Ministers are considering moving the Trident nuclear submarines to the United States if Scotland secedes
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Scotland’s Trident nuclear
submarine bases will be decommissioned and removed “at pace” in the event of
independence, the Scottish National Party has said. The UK government’s contingency plans for a
Yes vote include keeping the deterrent on the Clyde by
negotiating a new British Overseas Territory, a “nuclear Gibraltar”, that would
include the Faslane and Coulport bases. However,
this morning Stewart McDonald, defence spokesman for the SNP, ruled this out.
“An independent Scotland will not be home to nuclear weapons,” he said. “With a
clear cross-party majority of Scotland’s elected politicians opposed to
Trident, there is no possible parliamentary arithmetic that would allow these
weapons to be kept at Faslane.
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