{"id":1398048,"date":"2022-03-24T09:44:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T13:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1398048"},"modified":"2022-03-24T09:44:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T13:44:42","slug":"wut-far-left-deputy-labour-leader-says-russia-has-already-used-nukes-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wut-far-left-deputy-labour-leader-says-russia-has-already-used-nukes-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Wut? Far-Left Deputy Labour Leader Says Russia Has Already Used Nukes in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwut-far-left-deputy-labour-leader-says-russia-has-already-used-nukes-in-britain%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1398048&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Labour\u2019s Deputy Leader Angela Rayner has accused Russia of previously carrying out a nuclear attack in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to defend former hard-left leader Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s apathy over the 2018 Salisbury Novichok incident \u2014 where Corbyn attempted to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/salisbury-attack-jeremy-corbyn-accused-of-appeasement-towards-russia-11289753\">divert blame<\/a> away from Moscow for poisonings attributed to Russian operatives by suggesting the government\u2019s response should be \u201cproportionate and based on clear evidence\u201d \u2014 Rayner added to a growing collection of public blunders.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis was about\u2026 if the Russian state had done that, which we were looking at facts at the time, we didn\u2019t know that at the time. When we did find out about that, it was an absolute disgrace that President Putin thought he could come on UK soil and use weapons, nuclear weapons, in that way,\u201d Rayner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.uk\/news\/angela-rayner-claims-russia-has-already-used-nuclear-weapons-in-uk-in-jaw-dropping-blunder\/255279\">said<\/a>, apparently mistaking the nerve agent for a nuclear bomb.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s despicable that any nation thought they could come on foreign soil and use those types of weapons and it needed a strong, robust response,\u201d Rayner continued, failing to correct herself.<\/p>\n<p>As of the time of writing Rayner had still not <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AngelaRayner\">corrected<\/a> herself or clarified her position, despite facing widespread\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/politics\/1584860\/Angela-Rayner-news-Jeremy-Corbyn-nuclear-weapons-Russia-military-intervention-vn\">ridicule<\/a> from members of the public on Twitter.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Novichok poisonings took place near Salisbury Cathedral and are believed to have been a Moscow-sponsored\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2018\/07\/23\/discarded-perfume-bottle-broke-in-hands-of-novichok-nerve-agent-victim\/\">assassination<\/a> attempt on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal. He and his daughter Julia were both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-44278609\">hospitalised<\/a> as a result, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-43506232\">a police officer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the trio survived, an unassociated member of the public,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-wiltshire-60523317\">Dawn Sturgess<\/a>, tragically died as a result of being exposed to the nerve agent later on.<\/p>\n<p>During the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/radio\/presenters\/andrew-marr\/corbyn-send-missiles-to-ukraine-angela-rayner\/\">interview<\/a>\u00a0with LBC Rayner also attempted to insist that Corbyn \u2014 who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/jeremy-corbyn-nato-labour-ukraine-jens-stoltenberg-b2012562.html\">stridently<\/a>\u00a0anti-war \u2014 would have supplied Ukraine with missiles as the Conservative government has done after being asked about a comment from Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservatives.com\/news\/2022\/spring-conference-2022--address-from-prime-minister-boris-johnson\">suggesting<\/a>\u00a0that a Corbyn-led Labour government would have been \u201crunning up the white flag\u201d and caving in to \u201cPutin\u2019s blackmail\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Labour MP Admits White Working Class Disadvantaged by Focus on Ethnic Minorities  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o3mrGmLXWa\">https:\/\/t.co\/o3mrGmLXWa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/949385017209139200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rayner also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10619413\/Deputies-clash-PMQs-Dominic-Raab-Labours-Angela-Rayner-trade-blows-Lebedev-peerage.html\">received<\/a>\u00a0political flak on the 16th of March from Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, who highlighted Labour\u2019s deputy leader having previously referred to Corbyn as a \u201cvery strong leader\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cCan I just gently say to her that when she was campaigning as the rest of them were to make the member for Islington North [Corbyn] Prime Minister, this Prime Minister [Johnson] was Foreign Secretary, leading the response to the nerve agent attack on Salisbury\u201d, Raab asserted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suggestion she\u2019s making is sheer nonsense. But if she wants to talk about national security then I remind her that she and her Shadow Cabinet colleagues not so long ago wanted the honourable member for Islington North\u2026 a man who wanted and talked about abolishing the Army, pulling out of Trident \u2014 she voted for that,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHas there ever been a more ridiculous, reckless, naive moment to call for unilateral nuclear disarmament and pulling out of NATO? A Labour government would put at risk our security. We\u2019re doing everything we can to protect it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Corbyn has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-politics-54746452\">suspended<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/pkev7y\/keir-starmer-i-still-see-myself-as-a-socialist\">socialist<\/a> Labour Party he used to lead by his successor, Sir Keir Starmer \u2014 who formerly served in Corbyn\u2019s Shadow Cabinet \u2014 for saying that the scale of anti-Semitism within the leftist party had been \u201cdramatically overstated for political reasons\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Johnson Announces Ukraine Cash Giveaway\u2026 After Denying Britons a Tax Cut <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/igjCOTiFWY\">https:\/\/t.co\/igjCOTiFWY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1488802536647802880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour\u2019s Deputy Leader Angela Rayner has accused Russia of previously carrying out a nuclear attack in Britain. 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