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| Jeremy Corbyn: I would not use nuclear weapons | Jeremy Corbyn: I would not use nuclear weapons |
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| Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he would not use Britain's nuclear weapons if he were prime minister. | Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he would not use Britain's nuclear weapons if he were prime minister. |
| Speaking to the BBC the morning after his first conference speech as leader, he repeated his position that Trident should not be renewed. | Speaking to the BBC the morning after his first conference speech as leader, he repeated his position that Trident should not be renewed. |
| "We are not in the era of the Cold War anymore, it finished a long time ago," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. | "We are not in the era of the Cold War anymore, it finished a long time ago," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. |
| Asked if he would ever press the nuclear button if he was prime minister, Mr Corbyn said: "No." | Asked if he would ever press the nuclear button if he was prime minister, Mr Corbyn said: "No." |
| The Labour leader also told the Today programme he believed he could be prime minister. | |
| And he defended the lack of coverage of the deficit and immigration in his speech to Labour party conference, saying he was "setting out some general philosophical ideas" rather than policy details. | |
| 'Nuclear-free world' | |
| In his conference address on Tuesday, Mr Corbyn said his landslide leadership win gave a "mandate" for his views on disarmament of Britain's nuclear weapons. | |
| But a large number of his shadow cabinet, including defence secretary Maria Eagle, and many Labour MPs do not support his position. | |
| Labour is to hold a review of defence policy, which will include future nuclear capability. | |
| He told Today: "I do not think we should be renewing Trident. I think we should be fulfilling our obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. | |
| "I think we should be promoting an international nuclear weapons convention which would lead to a nuclear-free world." | |
| Spending "£100bn" on replacing Trident was misguided, he said, arguing that many in the military wanted the money to be spent on more defence conventional equipment. |