Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey is calling on the government to start building a “fully independent British nuclear deterrent” to end the UK’s reliance on the US.
The UK has operational control of its nuclear arsenal, including British-built warheads, but it depends on the US to supply and maintain the Trident missiles that would deliver them.
In a speech to his party’s spring conference in York on Sunday, Sir Ed will argue the UK’s continued reliance on US support is an unacceptable risk to national security.
That’s right. Notice me when that happens, so I can short Lockheed Martin.
I’m not saying it will happen, but that it can happen. And if you don’t realize that’s how far relations between USA and allies have fallen, that that is a risk. Then you haven’t been paying attention.