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For three million hard-working families it’s going to have a huge impact. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned it is “arithmetically impossible” for nobody to lose out under the changes.

Councils and city regions with elected mayors can raise rates in order to invest in infrastructure only, and probably by a maximum of 2p.

The SNPs Deputy Leader Stewart Hosie said: “Labour’s position on Trident has become utterly indefensible”.

My guest Chris Hedges has asked ‘Where is our Jeremy Corbyn?’ to which many may reply, ‘We’ve got Bernie Sanders!’ Joining me to explain why he thinks Bernie Sanders is no Jeremy Corbyn is Chris Hedges himself.

“We will force people like Starbucks, Vodafone, Amazon and Google and all the others to pay their fair share of taxes”, he promised.

Nuclear weapons are the ultimate weapons of mass destruction that can only kill millions of civilians if ever used.

And he took a few jabs at the unrelenting hostility he has raced from some in British’s rambunctious tabloid press, pointing out that one paper had gone so far as to say Corbyn was welcoming the possibility that mankind would be wiped out by an approaching asteroid.

He added that the new leader’s drive to celebrate the “fizz” of ideas and energy among new members also had great appeal.

Shadow Defence Secretary Maria Eagle criticised party leader Jeremy Corbyn for saying he would instruct defence chiefs never to use the UK’s Trident missiles.

Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn used his first conference speech – a nationally televised event Tuesday – to try to soften his image as a radical left-winger who will dash the party’s electoral hopes by bringing back discredited policies from the past.

The Scottish National Party challenged Mr Corbyn to use his visit to end what it termed “the chaos and confusion” over Labour’s policy on replacing the Trident nuclear weapons system, based at Faslane on the Clyde.

Labour released pictures of Mr Corbyn preparing for the biggest challenge of his leadership so far by relaxing in burgundy socks and pool side shoes, characteristic of his laid back style.

Speaking moments after Mr Corbyn finished his flagship conference speech, Mr Rotheram described how he looks forward to working with the left-wing party leader.

The Labour MP for Hull West and Hessle said Mr Corbyn also w ants Britain to stay in the European Union “no matter what” emerges from the Prime Minister’s negotiations. Sources close to the shadow foreign secretary, who is one of Labour’s leading...

“And we will pay for it not on the backs of the poor and the most vulnerable but from a fairer taxation system which lifts the burden away from middle and low-income earners and from collecting the tax lost every year to corporate tax dodgers”.