Results 1-7 of 7 for trident speaker:James Gray

Defence Procurement (20 Apr 2009) has video

James Gray: ...are, and the majority of our most secret and urgent requirements are entirely open to the United States. Indeed, it is said—I do not know enough about these things, but it is said—that Trident could not be fired without a key being turned in Washington.

Defence Procurement (20 Apr 2009) has video

James Gray: It is often said and the Government always deny it, but it is impossible to imagine us firing Trident without approval from the United States. No doubt there are some areas where our national interest is so absolutely central that we could not possibly let it go. My hon. Friend the Member for Aldershot (Mr. Howarth), from the Front-Bench team, correctly points out security of supply, which...

Defence Procurement (20 Apr 2009) has video

James Gray: My hon. Friend is making an absolutely central point. It is interesting that the Government have not so far said how the replacement for Trident will be funded. The Minister—who is not listening—might like to intervene on him to let us know precisely what plans they have to fund it. If it comes out of the MOD's budgets, the MOD will be even more overstretched than it is at the moment.

Defence Procurement (20 Apr 2009) has video

James Gray: ...up to date on Liberal Democrat policy. Given what he says from the Front Bench, when a Liberal Democrat Government are elected in 2010, will his party's new great leader be committed to abolishing Trident? What will his decision be?

Point of Order: Trident (14 Mar 2007)

James Gray: .... I was struck by the contribution of my right hon. Friend the Member for North-East Hampshire (Mr. Arbuthnot), whom one would expect to be one of the most robust cold warriors and supporters of Trident imaginable. However, he declared some real worries, although he ultimately concluded that renewing Trident was the right thing to do. I also have huge respect for the contribution of my...

Point of Order: Defence Policy (22 Jun 2006)

James Gray: ...different matters. I wholly agreed with my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kensington and Chelsea when he said that this debate should not be about Afghanistan, Iraq or the renewal of Trident. Those subjects are sufficiently large to warrant an entire day's debate or more—perhaps several days debate over the years to come. To presume that those topics can be covered in...

Royal Air Force (23 Apr 1998)

Mr James Gray: ...to presume that there is no such thing. I am particularly puzzled that, when announcing the strategic defence review, the Minister went to great lengths to make it clear that Eurofighter and Trident were exempt. We all welcome that and would not for a second suggest that they should be reviewed, but if the review has a foreign policy baseline, how can one start by excluding the two most...