Nick Clegg thanks all party members for their support in government whether they were "exhilarated or exasperated" by him. He says the party should be "proud and unembarrassed by its past" while asking the right questions about the future. He pays tribute to Tim Farron, the man who succeeded him, saying he is brave, principled and the "best political campaigner" I know. He deserves the party "undivided loyalty" as he leads the party's fightback, he adds. 

Mr Clegg starts his speech with a joke - recounting how one of the first things he did when he left government was to hand in his official blackberry and to go out with his son to buy a mobile phone. He recalls how lots of people came up to him to express their commiseration. He was approached by one lady who was in tears but when he said thanked her for voting Lib Dem, she replied "but I voted Green". He says this is evidence of the "buyer's remorse" experienced since many voters since the election.

Nick Clegg is given a standing ovation as he walks onto the stage in Bournemouth. He urges people to sit down, adding "let me get going". 

Nick Clegg is to address the Lib Dem conference in the next few minutes. All the parties' leading figures are out in force to listen to him. This will be the first time that he has addressed the party conference as a humble backbencher for eight years. Will he take a few pot shots at his former coalition partners, I wonder?

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Tim Farron is appearing on the Daily Politics in the latest in a series of interviews. He says Jeremy Corbyn is a "gent" and he will not be joining in any personal attacks on him. However, he says Labour cannot provide credible opposition to the government because its economic policies are "fantasies that will make austerity worse". While recognising that Mr Corbyn has engaged young people and attracted thousands of new members, he says that more people go to a football game on a Saturday than are members of political party and parties must reach out to a much wider audience if they aspire to be elected. He also jokes that none of the Lib Dems' 30,000 new members since May are "mischief makers or entryists".

As the Lib Dem's climate debate comes to a close, Ed Davey, the former Lib Dem Energy Secretary - who lost his seat at the election - says he wants to give the government "the hardest time possible" on green issues.

He complains that the Tories are focusing the UK's EU strategy on renegotiating membership - thereby diminishing the UK's influence on international climate change negotiations. "That's a very damaging thing," he says.

He adds that he is a lifelong Anglican but is considering converting to Catholicism because of Pope Francis's "remarkable" leadership on climate change. 

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The prime minister's official spokesperson has said she will not comment on allegations made in a new book about David Cameron, co-written by former Tory treasurer Lord Ashcroft. She said: "I do not see the need to dignify the book by offering any comment.The author has set out his reasons for writing it." She said the prime minister was focused on tackling important tasks such as the migrant crisis. Asked whether the prime minister maintains he had a normal university experience, the prime minister's official spokesperson said: "He has talked about that in the past. I do not think that has changed this morning."

Opening a debate on climate change, former Lib Dem minister Lynne Featherstone, now the party's climate change spokeswoman, says the government is being run by "climate change sceptics" who are "wedded to a vision of a low spending, deregulatory, isolationist, small state" that is ill-equipped to deal with the challenges ahead. In contrast, her party will argue for an "active, interventionist" approach to the issue of global warming, which she suggests is the biggest challenge facing the UK and has the capacity to unleash a "tide of human misery" around the world. 

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The Scottish Lib Dem leader, Willie Rennie, accuses the SNP of talking up the prospect of another referendum to take the spotlight away from their record in Scotland on running the NHS, education and policing. He warns that "problems are mounting up" in Scotland and that the elections to the Scottish Parliament next May should be about how the SNP is running the country.

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Labour has given its reaction to Chancellor George Osborne's announcement of a £2bn government guarantee for the new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point. New shadow energy secretary Lisa Nandy says the reactor is on course to become the most expensive power station in British history. She adds:

One of the great guessing games in politics at the moment is when the referendum on the UK's membership of the EU will be held. There has been some speculation that David Cameron may announce the date at the Conservative Party conference in two weeks. One Conservative MP, Chris Heaton-Harris, says he believes the prime minister will plump for 15 September 2016. Writing in theConservativeHome website, external, he explains: 

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Willie Rennie, the leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, tells the conference that delegates keep asking him: "What on earth is going on in Scotland?" Mr Rennie declares he is there to tell the "unvarnished truth". He says the SNP is an "illiberal, centralising and increasingly incompetent government" which has "put their party before my country for far too long".    

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Former minister Jo Swinson has spoken of the "delicious" moment she was mistaken for a secretary by a senior government official.

The ex-Lib Dem MP, an equalities minister in the coalition government, was speaking at the party's conference in Bournemouth about the difficulties faced by women in the workplace.

She said the official was mortified when he realised his mistake.

She also revealed that her then boss Vince Cable skipped a diversity training seminar she had set up.

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Labour's deputy leader has told MPs to give Jeremy Corbyn "space and time" to set out his stall as party leader.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today earlier, Tom Watson said there was "bound to be a bit of turbulence" as Mr Corbyn attempted a "political realignment" of the party. 

Some members of Mr Corbyn's shadow cabinet have said they disagree with him on policy issues.

Shadow justice secretary Lord Falconer has set out differences with the new leader on a wide range of policy areas, including defence, foreign affairs, welfare, education and the economy.

Shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn has rejected Mr Corbyn's opposition to the renewal of Trident, while the leader's opposition to military action in Syria is not shared by all of his front bench.

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At the Lib Dem conference, members are now debating air quality and public health. Ben Thomas, from Greater Reading, causes a few raised eyebrows when he claims trees may be exacerbating deadly pollution in urban environments and everything we assumed about them might just prove to be wrong. Mr Thomas, who is doing research on the subject, makes it clear that trees in general are good but suggests large trees in cities and towns do pose a potential risk by aggravating the spread of nitrogen dioxide and particulates. 

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Catherine Bearder, the Lib Dems' one remaining MEP, has been taking questions from party members in Bournemouth. She tells them she is "always accessible" and urges them to read her newsletter. She defends the EU's transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP) with the US - which is opposed by some trade unions and by many on both the left and right of the political spectrum - saying it is wrong to claim that the NHS and other public services fall within the scope of it. Tom Brake, one of the party's eight MPs, agrees, saying there are a lot of inaccurate "rumours and myths" about TTIP being put around by its opponents and the party should be backing free trade initiatives.