An independent Scotland should give the UK government a strict deadline for removing the Trident from Scottish soil.
That’s the message of a motion going to the 27–28 April party conference of the Scottish National Party (SNP). The motion calls on the party to develop a detailed ‘roadmap’, ‘a practical description of the process and timescale to safely remove nuclear weapons at the very earliest opportunity on Scotland regaining our independence’.
Faslane, just north of Glasgow, is the home of Britain’s four Trident submarines – which carry all the UK’s nuclear weapons.
Topics: Nuclear weapons