Labour’s denuclearisation plans would lead to defence engineers who worked on Trident being retrained as healthcare workers

SKILLED defence engineers would be forced to retrain as healthcare workers under fresh plans to ditch Britain nuclear deterrent drawn up by Labour.

Jeremy Corbyn's “Peace Minister” Fabian Hamilton boasts his peacenik party chief backs a sweeping “defence diversification” project and has agreed to put the madcap plan to the Shadow Cabinet.

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Currently Labour’s trade union backers have kept the party committed to Trident amid fears thousands of well-paid defence jobs would be slashed otherwise.

But Mr Hamilton believes his plan would persuade them that workers can be redeployed in other sectors - adding he “sincerely hopes” a u-turn is in sight.

Jeremy Corbyn said he would appoint a Minister for Peace if he ever got into power, choosing lefty Mr Hamilton with a brief to "reduce violence, war and conflict";.

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