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Tony Blair preparing to squander up £20bn on nuclear deterrent

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Is Trident a sensible way to spend £20 billion?

By Nigel Morris, Home Affairs Correspondent

Published: 31 October 2005

 

Tony Blair's determination to ensure that Britain's independent nuclear deterrent will be retained well into the middle of this century is set to provoke the most ferocious row yet in his increasingly fraught third term.

 

The Government will today be accused by rebellious Labour MPs of preparing to squander up to £20bn of taxpayers' money by replacing Trident with a new generation of nuclear weaponry. The cost is equivalent to 800 new city academy schools, 60 medium-sized hospitals or the employment of 20,000 new NHS consultants.

 

http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/index.cfm?Page=Article&ID=2570

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