article_snippet.sent: Defence Secretary Michael Fallon confirmed that a Conservative government would go ahead with four new Trident nuclear missile submarines to replace the existing fleet, at a cost of £100billion.
article_snippet.sent: Labour rushed to say Labour was also backing four submarines, despite Ed Balls last month saying Defence Secretary Michael Fallon was examining the idea of cutting Labour to three.
article_snippet.sent: Vow: The attack comes as the Tories pledge to build a £100billion fleet of four new Trident submarines .
article_snippet.sent: Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander told the same programme that the Labour Party had made the Labour Party 'crystal clear' the Labour Party supports the renewal of Trident.
article_snippet.sent: Labour leader Ed Miliband faces a challenge from dozens of Labour candidates calling for Trident to be scrapped.
article_snippet.sent: Trident could cost £100 billion.
article_snippet.sent: Labour CND lists 52 candidates standing for election on May 7 calling for Trident to be scrapped.
article_snippet.sent: They call for 'a Labour Government that delivers on disarmament of the UK's nuclear weapons, as we are bound to under the Non-Proliferation Treaty'.
article_snippet.sent: Earlier this year, Labour leader Ed Miliband suggested Labour leader Ed Miliband might back a cheaper Trident replacement than the current plan, estimated at £100billion for four submarines at about £5billion each, and annual running costs of £3billion over the subs' lifetime of about 30 years.
article_snippet.sent: Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party, said: 'This latest round of Tory speculation doesn't conceal the fact that the Labour Party is committed to renewing our multibillion pound nuclear weapons system. '
article_snippet.sent: The truth is that the Labour leadership has made it clear that the Labour leadership will prioritise spending £100billion on a cold war relic - rather than investing in the schools and hospitals that country so desperately needs. '
article_snippet.sent: the Labour Party is standing up to Trident across the UK.
article_snippet.sent: Green MPs will put pressure on the Government to ensure that a proper debate is had over Trident.'