Emily Thornberry will tonight address Labour MPs at the weekly meeting of the Parliamentary Labour on her Trident policy review. It is the first discussion the party has had on the matter this year. As I reported last week, the Shadow Cabinet briefing on Trident ran out of time, and will take place tomorrow.
I understand that Jeremy Corbyn will not be at tonight’s meeting, but a number of MPs are very keen to hear from Thornberry, not just about her thinking on the review but about who she is consulting for it, including whether she will use the evidence being gathered by John Woodcock’s backbench defence committee review. MPs are also interested in how Labour will approach votes in the Commons, with a series of votes expected on the Main Gate decision on the size of the fleet and so on.
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