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Labour Leadership: Chuka Umunna calls for party solidarity and support for new leader

Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has called for Labour to unite behind the new party leader in an apparent offer of reconciliation from the party's modernising wing to leadership favourite Jeremy Corbyn.

He also welcomed a surge in party membership and support in the run up to the leadership contest saying that it was important not to "dismiss out of hand" criticism of New Labour.

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PM: Corbyn's foreign policy would make UK 'less secure'

Labour leadership favourite Jeremy Corbyn would make the UK "less secure" as he has "absolutely the wrong approach" to foreign policy, Prime Minister David Cameron has told ITV News.

David Cameron criticised Jeremy Corbyn for appearing to compare Islamic State atrocities to actions by the US military in Iraq in an interview last year.

Speaking during a visit to an aircraft engineering company at Norwich Airport, Mr Cameron was asked for a response to Mr Corbyn's pledge to apologise for the Iraq War on behalf of the Labour Party if elected leader.

What Jeremy Corbyn does is a matter for Jeremy Corbyn. My concern is that we do everything we can to protect and enhance the security of the United Kingdom and the idea that we would be stronger and more secure by leaving Nato, as Jeremy Corbyn suggests, or by comparing American soldiers to Isil ... is absolutely the wrong approach and would make Britain less secure and that would never happen under my watch.

– David Cameron, speaking to ITV News

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