Thoughtful posepublished at 14:40 British Summer Time 23 September 2014
A solemn-looking Douglas Alexander - Labour's foreign affairs spokesman - looks on as Ed Miliband discusses developments in Syria.
Summary
Leader Ed Miliband's 65-minute speech promises more NHS staff, part-funded by a "mansion tax" and charges on tobacco companies
He also promised a "better future" for working people, by raising the minimum wage, building more homes and creating more apprenticeships
Earlier speeches covered transport and the environment
Thoughtful posepublished at 14:40 British Summer Time 23 September 2014
Make life betterpublished at 14:40 British Summer Time 23 September 2014
Ed Miliband says six days before the end of the Scottish referendum campaign he met a cleaner called Josephine who had not decided which way to vote. He says she wanted to know if anyone was going to make life better for her? "Is anyone going to make a better life for the working people of this country?" Mr Miliband asks. "That's the general election question."
Togethernesspublished at 14:38 British Summer Time 23 September 2014
Ed Milliband says his party will show Scotland it made the right choice because "together this country is better together".
Miliband addresses conferencepublished at 14:37 British Summer Time 23 September 2014
Brown praisepublished at 14:37 British Summer Time 23 September 2014
Ed Milliband thanks "Team Scotland" for the part it played in keeping the UK together following the Scottish referendum. He starts his thanks by mentioning Gordon Brown - a name he has been accused of missing out previously.
BBC's Norman Smithpublished at 14:36 British Summer Time 23 September 2014
BBC's Norman Smith tweets:, external Cripes ! Ed Miliband is going for an 80 minute speech #warandpeace #gladstone
Old agepublished at 14:36 British Summer Time 23 September 2014
Mr Miliband says he was elected leader in Manchester four years ago and feels - to some laughter - wiser, older, much older.
Friends, Labour supporters, lend me your earpublished at 14:35 British Summer Time 23 September 2014
Ed Miliband appears to be speaking without notes and wanders around the stage. He refers to his supporters as "friends".
ISpublished at 14:34 British Summer Time 23 September 2014
Mr Miliband says Labour supports the overnight action against IS, but the UN needs to play its part to secure international support to counter it.
Alan Henningpublished at 14:33 British Summer Time 23 September 2014
Mr Miliband opens his address talking about Alan Henning, the aid worker who has been kidnapped by IS. "They take a decent British man like Alan Henning hostage," he says.
He's here!published at 14:32 British Summer Time 23 September 2014
Ed Miliband receives a standing ovation as he arrives on stage in Manchester.
Laura Kuenssbergpublished at 14:31 British Summer Time 23 September 2014
Laura Kuenssberg tweets:, external Apparently ed m is going to speak for 80 mins, means rolling news might have to cut away from him to cover Obama statement on strikes...
Making a differencepublished at 14:30 British Summer Time 23 September 2014
Nick Robinson says Labour is way ahead in public opinion polls on the NHS, but Ed Miliband is looking for a way to say to people Labour will make a difference to people's lives.
BBC's Chris Masonpublished at 14:30 British Summer Time 23 September 2014
BBC's Chris Mason tweets:, external Ed Miliband speech at #lab14 imminent. See photo, external
Standing room onlypublished at 14:29 British Summer Time 23 September 2014
There's not a spare seat in the house for the Labour leader's speech, which is to begin shortly.
Spendingpublished at 14:28 British Summer Time 23 September 2014
Nick Robinson says Labour can promise greater spending because it has looser borrowing rules for the next parliament than Chancellor George Osborne.
Taxing timespublished at 14:27 British Summer Time 23 September 2014
The BBC's Nick Robinson says the message Labour will be sending is tax the rich, tax the tax avoiders and tax to make us well.
Promisepublished at 14:26 British Summer Time 23 September 2014
Just a few minutes to go before Ed Milliband's speech, BBC political editor Nick Robinson says the Labour leader will be promising to spend more annually on the NHS and 34,000 new staff by the end of its first term.
Owen Bennett, Daily Expresspublished at 14:22 British Summer Time 23 September 2014
tweets:, external Nothing says you're in touch with a nation like playing the new Embrace track before a major speech #lab14
Hedging bets?published at 14:21 British Summer Time 23 September 2014
Labour former Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, tells BBC Two's Daily Politics he believes his party will win the next election, but "at the moment the public have yet to make up their minds".