The vote, won with a majority of 355 votes, approves the manufacture of four replacement submarines at an estimated cost of £31bn.
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The SNP is set to vote against the renewal of the nuclear missiles later today, while the Scottish Labour party also wants to get rid of Trident. “Meg has not changed her position since the last vote nine years ago”.
The motion is nearly certain to pass, as many Labour lawmakers are expected to back the Conservative government despite the opposition of their leader Jeremy Corbyn, and members of the Scottish National Party (SNP). Margaret Ritchie MP said: “I fear renewing Trident will make the world less secure by increasing tensions and by increasing the risk of potentially catastrophic mechanical and human error”. Even at the lower estimate, this is over £2,500 for every woman, man and child in this country.
MPs voted by 472 votes to 117 in support of a Government motion to replace the ageing Vanguard submarine fleet carrying the missiles with four new vessels.
The leader of Labour Party, Corbyn, also stated his stance on the nuclear debate, which was, predictably, the opposite of May’s.
I support that. But those MPs who vote against Trident should be in no doubt that they are voting to put tens of thousands of defence engineers out of work, many of them members of Unite and the GMB.
In her first Commons speech since entering Number 10, the Prime Minister said the “very real” threat posed by Russian Federation and North Korea meant Britain could not afford to “relax our guard”.
Corbyn gave Labour lawmakers a free vote on the issue, and more than half the party’s 230 legislators voted to keep the nuclear program to protect thousands of unionized defense jobs.
Mr Smith told the Oxford Mail: “I have consistently opposed and voted against the renewal of Trident, which I believe is wrong, ineffective in terms of defence, and a colossal waste of money”.
“I think it would be unforgivable if we have a Labour Party that splits perhaps three ways on this, instead of taking a principled decision against the renewal of Trident and against the spending of perhaps £200bn on weapons that we know can never be used, that are not the right way to defend us in the modern world”.
Theresa May, making her first Commons speech since entering Number 10, said the “very real” threat posed by Russian Federation and North Korea meant the United Kingdom could not afford to “relax our guard”.
“We must continually convince any potential aggressors that the benefits of an attack on Britain are far outweighed by their consequences”, the Prime Minister added.
“I do not believe the threat of mass murder is a good way of dealing with global relations”, Corbyn told parliament.
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“We will proudly stand behind the Government on this issue”.
