Summary

  • Labour Party conference is taking place in Brighton

  • New leader Jeremy Corbyn calls for a 'kinder politics'

  • Mr Corbyn gets a standing ovation after speech lasting nearly an hour

  • Labour members back rail nationalisation as the party's official policy

  • Energy spokeswoman Lisa Nandy backs community ownership of clean energy power stations

  • Environment spokeswoman Kerry McCarthy says farmers should not be worried about her support for the industry

  1. Shadow cabinet row?published at 13:25 British Summer Time 29 September 2015

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  2. 'Passionately patriotic'published at 13:23

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    Shadow local government secretary John Trickett tells the World at One that Jeremy Corbyn will talk about love of his country because "the Labour party are a passionately patriotic party".

  3. 'Not about personality'published at 13:22

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    Ivan Lewis, the former shadow Northern Ireland secretary, says his sacking by Mr Corbyn by text message is "a matter of public record" but adds: "Today isn't about me, not about personality and individuals - that's why the public hate politics."

  4. Attitudes towards Corbynpublished at 13:19

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    Political strategist Deborah Mattinson says people polled about Jeremy Corbyn describe him as honest, but are also concerned about his attitudes towards the economy and immigration. They are also "a little bit outraged" that he did not sing the national anthem in the recent Battle of Britain memorial, she adds.

  5. Corbyn's speechpublished at 13:12

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    Jeremy Corbyn is said to be very relaxed about his speech this afternoon but there's a lot at stake. He may have won over more than 60% of his own party and attracted thousands of new members but Labour is still languishing in the polls behind the Conservatives and he hasn't had the traditional bump in popularity that new leaders get.

    In just over an hour Mr Corbyn will address the Labour conference. BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says we know a little about what he's planning to say but the speech has been changing "up until about an hour ago".

  6. Lunch breakpublished at 13:00

    The Daily Politics adjourns for a hour but it'll be back at 14:00 BST in time for Jeremy Corbyn's big speech to Labour conference.

  7. Corbyn's 'refreshing' stylepublished at 12:57

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    Asked whether Jeremy Corbyn is a rebound post-Ed Miliband, Labour leader in the Lords Baroness (Angela) Smith says he is "in part" but he's also proven popular because "people are looking for something different in politics".

    Baroness Smith, a former parliamentary private secretary to Gordon Brown, says she finds it "refreshing" that Mr Corbyn doesn't think he's somebody that thinks he has all of the answer all of the time, and endorses his "consensual style" of politics.

  8. 'Sensible' to review Bank of England mandatepublished at 12:50

    Economist David Blancflower

    What does David Blanchflower think about widening the Bank's remit - something suggested by shadow chancellor John McDonnell. The economist says it reasonable to think about broadening its remit, and reckons a good starting point would be to move to a model like the US Federal Reserve, which he says focuses on stable prices and maximum employment.

  9. 'Good try, not going there'published at 12:47

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    Danny Blanchflower, former Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member, is the latest guest on Daily Politics. He's going to be one of the economists on Mr Corbyn's advisory panel.

    Asked who he wanted to be leader of the Labour Party, he says he doesn't have a view. "Good try, not going there," he tells presenter Andrew Neil, saying he's on the programme to talk about economics.

    Asked about Corbyn's "People's QE" - to print money for infrastructure investment - Blanchflower says it's "perfectly sensible" to think about the form QE could take, but adds: "I don't think we should be thinking about it outside of a recession." It's something you do because you can't cut interest rates, he adds.

  10. 'I'm not going anywhere'published at 12:41

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    Emma Reynolds

    Emma Reynolds says the new Labour leadership needs to "close down this idea that people like me, just because we have differences of policy, and in this new straight-talking, honest politics I think we should be able to air those difference - somehow that means that we should either leave the party or be forced out of the party".

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    I'm not going anywhere. I'm passionately committed to the job that I do on behalf of my constituents and to the Labour Party that I love dearly and that I came into politics to serve."

