Government will likely carry the day at next year’s Commons vote – but scale of opposition will be much bigger than before Jeremy Corbyn became leaderAlthough Trident is Britain’s most powerful,most expensive and most controversial weapon, it has barely been debated in the final two decades, or smothered by a Conservative and Labour consensus that the UK needs a nuclear weapon. That looks like coming to an end at Labour’s annual conference in Brighton.
Jeremy Corbyn has been locked in discussion over the weekend with senior party figures and trade union leaders to find a compromise that will cover his long-term opposition to nuclear weapons and those shadow cabinet members and unions who support Trident.
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Source: theguardian.com