This morning Theresa May appeared on the Andrew Marr show to talk Trump and Trident. While the Prime Minister successfully batted away suggestions that she wasn’t doing enough to challenge the US President on feminism — stating that the fact she will be there ‘as a female prime minister’ when the two meet is the biggest statement to be made about the role of women — she struggled on the latter topic.
Following a report by the Sunday Times that a serious malfunction in June of Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons deterrent was covered up by Downing Street, Marr asked May if she had known about the Trident misfire when she told MPs it should be renewed. In July, May used her first big Commons speech to persuade parliament to spend £40 billion on new Trident submarines.
In response, the Prime Minister refused to answer Marr’s question four times — instead simply insisting she has ‘full faith’ in Britain’s Trident missiles while taking a swipe at Jeremy Corbyn over his anti-Trident stance:
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