Lord West could quit Labour if nuclear disarmament policy adopted

“As with every other new Labour leader, I offered it to Corbyn shortly after his election”. MPs are likely to get a free vote on renewing Trident when the House of Commons votes on the issue next year.

Senior members of his recently appointed opposition front bench, or shadow cabinet, quickly rounded on their boss, just 24 hours after his successful keynote speech at Labour’s annual conference.

Turning around the fortunes of Labour in Scotland ahead of next year’s Holyrood elections has been identified as one of Mr Corbyn’s main priorities since becoming Labour leader.

In his conference speech Corbyn won a rousing applause when he made it clear he was opposed to Britain, and the world, having nuclear weapons.

And he backed Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale’s plans to close the attainment gap between the rich and the rest in Scotland’s classrooms.

IPSE Director of Policy Simon McVicker said it was important that the flexible workforce was not collectively casts as vulnerable and claimed that most of the 4.5 million self-employed in the United Kingdom “love what they do” and accept the trade off of a few entitlements due to its flexibility.

PCS union general secretary Mark Serwotka said Mr Corbyn had “brilliantly answered his critics”. Corbyn’s refusal to use nuclear weapons means that he would opt for no retaliation in the event of an attack.

“Now, asteroids are pretty controversial, and it’s not the kind of policy I would want this party to adopt without a full debate in Conference – so can we have the debate later this week?” “I will listen to everyone because I firmly believe leadership is about listening”, he said, calling for “bottom up, not top down” politics in Britain.

Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons system is operated by the Royal Navy from four Vanguard-class submarines, one of which is based at sea 24/7.

Writing for the New Statesman, Ipsos MORI’s research director Suzanne Hall described how Mr Corbyn’s personality impressed Croydon voters, who used words like “believable” and “conviction” to sum up the tone of his speech.

Appearing without a tie on Sky News, Mr Corbyn continued: “I like to appear as comfortably as I possibly can and I am comfortable like this”.

He has gone from no-hoper to party leader in spectacular fashion, and the extreme, barking mad, fire-brand we were led to expect is so far turning out to be someone with a softer, calmer, straighter, more inclusive approach to politics.