SNP ‘putting

SCOTTISH Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has called on all MPS elected in Scotland next week to put what she says is the national interest on military and defence issues ahead of their party.

Ms Davidson’s remarks came after a group of former defence and security chiefs warned that it would be “irresponsible folly” for the next UK government not to renew Trident.

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said yesterday that instead of renewing its nuclear weapons system, the UK should focus on conventional defence forces, stating that over the last decade or more these had been “compromised by the obsession with the status symbol that is Trident”.