Jeremy Corbyn doesn’t want nuclear weapons. We all know that. We also know that because he has a huge mandate (a phrase bandied about so much at this conference that it’s starting to feel like a refrain in Are You Being Served?), he’s keen to turn his views into official party policy on this area at least. But we now also know that if his party determined that it would remain committed to Trident, and if Jeremy Corbyn were Prime Minister, he wouldn’t ever use his weapons anyway. Which makes it entirely pointless to fund them at all.
On the Today programme, the new Labour leader was asked if he would approve the use of Trident if he were in Downing Street. He replied:
‘No – 187 countries don’t feel the need to have a nuclear weapon to protect their security, why should those five need it themselves?
‘We are not in the era of the Cold War any more, it finished a long time ago.’
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