Summary

  • Leader Tim Farron says Lib Dems are 'the real voice of opposition'

  • Mr Farron says 'progressives should put differences aside'

  • Jeremy Corbyn 'will put Labour on election footing'

  • Deputy Labour leader wants registered supporters scrapped

  1. No Brexit minister for Wales?published at 13:58 British Summer Time 20 September 2016

    Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood
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    Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood puts questions to First Minister Carwyn Jones

    Carwyn Jones, the Labour First Minister of Wales, is holding his weekly question time with Assembly members.

    Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood asks if Mr Jones will reconsider his decision not to appoint a Brexit minister. Mr Jones says it's his responsibility to decide.

    Ms Wood also asks if the first minister's Brexit advisory group has met yet - and accuses the first minister of having no vision for Wales post-Brexit.

    Mr Jones says his Brexit advisory group will meet at the end of the month and he has had "constant contact" with the UK government on Brexit.

    The Plaid Cymru leader suggests that the first minister has abandoned the idea of a "Welsh veto" over a Brexit deal.

  2. Labour frontbencher detects 'an appetite for people to come together'published at 13:58 British Summer Time 20 September 2016

    The World at One
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    Andy McDonaldImage source, Labour Party

    Shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald says he detects "a willingness and an appetite for people to come together" once the Labour leadership election is over.

    He tells the World at One that giving MPs the ability to elect members of the shadow cabinet "could play a very important part in the healing process".

    But he adds that "we can't ignore" the membership's desire to have a say.

  3. Labour divisions 'need major repair' says union leaderpublished at 13:43 British Summer Time 20 September 2016

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    John Hannett

    John Hannett, general secretary of the shopworkers' union Usdaw, tells the World at One that divisions within Labour constitute a "chasm" needing "major repair".

    "You cant win an election from a position of internal turmoil," the leader of the UK's fourth-largest union says.

    He adds that media coverage is "about the fall-outs within Labour, it isn't about the policies".

  4. Watch: Should there be shadow cabinet elections?published at 13:43 British Summer Time 20 September 2016

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    A newly-elected member of the NEC on how the Labour leader will pick his front bench.

    Looking at electing the shadow cabinet with Claudia Webbe, a newly-elected member of Labour's National Executive Committee, who will be taking up the post after the party conference.She looked at potential changes within the Labour Party, with Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee and Daily Politics presenter Andrew Neil, who later asked her about Channel 4's Dispatches documentary on the party.

  5. Watch: Why do politicians keep being asked about biscuits?published at 13:42 British Summer Time 20 September 2016

    Andrew Neil
    Presenter, The Daily Politics

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    Some MPs have struggled when being asked to named their favourite biscuit.

    Andrew Neil looked at some of their sugary answers, before hearing from Times sketchwriter Patrick Kidd about why the question from Mumsnet seems to cause problems for those used to facing more serious issues.

  6. Watch: MEP asked about Brexit affect on flight pricespublished at 13:41 British Summer Time 20 September 2016

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  7. Watch: Will a new Britannia sail the seas?published at 13:41 British Summer Time 20 September 2016

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  8. Kezia Dugdale pushes for bigger say in UK Labourpublished at 13:41 British Summer Time 20 September 2016

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    Kezia Dugdale has backed Owen Smith in the Labour leadership race

    The Scottish Labour leader, Kezia Dugdale, is pushing for a bigger say in how the UK Labour Party is run.

    Ms Dugdale is in London for a meeting of Labour's ruling national executive committee - the NEC.

    It is expected to discuss proposals for the leaders of the party in Scotland and Wales to become full voting members of the NEC.

    If that is agreed at the meeting, it will go to the full party conference in Liverpool next week for approval.

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  9. Tory MP urges May to embrace new royal yachtpublished at 13:08 British Summer Time 20 September 2016

    The Royal Yacht Britannia heads to its final resting place in Edinburgh in 1998Image source, PA

    Tory MP Jake Berry says he hopes Theresa May won't rule out his idea for building a new Royal Yacht Britannia, suggesting it could be the "hottest ticket" in town as the UK tries to showcase itself after Brexit.

