The UK parliamentary debate on the NPT on 9 March was opened by former Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett, but sparsely attended by members of the House of Commons. While some MPs evoked Britain's role in the NPT and P5 as justification for retaining nuclear weapons and modernising Trident, others highlighted the humanitarian impacts and called for UK participation in negotiations to ban and eliminate all nuclear weapons globally.
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