QUESTIONS were raised last night over the credibility of David Laws carrying out a review of the possible alternatives to Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent, given that he is a "part-time Education Minister" who is not based at the Ministry of Defence.
Thomas Docherty, the Labour MP for Dunfermline and West Fife, who sits on the Commons Defence Committee, asked what access Mr Laws would have to sensitive defence information, necessary to take an informed view of the alternatives to Trident.
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