Mr Corbyn shrugged off the embarrassing disclosure that sections of his speech were rejected by four previous Labour leaders, saying he was “grateful” author Richard Heller who submitted the passages.
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After concluding a ten-minute speech given at a pro-Israel reception in London Tuesday night, new UK Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn was heckled by an audience member after he failed to mention Israel by name in his comments.
But Ms Eagle was in turn criticised by Diane Abbott, the Shadow worldwide Development Secretary, who said on Twitter: “Surprised that Maria Eagle criticises JC for making his position clear on Trident nuclear weapon system”.
“Life is all about compromise…to keep the balance of the party both sides will have to compromise to deliver what the Labour Party is all about”, she said.
“There is no decision required until probably next summer on this and I hold a view, which is well-known, on nuclear weapons…”
Asked whether he would personally be ready to use Britain’s nuclear weapons as prime minister, Mr Corbyn told PA: “I would want a Labour Government to do everything it could to bring about the possibility and the option of a nuclear-free world”.
Corbyn said he believed it was “immoral” to have or use nuclear weapons. “They didn’t do the US much good on 9/11”, Corbyn told reporters. “I don’t believe that it is, so I will make that view clear as part of this debate that we will have”.
“I don’t think we should be spending £100bn on renewing Trident“.
Whether voters will like him enough to put him in Downing Street five years from now is another matter.
“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”.
Shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, who has warned that he would resign if the party adopted a policy of unilateral disarmament, also said that a prime minister had to be to prepared to sanction nuclear action.
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.
As far as I’m concerned we start from the policy we have and at the end of the process the party will decide what its policy is. You don’t solve every problem necessarily by going in and bombing.
However David Cameron said Mr Corbyn’s comments showed Labour could not be trusted with Britain’s national security.
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She said: “This is the first time ever the United Kingdom does not rank in the top 10 list of places to invest”.
