Watch: Green leader’s nuclear disaster

There are some decent arguments in favour of unilateral disarmament. So it’s a pity then that Carla Denyer did not make any of those when she appeared on LBC to give a car-crash interview earlier today. The Green co-leader decided that the best way to convince the British people to get rid of their Trident submarines at this election was to liken nuclear armageddon to, er, knife crime.

Host Lewis Goodall began by asking Denyer whether ‘We would be less of a target if we didn’t have nuclear weapons?’ pointing out that ‘Poland doesn’t have nuclear weapons, it’s still a target’. ‘I don’t think that the argument for a deterrent is very effective’ she retorted. ‘Maybe you’re right’ replied Goodall but ‘It’s a risk. You wouldn’t want to take a risk right now…. Surely the last thing that we should be doing, the last thing we should be doing, is taking a risk with our national security right now.’