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Blair Backers Urge Delay on Trident Decision
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has lost support in his own party for a decision to replace the country’s Trident nuclear missile system, the Financial Times reported today (see GSN, Jan. 26). Some moderate Labor Party members have called for additional time to review and debate the decision, which Blair had hoped would come to a House of Commons vote March 14. “It feels as is we’re being made to make a decision rapidly, under whips’ pressure, and on the basis of inadequate information,” said Labor lawmaker Jon Trickett, who has tabled a motion to delay the decision. Another Labor parliamentarian questioned whether Blair’s policy was correct. “I haven’t been convinced,” said Jon Cruddas, a contender to become the party’s deputy leader. “My old man was in the navy for 27 years, he actually worked with this sort of weaponry, so it’s not out a base camp of hostility, a unilateralist base camp.” “But it seems to me pretty self-evident we should have quite a mature discussion about whether this is the contemporary weaponry to deal with the contemporary threat or whether this is a hangover from a previous epoch,” he added (Christopher Adams, Financial Times, March 1).
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