Clive Lewis, Labour’s shadow defence secretary, had his speech changed minutes before he was to deliver it at the party’s conference in Liverpool Times photographer Richard PohleLabour’s nuclear policy was re-written on the autocue today after a huge row blew up over a decision to back the renewal of Trident. Clive Lewis, the shadow defence secretary, gave a speech today saying that Labour would give the go-ahead to the scheme, long opposed by Jeremy Corbyn, as part of a peace deal with the GMB union. However Mr Lewis’ speech was rewritten minutes before it was due to be delivered. Seumas Milne, Mr Corbyn’s director of communications, is understood to have changed the text on the autocue to remove suggestions that the issue had been settled for…

Source: The Times September 26, 2016 15:56 UTC