Results 1-18 of 18 for trident speaker:Gerald Kaufman

Point of Order: Trident (14 Mar 2007)

Gerald Kaufman: ...review after Labour's election defeat in 1987, it became speedily clear to me that the menace to Britain and the world of nuclear weapons could not be solved simply by Britain getting rid of Trident. There were then four other proclaimed nuclear weapons powers, each of them a threat to the entire planet, together with Israel, which has never admitted to possessing nuclear weapons but is...

Point of Order: Trident (14 Mar 2007)

Gerald Kaufman: ...evening. Do those hon. Friends really believe that our shared objective of world nuclear disarmament can be achieved by unilateral disarmament by Britain? Do they really believe that if we gave up Trident, the eight other nuclear weapons powers would say, "Good old Britain! They have done the right thing. We must follow suit."? Pull the other one!

Point of Order: Trident (14 Mar 2007)

Gerald Kaufman: ...Commissioner. The Climate Change Bill on its own, however admirable, cannot bring about world action to remedy climate change. That requires international co-operation. Voting tonight to give up Trident will not persuade Israel and North Korea to give up nuclear weapons. Their threat will remain until international action is taken to reduce and remove nuclear weapons. In my speech to the...

Orders of the Day — Statement on the Defence Estimates (19 Oct 1993)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...challenged Labour Members about whether a Labour Government would have the tactical air-to-surface missile. Nevertheless, he says that we are unsure, because the Government still believe that they should keep Trident. The Government had better not jeer at the Labour party, or even at silly resolutions passed by the Labour party conference, as one was a couple of weeks ago, because,...

Statement on the Defence Estimates (18 Oct 1993)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: The right hon. and learned Gentleman has just said that we need Trident and other nuclear capabilities in case there is a threat from Russia and the former Soviet Union. Would he care to educate the House about how he seeks to deter a threat from a country with which, as he boasted just a few minutes ago, he has signed a defence co-operation agreement?

Foreign Affairs (8 May 1992)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...time to deal with these issues—the United Kingdom's policy on nuclear weapons. In the general election campaign, the Government thought it enough to announce that they would build a fourth Trident submarine. That did not even help them electorally, as the presence here of my hon. Friend the Member for Barrow and Furness (Mr. Hutton) confirms. Four submarines are not a defence...

Foreign Affairs (8 May 1992)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: If the hon. Gentleman will allow me to complete this passage, I shall give way in a moment. Will the Government have squared the circle and satisfied the expectations of Rosyth and Devonport for Trident refitting? Is there a future for Devonport dockyard? Workers in Plymouth are very worried about that, as the Secretary of State must know. The Government have a profound responsibility...

Nuclear Defence (14 Jan 1992)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: According to the Government's own calculations, we do not have a nuclear deterrent. The Government say that the minimum necessary deterrent for this country is four Tridents, and the number of Polaris warheads is far fewer than four Trident warheads, so I am not too sure of the status of the deterrent at the moment.

Nuclear Defence (14 Jan 1992)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: The hon. Gentleman is unacquainted with what we have said about this matter, which is that we would not agree to more warheads on Trident than there are on Polaris. That is the position of the Labour party.

Nuclear Defence (14 Jan 1992)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: No, no, the Trident programme does not belong to the hon. Gentleman. He has only a few weeks left in the House, during which he would do well to press the Government to provide work for the Barrow shipyard beyond any Trident programme. I have spoken to the work force there and I know that they are desperately worried about the work programme for Barrow even beyond a fourth Trident submarine.

Nuclear Defence (14 Jan 1992)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: The hon. Gentleman had better ask his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence whether he intends to build the fourth Trident. He put it out to tender in July and he has not yet placed the order. There are arguments within the defence community about it. I can, however, tell the hon. Gentleman what his right hon. Friend cannot tell him: with or without a fourth Trident, a Labour...

Nuclear Defence (14 Jan 1992)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...at Barrow in May 1989. If the right hon. Gentleman had studied our policy document he would have known that long ago. It is about time he announced whether he will place the order for the fourth Trident before the general election. On 22 November, the Secretary of State for Defence was not very clear about this. He said: subject to a successful analysis, we shall proceed with the...

Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address: Foreign Affairs and Defence (25 Nov 1988)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...;it is clear that, even on the Prime Minister's own boast, spending on defence in Britain will fall in real terms over the next three years and that, because of the pointless, wasteful and irrelevant expenditure on Trident, expenditure on conventional defence—which should be our real contribution to NATO—will fall substantially. It therefore makes especial sense for Britain to...

Arms Control and Disarmament (Privileges and Immunities) Bill (10 Dec 1987)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: .... They cannot inspect Polaris, because Polaris is an independent British deterrent. We own the warheads and the missiles and we are capable of servicing them. That will not be the case under the Trident agreement, because we will not own the Trident missiles. They will come from a pool at King's Bay, Gerogia. There will be implications for inspection if the United States reduces the...

Orders of the Day — Arms Control and Disarmament (Privileges and Immunities) Bill (22 Oct 1987)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...Shultz for talks on the finalisation of the INF agreement with Mr. Shevardnadze. The second is the extraordinary revelation, made public in spite of the Government's wish to suppress it, that the Trident system — Britain's much vaunted independent nuclear deterrent — will not be independent at all but will be merely an exceptionally expensive subscription by the British...

Orders of the Day — Arms Control and Disarmament (Privileges and Immunities) Bill (22 Oct 1987)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...the Prime Minister was so unhappy with the INF agreement. Even before yesterday, the consequences of the INF agreement, as well as of other important factors, threw some doubt on the viability of Trident as a successor to Polaris. Trident will gobble up vast sums of money from a defence budget that, as the Secretary of State for Defence not only admitted but totally accepted when speaking...

Orders of the Day — Arms Control and Disarmament (Privileges and Immunities) Bill (22 Oct 1987)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...because the stories are clearly true. If we are at the mercy of the United States with regard to the continuation of this alleged independent deterrent, what happens to this alleged deterrent if Trident falls victim to an arms control agreement between the Americans and the Russians and if the Americans destroy their versions of the missiles to replace those that we hand in for...

Orders of the Day — Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Bill (2 Dec 1975)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...! That is what they say. They list 12: Famous planes…built by an independent aircraft industry". They are the Spitfire, Hurricane, Comet, Viscount, Canberra, Hunter, Lightning, VC-10, Trident, Harrier, Jaguar, Concorde. It sounds splendid. The Spitfire, Hurricane, Canberra, Hunter, Lightning, Harrier, Jaguar and Concorde were all developed under direct Government contract. That...