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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...

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”.

John McDonnell looks set to use his first Labour conference speech as shadow chancellor to push for a “Robin Hood” tax on stock market trading.

Corbyn had faced criticism for appointing McDonnell, a critic of Bank of England independence, as his economic spokesman.

Labour councillor Anayat Mohammed, who represents Spring Gardens and Utley ward, was among the group present at Westminster earlier this month when Jeremy Corbyn faced David Cameron.

It is understood that TSSA could use provisions for “emergency” motions to update its wording to welcome Mr Corbyn’s announcement on public ownership.

People who eat meat should be treated like smokers, and meat itself should be treated like tobacco, with public campaigns to discourage its consumption, suggests Kerry McCarthy, recently appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs by the UK’s...

The chair of the Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) group, Joan Ryan MP, reportedly issued an invitation to Corbyn to address a reception to be held at the party’s annual conference next week, against the backdrop of concern from the Jewish community in the United Kingdom over...

Jeremy Corbyn, who was elected as new leader of labour party on 12 September, is expected to reveal the plan of renationalising the railways.

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

After thanking those who voted for him, he said: “I thought at my first PMQs, I would do it in a slightly different way”. This was the debate he had, successfully, in the last election against Corbyn’s predecessor, Ed Miliband.

When asked if he would have sung it, former Shadow Welsh Secretary Mr Smith said: “Yes, even as a Welshman I sing it on such occasions”. “As he said in the words issued this morning, the heroism of the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain is something to...

Although they did not rake in thousands, organisers of The Affordable Art Fair, which was held in Bristol over the weekend, said the pictures were one of the main attractions.