No Labour bloodbath but row on defence opens old wounds
by Nicholas Watt Chief political correspondent from Economics | The Guardian on (#P2QY)
For Corbyn, opposition to Trident is a key issue but to his critics it is a reminder of how out of step Labour's pacifist leader George Lansbury was in the 1930s
It was a tale of two conferences over a week in which the dazzling Brighton sunshine of an Indian summer shone equally on all the delegates.
To supporters of Jeremy Corbyn, their Labour conference marked the start of a healing process within the party as MPs from other camps watched the new leader begin to explain his values to the nation.
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