Britain’s MPs are set to decide on whether to renew the country’s Trident Nuclear weapons programme in a House of Commons vote on Monday, a move backed by newly appointed Prime Minister Theresa May.
The vote will decide whether to press ahead with the manufacture of the next generation of nuclear submarines, BBC reported. Opposition labour Party is split with leader Jeremy Corbyn opposing renewal, but the party’s MPs will get a free vote on the issue. The Scottish National Party — which opposes the renewal — had called for the vote to be delayed to allow “proper scrutiny”.
In a statement to the Telegraph, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said that a vote to renew Trident will show that despite the Brexit vote “we are certainly not turning our back on the security of Europe and the rest of the world”.
The new Prime Minister, Theresa May, will use her first appearance in the House of Commons since assuming office at 10, Downing Street to expose divisions in the labour over Trident and warn that abandoning the nuclear deterrent would be “misplaced idealism”.