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Shadow defence minister, Toby Perkins, has said he is going into Labour鈥檚 defence review, including of Trident, 鈥渨ith an open mind鈥�.

But he told the Daily Politics he had not 鈥渉eard any evidence yet that would convince me that we should be going down the unilateral path".

The defence review, led by shadow defence secretary Emily Thornberry, will look at the party's stance on Britain's nuclear weapons programme, with leader Jeremy Corbyn opposed to Trident and many of his MPs in favour.

Mr Perkins said he had 鈥渁lways been a believer in multilateral rather than unilateral disarmament".

Asked whether he was pleased that Ken Livingstone had been removed as co-convener of the defence review, Mr Perkins said: 鈥淚 didn鈥檛 lose sleep that night.鈥