Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he will try to "accommodate" the different views within the party over the future of Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent while reiterating his position that it should be scrapped.

In an interview with The Independent on Sunday, Mr Corbyn acknowledged that while he was committed to getting rid of it, current party policy was to go ahead with the renewal of the submarine fleet which carries the Trident missiles.

Shadow defence secretary Emily Thornberry has launched a review of Labour's entire defence policy, but Mr Corbyn said he has accepted that there could be no change in the current position until the party conference in September.

His comments came as Michael Dugher, the former shadow culture secretary who was sacked in Mr Corbyn's New Year reshuffle criticised the Labour leadership for wasting time on a "self-indulgent" debate on Trident.

Mr Dugher condemned the party's defence review as an "unnecessary distraction".

He said: "The idea that we can afford to spend a single day from now to May talking to ourselves about a divisive issue like Trident rather than talking to the country about what this Tory government is doing is frankly barmy."