Conference voted in favour of amendment 1 to the “Scrapping Trident” motion this afternoon.
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Right decision made. The whole thing was confusing but it became clear to me over the last few days that this Jolly amendment was the way forward.
A totally unfair characterisation. We are now committed to vote against Trident next year, and have rejected unilateralism in favour of multilateralism.
Well done Conference!
Toby, Not intentional. Was done in a rush as you would imagine. I will rephrase it.
Back to the same question, Toby Fenwick. What multilateralism?
Thanks Paul
Tim, happy to discuss.