Tim Farron says he was inspired by the speech Nick Clegg gave the day after the election, when he announced he was standing down as party leader. The new leader says no political speech has ever moved or motivated him more. He recalls Mr Clegg saying that Liberal values would not be extinguished overnight and that they're more precious than ever. He says that during his leadership campaign he came across many Liberal Democrats who were "proud" of what the party did in government. He says:

Tim Farron starts by telling us a bit about himself. He says that in his first week at sixth form college in Leyland, Lancashire he joined the Liberal Party and joined a band. There are some photos around of those days, he jokes (a bit of a reference to allegations about David Cameron's university days?). He says luckily, it's hard to see he was wearing eye liner. He also confesses to watching X factor with his two children.   

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Former Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell says his comment that the party will take a decade to recover from its general election defeat has been "misinterpreted". "I said this is a long march," he says, adding that it is "unrealistic" to think the Lib Dems could regain all the seats they lost in May by the 2020 general election.

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Five months ago the Liberal Democrats were a party in government, but times are very different, and members could one day face a new choice of teaming up with Labour or the Conservatives.

Adam Fleming took the Daily Politics mood box, an unscientific test with a plastic box and balls, to see if today's Lib Dems prefer new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, or David Cameron and their former coalition partners.

The large back room in the clifftop hotel that hosted last night’s Liberal Democrat Glee Club was a rowdy, cheerful affair. 

The song book published and updated at every conference, the Liberator, is pretty bawdy but also a fascinating catalogue of recent Liberal history. 

Standing to one side of the room I spotted the former business minister and defeated MP Jo Swinson. 

She joined in cheerfully with a song called “The Lib-Lab Lie”, which recounts, to the tune of Don Maclean’s “American Pie”, the history of deals between the Liberals and Labour.  

The song spans the days of James Callaghan and David Steel to those of Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown. 

The final stanza of the chorus states extremely rudely the Lib Dems think of Mr Blair. 

It was the only line of the song that Ms Swinson did not sing.

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Matthew Parris, of The Times, dismisses Tim Farron as a "bingo caller" saying the Lib Dems "aren't going to look like a major national party under this leader". The Herald's Kate Devlin says Mr Farron's challenge is to convince the hall that Labour's Jeremy Corbyn is unelectable - which means another coalition with the Conservatives could be "the only game in town".

Tim Farron's big moment is approaching - when he'll make his first end of conference speech as leader of the Liberal Democrats. He'll start speaking at around 12.15. There's live coverage on the BBC's 2 Daily Politics and on BBC Parliament. The speech is likely to last about 45 minutes. You can watch it all by clicking on the link on the main picture on this page, or via the Live Video button.

In the meantime, the party's president, Baroness Sal Brinton, is giving awards to party members.

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James McGrory, Nick Clegg's adviser in the coalition government, says Westminster's "fluid" politics will allow the Lib Dems to make a comeback in the polls. "I'm not saying it's easy, it's a long way back." He says Tim Farron is "exactly what we need", describing him as "the best political campaigner I've ever come across".

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The gossip in the bar at the conference hotel last night was that former MP Jo Swinson could be in line to be Tim Farron's deputy leader.

The party is in the process of changing the rules for the way it selects a leader. It doesn't have to be an MP.

Charities could be banned from certain forms of fund-raising, such as cold-calling or mailshots, if they break stricter rules proposed for the sector.

A government-commissioned review , externalalso recommended the creation of a new register to allow people to opt out of all charity contact.

It follows concerns about aggressive fund-raising tactics by some charities, particularly targeting the vulnerable.

It also said the main fund-raising regulator should be scrapped.

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There's an extended Daily Politics to cover the speech of Tim Farron to the Liberal Democrat conference, where he is expected to speak for 45 minutes, some time after noon.

Also in the programme, Andrew Neil will be talking to Kirsty Williams, the leader of the Lib Dems in the Welsh Assembly, and later to Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan about migration.

And he will be joined by Richmond councillor Jennifer Churchill who has defected from the Lib Dems to Labour, plus getting the views of Matthew Parris from The Times and Kate Devlin, Westminster Correspondent of The Herald.

The Daily Politics is live from 11:30 to 13:00 BST and can be watched on the Live Coverage tab above.

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With left-winger Jeremy Corbyn leading the Labour party, there's been talk of Labour politicians defecting to the Liberal Democrats. But for the moment, it seems the traffic is flowing in the other direction. 

A councillor on Richmond Borough Council in London - Jennifer Churchill - is so inspired by Mr Corbyn that she's just defected from the Liberal Democrats to Labour.

According to the Richmond and Twickenham Times, external, Jennifer Churchill will become Richmond's first Labour councillor in over 13 years.

Ms Churchill told her local paper that Tim Farron "doesn't seem to stand for anything". 

Her partner is fellow Richmond councillor and Lib Dem, Stephen Knight who - she said - was "quite supportive" of her decision.   

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Reporting from the Liberal Democrat conference in Bournemouth, BBC political correspondent Ross Hawkins says some Lib Dems want Conservative prospective candidate Zac Goldsmith to win next year's London mayoral election. This is because it would trigger a by-election in his Richmond Park constituency, which was previously held by the Lib Dems. Not sure the party's mayoral candidate Caroline Pidgeon, external would concur with that analysis.

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Huw Irranca-Davies, who chairs the Commons Environmental Audit Committee, has issued a comment on the Volkswagen scandal. The German car-makerhas been caughtmanipulating its diesel car emissions tests. Mr Irranca-Davies said customers deserved "urgent reassurance" they had not been "deceived".

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The new Lib Dem leader loves the 1980s band Prefab Sprout, so it had to be the music to take a look back at some images of an even-younger looking Tim Farron.

He is to make his first conference speech as party leader from 12:15 BST on Wednesday, and this will be live on BBC2.

Civil war within the Labour Party is inevitable following Jeremy Corbyn's election as leader, a former Foreign Office minister has said.

Kim Howells said Labour must reconcile its differences to have a chance of winning the 2020 general election.

Despite Mr Corbyn's landslide win, Mr Howells said winning the votes of the wider electorate is a different matter.

Welsh Labour said: "The party is united in our aim to deliver another Labour government in Wales next year."

Asked how he would respond to recent events if he were still an MP, Mr Howells told BBC Wales' Week in Week Out programme: "I'd be bitterly opposed to the current leadership of the Labour Party.

"I'd be saying things that I believe about the need to win political power and a bunch of old Trotskyites are not going win political power."