Sunday political interviews round-up: Labour may scrap Trident, Corbyn says

Corbyn – Labour may scrap Trident nuclear deterrent

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn occupied the prime slot on the Andrew Marr Show this morning, and he told Marr that he wants to see ‘a very different country’. But how different? He was asked what he would say to the captains of the Trident submarines about whether to use their missiles in the event of a nuclear attack on the United Kingdom.

‘What I will be saying is that I want us to achieve a nuclear free world. What I want us to do is adhere to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and take part in negotiations surrounding that, and crucially… immediately promote the six party talks on the Korean peninsula as a way of de-escalating nuclear tensions around the world…

‘The issue has to be we want a secure and peaceful world. We achieve that by promoting peace, but also promoting security, and security comes from that process… I think we should look at the process by which we achieve peace and security because actually nuclear weapons are not the solution to the world’s security issues.