{"id":706,"date":"2021-03-17T09:17:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T09:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urc.org.uk\/latest-news\/3758-statement-from-church-leaders-on-the-uk-government-announcement-on-warhead-numbers.html"},"modified":"2021-03-17T09:17:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T09:17:48","slug":"statement-from-church-leaders-on-the-uk-government-announcement-on-warhead-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Church leaders on the UK government announcement on warhead numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/urc.org.uk\/images\/News\/News_images\/Nuclear_bomb_credit_Chairboy_Wikimedia_Commons_CC3.0_migrated.jpg\" alt=\"Nuclear bomb credit Chairboy Wikimedia Commons CC3.0 migrated\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;margin-bottom: 10px;float: right\" title=\"A Mark 7 Nuclear Bomb at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio (USA)\" \/>Church leaders across seven denominations, including the Revd Clare Downing, Moderator of the United Reformed Church General Assembly, have made the following statement following the publication of the government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/global-britain-in-a-competitive-age-the-integrated-review-of-security-defence-development-and-foreign-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">integrated review<\/a> of foreign and defence policies:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government\u2019s decision in the integrated review of defence, security and foreign policy to increase the number of Trident nuclear warheads the UK can stockpile by more than 40 percent is a retrograde step that will not make any of us safer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feed-readmore\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/latest-news\/3758-statement-from-church-leaders-on-the-uk-government-announcement-on-warhead-numbers.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church leaders across seven denominations, including the Revd Clare Downing, Moderator of the United Reformed Church General Assembly, have made the following statement following the publication of the government\u2019s integrated review of foreign and defence policies: \u201cThe government\u2019s decision in the integrated review of defence, security and foreign policy to increase the number of Trident nuclear warheads the UK can stockpile by more than 40 percent is a retrograde step that will not make any of us safer. 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