Future of Trident system critical issue ahead of vote

World Today

British voters go to the polls in less than two weeks with the expected result still balanced on a knife’s edge, the outcome more uncertain than at any time in the last five decades.
Long regarded as one of Europe’s most stable nations, the uncertainty surrounding the election result has hit the British Pound. And as Richard Bestic reports from London, it has also revived questions surrounding the viability of Britain’s independent nuclear deterrent, Trident.