Nick Harvey talks up closer nuclear cooperation with the French
In a speech yesterday Minister for the Armed Forces Nick Harvey showed how ministers can stake out clearly different ground from the Conservatives. … Read the full post »
Read my posts about Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons system and debates over its future. The Trident is a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM).
In a speech yesterday Minister for the Armed Forces Nick Harvey showed how ministers can stake out clearly different ground from the Conservatives. … Read the full post »
The overall tenor of the Liberal Democrat strategy debate was more good-natured than might have been expected. … Read the full post »
Philip Cowley and Mark Stuart have been looking at how often backbench government MPs have been rebelling. … Read the full post »
The government says £750m ($1.2bn) will be saved over four years on the Trident nuclear deterrent missile system by cutting the number of warheads on each boat. … Read the full post »
Love your coalition partner all the time in public: that was the clear line taken by Nick Clegg, reinforced by other senior party figures. … Read the full post »
At the start of Liberal Democrat conference in Liverpool, I blogged the ten issues that I thought would shape conference. Half-way through, how are things looking on the ten? … Read the full post »
It’s a fair bet that much of the media coverage of Liberal Democrat conference will be of the form ‘THEY’RE DOOMED!’. … Read the full post »
An opinion poll of over 500 Liberal Democrat party members carried out by YouGov for Greenpeace has found that only 7% said they supported a like-for-like replacement of Trident. … Read the full post »
The BBC is reporting that the Government is set to put off a decision on replacing Trident until after the next general election. … Read the full post »
Credit where credit is due, today’s Daily Telegraph interview with Nick Clegg covers a range of substantive policy issues and gives the Deputy Prime Minister the space to give nuanced answers. … Read the full post »