MR PETER MANDELSON, LABOUR AND THE FOURTH TRIDENT SUBMARINE

That this House, noting that the Labour leadership has, since its somersault on nuclear weapons, insisted that a Labour Government will have only a three boat Trident fleet, calls upon the Shadow Cabinet to explain why Mr Peter Mandelson, on a visit to Barrow, told the North West Evening Mail on 15th August that 'all parts of the leadership are aware of the case for a fourth boat'.