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
Image source, bbLord Newby, newly elected as leader of the Liberal Democrats in the Lords, urges his audience to view "the Brexit chaos as an opportunity for the party to be seen and heard".
Lib Dem peers will be speaking to business, the voluntary sectors and others in a "great national consultation exercise", Lord Newby says.
He calls on the party's election candidates for the Commons to do the same.
Looking back over the Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith campaigns to lead Labour
The Lib Dem conference is hearing reports from the parliamentary party. First up is Tom Brake, one of only eight Liberal Democrat MPs left in the House of Commons after the 2015 general election.
Mr Brake, who is foreign affairs spokesman and chief whip for the Lib Dem MPs, dismissed Theresa May's claims to offer "social justice" and then lays into Labour.
He says if Jeremy Corbyn is re-elected as Labour leader there will be "further confusion, division and... some national derision".
And he emphasises the greater role that the Lib Dems can play in the House of Lords, where the party has 105 peers.
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HARDtalk
BBC News programme
There are three outcomes required from the negotiations for the UK to leave the European Union, the former leader of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage has told BBC HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur.
"To me, Brexit is easy," he said. "We have back British passports, we have control of our fishing waters, and our companies are not subject to EU law through the single market," he added.
Asked whether he trusted the government to deliver the mandate it was given by the June referendum, he said: "I'm worried about the government, I'm worried about backsliding."
Mr Farage resigned as leader of the UK Independence Party shortly after Britain voted to leave the EU, but he did not rule out a return to politics. When asked what he would do if Brexit was not delivered by 2020, Mr Farage said: "Well I couldn't walk away, could I?"
You can see the interview in full on Tuesday 20 September 2016 on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel and after on BBC iPlayer (UK only).
Carwyn Jones says Welsh Labour makes 'promises we know we can keep'
Backing major pledges such as expanding free childcare and apprenticeships will come at a cost - with cuts to other Welsh Government programmes, the first minister has confirmed.
The pledges are included in its five-year plan, which will be set out later.
Carwyn 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.
Parliament's Treasury Select Committee has warned that there could be a "significant" impact on the financial services industry if the UK loses access to the EU single market.
The committee has published a letter from Andrew Bailey, chief executive of regulator the Financial Conduct Authority, on UK firms' single market "passports" which allow them to do business in other EU member states.
The latter says more than 13,000 UK firms use passporting and there are almost 360,000 passports held, as firms can hold multiple passports. Around 8,000 overseas firms use "inbound" passports to do business in the UK.
"The business put at risk could be significant," said Conservative MP Andrew Tyrie, who chairs the Treasury Committee.
Quote MessageNone of the current off-the-shelf arrangements can preserve existing passporting arrangements, while giving the UK the influence and control it needs over financial services regulation as it develops... No doubt the hard grind of establishing what best protects UK interests is already underway. This issue needs to be right at the top of the in-trays of the chancellor, the governor of the Bank of England, and the UK’s lead negotiators."
Westminster Hour
Radio 4's Westminster Hour
The ministry is gone - so will climate change now be forgotten or placed centre-stage?
The Department of Energy & Climate Change has been abolished by Theresa May in one of her first acts as Prime Minister. The Westminster Hour asks what this means for mitigating against climate change in Britain - will it be forgotten by the Government or placed centre-stage throughout Whitehall? Sam Macrory meets Ed Miliband, the first Climate Change Secretary; former minister Greg Barker; fervent supporter of the department Caroline Lucas and critic Peter Lilley; as well as Lord Stern, who wrote a key report into climate change in 2006; and pollster Deborah Mattinson.
The Liberal Democrats pass a motion on welcoming refugees into local communities with no votes against.
To internal constitutional matters now as party president Baroness Brinton makes a speech on the party's structure, complete with diagram.
The Times
The Times reports, external that Theresa May will "defend the Brexit vote in her maiden speech at the UN general assembly" later.
"Britons did not 'turn inwards' by voting to leave the European Union but towards a politics more in touch with their concerns, Theresa May will tell world leaders today," the article reads.
