JOBS on the west coast of Scotland can be secured without replacing Trident, Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday in a pitch to win Scottish voters back to Labour.

The left leadership candidate said Scotland represented “the biggest mountain to climb” for his party in the 2020 general election, and called for Labour to be “seen as the party of social justice again — campaigning as a social movement for that cause, rebuilding trust and giving people hope.”

Mr Corbyn, a longstanding supporter and vice-chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, used an article on the Scottish Labour grassroots website LabourHame to propose setting up a defence diversification agency “to ensure ... workers’ skills are not lost.”

“I know many Labour members and trade unionists share that view that huge investment in money, jobs and skills could be put to more socially useful purposes,” he added.