Osborne Should Pledge To Scrap Trident

Says Edward Pearce, rightly.

Numerous Tories with relevant experience – Anthony Head, Peter Thorneycroft, Nigel Birch, Aubrey Jones – were sceptical about, or downright hostile towards, British nuclear weapons in the Fifties and Sixties.

In March 1964, while First Lord of the Admiralty and thus responsible for Polaris, George Jellicoe suggested that Britain might pool her nuclear deterrent with the rest of NATO.

Enoch Powell denounced the whole thing as not just anything but independent in practice, but also immoral in principle.