Centre-left think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research has called for a "smart, strategic" approach to post-Brexit immigration.

Following Home Secretary Amber Rudd's speech to the Tory conference, the IPPR's Phoebe Griffith said: "It is right that the government takes a careful review of our student and work routes. But forging ahead with crude reductions in numbers would be a serious risk to our economy."

She added: "International students are a core part of our education exports and there is broad public support for keeping numbers at the current level."

Does the FTSE 100's record breaking burst reflect a post-Brexit euphoria over the prospects for the UK economy? Not really.

At the start of its section on health, the Conservative conference hears from two parents, Melissa Mead and James Titcombe, who lost babies through failures in healthcare.

After recalling their own experiences, they get a standing ovation from their audience.

Damian Green says he wants disabled people to have "the opportunity to fulfil their dreams". Seven million people of working age have some form of disability, he says.

The work and pensions secretary signals a break with previous policy. "If someone has a disease which can only get worse, making them turn up for repeated appointments to claim what they need is pointless bureaucratic nonsense."

People with "the most severe, lifetime conditions" will not be tested "time after time" for out-of-work benefits, Mr Green says.

In his keynote speech to the Conservative conference, Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green tells the party: "We must always be hard-headed but we must never be hard-hearted."

He says politicians on the left think that compassion can be measured "by how much you spend" but argues that "a real helping hand" includes giving people "the chance to work, to earn".

Mr Green says his vision of the welfare state is:

Labour's Andy Burnham has said Home Secretary Amber Rudd "had depressingly little to say" in her conference speech about the migrant crisis, which he called "the largest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War".

The shadow home secretary said it sounded like the prime minister "had a heavy hand in drafting the home secretary’s speech".

"We’ve heard these conference promises on net migration and child migrants before and they haven’t come to anything - people will take them with a pinch of salt. On Theresa May’s watch, net migration reached record levels," he said.

He added:

UK troops will be protected from future "vexatious" legal claims, the defence secretary has announced, as parts of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) could be suspended during future conflicts.

Michael Fallon told Andrew Neil servicemen would get "proper support" and the government would ensure that "in future conflicts they won't be subject to this kind of nonsense", referring to how plans to deal with so-called law fare claims were a manifesto commitment.

And the Daily Politics presenter asked him about the cost of the defence budget with the continuing fall in the value of sterling.

The lunchtime fringes are over and the main business in the conference hall in Birmingham resumes.

Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Education Secretary Justine Greening will speak during the afternoon session.

Scottish Secretary David Mundell says a second independence referendum is the biggest threat to Scotland's economy.

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Unicef's Mike Penrose has welcomed Home Secretary Amber Rudd's "renewed commitment to help the children trapped in Calais with a right to be in the UK".

He added: "A child is a child and given the awful experiences of unaccompanied refugee children on our border this is the right priority. We look forward to seeing the necessary action to get these children to safety.

"The home secretary is also right to celebrate the modern slavery act and we share with the her the ambition to end this barbaric practice."

Ellie Price
Daily and Sunday Politics reporter

The government says it still wants to bring net migration down to the tens of thousands and Brexit may be one way of achieving that. 

But the latest stats on the number of migrants arriving in the UK from outside the EU show it's nearly 200,000, even though the government can impose limits on who comes from those areas. 

So how come it's so high? And who is coming? I've been crunching some numbers, so you don't have to...

Scottish Labour's spokesman in Westminster, Ian Murray, has responded to Scottish Secretary David Mundell's claim in his conference speech that the Conservatives were the party of the Union.

"What extraordinary cheek from David Mundell," Mr Murray said.

"The Tories have done everything they can to undermine the Union since the 2014 independence referendum. They have pushed through English Votes for English Laws (EVEL) - a constitutional wrecking ball that has done nothing but fan the flames of nationalism.

"The Tories then ran a general election campaign that sought to divide the Scots and the English, and have now caused constitutional chaos by completely failing to plan for Brexit."

James Brokenshire tells the Conservative Party conference he has no doubt that Northern Ireland can be a success outside of the European Union.

Tom Moseley
Political reporter

Security Minister Ben Wallace says it is important to "manage expectations" when trying to catch cyber criminals.

Many of the people committing the offences are “sophisticated organised criminals” living in a “protected environment” in countries that do not follow the rule of law, he said at a fringe event in Birmingham.

“They are not all teenagers in their bedroom in Cardiff,” he adds.

During her campaign to be Conservative leader, Theresa May proposed workers' representation on company boards. Now, a Conservative donor has said the party should also put business representatives in government departments.

Alexander Temerko said: “We should not stop at putting workers on boards. There needs to be true partnership not just between employer and employees, but also between the government and businesses. The government should actively bring business representatives on relevant departmental boards."

Home Secretary Amber Rudd is due to announce new restrictions on people coming to the UK from outside the EU, amid reports she is keen to reduce the level of immigration ahead of Brexit.

The government is still committed to bringing net migration down to the tens of thousands.

But the level of non-EU migration is still well above that level. Daily Politics reporter Ellie Price looks at the statistics, and hears from Migration Observatory's Madeleine Sumption.

Alp Mehmet, Vice Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: