Ethical Research - Political stand points - Labour views on war/conflict

Labour Manifesto - Taken from Jeremy Corbyn's 'Spoken manifesto' from recent speech in Manchester where he outlined Labours pledges if elected in the upcoming snap General Election on the 8th of June.

- The manifesto says Mr Corbyn is committed to achieving a "nuclear-free world" and is "extremely cautious" about using Britain's nuclear deterrent.

- The Labour leader will only send the armed forces into combat if "all other options have been exhausted", the copy of the manifesto states

But the party is facing a series of rows about its pledges on defence amid concerns from some in the arms industry that a vow in the manifesto to scrap weapons exports to Saudi Arabia will cost jobs. The leader, who has been staunchly anti-nuclear weapons for his entire political career has previously clashed with his shadow defence secretary Nia Griffiths over whether to include a commitment to renewing the Trident missile system in the party's election document. The document promises to move towards "a nuclear-free world" and while supporting the renewal of the missile system the draft document adds: "But any prime minister should be extremely cautious about ordering the use of weapons of mass destruction which would result in the indiscriminate killing of millions of innocent civilians.”