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Trident: British MPs to vote on renewing Scotland-based nuclear-armed submarine fleet

18 Jul 2016

British MPs are set to vote on whether to renew Britain's nuclear deterrent, a key decision for Western security policy, which partly hinges on Britain as one of western Europe's only two nuclear powers...

New Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to tell politicians the nuclear threat is growing, and urge them to put ideology aside and back renewal.

"It is impossible to say for certain that no extreme threats will emerge in the next 30 or 40 years to threaten our security and way of life," Ms May will say, according to pre-released quotes issued by her office.

"We cannot abandon our ultimate safeguard out of misplaced idealism."

Calculations by MPs and Reuters, based on official figures, indicate that the overall cost of replacing and maintaining Britain's nuclear deterrent will reach $292 billion over 32 years.

The Defence Ministry has not published its own cost estimate for the lifetime of the four submarines, but has said it will take up about 6 per cent of the annual defence budget.

In March, it put the cost of procurement at $54 billion, plus almost $7 billion already allocated to the design process.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-...on-renewing-trident-nuclear-deterrent/7637950