As one of only nine nuclear-armed states in the world, the UK cannot escape its duty to progress disarmament talks. So why would we seek to upgrade Trident for another 50 years without exploring what might be done to bring forward multilateral nuclear disarmament?
You can read my speech (and the debate in full) here.
Unfortunately I was not able to stay for the vote at the end of the debate as I had a long-standing constituency engagement, but sadly it would have made little difference to the result: only 37 MPs voted in favour of the motion and 364 against.