Right-wing Tories holding back co-operation on national security

By The Newsroom
Published 20th Apr 2015, 18:08 BST
The plaque outside the South Door of the Ministry of Defence Main Building in Whitehall, London.The plaque outside the South Door of the Ministry of Defence Main Building in Whitehall, London.
The plaque outside the South Door of the Ministry of Defence Main Building in Whitehall, London.
Conservative Eurosceptics are blocking necessary co-operation between European allies on defence and security, a senior Liberal Democrat said today.

Lord William Wallace said the surge of migrants across the Mediterranean demonstrates the need for collective plans, highlighting the possibility of shared maritime surveillance.

He said there was no imaginable threat to the UK as an independent nation, insisting it made no sense for defence decisions to be made on the basis of political posturing - highlighting the purchase of two new aircraft carriers which had to be changed several times before interoperability with the French Navy was designed in.

Hide Ad
Hide Ad