Stephen Crabb adds to Jeremy Corbyn anti-nuclear row

I see Russian Federation flexing its muscles, China parading its nuclear weapons… personally.

“We are not in the era of the Cold War any more, it finished a long time ago”, Mr Corbyn declared. I’m opposed to the holding of nuclear weapons.

And Former North Atlantic Treaty Organisation secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen told Sky News Tonight: “Without interfering with British politics I would say such statements are extremely unsafe for the credibility of our deterrents policy”.

“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”.

Danger also looms within his own shadow cabinet, where there is opposition to his leftist policies on key issues.

And he left no doubt he would scrap the system, saying: “I don’t believe that £100 billion spent on a new generation of nuclear weapons taking up a quarter of our defence budget is the right way forward”.

Mr Corbyn came to Scotland in the aftermath of May’s disastrous election for Labour, which saw its party lose 40 of its 41 seats.

There are of course others like John McDonnel, the shadow chancellor, who praise his honesty, but one thing is sure, Jeremy Corbyn has his work cut out.

Critics have slated Jeremy Corbyn’s conference efforts this week as “preaching to the converted”, with a leadership speech which focussed heavily on the tens of thousands of new members who joined since the election. ‘There’s about as much chance of me having a few kind of fruit-related PR disaster as there is of, oh, I don’t know, me being elected Leader of the Labour – no, hold on.

Kenny’s remarks are created to avoid a scenario in which Corbyn became prime minister as leader of a party that officially supported the Trident programme.

Pressed on whether he agreed with Burnham, he said: “The point I would also make is that people that have migrated to this country over many years have made an enormous contribution to our society, helped our economic growth, helped our health service and helped our social services and our education services”. A decision on whether to renew Trident is due to be taken in 2016.

Though Corbyn is personally opposed to Trident’s renewal, much of Labour’s newly assembled shadow cabinet support it.

“Frankly, the way the Labour leader has answered that question demonstrates that Labour can’t be trusted with our national security which, after all, is the most important duty of government”, he added.

Responding to the fiasco the current Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said: “The Labour leader is effectively saying he would lower Britain’s defenses”.

After all, if a country’s leader is not prepared to use nuclear weapons in any circumstance are they any deterrent?