Senior Labour source on Clive Lewis speechpublished at 16:39 British Summer Time 26 September 2016
A senior Labour source says Clive Lewis was upset at late changes to his speech on a number of defence issues including the Trident deterrent.
He denied any significant changes had been made in references to Trident but acknowledged the independent nuclear deterrent was established Labour policy, especially following the House of Commons vote in favour of nuclear deterrents.
He said work on the speech was going on until a very late stage, as is normal, and that although Clive found it a little frustrating he was said to be ok with it now.