Jeremy Corbyn visits Scotland to ‘win back trust’

The Shadow Defence secretary Maria Eagle said Mr Corbyn had “undermined to a few degree” the review she was carrying out on Labour’s defence policy.

In Scotland, which had been a Labour heartland, the party was all but wiped out by the SNP, losing 40 of the 41 seats it had won in 2010.

There was little in the way of wild swings between viewers strongly agreeing or disagreeing with what Mr Corbyn had to say.

He also contrasted Labour’s stance on green investment with that of the Conservatives, arguing the government was selling off the Green Investment Bank because “they are simply not interested in this”. Members are joining all the time and every day.

After meeting Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale for talks at Holyrood, he told journalists outside the Scottish Parliament: ‘We’re doing great, party membership is going up after my first conference as leader and things are going really well’.

“Because I don’t believe that being a pacifist – although it’s an admirable thing for an individual – I don’t believe it’s a way for someone to look after our nation because we are in a very, very unsafe and nasty world”.

The only way to protect British people at home and overseas was to resolve conflict. All of them deserve equal protection.

The move threatens embarrassment for Labour’s new radical leftist leader Jeremy Corbyn, who is a co-founder of the Stop the War coalition, which campaigned against the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and has opposed any British participation in Syria.

“It may well be that enough people vote for him on the basis of that policy in our manifesto if that is the policy that is decided on by the Labour Party”.

He conceded: “There was a few hangover from the conduct of the Better Together campaign which was jointly done by the parties”.

Mr Corbyn also said ” what went wrong was UK-wide failure to oppose the principles behind austerity in the last two general elections”.

JEREMY Corbyn was introduced onto the stage for his leader’s speech by Tufnell Park resident Rohi Malik, whose father came to Britain in the early 1980s as a refugee from Pakistan.

The billionaire had been a member of Labour since 1997 and one of its biggest donors.

Watson made clear to the conference delegates that what matters is getting back into office and set about explaining how he thought Labour could do that.

Mr Hopkins said: “I was there from beginning to end and thought it was absolutely wonderful”. Too many people have told me that they think the Labour Party lost its way.

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.

“Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party need to leave our grammar schools alone”. But if the gap between them becomes unbridgeable, then what will Watson do?