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"

  1. 'Working fine' with Scottish leaderpublished at 11:15

    Jeremy Corbyn told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that he and Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale are "working fine together". He said he expected Labour MPs in Westminster to vote with the SNP on welfare changes, the Trade Union Bill and English votes for English laws. However, he argued politics in Scotland was not nationalism versus unionism but about "the opportunities for young people to go to school, to go to college, to go to university, the issue of who owns and runs public services, the issue of health inequality, the issues of poverty". He said the SNP Scottish government was responsible for "the loss of college places" and had not addressed "huge health inequality issues".

  2. Corbyn on Labour's Scotland wipeoutpublished at 11:10

    Jeremy Corbyn has been talking to BBC Radio Scotland about the party's near wipeout in its former heartland in May. "I think what went wrong was the Better Together campaign," he says. Labour campaigned alongside the Conservatives in the campaign to keep Scotland in the UK last year, which alienated many supporters. He also feels Labour failed to offer an alternative to austerity. Labour lost 40 out of the 41 seats it won in 2010 to the SNP.

  3. 'Show voters we've listened'published at 11:00

    Ken Livingstone
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    Ken Livingstone served as an independent mayor, before rejoining Labour

    Sadiq Khan says Labour must "show voters we've listened to them and learned the right lesson" and turn its surge in membership into success at the polls. He cautions that "it's going to be tough" in London as "Labour has only won City Hall once". Ken Livingstone won two mayoral elections but only the second of these was as a Labour candidate. He won the first as an independent after he failed to secure the Labour nomination, which went to Frank Dobson.

  4. 'Disaster for London'published at 10:55

    London mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan says the Conservative government's plan to require housing associations to "sell off" homes - by extending the right-to-buy - will deprive London of is "last remaining affordable homes". He says "this will be a disaster for London" and challenges Conservative MPs in London seats to work with him to stop it.

  5. 'Most pro-business mayor'published at 10:50

    Sadiq Khan

    Sadiq Khan says he wants to be "the most pro-business mayor ever" in London. He says he wants a "real London living wage" as well.

  6. Mayoral candidate's speechpublished at 10:45

    Labour's London mayoral candidate, Sadiq Khan, has his turn to address conference. He jokes that Brighton - a popular day-trip destination and a home for commuters who work in London - is "London-by-sea".

  7. Conference resumespublished at 10:35

    Labour conference

    The final day of business at the Labour conference is starting in the conference hall in Brighton. An emergency motion on Syria is expected at around 1100. A debate on the NHS is also expected.

  8. Corbyn 'would apologise for slave trade'published at 10:25

    Press Association

    The Press Association reports Jeremy Corbyn saying that, as prime minister, he would be ready to apologise for the slave trade. The comments come as David Cameron visited Jamaica - the first UK prime minister to do so since Tony Blair in 2001.

    Mr Corbyn said:

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    I think we should apologise for the slave trade and understand that the history of Jamaica is, yes, one of amazing joy and achievement since independence in 1962, but it's also a history of the most gross exploitation of people. The slave trade and the system of slavery was the most brutal part of our history and the history of Jamaica. I spent my youth in Jamaica, I lived in Jamaica for two years, and I love the country very much indeed."

  9. Corbyn: No to coal minespublished at 10:28 British Summer Time 30 September 2015

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  10. Former MP: Labour to lose Scottish seatspublished at 10:05

    Today Programme
    BBC Radio 4

    BBC Radio 4's Today took a look ahead to Labour's electoral chances with former MP Katy Clark, who lost her North Ayrshire and Arran seat to the SNP in May. She said the "result in May had been a long time coming" in Scotland, as "we'd been losing elections for years". She adds that polling indicates "we're going to lose a lot of seats in Scotland next year" in elections to the Scottish Parliament. She argues that people are joining Labour in Scotland and "warming" to the party again, but its image was "toxic" in May.

