MoD report warns Westminster to counter SNP threat to Trident

THE Ministry of Defence has secretly warned that lawyers and UK ministers will need to be mobilised in response to the threat to Trident posed by the SNP.

It fears the SNP could jeopardise the UK's nuclear weapons programme.

In an internal report summarising the main risks to Westminster's plans to keep submarine-launched, nuclear-tipped Trident missiles on the Clyde, the MoD describes the SNP's anti-nuclear stance as a "potential threat".

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