A LABOUR candidate in the district has broken ranks by pledging to vote against the renewal of the Trident nuclear deterrent. Party leader Ed Miliband has insisted he would retain the submarine-based weapons system. But John Grogan, standing in Keighley and Ilkley, is among around 50 Labour candidates who have made clear their opposition in statements on the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament website.

Mr Grogan wrote: “The renewal of Trident is not justifiable in terms of military strategy.”