Sentences with phrase «nuclear submarine programme»

Although Labour's official position is to support the renewal of the controversial Trident nuclear submarine programme, Corbyn's personal opposition will not be that popular in a constituency where the nuclear industry is a major employer.

It is not only critics on the left who have expressed concern about the excessive and spiralling cost of the Trident nuclear submarines programme.

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After Britain decided to delay the introduction of its next - generation Trident submarines from 2024 to 2028 the two new nuclear programmes will be completed at roughly the same time, making cooperation over the CMC possible.

My Oxford colleague Blake Ewing makes an engaging case in favour of the UK pursuing unilateral nuclear disarmament — that is, scrapping the planned replacement programme for the Royal Navy's Vanguard - class submarines, which currently carry the Trident D5 missile — as a solution to the country's fiscal travails.