Summary

  • In his big speech Jeremy Corbyn urges a "kinder" type of politics

  • But on the last day the new leader faces criticism over his anti-nuclear stance

  • Labour leader says he would not use nuclear weapons if he was prime minister

  • Shadow defence secretary Maria Eagle calls his comments "not helpful"

  • Shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn urges Mr Corbyn to abide by party policy

  • Conservatives accuse Mr Corbyn of planning to "lower Britain's defences"

Live Reporting

Alex Hunt, Pippa Simm and Aiden James

  1. Watson sorry for Bananarama joke

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  2. Corbyn and the future of the union

    Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has challenged Jeremy Corbyn to say whether he backs the Scottish Labour leader's position on a future referendum. Kezia Dugdale said she would not stop MPs and MSPs campaigning for independence if there was another vote. Her comments came after former leader Johann Lamont said Labour should consider having a "free vote" in any future independence referendum. "I'm not going to shut down my party's renewal and debate in my party because people hold a different position on independence," Ms Dugdale said.

    Ms Davidson commented:

    It's now up to Mr Corbyn to say whether the Labour Party can be relied on to support Scotland's place in the United Kingdom in any future vote, or if he backs Kezia Dugdale's flip-flopping on this vital question."

  3. The mood in Brighton

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  4. A future leader?

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  5. Labour 'running away' from Scotland debate

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    Following Jeremy Corbyn's comments on BBC Radio Scotland that Labour were damaged in Scotland by campaigning alongside the Tories ahead of last year's referendum, Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said:

    Many thousands of Labour supporters stood alongside people from other political backgrounds to fight for our United Kingdom last year. It's a shame that Mr Corbyn's Labour party now seems to be running away from their work, rather than thanking them for keeping the country together. When he is in Scotland tomorrow, I am asking him as a unionist to stand up for the decision made by Scots last year and make it clear that he will do nothing to damage the UK."

  6. Praise from the boss

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  7. 'Belting out the Red Flag'

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  8. 'What a week!'

    Jeremy Corbyn

    After a rendition of Jerusalem, that's it. Jeremy Corbyn thanks the singers as the conference chairman says: "What a week! Conference adjourned."

  9. Ready for the fight

    John McDonnell

    Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell enters into the spirit of the traditional rendition of the Red Flag.

  10. The Red Flag

    The Red Flag

    The traditional singing of the Red Flag begins with a duet.

  11. 'Let's get out there'

    Tom Watson and Jeremy Corbyn

    Tom Watson says "10 minutes of a Tory government is too long and 10 years is a nightmare", urging activists to send their opponents "down the road where they belong". He closes by urging Labour to move on from the leadership race and start campaigning to win votes.

    Now we've had our summer of introspection let's get out there and talk to people."

  12. 'Kinder and fairer'

    "We want to build a prosperous Britain but we want a kinder and fairer Britain," Tom Watson tells Labour members. He says that is a long way off at the moment.

    Born poor, die poor. Born rich, die rich. That's not fair."

  13. 'Too many special advisers'

    Tom Watson

    Tom Watson makes an appeal for diversity at the top of the Labour Party and opposes a "monocultural" shadow cabinet. "A lack of working class MPs" means a waste of talent, he says. Labour needs to be a feminist party "and Britain's party for black and minority ethnic people". And there is a big cheer when he says:

    There are too many special advisers at the top of the Labour Party."

  14. 'Our people'

    Tom Watson says that Labour needs to reach out to workers in the private sector and small business owners.

    They are not posh, not privileged, not greedy or selfish or stupid. They work hard, they want to get on but they also care about their neighbours and the communities they share. They're our people."

    If we don't speak for them "we will never win a general election again", he adds. He says the Conservatives scorn public sector workers and have "the same patrician disdain for the white van drivers and the web workers".

  15. 'Killing with austerity'

    Continuing a theme advanced by Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell this week, Tom Watson tells the conference:

    You don't grow an economy with austerity, you grow it with investment. You kill it with austerity."

  16. Labour is an anti-austerity party

    Tom Watson tells conference "we are an anti-austerity party" to our core and unequivocally. He says Labour has an "anti-austerity leader" and deputy leader.

  17. '2200 new members'

    Deputy leader Tom Watson says that "2200 people" joined Labour after Jeremy Corbin's speech yesterday.

  18. 'Lying sellouts'

    Tom Watson

    Part of the deputy leader's job in the closing speech is to rally the party faithful and to lay into the party's opponents. Continuing his attack on the Liberal Democrats, he jokes that "the entire Lib Dem parliamentary party can fit in two minicabs." There's loud applause when he calls them: "A useless bunch of lying sellouts."

  19. Tom Watson on Labour's clan

    Tom Watson is now on the stage. He starts by asking delegates whether they have had a good week. He says the conference has been a "great gathering of the Labour clan", contrasting it with the Lib Dems who he suggested could have held their conference in a "broom cupboard... or as the Tories call it 'the servants' quarters'." 

  20. Conference votes to oppose Syria military action

    Labour conference

    The emergency motion opposing military action in Syria is backed overwhelmingly by the conference.