YORK Green Party candidate Denise Craghill joined hundreds of thousands of protesters to oppose Government plans to replace its Trident nuclear missiles.
Ms Craghill, prospective candidate for Fulford in the May City of York Council elections, said: "Replacing Trident will put the UK in direct breach of its own committments to the UN's Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and would increase the global supply of nuclear materials by launching a new nuclear arms race."
Speaking at the No Trident/Troops Out Of Iraq rally, Green MEP Dr Caroline Lucas, who recently visited York, said: "Replacing Trident would be illegal, immoral, counter-productive - and utterly irrelevant to the real security threats we face today."
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