Reality Check

Jeremy Corbyn says that the UK spends less on research and development as a proportion of GDP than France, Germany, China or the United States.

The latest figures given by the OECD, external are for 2014.

The UK comes in at 1.7%, behind China at 2.0%, France at 2.3%, the US at 2.7% (in 2013) and Germany at 2.9%.

The Labour leader pledges to raise that level by three quarters to 3%.

"As politicians, as political activists, as citizens, we must have zero tolerance towards those who whip-up hate and division, stand together against racism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism and defend those being demonised," Jeremy Corbyn says.

"It has been shaming to our multicultural society that assaults on migrants have increased sharply since the referendum campaign a campaign that peddled myths and whipped up division," he claims.

He defends immigration:

Jeremy Corbyn says Labour wil offer a "new deal" to businesses, providing "the investment to rebuild Britain’s infrastructure" but asking them to pay "a little more in tax" to help fund a National Education Service.

"Our country’s history is based on individual ingenuity and collective endeavour," Jeremy Corbyn tells the Labour conference.

"We are the country of Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing and Tim Berners-Lee, the land of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Sarah Guppy, of George Stephenson and Eric Laithwaite."

He says the Conservatives have "put privatisation and cutting first" while "a Labour government will bring research and development up to 3% of GDP".

"We will borrow to invest at historically low interest rates, to generate far greater returns," the Labour leader says.

"It would be foolish not to, because that investment is expanding the economy and the income it generates for us all in the process."

Jeremy Corbyn praises Labour councils for "putting Labour values into action, in a way that makes a real difference to millions of people, despite cynical government funding cuts that have hit Labour councils five times as hard as Tory-run areas".

He sees "municipal socialism for the 21st century, as an engine of local growth and development".

He says a Labour government would remove the borrowing cap on local authorities and "allow councils to borrow against their housing stock".

Jeremy Corbyn says the financial crisis was an example of what happens when "government steps back", adding:

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With Jeremy Corbyn saying he will offer no "false promises" on immigration, Andy Burnham has been explaining why he does think controls are needed on unskilled migrants. 

Mr Burnham, who has just announced he is stepping down as shadow home secretary, told Martha Kearney he had a "different perspective" on the issue from the Labour leader.  

"The Tories have torn up employment rights and deliberately tried to weaken the organisations that get people justice at work - the trade unions," Jeremy Corbyn says.

Labour will "raise the minimum wage to a real living wage".

He continues: "And then there’s the scandal of the privatised railways: more public subsidy than under the days of British Rail, all going to private firms and more delays, more cancellations. And the highest fares in Europe.

"That is why the great majority of the British people back Labour’s plan, set out by Andy MacDonald, to take the railways back into public ownership."

Continuing his attack on the Conservatives, Mr Corbyn says: "They’re so committed to the interests of the very richest they recruited Sir Philip Green into government as something called an efficiency tsar."

He adds:

Jeremy Corbyn says Theresa May's government is "David Cameron’s government repackaged with progressive slogans but with a new harsh rightwing edge, taking the country backwards and dithering before the historic challenges of Brexit".

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The shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, has resigned from Labour's shadow cabinet.

He told Martha Kearney the move was not designed to be a blow to Mr Corbyn's leadership but he wanted to focus on being Labour's candidate to be elected mayor of Greater Manchester.

"Across Europe, North America and elsewhere, people are fed up with a so-called free market system, that has produced grotesque inequality, stagnating living standards for the many, calamitous foreign wars without end, and a political stitch-up which leaves the vast majority of people shut out of power," the Labour leader says.