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UK’s Labour backs down on vote on scrapping nuclear weapons

Britain’s Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn, left, with deputy leader Tom Watson, centre, listen to would also have opened lawmaker as “the longest
speeches during the Labour Party annual conference at the Brighton Centre in Brighton, England, a rift between Corbyn and suicide note in history.”
Sunday Sept. 27, 2015. For six decades, British governments have considered unilateral nuclear many Labour lawmakers, Labour’s 1980s defeats led
disarmament unthinkable, but the newly elected radical left-wing leader Corbyn, and his party who support retaining nu- Blair and other young lead-
members may commit a future Labour government to scrapping Britain’s Trident nuclear arms clear weapons. Parliament ers to create “New Labour,”
program. is due to decide next year repositioning the party as
how to replace the aging patriotic, pro-business and
(Gareth Fuller / PA via AP) Trident system. strong on defense.
The divide between pro- “Defense and security has
and anti-nuclear forces been an issue that the La-
has long been a fault-line bour Party has been very,
in the Labour Party. It was very keen to keep main-
Prime Minister Clement At- stream, certainly since
tlee’s Labour government the 1980s,” said Richard
that developed atomic Whitman, an associate fel-
weapons in the years fol- low at international affairs
lowing World War II, mak- think-tank Chatham House.
ing Britain the world’s third New Labour won three
nuclear-armed state after consecutive elections from
the United States and the 1997, but the party lost
Soviet Union. power in 2010 and was
Labour briefly adopted a trounced by Prime Minister
policy of unilateral disarma- David Cameron’s Conser-
ment under leader Michael vatives in a May election
Foot, whose election-losing that focused largely on
1983 party manifesto was perceptions of economic
described by one Labour competence.q

JILL LAWLESS Britain has been a nuclear
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s power since the 1950s, and
Labour Party has decided
to leave the country’s nu- both Labour and Conser-
clear weapons alone.
The opposition party’s new vative governments have
leader, Jeremy Corbyn,
opposes atomic weap- consistently supported
ons, and had said the issue
would be debated at the atomic weapons. Since the
party’s annual conference,
which opened Sunday. 1990s, Britain’s nuclear de-
But after Labour-support-
ing trade unions said they terrent has consisted of four
would vote to keep nucle-
ar weapons and protect Royal Navy submarines
thousands of defense jobs,
delegates dropped the is- armed with Trident missiles.
sue from the conference
agenda. News that Trident would
It’s a setback for left-wing-
er Corbyn, who wants the be debated at the con-
party to consider policies
long considered off the po- ference for the first time
litical agenda, from nation-
alizing industry to diverging in many years had been
on foreign policy from the
U.S. hailed as a victory by an-
He said earlier Sunday that
Britain should get rid of its ti-nuclear activists — but
“weapon of mass destruc-
tion” and scrap the Trident caused despair for Labour
nuclear program.
centrists, who fear the par-

ty faces electoral oblivion

under Corbyn.

John McTernan, a former

aide to Prime Minister Tony

Blair, argued that nuclear

weapons are “deeply and

broadly supported” by Brit-

ish voters.

“So to make the center-

piece of your first confer-

ence a turn towards unilat-

eralism is a resounding sig-

nal to the public that you

don’t want to be a party of

government,” he said.

A vote to get rid of Trident