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The Liberal Democrat conference is back up and running after a break for lunch. Kicking off the debate on human rights, is Lib Dem peer Lord Marks who attacks government plans to scrap the Human Rights Act (HRA) and replace it with a British Bill of Rights.

Lord Marks claims Tories dislike the HRA "because it stops them riding roughshod over rights". He says the conference needs to send a message that to leave it "would send a terrible message to dictators everywhere that the UK no longer cares about human rights".

The Daily Politics

The Lib Dems won eight seats in May's general election, and some of those who lost their place in the Commons have ended up in the House of Lords.

Eleven new Liberal Democrat peers have been created, even though the party wants to reform the institution.

From the Lib Dem conference, Adam Fleming used the mood box - an unscientific test with a plastic bin and balls - to hear what delegates would do if they were offered a peerage.

The Daily Politics

For those of you who enjoyed Vince Cable's appearance on Daily Politics earlier, here's a look back at some images of his long political career with the Labour and Liberal Democrats, and, of course, a few turns on the dance floor.

Brian Wheeler

Ed Davey is laying into his former coalition partners at a fringe meeting in Bournemouth, describing George Osborne as "a politically motivated scoundrel". 

Mr Davey says he had to stop Conservatives ministers scrapping regulations ensuring furniture and night dresses are flame proof. 

He also had to fight tooth and nail to get the living wage for cleaners in his department against Tory opposition, he claims. 

Those are some of the highlights from a finger-jabbing speech. 

Brian Wheeler

The Liberal Democrats have a spring in their step at their party conference. Do they know something we don't?

Lisa Northover can't stop smiling. She spends all day photographing other smiling people. The pictures stretch out across the wall behind her. The smiling people are all holding up cards with scribbled messages - what the Liberal Democrat party means to them.

Freedom, diversity, equality of opportunity and other uplifting themes dominate.

What is going on? Isn't this the party that was meant to have been dead and buried four months ago at the general election? The party that if it had a conference at all would struggle to fill a church hall?

Read more from Brian.

Robert Peston
Economics editor

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Some see in George Osborne a chancellor of the exchequer practising to be prime minister, in the way he has tried on his tour of China to set the agenda for the UK's future relationship with the world's second biggest economy.

But this afternoon, for a nano-second, I wondered whether he didn't fancy a permanent move to Beijing and a tilt at becoming Supreme Leader - because in an interview with me he set an economic target for the UK which felt quite People's Republic and five-year-plan in flavour.

Read more from Robert.

Brian Wheeler

Ed Miliband's catchphrase that never quiet caught on is a big influence on government and Lib Dem policy, says former minister Ed Davey.

Predistribution is the idea that the poor keep more of the money they earn rather than relying on benefits to top up their income.

Mr Davey, speaking at a fringe meeting, says it could be the answer to tackling poverty.

The names of a three person panel which will review a factual assessment of paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland have been released.

They include Lord Carlile CBE QC, former Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation; Rosalie Flanagan, a former senior civil servant; and Stephen Shaw QC, a senior counsel barrister. 

The panel has been established by Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers as a way to restore confidence to the political process in Northern Ireland.

It comes in response to the crisis at Stormont.

Brian Wheeler

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Liberal Democrat members are to mock Charles Kennedy's drinking in a satirical song - on the day the party pays tribute to its former leader.

Mr Kennedy, who led the party between 1999 and 2006, died in June of a haemorrhage linked to alcoholism.

Leading party figures are set to pay their respects in the main hall at the party's conference in Bournemouth.

But the Glee Club - a late night satirical cabaret - is planning its own tribute.

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The Huffington Post

Former US vice president Al Gore has accused David Cameron of u-turning on environmental policies since winning re-election in May, HuffPost reports. Mr Gore decided to speak out on UK affairs because "too much is at stake". Full story here, external.

The Daily Politics

More from Vince Cable, who says the Lib Dems "lost the economic narrative" on the financial crash to the Conservatives. His version centred on the banking crisis and mortgages, while the Tories pushed the message that Labour had not "fixed the roof", he says. He also says public investment should have been sustained. Would it have been different with him, rather than Danny Alexander, in the Treasury? "I honestly can't say," he replies.

The Daily Politics

Norman Lamb picks up a familiar theme for the Lib Dems, saying there is an "enormous space" for them in British politics. There has been a "hard-left takeover" of Labour and David Cameron's Conservatives have drifted to the right now they're free of coalition, he adds.

The Daily Politics

Speaking on the Daily Politics, former Health Minister Norman Lamb says most people are prepared "to pay enough to make sure" NHS services are sustained.  

Vince Cable says there is a lot of "salacious detail" in Lord Ashcroft's biography of the prime minister but the claims about the peer's tax status and what David Cameron knew about it are "potentially very serious" and likely to "hang around". 

The Daily Politics

Vince Cable says concerns expressed by a former head of the army about the 2011 Libyan intervention are "obviously worrying". Mr Cable says he backed the UK's role in the bombing campaign as a member of the cabinet and he is "not parting" from that position in any way. He insists there was planning for the aftermath and "these things were thought about". He tells Daily Politics.