Garston and Halewood MP Maria Eagle will lead a review of Britain’s defence needs but Mr Corbyn is clear that he does not want Trident renewed.
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Corbyn, a longtime pacifist and anti-nuclear campaigner, also reiterated his staunch opposition to Trident, Britain’s nuclear-armed submarine system – a highly divisive issue within his own party.
Mr Corbyn’s speech was well received by the party faithful and he certainly said all the right things to members who elected him by a landslide majority earlier this month.
She added: ‘His naivety over the Trident (nuclear) programme frightens me as leader of a city that is home to the Royal Navy.
“I have always been proud of that passage, both for its content and its cadences, so much so that I have offered it regularly to every Labour leader from Neil Kinnock onwards and to other Labour speakers”, he wrote on the Guardian newspaper’s website. “That is eight countries out of 192”.
Pressed again on whether he would ever use it, he said: “No. 187 countries don’t feel there’s a need to have a nuclear weapon to protect their security – why should those five need them themselves?”
But Ms Davidson highlighted his absence during the campaign, saying: “Many thousands of Labour supporters stood alongside people from other political backgrounds to fight for our United Kingdom past year”.
He added: “Nuclear weapons are weapons of mass destruction that take out millions of civilians”. I’ve attended nuclear non-proliferation conferences in New York and Vienna and Geneva, and I’m very committed to the principle of a nuclear-free world.
Mr Corbyn said he was “well aware” of the different views present around the shadow cabinet table.
“There has to be an end to the fighting”.
Moscow launched its first air strikes in war-torn Syria on Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin won parliamentary permission to use force overseas. “Let us build a kinder politics, a more caring society together”.
The deputy leader said: “Yesterday in his speech Jeremy poked fun at the pundits, as well he might, he wasn’t the pundits’ choice, after all“.
The new leader of the Labour party batted away with a number of questions, and was left bemused at a few of the interjections made by Holmes in the uncomfortable interview.
The party’s annual conference approved, by a near unanimous show of hands, a motion on British participation in the air campaign.
“This is obviously a central and crucial issue”.
“I don’t think there’s anything particularly bad about that…”
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“Instead of cutting, we want to see an expanding economy, an investment-based economy – John McDonnell set that out in his speech on Monday”. Defense experts say one Trident missile has eight times the capacity than the atomic bomb dropped on Japan in 1945.
