CONSERVATIVE
New Forest East

DEFENCE – UNILATERALISM - 17 July 1998

DEFENCE – UNILATERALISM - 17 July 1998

Dr Julian Lewis: If the hon. Gentleman [Jim Marshall] has been a member of CND for most of his adult life, either he does not realise the implication of that or he is not being fully open with the House. CND's constitution requires the one-sided abandonment by Britain not only of nuclear weapons and nuclear bases but of nuclear alliances. If he has been supporting CND for most of his adult life, he has, like the Foreign Secretary, been supporting withdrawal from NATO and a policy of neutralism, unless NATO gave up all its nuclear weapons, which of course it never had any intention of doing.