    The MP who is spearheading a campaign which has been backed by The Sun and former Tory leader William Hague, external, says a new craft would be a shot in the arm for British manufacturing and would also be a "real signal to the world that Britain rules the waves". 

    Downing Street has so far appeared lukewarm about the idea but Mr Berry said there were signs that No 10 was "backtracking" slightly. 

    The original yacht - which was in service between 1954 and 1997 - was decommissioned in the late 1990s and turned into a visitor attraction in Edinburgh. 

  10. Labour meeting: sandwiches but no shortbread yetpublished at 12:55 British Summer Time 20 September 2016

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  11. Lib Dem Norman Lamb: People willing to pay more for NHSpublished at 12:55 British Summer Time 20 September 2016

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    Norman Lamb

    Explaining his party's idea for a dedicated tax to pay for the NHS and social care, Lib Dem health spokesman Norman Lamb tells Daily Politics the health service is different from other public services because demand is rising "inexorably" every year.

    The MP and former minister calls for cross-party talks on how the NHS is funded saying the principle of a hypothecated NHS tax needs to be agreed before any discussion of what level it would be set at. 

    But he says, for example, the £4bn to £5bn that could be raised by putting an extra 1p on income tax would make a "massive difference" and suggests people might support a bespoke NHS tax if it was properly explained and they could see it in their "pay packet". 

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    If people can see whether their money is going, they may be prepared to pay a little bit more if it is clear the system needs more money."

  12. Farron putting finishing touches to his leader's speechpublished at 12:37 British Summer Time 20 September 2016

    Tim Farron and advisers working on his speechImage source, PA

    Tim Farron will give his second leader's speech to a Lib Dem party conference in a couple of hours' time.

    Here are some images of him putting his finishing touches to the speech.

    Tim Farron working on his speechImage source, PA
  13. Welsh government to 'deliver pledges' in five-year planpublished at 12:28 British Summer Time 20 September 2016

    Backing major pledges such as expanding free childcare and apprenticeships will come at a cost - with cuts to other Welsh Government programmes, first minister Carwyn Jones has confirmed.

    The pledges are included in its five-year plan, external, which has been published.

    Mr Jones said cuts were inevitable after Brexit but insisted Labour would keep its election promises.

    Plaid Cymru said the programme was "lacklustre", while the Conservatives said Labour had let Wales down.

    The most expensive commitments cover 30 hours of free childcare a week for parents of three and four-year-olds and 100,000 apprenticeships open to people of all ages. Read more

  14. What could Brexit mean for airline industry?published at 12:26 British Summer Time 20 September 2016

    There were warnings during the referendum that a UK vote to leave the EU might affect the cost of cheap flights to Europe.

    But, along with most things to do with Brexit, the reality is a little more complicated.

    Daily Politics reporter Adam Fleming looks to the skies.

  15. What have Lib Dems been up to over the last year?published at 12:26 British Summer Time 20 September 2016

    Ahead of his speech to the party conference, here are some images of Tim Farron and his Lib Dem team since the general election.

  16. Labour's NEC meeting getting under way - and could last eight hourspublished at 12:26 British Summer Time 20 September 2016

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  17. Do Lib Dems want a new centre-left party?published at 12:12 British Summer Time 20 September 2016

    What do Lib Dem members think about the idea of a new centre-left party in British politics?

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  18. Quiz: Match the politician to the biscuitpublished at 11:57 British Summer Time 20 September 2016

    Can you match the politician to their favourite biscuit?

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  19. Skinner says media are trying to get rid of Corbynpublished at 11:46 British Summer Time 20 September 2016

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  20. MEP hits out at 'appalling lies' in EU referendum campaignpublished at 11:35

    Catherine Bearder

    Catherine Bearder, the only Liberal Democrat member of the European Parliament, says the EU referendum was not lost "because of the Lib Dems".

    The party's effort "wasn't quite enough", the MEP for the South East England region says, claiming that the campaigns on both sides were not "up to the task".

    And she adds: "The lies that were told in that referendum were the most appalling things that I have seen in electioneering."