Campaigners accused the government of deceiving taxpayers yesterday as dodgy new backroom Trident replacement deal was revealed.

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) denounced David Cameron’s Cabinet for signing a new contract despite parliamentary discussions on whether to replace the nuclear programme taking place in a year’s time.

The group’s general secretary Kate Hudson said: “We now have a £37 million contract which the government didn’t tell us about, placed without parliamentary authorisation, for nuclear missile tubes that the government told us wouldn’t exist.”