Eleanor Garnier
Political Correspondent

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The Lib Dem leader Tim Farron has told 5live: "Whilst we've not changed our view that the referendum result is one we should respect, neither have we changed our view that being in Europe is undoubtedly still the best thing for the Liberal Democrats."

The MP said he felt a sense of "bereavement" at the EU referendum result "because it wasn't just about losing an election, there was a sense of losing your identity".

He added: "I'm incredibly proud to be British. There are some people on the centre-left who don't do patriotism. I really do do patriotism. Part of my identity is a northerner, is an Englishman, is a British person, is also that I'm European. So I do feel personally shattered by the result. I hope people who voted the other way will forgive me for putting it in those sorts of terms."

On his pledge for another referendum, he said: "It's worth bearing in mind that those people who lost the 1975 referendum - as we voted to go into Europe - they didn't give up, and frankly you're right not to give up, if you believe passionately in something you should keep fighting. You accept the result, you don't have to give up, for pity's sake."

But the former business secretary Sir Vince Cable has warned that a second referendum "is not a panacea to anything" and urged the party to accept the 23 June result and consider what concessions it is prepared to make.

The motion criticising the new nuclear power deal at Hinkley Point is passed and debate moves on to the UK's place in the European Union.

Lib Dem MP and foreign affairs spokesman Tm Brake hits out at "vaiglorious Brexiteers" and says the vote to leave the EU has produced "destructive instability".

Plans to double funding for Wales' poorest pupils are announced at the Liberal Democrat party conference.

Former Lib Dem MEP Fiona Hall backs the motion criticising Hinkley Point.

She suggests the "£30bn of public money which we will be paying for this folly" could be spent in "a more Liberal Democrat way" such as using "big offshore wind farms" to generate electricity instead.

Former MP Ed Davey, who served as Energy and Climate Change Secretary in the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government, addresses the Lib Dem conference.

"We shouldn't be taking nuclear off the table," he says, speaking in support of a new nuclear plant at Hinkley Point.

Hinkley Point "plays a small part" in averting climate change, he says.

John Shoesmith from Mid Derbyshire tells the Lib Dem conference that a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point is "essential for your future... and for your children's future".

He advocates renewable energy but says there will be "a bit of a gap to fill" in terms of meeting demand for electricity, and this should be filled by nuclear power.

This combination would help avert "runaway climate change", he says, and urges conference to reject the motion.

Martin Horwood, the former Lib Dem MP for Cheltenham who lost his seat in the 2015 general election, speaks in support of a motion critical of the Hinkley Point deal.

"Are you feeling nostalgic for coalition yet?" he asks the conference crowd, which responds with silence.

"Oh go on, you are," he persists. Some more positive reaction greets Mr Horwood's defence of the Liberal Democrats' record in coalition government with the Conservatives, as he argues the party delivered a "green record" it should be proud of.

Turning to Hinkley Point, he says UK customers could be paying  French and Chinese investors "for a generation" and claims the final bill "could reach £40bn". No nuclear power station anywhere in the world has been built "on time, on budget and without public subsidy", Mr Horwood claims.

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The Lib Dem conference kicks off with an emergency motion on the planned nuclear power station as Hinkley Point in Somerset.

The government gave its approval to the project, which is being financed by the French and Chinese governments, on 15 September.

Ministers said they had imposed "significant new safeguards" to protect national security.

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Jeremy Corbyn says he will reach out to MPs if he wins the leadership election.

Mr Corbyn tells Nick Robinson that not all Labour MPs have to agree on everything as long as they agree on the anti-austerity "direction" the party is taking under his leadership.

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The Today programme's Nick Robinson went to Jeremy Corbyn's last big leadership campaign rally in Birmingham on Saturday, to talk to the man hoping to retain Labour's top job.

They spoke about Mr Corbyn being mobbed by party members. "They tried for drag me off the stage, actually, but I stood my ground and held my position," the Labour leader says.

Do incidents like that make him feel like a pop star? "No," Mr Corbyn says. He adds that the increase in the party's membership has created "a very strong campaigning base for the Labour movement".

Mr Corbyn faces Labour MP Owen Smith in the contest, which ends on 24 September.

Welcome to our live politics coverage, as the Liberal Democrats' autumn conference in Brighton continues.

Former party leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is to address conference in his new role as the Lib Dems' EU spokesman.

He is expected to call on the government to keep the UK in the EU's single market as part of any Brexit deal, arguing it is vital for jobs and prosperity - and that to leave would be "chaos".

The Lib Dems, who campaigned to stay in the EU, are pushing for a referendum on the terms of a final Brexit deal.