Energy Bill

Those are entirely different arguments, as the hon. Gentleman well knows, having also been involved in this debate for a long time. I will not be distracted into a debate on defence, although I am happy to have it another time. The position we have always taken is that we have inherited a nuclear deterrent that, in the multilateral negotiations that are coming up next year, we should use to lever down the number of nuclear weapons in the world, with a world policy and a national policy of reducing dependence on things nuclear. We believe that, having gone down the nuclear road in this country and seen that it is unsatisfactory—it was not at all successfully developed under past Tory Governments—it is completely the wrong road to go down under any prospective Government, whether Labour or Conservative, or with somebody else in the lead.