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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
August Graham

Fact check: Liberal Democrats’ 2024 manifesto supported renewal of Trident

HMS Vigilant at HM Naval Base Clyde, Faslane, which carries the UK’s Trident nuclear deterrent (James Glossop/The Times/PA) - (PA Archive)

In a podcast interview Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch suggested that typical Liberal Democrat MPs “have bad views on national security” and “don’t want us to keep, maybe, a nuclear deterrent”.

From around 59 minutes and 50 seconds in the podcast, Ms Badenoch said: “A typical Liberal Democrat will be somebody who is good at fixing their church roof and – you know – people in the community like them: ‘Oh, he fixed the church roof, you should be a Member of Parliament.’

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