Corbyn suggests United Kingdom could keep Trident submarines without warheads

You’re our defence spokesperson.

The leader of Britain’s main opposition Labour Party says a reshuffle of his top team has brought the unity needed to “win elections and change our country for the better” – but he faces a struggle to convince his own lawmakers.

HANDOUT/REUTERS Britain’s Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn says “there has to be a route through somewhere” to communicate with ISIS.

The terms of reference for the review were published by shadow defence secretary Emily Thornberry, who said she aimed to produce an interim report by June for consideration by the party’s national policy forum and annual conference. He and Eagle would have argued over every detail, and every line. We tried unilateralism before. With a bit of luck that can be done in eight to 10 weeks.

He added: “I could take you to Barrow (shipyard in Cumbria)”.

Those don’t look like the words of a man who has made a decision to stand down from running the review.

She added: “My views are on the record”.

Parliament is to hold a vote on whether to renew Trident by building four new Vanguard submarines later this year. Jeremy Corbyn has opposed North Atlantic Treaty Organisation membership in the past (though his office quickly slapped Livingstone down on the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation question last week).

Mr Corbyn was challenged on, among other things, trade union laws passed by Margaret Thatcher, his stance on the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, and the Trident nuclear missile system.

Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said Trident was a right-wing media obsession created to highlight divisions within the Labour Party.

Now both sides are left reasonably happy.

Many of Mr Corbyn’s supporters were unhappy after Labour MP Stephen Doughty was given the chance to announce his resignation from the front bench live on a BBC show.

“Not only did conference overwhelmingly decide against having another divisive debate – let’s remember that the call for a debate on Trident was supported by just 0.16 per ent of the trade union vote and only 7.1 per cent of the CLP (constituency Labour Party) vote”.

He also warned the Labour leader not to try to “short-cut” the party’s policy-making procedures in order to get the result he wanted.

After starting the session regretting the departure of “moderate, mainstream” MPs from the Labour front bench, Mr Fallon launched his stinging attack.

The shadow defence secretary told the BBC: “This is going to be a wide-ranging review”.

Just because the Tories are running the state into the ground, don’t think it’s our public services that are the problem.

So, too, are the rest of us. “It happened before I’m sure it could happen again”.

“The fact is that in the current budget settlement, any increase in spending in one area can only be paid for through tax rises across the board or by cutting spending on other areas – Labour need to tell us which of these options is party policy”. This time Corbyn and Thornberry are likely to speak in the same direction.