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Defence

Wait, because the Conservative spokesman, the hon. Member for Woodspring, has said:""The only thing you can predict with any certainty is that we will not be good at predicting the future."" In short, Labour and the Conservatives will never, ever disarm. With their words, they dismiss the treaty. The inability absolutely to predict events means that according to them, there should always be a nuclear deterrent. Irrespective of the threats, the cost and the treaty's aim to ease international tension and strengthen trust, they will always retain the full-blooded, gold-plated system. That directly contradicts the disarmament aims in the treaty.