Gavin Stamp
BBC political reporter

Business is brisk at the Blackwell’s book store at the Labour conference. Although it is early days, it looks like two biographies of Jeremy Corbyn are “going very well”. A number of former Labour ministers are signing copies of their memoirs during the day.

Among them is Nick Raynsford, who was housing and local government minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He says writing his book made him reflect on the shortcomings of government in terms of policy implementation and the impact that the ministerial merry-go round has on decision-making. He recalls how the main parties’ housing spokesmen were shuffled on the same day just to bring in new faces.

He believes ministers should be in place for the lifetime of a Parliament and “judged on performance, not the whims of the Today programme”. As for the current state of the party, Mr Raynsford - who stood down at the last election after nearly 30 years in Parliament - says he feels for his colleagues “for whom a long spell in opposition can be pretty unrewarding”.

He adds: “I took the decision to retire at 70 and I have no regrets about that.”

Labour MEP Richard Howitt makes a plea for Labour members not to leave the party.

He says he will be leaving the European Parliament because of the Brexit vote but adds:

Labour MSP Jackie Baillie, whose constituency covers the Clyde naval base "which is home to Trident", has addressed conference.

She said Labour was holding a second review of defence policy, emphasising that this means party policy on retaining nuclear weapons remains. Ms Baillie says she is a supporter of multilateral nuclear disarmament and speaks of what she calls the "economic reality" on the Clyde.

The base supports over 11,000 "well-paid jobs in an area that struggles with high levels of unemployment".

There is applause for Ms Baillie's calls on Labour members not to pay "lip service about jobs". She argues that the policy of "defence diversification" does not work and has failed before.

"I pledge to you that Labour will tackle international tax evasion," shadow international development secretary Kate Osamor says, criticising the activities of tax havens in UK overseas territories.

She pays tribute to Labour's Lord Dubs, saying he "has shamed the government by exposing" its "inadequate" response to unaccompanied child refugees.

The Labour peer backed a successful amendment to the Immigration Bill, to require ministers to arrange the relocation of children who have made it to Europe into the UK.

Ms Osamor also pays tribute to Yvette Cooper, who chairs Labour's Refugee Taskforce.

Shadow international development secretary Kate Osamor tells conference that Labour is the true "internationalist" party.

She accuses Conservative International Development Secretary Priti Patel of wanting to "break the humanitarian consensus held by successive governments".

Ms Osamor jokes that Ms Patel would have Sir Philip Green as "ambassador for international commerce" and Sports Direct's Mike Ashley advising on "workers' rights".

Ms Osamor adds that Labour is committed to the policy of 0.7% of GDP being spent on aid, calling this "non-negotiable".

Turning to foreign affairs outside the EU, Emily Thornberry says: "In Israel and Palestine, there are enough progressive people on all sides to shift the debate."

She also argues that peace is possible in other parts of the world, including South Sudan and Syria.

However, she adds: "Peace is never achieved by dropping bombs from 30,000 feet."

On the situation in Yemen, the shadow foreign secretary accuses the UK government of selling weapons "to the Saudi-led side" without "any guarantees that they will not be used against civilians".

Emily Thornberry, who is shadow secretary for exiting the European Union, as well as shadow foreign secretary, attacks ex-PM David Cameron as a man who quit and "left everyone else to clear up the mess".

She says Labour will "demand" that citizens of other EU member states who are in the UK have their rights guaranteed.

Ms Thornberry says a future Labour government would "make up any shortfall in EU structural funding into the 2020s and beyond".

Labour would also guarantee funding for "peace and reconciliation projects in Northern Ireland", she adds.

Plaid Cymru accuses rival parties of "deluded arrogance", claiming they want the UK to leave the European single market after Brexit.

Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry begins her speech to the Labour conference.

She is applauded when she describes herself as "a loyal member of the shadow cabinet in what is now again Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party".

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John McDonnell has been on what has been dubbed a "cup of tea offensive", calling on Jeremy Corbyn's critics to rejoin the shadow cabinet and unify the party.

The shadow chancellor laughs when Norman Smith asks who he would rather have a cup of tea with: Karl Marx, Trotsky, Lenin or Stalin.

"None of them at the moment" he answers, praising US economist Joseph Stiglitz instead

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John McDonnell tells the BBC's Norman Smith that people are "fed up with politicians who just said whatever pleased the crowd" and are attracted to Jeremy Corbyn's "honesty".

The shadow chancellor denies there is a "personality cult" around the Labour leader, with audience members at rallies contributing. "He's unleashed all these ideas from ordinary people," Mr McDonnell says.

He says the word "socialism" should be rehabilitated. Labour wants a prosperous economy but "that prosperity has got to be shared by all of us, not just an elite group".

Today Programme
BBC Radio 4

A Jewish Labour MP says she is appalled by claims that the scale of anti-Semitism in the party has been exaggerated for political purposes.

Luciana Berger was responding to Jackie Walker, a leading figure in the Momentum group - established to support Jeremy Corbyn - who told reporter Ross Hawkins that people are publicising the issue of anti-Semitism because of Mr Corbyn’s support of the Palestinians.

Ms Berger says there are many examples of attacks on her Jewish colleagues and the party needs to “stamp it out”.

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Labour is set to promise to replace any regional funding shortfalls in the UK caused by it leaving the EU.

A future Labour government will match current EU structural funding - worth £9.3bn from 2014-20 - shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry will say.

The fund will be a "central plank" of Labour's next manifesto, she will tell party conference delegates shortly.

"The communities who stand to lose out most from Brexit must be looked after first", Ms Thornberry will  say.

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Daily Mirror

Daily Mirror, external columnist Kevin Maguire has produced his own "eight-point guide to getting Labour into Downing Street" for the paper.

The suggestions include uniting, the leader "raising his game", exploiting "Tory divisions" and "zero tolerance of abuse".

Mr Maguire writes: "The odds are stacked against the party and leader but I remember when Labour was written off in 1992 then won three straight elections. And less happily how Tories in summer 2007 feared Conservative annihilation before that party won two."

If all else fails, the article says, Labour should replace Jeremy Corbyn.

Today Programme
BBC Radio 4

Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell says he has an "open door" to former Labour front benchers who resigned following the EU referendum.

Mr McDonnell tells Today presenter Mishal Husain that he would like to see "virtually all of them back, well all of them".