British Prime Minister Theresa May says she would be ready to allow a nuclear strike that can result in the deaths of 100,000 people.
May made the inflammatory remarks on Monday during a debate on whether to renew the country’s Trident nuclear deterrent.
Scottish National Party (SNP) MP George Kerevan intervened in her opening speech, asking, “Is she personally prepared to authorize a nuclear strike that can kill 100,000 innocent men, women and children?”
“Yes,” May said, adding “I have to say to the honorable gentleman the whole point of a deterrent is that our enemies need to know that we would be prepared to use it, unlike some suggestions that we could have a deterrent but not actually be willing to use it, which seem to come from the Labour party frontbench.”
She expressed sadness at the Green Party and some members of the Labour party who she said appear to be the “first to defend the country’s enemies.”
She described it as…