as he leads anti-nuclear rally by hardline lefties.
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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon vowed to make Trident renewal an “election issue” in an impassioned speech to thousands of peace campaigners in Trafalgar Square. Urging activists to “stand up and be counted”, the leader of the Scottish National Party said her opposition to the UK’s nuclear missile system had grown since joining the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) a full year before she signed up as an SNP member in 1986. Yesterday’s demonstration is thought to be the biggest of its kind for a generation.
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Do you know what you think about Trident? Most of us have a settled view of the country’s nuclear weapons: either we think that we should keep them while other countries have them, or that they are a poor use of money for weapons that could never be used. This might be a good time, however, for everyone to think again. On Saturday, Jeremy Corbyn repeated his opposition to Trident at a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament rally in Trafalgar Square. He was elected to the Labour leadership as a unilateral disarmer. He is right to speak up for what he believes, and he is entitled to try to change the party’s policy on the subject. But he needs to think more about how to persuade the voters. As our ComRes poll found recently, it does not matter how you ask the question, most of the British people want to keep the Bomb. Equally, however, those who believe that nuclear weapons are an insurance in an uncertain world ought to ask whether a submarine-based system is likely to remain effective for the next quarter-century. Both sides in this debate need to open their minds to new thinking.
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The controversial idea that Britain’s nuclear submarines could be rendered irrelevant before the new fleet is even launched, will be bolstered this week by a report to be presented to MPs examining the Trident programme. Emerging drone technology, which could make the oceans “effectively transparent”, will make the submarines that carry the UK’s nuclear deterrent vulnerable to attack, warns the report which was commissioned by the British American Security Information Council (Basic), a nuclear disarmament think-tank.
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