Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow minister for peace has said a Labour government would sign a global anti-nuclear weapons treaty that would effectively confine the Royal Navy’s Trident submarines to port. Fabian Hamilton MP, in comments that risk reigniting the party’s internal divisions over the future of the UK’s nuclear deterrent, told i that while the issue of Trident was “dead in the water” as it had been approved by Parliament, a future Corbyn government would sign a UN treaty that bans nuclear weapons and prohibits their use. Labour included a promise to renew Trident in its election manifesto, but Hamilton said that Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour party presented a “golden opportunity” for opponents of nuclear weapons, admitting the issue was still a “thorn in the side” of the party.
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