As we conclude proceedings for the day, here's a recap of Friday's main political developments.

- Opponents of tax credits cuts will "probably" win a vote in the House of Lords killing off the changes, a leading Liberal Democrat peer says amid calls from one Tory MP for reprisals against the Lords if peers defy the House of Commons.

- The government's Northern Powerhouse project is gathering strength and now has "Chinese backing", Prime Minister David Cameron says on the last day of President Xi Jinping's visit.

- Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood tells her party conference that the Labour administraton in Wales is "tired and incompetent" and her party has "what it takes" to replace them next May.

- Controversial plans to introduce the right-to-buy for housing association tenants will be the first test for the new English votes for English laws provisions early next month.

- Steelworkers in Scunthorpe facing redundancy get a £9m package of financial support from the government and Tata Steel

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The Mail's Quentin Letts dresses up to review the political week at Westminster when the Chinese president came to town, and job losses were announced at steel plants in England and Scotland.

Talk Talk chief executive Dido Harding says the company alerted the Information Commissioner about the hacking of its systems and customer details as soon as it could once it was "reasonably confident" about what had happened. Watchdog Christopher Graham has suggested he would liked to have be informed sooner but Ms Harding says this was not possible, telling the BBC that her staff have worked "tirelessly" since the cyber attack was identified. 

Reflecting on Leanne Wood's speech, the BBC's Hywel Griffith says it was as interesting for the things that didn't get mentioned - such as the EU referendum, the threat of UKIP in Wales and the dream of independence - as what was in it. As to Ms Wood's political future, he says there are plenty of people "waiting in the wings" if the party falters in May's Welsh election and does not increase its presence in the Welsh Parliament. Realistically, he adds, the best it can hope for is to deny Labour a majority in the Welsh Parliament. 

Leanne Wood channels the recent successes of the Welsh Rugby and Football teams, saying it shows the country "does not duck the big challenges, it rises to them". She brings her speech to a close by urging people to take "another look" at her party, saying it has the "ideas and personnel and vision to deliver". In short, she concludes, it is "time for Plaid". 

In the next section of her speech, Leanne Wood sets out her plans for small business and the environment. She gets a loud round of applause when she says "not one inch of soil will be fracked under a Plaid Cymru government". Turning to farming, she bemoans the amount of New Zealand lamb on Welsh supermarket shelves while many domestic farmers are shut out. While she has got nothing against imports, she calls for a "level playing field and fair pricing for Welsh farmers". 

Leanne Wood is spelling out some of the party's policy pledges on health, including increased funding for dementia and cancer treatment, and education - saying school standards are "not rising fast enough at the moment" and Plaid will not "tolerate mediocrity". Teachers will be paid more and the best-performing schools will be taken out of the existing inspections regime, she says. She adds:

Leanne Wood says she wants to work with Labour at Westminster to stop spending cuts and the renewal of Trident. But she goes on to to mount a strong attack on Labour in Wales, saying Carwyn Jones and previous first ministers have "taken people for granted and rewarded long-term loyalty with incompetence, inaction and indifference".

To applause from Plaid Cymru delegates, Leanne Wood urges the UK government to "desist from treating Wales and its people as second-class citizens". She then reads the next section of her speech in Welsh, saying the future of the language at a community level is "in the balance" and the country cannot "rest on its laurels" in terms of protecting and promoting its use.  

Ms Wood turns to the subject of devolution to Wales, accusing her opponents of "dragging their feet and allowing a few crumbs to fall from the table". She says she is fed up with the "vain pursuit of consensus" over the issue, saying Manchester is being offered powers of policing which are being denied to Wales. Wales does not crave extra powers, such as shared income tax powers, "for the sake of it" but to improve its citizens' lives. She goes on to attack Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb and says her party will support English Votes for English Laws at Westminster, but only as long as it also gets Welsh Votes for Welsh Laws. 

Ms Wood says Wales is "trapped" between a "hapless" Labour administration in Cardiff and an "ideological" Conservative government in Westminster, promising to fight cuts to tax credits and other "attacks on working people". If Plaid Cymru forms the next Welsh government, she also says she will block the application of proposed trade union reforms in Wales saying they are "regressive". 

Leanne Wood begins her leader's address to the Plaid Cymru conference by saying the Labour administration in Wales is "tired and incompetent" and her party has "what it takes" to replace them at next May's elections. 

A defence minister has told the Commons that all the refugees who arrived at the British base in Cyprus are fit and well and their claims for asylum are being assessed by the Cypriot authorities. 

 Defence Minister Philip Dunne said the 114 migrants were Syrian, Palestinian and Lebanese nationals - 67 men, 19 women and 28 children. He said:

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood is "ready and able" to lead Wales.

Urging voters to back Plaid in the May 2016 Welsh assembly election, the SNP leader praised Ms Wood for being modern, principled and passionate.

Ms Sturgeon said the leadership qualities of Ms Wood were proved in the general election TV debates.

She told Plaid's conference in Aberystwyth she knew Ms Wood would "stand firm" with the SNP against cuts.

A Labour MP has revealed that he has turned down an offer to appear in ITV reality show I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here. Jamie Reed, who left the frontbench after Jeremy Corbyn's election, told the Guardian, external he wasn’t interested because he wasn’t a celebrity and would find it impossible to serve his constituents from Australia. He explained to the paper why he wouldn't be following in the footsteps of Nadine Dorries and Lembit Opik, who have starred in previous series of the show. 

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Late-night viewers might have been checking their wine glasses when Andrew Neil signed off from This Week with a clip of Michael Portillo dancing in Bulgaria.

The former defence secretary may have been trying to build relations with the former communist state on one of his Great Continental Railway Journeys but viewers can decide whether his actions will help, or not.