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Former Labour leader Lord Kinnock told BBC Panorama he is doubtful there will be another Labour government in his lifetime if Jeremy Corbyn remains at the helm.

"This is the biggest crisis that the Labour Party has faced," he said during the interview, broadcast on Panorama on Monday 19 September.

BBC Deputy Political Editor John Pienaar spoke to Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith as part of a Pamorama programme on Labour, shown on Monday 19 September.

About an hour before voting closed in the Labour leadership contest, former frontbencher Chuka Umunna, who was briefly a leadership candidate in 2015, spoke to 5 Live.

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Voting for the Labour leadership election has ended, with the result to be announced at a special conference in Liverpool on Saturday.

Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith made their final pitches for support earlier today.

Rachel Burden talked to supporters of Mr Corbyn and Mr Smith in Bolton, with Bolton West being one of the 100 seats that Labour need to win from the Tories if they are to get back into government.

Tom Jennings, a local councillor from Warrington, said “it’s only Owen Smith” who can prevent Labour from losing seats in 2020, while Joan Pritchard-Jones, a long-standing Labour Party member, said Owen Smith has not “got a chance of winning” because voters “want something different”.

The deadline to vote in the Labour leadership contest has passed as of 12:00 BST.

We will have to wait until a special conference in Liverpool on Saturday for the result.

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BBC Scotland political producer

The Scottish National Party has called on the government to revert to a 1995 timetable for raising the state pension age for women.

The SNP has published a report suggesting that it would cost £8bn to bring back a slower timetable for raising the state pension at general for women.

The Pensions Act 2011 raised the age to 66 by October 2020, something which campaigners have said will mean 2.6m women receiving their pensions later than they had expected.

The SNP said the UK government's claim that it would cost £30bn to go back on their 2011 plans was incorrect.

The Times, external has reported that "two groups set up to oust Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader after the EU referendum have raised thousands of pounds in donations".

The paper says that Labour Tomorrow, which backs Owen Smith for Labour leader, "received a total of £80,000 in September from Martin Taylor, a hedge fund manager; Lord Myners, Gordon Brown’s former adviser, and a trade union", according to Electoral Commission figures.

The Jeremy for Labour campaign has responded to the report that, in its words, "anti-Jeremy Corbyn organisation 'Labour Tomorrow' made a donation of  £114,460 to fellow anti-leadership organisation Saving Labour, which refuses to be fully transparent in its funding".

A spokesperson for the Corbyn campaign said:

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Jeremy Corbyn's ex-wife has told 5 Live why she voted for his rival Owen Smith in the Labour leadership election.

Professor Jane Chapman was the first of Mr Corbyn's three wives and they met while campaigning for the Labour Party and she was elected as a councillor. She is now a Professor of Communications and says she doesn't think Jeremy Corbyn comes across well in the media.

"Last time I voted for Jeremy out of personal loyalty," she said. "But I've been so saddened and really upset. It's been such a painful sideshow this last year."

Prof Chapman said she believed Owen Smith had skills that were more relevant to present day politics:

On the day that Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron made an appeal to Labour voters in his speech to his party's conference, the party gained a seat on Cardiff council from Labour, external.

In an unusual Tuesday by-election following the death of Labour councillor Mohammed Javed, Lib Dem candidate Robin Rea won Plasnewydd ward with 48% of the vote.

Mr Farron emphasised his party's council by-election victories as a sign that the party was recovering, after it lost all but eight of its MPs in the 2015 general election.

As Labour's national executive agrees new rules to combat online abuse, shadow education secretary Angela Rayner - a supporter of Jeremy Corbyn - tells 5 Live that "thousands of trolls" have sent her online abuse.

James Williams
BBC Wales political correspondent

The Welsh Labour party has been offered more power to make its own decisions under plans agreed by the UK party's ruling National Executive Committee.

BBC Wales understands it agreed to transfer the same powers to the Welsh and Scottish parties over issues such as Westminster candidate selections.

It was also agreed both should have a representative on the NEC.

The changes are subject to approval at the UK party's annual conference, external in Liverpool.

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Jeremy Corbyn was recorded at a recent rally saying he was "really taken" by a banner saying: "Nationalise Bake Off."

The BBC has lost the contract to broadcast the Great British Bake Off, which is made by an independent production company and which will now be shown on Channel 4.  

"I think the fate of Bake Off is what happens when the BBC was allowed to contract out its programme making somewhere else, and thus the public lost ownership of Bake Off," the Labour leader said.

"Shall we get it back?" he asked, to cheers from the crowd.

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BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith says the Labour leadership race is "not really about the policies... it's all about the personalities" - and, in particular, whether you are for or against Jeremy Corbyn.

"Politically there's not much between Owen Smith and Jeremy Corbyn," Norman tells the Victoria Derbyshire programme. "They both want to end austerity. They both want to spend hundreds of billions on trying to revitalise the economy."

Norman says a statement from Owen Smith on Tuesday night "sounded almost like he was conceding defeat". The challenger said: "I'm proud I have brought forward a positive programme for a future Labour government. I will continue to make these arguments and do all I can to see us back in government."

Meanwhile, Mr Corbyn "perhaps announced his most popular policy yet" at a recent rally, Norman says - "to nationalise the Great British Bake Off".

Wednesday's coverage of the Northern Ireland Assembly, with Economy Minister Simon Hamilton questioned by committee members, and Queen's University professor briefing MLAs on the region's Brexit options.