Marvin Rees, the Labour Mayor of Bristol, gets a big cheer as he takes to the stage.

He says he represents a wealthy city but one that also has "poverty and inequality". He says he is committed to the building of 2,000 new homes by 2020, with 800 of them affordable.

Mr Rees says 19m people live in "city regions" in the UK, including Bristol and the conference host city of Liverpool, "and together we deliver a quarter of the national economy".

Devolution is an opportunity for Labour, he adds.

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Labour's shadow health secretary says "fragmentation" of the health service could make it "easier to privatise" later on.

Diane Abbott spoke to Andrew Neil after giving her conference speech.

They started off by talking about reports of increased numbers of attacks on foreign people in the UK and whether these could be pegged to the Brexit vote.

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Baroness Chakrabarti is asked about the timing of her peerage and her report on claims of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.

Daily Politics presenter Andrew Neil asked her: "When was the prospect of a peerage first discussed with you?"

The next debate is on energy policy. GMB Scotland Secretary Gary Smith speaks on the day that the first shipment of US shale gas arrived in Scotland.

On Monday shadow energy secretary Barry Gardiner said a future Labour government would ban fracking in England. Policy on fracking in Scotland is devolved to the Scottish government.

Mr Gardiner's announcement was welcomed by Greenpeace but the GMB was scathing, saying banning fracking would mean the UK had to rely on "henchmen, hangmen and headchoppers" for gas.

"Carting gas across oceans and continents is not good for the environment," Mr Smith says, "and buying gas from regimes with an appalling record on human rights and the environment cannot be ethical either."

A mentoring scheme to help hundreds of women into leadership roles is launched by the Labour Party in memory of MP Jo Cox.

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Labour MP Michael Dugher talks about the Beatles, and plays out the Daily Politics conference special from Liverpool, performing Blackbird on his guitar.  

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A proposal to have a debate on Brexit at the Labour Party conference was rejected.

But Daily Politics reporter Adam Fleming gave delegates the chance to air their views with the moodbox, an unscientific test with a bin and plastic balls.

"One party, united. One Labour," says shadow education secretary Angela Rayner, closing her speech with a plea for unity.

Applause - and some banners that delegates prepared earlier - greet her.

"It is a national scandal that students leave education today with £44,000 in debt," says Angela Rayner.

"Our aim must be to make higher education affordable and accessible to all" while also expanding vocational education, she says.

The founder of the Corbynite Momentum grass roots group has claimed a key vote at Labour conference was "rigged". Jon Lansman was speaking after allies of Jeremy Corbyn failed to delay Labour's Scottish and Welsh leaders from making appointments to Labour's National Executive Committee. 

They fear the move will water down Mr Corbyn's influence on the committee. The conference on Tuesday decided by a show of hands rather than a card vote to consider the reforms as one package, making it almost inevitable they will be passed later.

Mr Lansman told The World At One's Martha Kearney the conference vote had been rigged "in a disgraceful way" and the result was a "colossal under representation" of 550,000 Labour members.  

Angela Rayner promises a child care task force "to transform early years provision" if Labour wins power.

The shadow education secretary says access to affordable childcare is "one of the most important drivers of social mobility".

She says she will "fight with every breath in my body" against more grammar schools.

The government wants segregation, she claims, which "entrenches division and increases inequality".

"Some Tories look down their noses at me," says shadow education secretary Angela Rayner.

Ms Rayner says she was not born "with plums in my mouth" and left school at 16, and has encountered "snobbery" from columnists and abuse from "hate-filled trolls on social media".

"I may not have an academic degree," she says. "But I have a masters in real life."

"I, like Theresa May, am a product of a grammar school," says Martin Bailey from Vauxhall Constituency Labour Party.

Mr Bailey says he came from a poor background and is now a university graduate and lawyer, so should be a "poster child" for grammars - yet he opposes more grammar schools.

He says he was able to "look at friends and family members who struggled, who didn't pass the test", while better off children are "over-represented" in grammar schools.

While grammars worked for him, he argues, "for most in my neighbourhood, they didn't and they don't".

Duncan Enright. who is standing for Labour in the forthcoming by-election in Witney, the seat left vacant by the resignation of one David Cameron, speaks in the education debate.

He tells delegates that they may think of the constituency as home to "the Chipping Norton set" but says the area has the same problems as any other.

While Mr Enright may stand little chance of getting elected in a seat which the former Conservative PM won with over 60% of the vote in 2015, he tells conference that Labour locally has more members "than all of the other parties put together".

"Oxfordshire has no grammars," he says. "Instead, we have a network of brilliant comprehensive schools." He adds that "even Tories voted against segregation" in the county.

The afternoon session in the conference hall has resumed with a debate on education - and a motion opposing government plans to increase selection in England.

Sarah Williams from the Socialist Education Association says grammar schools "are stuffed with the children of those who can afford the tutoring needed to pass the test" for admission.

She adds: "Poor children don't need a grammar school place. Poor children need to stop being poor. Four million children live in poverty in this country."

Teacher Nick Raine, from Nottingham East, says comprehensive schools have been a success.

"With Labour in disarray, the Greens have a more important role than ever," writes the Green Party's new co-leader, Jonathan Bartley, making a pitch for left-leaning voters on the website Left Foot Forward., external

Mr Bartley, who leads the party in England and Wales alongside MP Caroline Lucas, writes: "Jeremy Corbyn has now embraced some Green policies, not least to oppose fracking."

However, he adds that Labour shows "confusion over Trident" while Labour MPs did not back electoral reform nor Ms Lucas' bill on the NHS in Parliament.

Mr Bartley says "with the Greens you know what you are going to get" and his party is "thinking in new ways". He adds: "There are other areas where Greens are different too - not least around the Green Party’s sustained commitment to the single market."

In a previous press release, the Greens responded to Jeremy Corbyn's recent re-election by calling on Labour to join a "progressive alliance" against the Conservatives. Now he writes: "Our offer to Jeremy Corbyn is this: we are different, but let’s work together where there is agreement."

Mr Bartley's appeal follows one by Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron on 24 September, when he called for "progressives" to work together.

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Former Europe spokesman Lord Liddell tells the World at One "we are not going to have an effective opposition" under Jeremy Corbyn and he's particularly concerned about what this means for Brexit. 

But shadow Commons leader Paul Flynn objects that "we talk ourselves into this gloom", insisting "people [who quit the shadow cabinet] will come back - it takes courage to come back".

And former shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper points to the example of Sadiq Khan, saying "it's about what Labour can do in practice"  and "talking about what matters to people". 

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Speaking after his address, London Mayor Sadiq Khan stresses: "We need to get back into the habit of winning elections."

"We're not a protest party," he says, and he doesn't want to see Labour in a "comfort zone" of opposition.

He adds MPs who quit the shadow cabinet should decide for themselves whether they want to rejoin, but the party must be prevented from splitting.