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Trident

Again, that is a perfectly understandable judgment for people to come to. Some would say, ““Spend this money on conventional defence.”” My hon. Friend says, ““Don’t spend it on defence at all, but spend it on poverty reduction programmes, or public services in our country.”” But in the end the question is: will we make our country less safe if we give up this deterrent? [Interruption.] The purpose of deterrence is not so that we can use it; the whole purpose of deterrence is so that we never have to use it, and that is the reason that we keep it.