  11. Power or principles?published at 12:37

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    The Daily Politics mood box has been gauging Labour members' views on whether power or principles is more important, and the latter edged it. Asked whether that was a cause for concern, former shadow housing minister Emma Reynolds says everyone in Labour is committed to its principles, but you can't deliver on those principles if you're not in power.

    Would Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell row back on some of their ideological positions if it meant being able to win power? I don't know, says Ms Reynolds. She says Mr Corbyn has a big opportunity to set out his vision this afternoon, and counsels that he must not talk just to the hall but also to the country, "who want to know more about him".

    Ms Reynolds resigned from the shadow cabinet when Mr Corbyn was elected, and stands by her decision during her appearance on the Daily Politics.

  12. 'Not language I would use'published at 12:34

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    Jon Ashworth distances himself from comments by Unite boss Len McCluskey who compared government plans to make striking workers wear official armbands on the picket line with Nazi attempts to victimise trade unions, and remarks by a Labour activist who yesterday told the conference that if the government's plans for a British Bill of Rights went ahead disabled people "might as well walk into the gas chamber".

    Mr Ashworth says neither he nor anyone in the shadow cabinet would use "that kind of language".

  13. 'Direction of travel'published at 12:31

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    Jon Ashworth, shadow Cabinet Office minister, is challenged over Labour's policies on energy and Trident.

    "We're going to announce a direction of travel but we're not going to come out with a comprehensive set of policies at this conference," he tells the Daily Politics, saying the party wants to debate the issues with its members and voters in the coming years.

    He dismisses suggestions the debates are a way for Mr Corbyn to bide time until he can get his supporters in place to get his way on policy, as "very cynical". The new Labour leader is keen to have a grassroots debate, Mr Ashworth adds.

  14. Corbyn's authenticity problem?published at 12:30

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    Deborah Mattinson, a former pollster for Gordon Brown, says Jeremy Corbyn - who is to declare his patriotism in his conference speech this afternoon - may have a problem of authenticity after not singing the national anthem at the Battle of Britain commemoration ceremony.

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    He didn't sing the anthem. That's one thing people know about him. If he now talks about being a patriot, is that authentic? Is there a danger that he's going to already start to look inauthentic? I don't know, but I think that he might - I think that's a risk he's taking."

  15. Syria vote scheduled for tomorrowpublished at 12:28 British Summer Time 29 September 2015

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  16. Corbyn's stylepublished at 12:28

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    Much has been made of Jeremy Corbyn's style of leadership. The Independent's Steve Richards says leaders have to make the best of the situation they're in, whatever that situation may be. Mr Corbyn's position is fragile with the vast majority of the parliamentary Labour Party against him, so he's "turned the culture of leadership on its head", Richards adds.

    He says the Labour leader's got no choice, and adds that it'll be interesting to see how the media and the voters cope with it. His hunch is that it'll go down with some of the electorate.

  17. Some more on Labour's Trident positionpublished at 12:24

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    A spokesman for shadow Scottish Secretary Ian Murray, who opposes Trident renewal said the review being undertaken by the party on the nuclear deterrent "supercedes" the document on existing policy, although current policy remains until a new policy is agreed.

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    What conference did yesterday was to vote on the entire document which contains policy on everything and that contains the existing policy on Trident. Conference doesn't have the ability to strip out individual lines without having to reject the whole document in its entirety, which has never been done before."

  18. Top tips for Jeremypublished at 12:27 British Summer Time 29 September 2015

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  19. 'Labour plot to force Corbyn to back Syria air strikes'published at 12:18

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    MailOnline political editor Matt Chorley reports that Labour shadow cabinet ministers "have launched a plot to force Jeremy Corbyn to support airstrikes" against so-called Islamic State targets. He writes:, external

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    Mr Corbyn's frontbench team want to push through a vote within the shadow cabinet - binding the Labour Party into backing military action. The Labour leader - who has vowed to oppose airstrikes -would then be forced to vote for action or risk sparking ridicule by rebelling against his own policy."

  20. Morning session endspublished at 12:13

    That's the end of the morning session in the conference hall. Delegates are heading to the lunchtime fringes or perhaps to grab a place in the already-growing queue for the leader's speech this afternoon, which is due about 14:20 BST.