Should the United States now disrupt the British program due to its inabilitytosupply D-5 missiles when and in the quantity called for by bilateral agreements, it could have a catastrophic effect on the viability of the U.K. Trident and severely strain relations between two key allied governments.
He said the Green Investment Bank had been "hobbled" by its inabilityto borrow and called for energy efficiency to be given "equal value" to energy supply in policy-making.