  11. When the weapons could not be usedpublished at 09:55

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  12. Appeal to 'middle Britain'published at 09:45

    Victoria Derbyshire

    Owen Jones and Norman Smith

    Writer and Corbyn supporter Owen Jones speaks to BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith from a sunny Brighton beach. He reckons the new Labour leader's appeal to the self-employed, with an offer to expand statutory maternity and paternity pay, was a notable part of his speech. The self-employed "like the independence but don't necessarily like the insecurity" Mr Jones says, adding this was an appeal to "middle Britain, middle-income voters".

  13. Corbyn: Don't 'pre-empt' Syria votepublished at 09:38

    Victoria Derbyshire

    The Victoria Derbyshire programme reminds us that Jeremy Corbyn did not go as far as his shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, who predicted a free vote on Syria amongst Labour MPs. "At the end every war has to end in a political process," he said in a BBC Breakfast interview. The Middle East, Russia, the EU and others coming together could "isolate" the so-called Islamic State group, Mr Corbyn argued. He says there will be a Commons vote "at some point, but let's not pre-empt that decision".

  14. 'Pitch for modern left'published at 09:30

    The Times

    "Corbyn makes his pitch for ‘modern-left’ Britain," says the Times, external. "Mr Corbyn used the speech to make an impassioned plea to voters not to accept inequality or injustice as he committed the party to a total rejection of David Cameron’s austerity programme," its article reads. However, the "offer of straight- talking, honest politics was overshadowed yesterday after it emerged that passages of his first conference speech were recycled from a draft rejected by five former Labour leaders".

  15. 'Have we heard that one before?'published at 09:30

    The Daily Express

    The Express, externalalso focuses on the revelation that parts of Jeremy Corbyn's speech were rejected by previous Labour leaders. "Have we heard that one before? Corbyn accused of copycat speech rejected by Ed Miliband."

  16. 'What can people expect' from Corbyn?published at 09:20

    Daily Mirror

    "What can people expect under a Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour government?" asks the Mirror, external in a largely favourable piece. "Britain's army of self-employed workers could receive statutory maternity and paternity pay under a Jeremy Corbyn government," its article reads. It also focuses on "tackling Britain's housing crisis", appealing to "missing voters" who are not registered to cast their ballots and Mr Corbyn's appeal to "cut out the personal attacks, the cyberbullying". However, the Mirror adds:

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    Battle lines were drawn for a crunch clash between Jeremy Corbyn and his shadow ministers over Trident."

  17. Less than complimentarypublished at 09:12

    The Daily Mail

    The Mail, external is less than complimentary about yesterday's leader's speech. "A hint of Nicholas Parsons from the old codger," writes Quentin Letts on Jeremy Corbyn's debut. "For once we did not have some suave 45-year-old selling us political soapsuds. Instead we had a bearded codger doing the same, with less finesse," Mr Letts writes. He says it was "good to hear a political leader talk of novels rather than pop bands and football teams" but criticises the omission of the deficit and immigration. At times "he sounded like Nicholas Parsons at the start of Radio 4’s Just a Minute", reckons Letts.

  18. Russian parliament backs Syria deploymentpublished at 09:10

    BBC Monitoring

    The Russian parliament's upper chamber votes to allow the country's military to be deployed to Syria after President Assad asks for military help, according to the head of the Kremlin administration Sergey Ivanov.

  19. Sign of the timespublished at 09:05

    Brian Wheeler

    Sign

    Any Labour delegates still in the mood for a debate about Trident, which was due to happen today before it was shelved, might want to try their luck with the doormen at this Brighton nightclub. It's only a few metres from the conference centre.

  20. 'Free vote on Syria'published at 09:00

    The Guardian

    The Guardian, externalfocuses on comments by shadow chancellor John McDonnell that "Labour MPs should be allowed to follow their conscience and have a free vote on whether Britain should extend its involvement in airstrikes against Islamic State targets to Syria". Mr McDonnell spoke at a Guardian fringe event at the conference. His words "could pave the way for a number of Labour MPs in the shadow cabinet and on the backbenches to vote with David Cameron", the paper says.