Duck and cover - Liz Truss has said she would be ready to use Britain’s nuclear weapons and unleash global annihilation if necessary.
The heavy favourite to be Britain’s next prime minister says she is ready to push the button has said she would be ready to use Britain’s nuclear weapons and unleash global annihilation.
At a hustings in Birmingham’s NEC last night, the topic was raised against the backdrop of Vladimir Putin’s war withHe said: ‘Faced with that task, I would feel physically sick, how does that thought make you feel?’ But ex Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was criticised for appearing to rule out doing so, since it would lead to millions of deaths.
Outside the latest hustings last night, about 40 protestors had gathered, chanting ‘Tory scum – out of Brum’, while party members queued to get in.
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