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Warheads carried on Britain’s nuclear submarines are eight times more powerful than the atomic bombs used in 1945.

Vocal anti-austerity campaigner and singer Charlotte Church has said she is “really sorry” for the behaviour of a few anti-government protesters after journalists were spat at yesterday.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Speaking at a conference event on Monday evening, Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said it was the joint task of Corbyn and herself to make the party appeal to both Yes and No voters in Scotland’s referendum a year ago.

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...