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

Shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn and shadow justice secretary Lord Falconer have both spoken out against abandoning the UK’s nuclear capability, and Mr Corbyn said: “We are going to come to an accommodation of some sort”. For six decades, British governments...

Shadow cabinet minister Chris Bryant was among Labour MPs to dash Mr Farron’s defection hopes yesterday, saying he “wouldn’t jump shop for all the tea in China (and India)”.

Many of those, such as housing and the NHS, have been debated many times before.

The Brighton honeymoon will soon be all too brief – next in the Corbyn diary is a date with David Cameron at Prime Minister’s Questions.

His current shadow justice secretary, Lord Falconer, said he would resign if Labour did anything less than back the “Stay” campaign.