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

Mr Roberts said: “The leader’s speech focused on a number of priorities that will resonate in Bristol, above all housing, but require much deeper thinking”. I want to see a nuclear-free world.

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

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.

Corbyn has already drawn strong criticism from members of his shadow cabinet, the majority of whom back renewing Britain’s nuclear weapons system when Parliament votes on the issue next year. “I am opposed to the holding of nuclear weapons”, Corbyn told the BBC....

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

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 fact that such a senior figure in the Labour movement is willing to speculate so publicly about whether Mr Corbyn can ever become prime minister is likely to alarm and anger his supporters.

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.

The Labour Party conference in Brighton will consider an emergency motion opposing the extension of the RAF’s campaign against IS into Syria without “clear and unambiguous” authorisation from the UN.

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...

During his campaign for the Labour leadership, Jeremy Corbyn had claimed that £120bn could be recovered from tax avoidance and evasion, which he said would be enough to pay off the UK’s deficit without having to make welfare and public spending cuts. “Working...

Len McCluskey, general secretary of Unite, said his main focus was on safeguarding the jobs of members in the defence industry, as Labour prepares to confront an issue that is splitting the shadow cabinet.

Former leadership contender Chuka Umunna, who ruled himself out of serving in the shadow cabinet under Mr Corbyn, said: “It’s not plausible for us as an opposition not to have a position on the defence of the realm”.

John McDonnell, who was one of new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s first appointments, will set out today in a speech to the Labour party conference in Brighton how some of the country’s financial institutions are not “fit for purpose”.