LABOUR will not reverse its decision to keep Trident, shadow defence secretary Nia Griffith said today.

She stressed that it was party policy to support the nuclear deterrent, despite Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn having voted against Trident renewal in 2016.

Ms Griffith said: “Having a nuclear deterrent is a very important part of our defence policy.”

She added that uncertainty in the world, with the United States “not stepping up to the mark,” meant it was not the time to be “descaling” it.

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) general secretary Kate Hudson told the Star Ms Griffith’s “tired old arguments” were “simply appalling.”

She said: “The last thing Britain needs is to spend £205 billion on weapons of mass destruction that will be rendered obsolete by new technological developments before they are even built.”

Ms Hudson said that rather than having policy “shaped by fear of Tory accusations of looking ‘soft’ on defence” Labour should put a stop to wasting taxpayers’ money.

“Those resources could be spent on dealing with climate change, funding our health service or ending poverty and homelessness,” she said.