Summary

  • Labour gathers in Brighton for its annual party conference - the first under new leader Jeremy Corbyn

  • Jeremy Corbyn tells Andrew Marr he wants to transform Labour's policy making process

  • Mr Corbyn says he is against renewing Trident but admits he might not get his way on Labour's policy

  • He also discussed other topics, including tax, the IRA, Syria, Russia and the SNP

  1. Goodbye for nowpublished at 14:05

    We'll let our Chris Mason have the last word and say goodbye for now. Thanks for sticking with us. You can keep across the latest news lines here.

  2. 'Compromise is in the air'published at 14:00

    BBC political correspondent Chris Mason writes...

    He's still tie free. But life is rather less carefree for Jeremy Corbyn these days. Labour's new leader was disarming in style and self confident in mood on The Andrew Marr Show. Forget the soundbites and party lines you come to expect from politicians. Mr Corbyn wants to celebrate disagreement. For now at least. But, whisper it, the man admired by his supporters for his unwavering principles, is hinting that compromise is in the air. That is because whilst he has spent a lifetime opposing the UK's nuclear weapons, he knows plenty of his colleagues are fully committed to them. But the very fact it is even being debated tells you how very, very different this conference, and Labour, now is. 

  3. Demos fringe meetspublished at 13:58 British Summer Time 27 September 2015

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  4. 'Shaking the establishment'published at 13:56

    Brian Wheeler

    Len McCluskey says he is looking forward to the Labour conference for the first time in years because he doesn't have to oppose the leadership.

    This gets a big cheer from activists from activists at the Mirror fringe. 

    He ends by urging the crowd to have faith in their ideals and "shake the establishment to their very core".

  5. 'Fudge is back on the menu'published at 13:53 British Summer Time 27 September 2015

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  6. Pictures: Corbyn at conferencepublished at 13:50

    Jeremy Corbyn and Tom WatsonImage source, EPA
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    Jeremy Corbyn and Tom Watson side-by-side

    Jeremy Corbyn drinking from a cupImage source, EPA
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    A little light refreshment

    Jeremy CorbynImage source, Reuters
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    Mr Corbyn has been attending conference for years but it's his first as leader

  7. McCluskey hails anti-austerity movementpublished at 13:47

    Len McCluskey

    Unite leader Len McCuskey in full flow, attacking the "chinless wonders of the elite" who he says are threatening the welfare state.

    Mr McCluskey is hailing the global anti-austerity movement and taking a swipe at Labour's own grandees "sunning themselves" on their friends' yachts. 

  8. Street starpublished at 13:44

    Cherylee Houston

    Coronation Street star Cherylee Houston, who plays Izzy Armstrong, is delivering a speech to the Mirror fringe, attacking cuts to the Independent Living Fund and other benefits disabled people rely on. 

    "Disabled people are being attacked from all sides," she tells the audience. 

  9. Some very yellow foodpublished at 13:38 British Summer Time 27 September 2015

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  10. 'Lost its way'published at 13:36

    Poppy Noor

    Gasps from the audience at the Mirror fringe as Poppy Noor, a homeless women who made it to Cambridge university, says MPs at last year's conference told her there was no point canvassing working class people because they don't vote.

    Poppy, who campaigns for the welfare state, says the party forgot "where it came from" under the previous leadership. 

  11. Trident votepublished at 13:26 British Summer Time 27 September 2015

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  12. Abbott: Trident is sillypublished at 13:06

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    The shadow international development secretary, Diane Abbott, was asked on the BBC News Channel whether Labour MPs should be bound by what conference decides on the issue of Trident.

    She said: "I think Jeremy is trying to keep everyone together. And if there are people who passionately believe in nuclear weapons, he's saying well you can exercise your passion and vote for them."

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    I think it's silly to spend a hundred billion on Trident. And I think it's just not acceptable in an age of austerity when we're making cuts on services and we need to be spending money on building homes and helping ordinary people

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  13. Anti-austerity party'published at 13:02

    Brian Wheeler

    Tom Watson

    Tom Watson gets a cheer from Labour activists at the Mirror fringe when he tells them they are now in an 'unequivocally anti-austerity party'.

  14. Reform National Policy Forumpublished at 12:57 British Summer Time 27 September 2015

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  15. Labour policy reviewpublished at 12:56

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    The shadow first secretary of state Angela Eagle has confirmed Labour will review the way it makes it policies.

    She called for a "new kind of politics that involves and engages people more directly” but made clear she did not intend to scrap the existing National Policy Forum.

    Addressing delegates she said: "I know that working together we can build a bigger, better National Policy Forum.”

    She added: "The National Policy Forum needs to evolve so we can make it even better. We need to preserve the best of it, members getting involved and shaping our policy, but look again at what we can do to take it forwards."

  16. Unite fringepublished at 12:55

    Brian Wheeler

    Len McLuskey

    Unite leader Len McLuskey arrives at a packed Daily Mirror fringe meeting in the Grand Hotel. Labour deputy leader Tom Watson, comedian Mark Steel and the Mirror's Kevin Maguire are among the other panellists. 

  17. New constituencies mean 'more Tories'published at 12:46

    Tyler Hawkins from Huddersfield CLP takes the stage to urge Labour supporters to fight the Tory plans to redraw the constituency boundaries.

    He says if Labour do not fight the policy it will result in more Tory MPs and less democracy.

  18. Trident analysispublished at 12:39

    Ross Hawkins, BBC political correspondent

    Labour MPs are likely to be allowed to vote with their consciences on Trident, according to the deputy leader Tom Watson. 

    There was "likely to be a free vote" on the issue, he said, although the shadow cabinet had not yet made a decision.

    Speaking on BBC Radio 5 live's Pienaar's Politics, Watson made it clear he was on a collision course with Jeremy Corbyn on the issue. 

    After Corbyn told Andrew Marr he would do his "persuasive best" to get Labour to back scrapping the weapon, Watson told 5 Live: "Jeremy says he seeks to persuade us I seek to persuade him too". 

    Behind closed doors meetings will take later today to decide what the motion on Trident will say. 

    It could be watered down into a bland compromise text that reveals little about the party's future direction. 

    Watson also said he was "deeply sceptical" about military action in Syria. 

  19. 'Engage' memberspublished at 12:33

    Maggie Ryan from Unite the union makes a speech at the conference

    She said the party needed "democratic and representative structures" to make sure the party is "engaged" with its old, and new younger members.

  20. Labour Euroscepticspublished at 12:20 British Summer Time 27 September 2015

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