Summary

  • Jeremy Corbyn delivered his leader's speech to close the conference

  • Labour leader said the party can 'climb an electoral mountain' and win

  • He said there will be 'no false promises' on migration

  • Andy Burnham said Labour needs to understand voters' immigration concerns

  1. Labour to set out plans for early years taskforcepublished at 08:35 British Summer Time 27 September 2016

    Primary school child, working in class with plastic lettersImage source, PA

    Every parent should have the right to quality, affordable childcare, Labour will say as it announces a review of its approach to early years provision.

    Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner will address conference later, saying Labour's mission must be to ensure no child's life chances are blighted by lack of support.

    Sadiq Khan, meanwhile, will warn Labour not to be satisfied with opposition.

    The mayor of London will say the party leadership is settled and its focus must now be on achieving power.

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  2. Laura Kuenssberg: Keeping the show on the roadpublished at 20:10 British Summer Time 26 September 2016

    Laura Kuenssberg
    BBC political editor

    Shadow defence secretary Clive LewisImage source, EPA

    It felt like John McDonnell had been waiting for a long time to say it. Up on the conference platform, at the very end of his speech, he told delegates, "you no longer have to whisper it, it's called socialism".

    In fact, as other MPs reminded me after his speech, Tony Blair's controversial amended version of Clause 4, included the phrase, "The Labour Party is a democratic socialist party".

    It was never an officially banned word, although no question, until Mr Corbyn's victory, talk of true socialism was not a popular subject at the conference lectern.

    Mr McDonnell had a long list of plans that would tickle the bellies of activists - a minimum wage of more than £10 an hour, a repeal of the Trade Union Act, more intervention to stop corporate bad behaviour, more borrowing to invest in infrastructure.

    But even before Mr McDonnell took to the stage to give his speech, another row had broken out and this time, a spat between one of Mr Corbyn's most loyal supporters, the shadow defence secretary Clive Lewis, and the leadership.

    Mr Lewis was seemingly furious, and hit the wall in frustration, when a line from his speech about the party's position on the nuclear deterrent was changed at the last moment.

    It is a big job for Labour to get back to being credible on the economy. It's a big job to pull this party back together after the leadership contest.

    Tonight after that row between one of their own loyal supporters and Mr Corbyn's team, it seems it is also a big job just keeping the show on the road.

    You can't underestimate how distracted and distressed different parts of the Labour Party are. And as this conference progresses, it's starting to show.

  3. John McDonnell vows £10 'living wage'published at 20:05 British Summer Time 26 September 2016

    Labour will raise the living wage to at least £10 an hour if it wins power, shadow chancellor John McDonnell says.

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  4. Will Reynolds return to Labour front bench?published at 19:11 British Summer Time 26 September 2016

    There is speculation that Jonathan Reynolds, who resigned as a shadow transport minister earlier this year, is to return to the frontbench but we must stress this has yet to be confirmed. 

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  5. Jones steps in on Labour devolution rowpublished at 18:40 British Summer Time 26 September 2016

    First Minister Carwyn Jones intervenes to ensure plans to give Welsh and Scottish Labour more power will be put to a vote at the party conference.

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  6. Lewis: Speech was 'collective process'published at 18:39 British Summer Time 26 September 2016

    Clive Lewis has been pressed again on claims that his speech to the Labour conference was changed at the last minute without his approval. 

    The shadow defence secretary told the BBC that the speech, and the section on Trident, was a "collective and collaborative process" and, like all others, had to be "signed off" by the party leadership.

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    That’s all I can say and all I will say. I’m in a happy place. I’m so pleased my speech is out of the way

  7. MP 'doesn't know what Labour stands for'published at 18:21 British Summer Time 26 September 2016

    Labour MP Jon CruddasImage source, PA

    Speaking at a fringe meeting this evening, the outspoken Labour MP Jon Cruddas said the party needs to go on a "journey of self-discovery".

    "I'm an MP and I don't know what Labour stands for, let alone my constituents," he said, adding that Labour's current travails were "a symptom of the long term decline" of the party. 

  8. Dugdale reaffirms 50p tax rate pledgepublished at 18:20 British Summer Time 26 September 2016

    Scottish Labour Leader Kezia Dugdale reaffirms her support for an increase in income tax in Scotland during a party conference speech.

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  9. Corbyn's 'man hug' with defence spokesmanpublished at 18:16 British Summer Time 26 September 2016

    Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says that he had a “man hug” with his Shadow Defence Secretary Clive Lewis following his controversial speech to conference bbout the party's Trident stance earlier today.

    He was being asked if he had "annoyed" Mr Lewis by allegedly changing his speech at the last minute.

    “He hugged me, it was a man hug,” said the Labour leader.

    Asked if he was changing policy by autocue, Mr Corbyn said "we had a good chat… he’s a good friend and I’ve known him for a long time”.

    Earlier in the interview with BBC South’s Political Editor Peter Henley, Mr Corbyn said that he “had a discussion” with Mr Lewis before he made his speech and they had “agreed on some words”.

  10. Evening recappublished at 18:02 British Summer Time 26 September 2016

    Here's a recap at the close of the second day of Labour's annual conference:

  11. From the fringespublished at 18:01 British Summer Time 26 September 2016

    Gavin Stamp
    BBC political reporter

    Labour MP Jon Cruddas told an IPPR fringe meeting that removing Jeremy Corbyn was the "symptom not the cure" of the crisis facing the Labour Party.

