Nuclear submarines are part of the nuclear war ‘triple lock’ (Image: Getty)
A new ‘triple lock’ will be put in place in the UK but this time it has nothing to do with state pensioners or pension payments.
Normally, the triple lock refers to the mechanism by which the DWP increases state pension payments each April, either by inflation, wage growth or a flat 2.5%, whichever is higher.
But in the past week, the UK government has put forward a very different kind of triple lock to arm the country with nuclear weapons.
UK Defence Secretary John Healey announced via the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero that the UK is entering a ‘new era for defence’ and its nuclear weapons ‘send the ultimate warning’. See More In Details…