Angry MPs accuse Blair of bulldozing Trident missile plans through Cabinet
By Oonagh Blackman, Political Editor
TONY Blair was yesterday accused of "bouncing" a sceptical Cabinet into backing plans for a new generation of Trident nuclear missile submarines.
Ministers agreed to rubber-stamp the £72billion programme at a lunch meeting that lasted just an hour - shortly before Mr Blair unveiled the plans in the Commons.
But angry Labour backbenchers said he was trying to force the issue through without proper consultation and by relying on Tory support.
One MP likened the brief White Paper setting out the Government's position to the controversial intelligence dossier used by No10 to bolster itcase for the Iraq invasion.
Labour's Alan Simpson said: "The White Paper is the son of the Iraq dossier and it appears to have been nodded through Cabinet in under an hour. Mirror article continues
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