    He says that in opposition, and post-Brexit, moderates need to do "intellectual heavy lifting" to renew themselves outside of the leadership.

    Meanwhile, former deputy leader Harriet Harman didn't show up to the only event she was down to attend at the Labour conference: "Women at work."  

  12. UKIP's Diane James says Neil Hamilton is leader in Walespublished at 18:01 British Summer Time 26 September 2016

    Diane James (second left) and UKIP AMsImage source, WALES NEWS SERVICE
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    Diane James (second left) has tried to downplay reports of divisions within UKIP in Wales

    UKIP leader Diane James has said Neil Hamilton is the party's leader in Wales during a visit to Cardiff.

    Ms James has been meeting UKIP AMs to try and solve the rift between Mr Hamilton and UKIP MEP Nathan Gill. Mr Gill had been appointed UKIP Wales leader by her predecessor Nigel Farage.

    Asked who was UKIP's Welsh leader during a series of chaotic impromptu interviews in the Senedd, Ms James told ITV Wales: "I understand it's Neil Hamilton at the moment."

    She walked off without answering when asked the same question by BBC Wales.

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  13. Trident 'a scab we have to stop picking'published at 18:00 British Summer Time 26 September 2016

    Gavin Stamp
    BBC political reporter

    According to a Labour MP, Clive Lewis told a policy forum meeting this evening that Trident was a "scab we have to stop picking".

    He told the audience we need to "move on and stop letting the Tories attack us" on the issue, the MP said.

    Mr Lewis apparently told the MP his hand was still sore after he hit the wall.

  14. Labour has 'hit a brick wall' on defence, say Lib Demspublished at 18:00 British Summer Time 26 September 2016

    "Labour's defence policy has literally hit a brick wall," say the Liberal Democrats, clearly unable to resist the joke.

    Defence spokeswoman Baroness Jolly said: "Perhaps they should follow the Lib Dems in adopting policies openly and democratically, not by changing the autocue at the last minute."

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    Once more Labour has shown that they are too busy fighting among themselves to provide a credible opposition."

  15. Corbyn's spin doctor 'undermining' Clive Lewis, claims former ministerpublished at 17:59 British Summer Time 26 September 2016

    Kevan Jones

    Former Defence Minister Kevan Jones has criticised Jeremy Corbyn’s director of communications, Seumas Milne, for “undermining” shadow defence secretary Clive Lewis.

    The Labour MP went on to argue that Mr Lewis was trying to move the party to a “sensible position” and that the incident shows “what a lot of people suspect, which is that Seumas Milne pulls a lot of strings”.

  16. Lewis plays down Trident speech rowpublished at 17:56 British Summer Time 26 September 2016

    Labour's shadow defence secretary Clive Lewis plays down reports of a clash over last-minute alterations to his party conference speech.

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  17. Trident policy change is for party members, says shadow ministerpublished at 17:21 British Summer Time 26 September 2016

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    Rebecca Long Bailey

    Shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Rebecca Long Bailey is asked about the Trident row.

    "Policy is decided at Labour Party conference by Labour Party members," she says, meaning that Trident renewal was current party policy but this could change in the future.

    Any "difference of opinion" should be debated and decided on by the party membership, she says, adding: "I'll obviously support whatever the party decides."

    Ms Long Bailey says she does not personally support Trident but there would need to be an "industrial strategy" to support jobs if the nuclear weapons system was scrapped.

  18. Labour pledges to ban frackingpublished at 17:20 British Summer Time 26 September 2016

    A future Labour government would ban fracking in England and focus on developing a low carbon energy industry, shadow energy secretary Barry Gardiner says.

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  19. Boris Johnson 'can expect a warm welcome in Turkey' says PM's spokesmanpublished at 17:20 British Summer Time 26 September 2016

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    From BBC News in July: Why Turkey crisis is tricky for Boris

    Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is in Turkey - and Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman told a Westminster briefing he is expected to receive "an extremely warm welcome".

    This claim comes despite the controversy sparked by a poem regarding the country's president and a goat, which Mr Johnson wrote this year before he joined the government.

    Mr Johnson, who has Turkish ancestry, received a £1,000 prize in a Spectator competition to find the "most offensive" poem about Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

    The contest was launched after Mr Erdogan complained over jokes made about him by a German comedian. Mr Johnson is set to meet President Erdogan as part of his two-day trip.

  20. Who is Clive Lewis?published at 17:18 British Summer Time 26 September 2016

    Clive Lewis

    Shadow defence secretary Clive Lewis has been embroiled in a row over Labour's policy on Trident.

    Mr Lewis, a former reporter for BBC Look East, became an MP just last year, when he won Norwich South from former Liberal Democrat MP Simon Wright in the 2015 general election.

    The Labour candidate won 19,033 votes, a majority of 7,654 over Conservative candidate Lisa Townsend. Mr Wright was beaten into fourth place.

    Mr Lewis has supported Jeremy Corbyn's leadership and served as shadow energy and climate change minister from September 2015. Following the mass walkout of shadow cabinet members in June this year, Mr Corbyn made him shadow defence secretary.

    In July, he wrote about why he continued to back Mr Corbyn in an article in the Guardian., external He said the Labour leader was "far from perfect" and he did not "believe him to be some kind of messianic, cult-like figure with all the answers to the problems we face". However, he argued:

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    Corbyn is the best candidate because, in his own way, he understands some of the economic and moral challenges we face, and is the product of a deep desire for something new."