"In a message that will resonate in the US presidential election, she will warn that 'the increasing pace of globalisation' has left 'too many feeling left behind'."
The Guardian looks ahead to Tim Farron's speech to the Liberal Democrat conference and his plan to "campaign to transform the NHS into the National Health and Care Service".
But one Labour former health secretary is claiming the policy as his idea.
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Image source, AFPThe Home Office is preparing to pay a private company up to £80m to provide security at ports in northern France.
The "maximum" level the Home Office has set aside for the new three-year contract is 10 times what was agreed when it was last advertised in 2011.
The department placed an advert in July inviting applications for the contract.
The successful bidder, which has yet to be announced, will be responsible for searches at Calais and Dunkirk ports, and Eurotunnel's terminal at Coquelles.
Chris White from St Albans urges Lib Dem members to "think about the children, think about humanity" and support a motion on welcoming refugees into local communities.
Suzanne Fletcher pictured above, from Stockton, follows him, telling delegates: "Surely it's only right, as this motion says, that we welcome a fair share of refugees including unaccompanied children, not, as Theresa May says, close our borders and build walls."
She calls for the money the Home Office plans to spend on more border security to be used to help local authorities to take in refugees.
Ms Fletcher says "only 3%" of asylum seekers who made claims in Europe have come to the UK, arguing: "You can hardly say we're overwhelmed."
The Liberal Democrat conference morning session kicks off with an emergency motion on welcoming refugees into communities.
It takes place on the day after Prime Minister Theresa May addressed a UN summit on the regugee and migrant crisis.
The PM called for a global clampdown on "uncontrolled migration", saying it is the right and the duty of countries to control their borders.
Today Programme
BBC Radio 4
It is "vital" for the Labour Party to get their front bench team back together, says deputy leader Tom Watson.
Explaining his proposal to allow MPs to elect members of the shadow cabinet, he tells Sarah Montague that the changes would only come into effect after the next Labour leader leaves office.
Today Programme
BBC Radio 4
Former health minister Norman Lamb also discusses his creation of an expert panel of former heads of royal colleges and health economists to look at the establishment of a dedicated health and social care tax to be published on people's payslips.
He prefers this to an insurance-based system, describing it as "fair and progressive".
He says taxpayers need to know the "brutal truth" about the "vast" demands on the NHS.
Today Programme
BBC Radio 4
Image source, PAAs the Lib Dems continue their conference in Brighton, former health minister Norman Lamb defends his party's position that a second referendum should be held on the deal which is reached on the UK leaving the EU.
"We have no idea what they're going to negotiate and we should put the final answer to the British people," he says.
Pushed on whether a No vote in a second referendum would mean Britain stays in the EU, he says "that ultimately would be the conclusion" and "the basic truth is it would be the British people deciding that".
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By Sean Clare, BBC political producer
Today Programme
BBC Radio 4
Labour's deputy leader has said rules allowing registered supporters a say in electing the party’s leaders should be scrapped.
Tom Watson said the introduction of the policy - whereby people paid £3 last year and £25 this - for a vote in the leadership election was "very rushed" and had proved "pretty unpopular in all sections" of the party.
He said any new system would apply only once the current leader's term was over as he did not want it to act as a "sword of Damocles" over whoever wins on Saturday.
Quote MessageWe created a new category of member - a registered supporter - that was pretty unpopular in all sections. We want to remove that and we also want to enfranchise ordinary trade unionists in the process."
In 2015 Jeremy Corbyn became the first Labour leader to be elected under a new one-member-one-vote system whereby party members, registered supporters, trade union supporters each get a single vote.
There are currently 129,000 registered supporters - who each paid £25 for a vote and are widely thought to back Mr Corbyn.
In the 2015 leadership election – when supporters paid £3 for a vote - Mr Corbyn won 84% among this group.
Speaking on the Today Programme deputy leader Tom Watson said he would take his proposal for a return to an electoral college to the NEC this afternoon.
