‘Nukes didn’t help U.S. on 9/11’: Corbyn rules out ever firing Trident

“Nuclear weapons are weapons of mass destruction, they take out millions of civilians”, Corbyn told reporters at his party’s annual conference in Brighton, southern England, on Wednesday.

The politician will visit the Scottish Parliament where he will meet MSPs.

Besieged by journalists and passers-by, Mr Corbyn doggedly dodged the questions until he reached the Serenity cafe to be interviewed by the BBC.

“My personal view is that we need to have a nuclear deterrent and I will be arguing that point very forcefully within the Labour Party”. “We are One Labour”.

Mr Corbyn was heavily criticised by members of his own shadow cabinet for saying he would never countenance the use of Trident. “They work hard, they want to get on, but they also care about their neighbours and the communities we share”.

The Apprentice star and former Labour adviser warned that victory for Marxist throwback Mr Corbyn would “shut down” business in London.

He said Labour is working to “develop our campaign up to the election next year” but is also listening to the views of Scottish members “because the mood in the Labour Party is one of openness, it’s one of democracy, participation, as well as strengthening things”.

In the past, Ms Dugdale has indicated that she favours a multilateral position – the United Kingdom only giving up its arsenal if other nuclear powers agreed to do the same.

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

Shadow defence secretary Maria Eagle, who supports Trident renewal, said his comments had undermined his promised review of party policy on the issue, which was created to reach an agreed position. She added “I don’t think that a potential prime minister answering a question like that, in the way in which he did, is helpful”.

Corbyn said globalization has been used as a way to justify keeping wages for workers throughout the world low while the leaders of global companies made vast amounts of money.

Corbyn insisted during his keynote speech on Tuesday that he was open to debate within the party, saying he was “not imposing leadership lines”.

Fellow Exeter student Rose Ashwood, who backed Corbyn in the election, had concerns coming into conference about party unity.

“The reality is we’ve got to agree that we can’t agree”, he said.

Asked whether he stood by his statement that he would not use nuclear weapons as PM, he replied: “Would anybody press the nuclear button?”