The politician, a veteran of Labour’s left wing constituency and close-confidante of newly-appointed leader Jeremy Corbyn, pledged to make sure that big corporations would pay their fair share under a Labour administration.
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It’s all very well for Stephen Kinnock to say a party review and talk about his leader feeding in his personal view as if he’s just one person among equals in the Labour party.
The weird turn of events began as Buzzfeed politics reporter Jamie Ross attempted to pass on the refreshment to Corbyn, who didn’t seem taken with the gesture.
In his main conference speech yesterday, Mr Corbyn claimed a “mandate” to pursue unilateral disarmament.
“There are people in the party who have different views, but what we are all united on is that Isil’s behaviour, its actions and its brutality are totally appalling”, he told ITV’s Good Morning Britain.
Former Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont, resigned in December 2014 saying the Scottish party was being treated as a “branch office”.
The politician will visit the Scottish Parliament where he will meet MSPs.
“We have thought very hard about economic policy and John McDonnell outlined on Monday at our Labour party conference the need for investing in manufacturing industry, investing in infrastructure in order to prove the necessary funding for public services across the whole of the UK”. I want to see a nuclear-free world.
The Labour leader sparked a fierce row in the final hours of Labour’s party conference in Brighton by telling journalists he would never deploy weapons of mass destruction.
Despite tendering his resignation from the Shadow Cabinet upon Mr Corbyn’s election, Gavin Shuker, MP for Luton South, was also impressed by the new leader, overcoming his reservations.
Jeremy Corbyn could renege on a promise to scrap university tuition fees, in an echo of the U-turn that blighted Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems, as the Labour leader was faced with another headache.
Corbyn’s comments were criticized by his own Shadow Defence Secretary Maria Eagle, who said they undermined “our attempts to try and get a policy process going“.
“Jeremy Corbyn needs to be straight with the people of Scotland – will Labour oppose trident nuclear weapons on our shores, or simply allow the Conservatives to go ahead with this outdated and unwanted project”.
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Asked if he stood by his statement that he would not use nuclear weapons as PM, he replied: “Would anybody press the nuclear button?” “From fighting for our local hospital, the Whittington, to marching for peace and justice, and the countless times he has helped the families of friends of mine with their issues”.
