Nuclear Deterrent

Part of Business of the House – in the House of Commons at 3:00 pm on 17 January 2013.

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Photo of Julian Lewis Julian Lewis Conservative, New Forest East 3:00, 17 January 2013

The answer to that is catered for by the point I made earlier: it is not the weapons we have to fear but the nature of the regimes that have them. I have no desire to lecture other democracies on whether or not they should have nuclear weapons, as that is a question for them and it is about whether they feel they can afford to do that. It does not bother me if democracies have nuclear weapons, but I do reserve the right to lecture dictatorships, and preferably to try to thwart, baulk and deter them from having such weapons, because they are the threat, not the weapons themselves.