One of the many unanswered questions hanging over the police’s undercover operations has recently become more acute – to what extent did they covertly monitor Jeremy Corbyn, the new Labour leader, and other elected politicians?
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JEREMY Corbyn admitted Labour could go into next year’s Holyrood elections without a coherent view on Trident when he visited Scotland yesterday.
The freaky 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.
Since being chosen to stand in the leadership race three months ago Corbyn has made it clear his feelings about nuclear weapons.
The ex-grammar school pupil said he was “dismayed at this attack on our grammar school system”, particularly as his constituency contains a number of selective schools.
“If I can persuade the whole of the Labour Party to come round to my point of view, I would be very, very happy indeed”.
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.
The party is presently committed to renewing Trident, and his comments were criticised by senior Labour colleagues. “He is a sharp critic of American foreign policy and of Israel; he wants Britain to abandon its nuclear deterrent and has favored quitting North Atlantic Treaty Organisation”.
Earlier, on the final day of the Labour Party conference in Brighton, Ms Eagle complained that Mr Corbyn’s admission that he would never use nuclear weapons had “undermined to a few degree” her review of defence policy.
Sir Paul said Mr Corbyn’s anti-nuclear stance would be incompatible with being Prime Minister if Labour remained committed to its current position of multilateral disarmament. ‘We did have one of these younger Eds before, but I think we were using it all wrong, ‘ said one backbencher known only as “YC”.
But Mr McFadden insisted if the Prime Minister was “unwise enough to try and rip up everybody’s employment rights”, the course of action for Labour would not be to leave the EU. We are not in the era of the Cold War anymore. Why should those five need it themselves?
A patriot acting in the defence of decency, fair play and other supposedly British values is how UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will portray himself in his keynote speech to the party’s congress on Tuesday afternoon.
Many observers also speculate the United Kingdom would not be allowed to fire Trident without permission from Washington.
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Mr Corbyn is set to join an anti austerity rally in Manchester on Monday evening to coincide with the Conservative party conference.
