Nick Eardley
BBC Scotland Westminster correspondent

An attempt to stop the Scottish and Welsh Labour leaders being able to appoint a representative to the party's executive has been defeated.

Proposals to give them more power are now expected to be voted on at the UK conference as planned on Tuesday – though there could be a final attempt to thwart the reforms.

The reform package would give Kezia Dugdale and Carwyn Jones the power to appoint a representative to the NEC. It would also give the Scottish and Welsh parties more autonomy.

Sources say there was an attempt to "unpick" plans in an attempt to remove the extra seats from the package.

Some Jeremy Corbyn supporters think the posts should be elected and fear the positions could be filled by Scottish and Welsh politicians hostile to Mr Corbyn. Separate sources have suggested some factions could vote against the entire package in opposition to the seat changes.

Ms Dugdale said she was confident the full package would now be passed. The NEC meets again on Tuesday and it is possible there could be a final attempt to alter the plans before the vote.

Former Labour deputy leader and deputy PM Lord Prescott arrives at the conference centre in Liverpool.

Monday's Labour conference business is due to begin at 09:30 BST.

Here's a recap of some of the weekend's political stories, after Jeremy Corbyn was announced as the winner of the Labour leadership contest on Saturday:

• The Labour leader told the BBC he will give more say over policy-making to grass-roots Labour supporters
• Senior Labour figures who resigned from Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet have urged members not to abandon the party and stay and fight for their beliefs
• Yvette Cooper, one of a number of MPs to have received death threats,, external called on Jeremy Corbyn to do more to curb the online abuse of colleagues
• Carwyn Jones, First Minister of Wales, also called for trolling and threats to stop, and the battle for post-Brexit Britain will not be won by a "paranoid political movement"
• Former Labour leader and Remain campaigner Ed Miliband has said the party needs to reach out to people who voted for Brexit
• And Labour MPs have beaten the press in the annual party conference football match, though the the winning goal was scored by comedian John Bishop who was "guesting" for the team

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The head of the UK's biggest trade union has said Kezia Dugdale should not have the power to appoint Scotland's representative on Labour's ruling committee.

Unite general secretary Len McCluskey told BBC Scotland all representatives should be elected and not appointed.

It comes after Labour's ruling National Executive Committee agreed to give the party in Scotland more autonomy.

The Labour conference is due to vote on the reforms later this week.

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"City of London fears May government is shifting towards ‘hard’ Brexit," says the Financial Times, external, reporting on "alarm" about damage to the financial sector if the UK leaves the single market.

The term "hard Brexit" is often contrasted with the idea of a "soft Brexit" in which the UK would leave the EU but retain full single market membership, for examply through the European Economic Area (EEA).

Supporters of the so-called "hard Brexit" have argued that EEA membership includes accepting free movement of people.

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Claims Theresa May "badly let down" David Cameron during the EU referendum campaign were dismissed over the weekend by former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith.

Mr Cameron's former director of communications Sir Craig Oliver said in a book that Mrs May was regarded by some as "an enemy agent".

But Mr Duncan Smith urged Remain campaigners to "get behind Theresa May instead of carping".

Sir Craig said the book was an attempt to explain "what went wrong". He claimed that Mrs May failed to back the Remain campaign 13 times and he also said Boris Johnson believed the Leave campaign would be "crushed".

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Sources close to Theresa May have hit back at claims she was branded "lily-livered" by former PM David Cameron over proposed EU immigration controls.

A new book claimed the then home secretary failed to support plans to curb EU immigrants coming into Britain.

It claims Mrs May urged Mr Cameron not to demand an "emergency brake" in 2014 for fear of upsetting other EU leaders.

But supporters of the prime minister say she wrote to Mr Cameron twice to make the case for such a measure.

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BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, following Today's interview with John McDonnell, says that Labour is 30 points behind the Conservatives in terms of trust in economic policy, according to polling.

"Laura, you're so cheerful!" the shadow chancellor, who had been listening jokes.

Mr McDonnell says he has met with the CBI and a range of other business organisations and "we are on the same page" on investment.

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John McDonnell is asked abour Labour's policy towards single market membership once the UK leaves the EU.

"We don't want to restrict ourselves at the moment in discussions with our European partners," he says.

He speaks of "access to the single market". without some of what he calls the "disbenefits" of membership which caused people to vote for Brexit.

Responding to criticism of the Labour leadership's role in the referendum from Labour MP Alan Johnson, who fronted Labour's campaign, Mr McDonnell says: "Our view that the best way of campaigning was for Remain but reform as well."

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John McDonnell is asked whether being outside the EU, which has rules restricting the amount of state aid a member state can give to industry, is convenient for Labour's economic plan.

The shadow chancellor argues that Germany and Italy had been able to intervene to help their domestic industries: "Our competitors never found it difficult."

Mr McDonnell adds that Labour would work with companies such as Uber to ensure "minimum standards" for those who work with them.

He claims many people are "concerned about the insecurity of the work that they have".

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John McDonnell tells Today that Labour is "trying to modernise government" with what he calls an "entrepreneurial state".

The state has a role "working with entrepreneurs and wealth creators", the shadow chancellor says.

"This government's plan is to cut state investment in every year of this Parliament," Mr McDonnell says, adding that Labour would continue to invest.

He says the opposition had to "almost drag" the Conservative government into intervention in the steel industry.

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Welcome to live politics coverage, as Labour's annual conference in Liverpool continues.

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell is to address the party later.

Mr McDonnell has told the BBC that Britain needs an interventionist government working with the private sector.

The shadow chancellor said the UK would borrow in the short term for long-term investment and the "prosperity of the future". He argued this would trigger investment from the private sector and, ultimately, higher tax returns.

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