Sir Vince Cable's first speech as Liberal Democrat leader is expected to start soon.

First it's party awards - and former leaders Lord Campbell and Tim Farron are in attendance, as is current deputy leader Jo Swinson.

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Conservative MP George Freeman, chair of the Conservative Policy Forum and Theresa May's policy board, has told the Daily Politics that the UK should pay to maintain access to the single market after the UK leaves the EU.

Speaking to Jo Coburn about post-Brexit trade arrangements, Mr Freeman said: “We are going to have to pay for the privilege of a bespoke deal, yes, but if the price of that freedom is that we can do more trade around the world, on balance, we may end up looking at this and saying well that’s pretty good."

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The Scottish government is to outline plans to amend the legislation taking the UK out of the European Union.

The Scottish and Welsh governments call the EU withdrawal bill currently under consideration at Westminster a "power grab" of devolved responsibilities.

They have worked together to draw up amendments as a direct challenge to the UK government's legislation.

UK ministers insist there is no "power grab" planned, and say the devolved parliaments will be enhanced by Brexit.

Read more.

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Newly-elected Liberal Democrat MP Christine Jardine spoke to Daily Politics presenter Jo Coburn about talk of Vince Cable becoming prime minister.

And she was asked if the party was relying on the economy and Brexit talks to collapse for her party to benefit politically.

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Vince Cable has argued his party has "bold ideas", and that includes the Lib Dem leader claiming it was "perfectly plausible" he could become the next prime minister.

Daily Politics reporter Emma Vardy took the mood box, an unscientific test with plastic balls and a bin, to see whether the party faithful at the Bournemouth conference venue feel the same way.

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As the Lib Dems meet for their conference, Labour's ruling national executive is meeting to consider changes to the rules of the party's leadership contests.

If agreed, the threshold to take part in future leadership elections would be reduced - on an "interim" basis - from 15% to 10% of Labour MPs and MEPs.

The 10% threshold is a compromise between the exisiting 15% and the 5% sought by many on the party's left - but opponents of Jeremy Corbyn don't really see this as a compromise at all.

Read more from BBC political correspondent Iain Watson.

The final day of the Liberal Democrat conference opened with a debate on the UK's membership of the European Atomic Energy Community, also known as Euratom.

It is a separate legal entity from the EU but is tied up with its laws and institutions and subject to the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice (ECJ).

Theresa May has pledged to end "the authority of EU law in this country" and the UK government has argued that, if the UK leaves the EU, it should also leave the Euratom treaty.

Liberal Democtat MEP Catherine Bearder told her party's conference that leaving "will have a negative impact on our nuclear industry".

But her view was opposed by party member Mark Johnson, who said EU membership and Euratom membership "cannot be separated legally and politically".

Read more: Does it matter if the UK leaves Euratom?

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Former foreign secretary Lord Hague has written his own piece in the Daily Telegraph, external, warning that Tory disunity over Brexit could hand power to Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party.

Lord Hague wrote: "It is putting it a bit too politely to say, in the wake of Boris Johnson's article in this newspaper on Saturday, that the approach of senior ministers to the Brexit negotiations appears to lack co-ordination.

"More bluntly, it is now 15 months since the referendum, and high time that all members of the government were able to express themselves on this subject in the same way as each other, putting forward the same points, as part of an agreed plan.

"Hopefully, that happy circumstance will follow the speech the prime minister is due to give on the subject in Florence on Friday.

"If not, there will be no point Conservatives discussing who is going to be the foreign secretary, chancellor or prime minister in the coming years, because Jeremy Corbyn will be prime minister, sitting in Number 10 with John McDonnell and Diane Abbott, completely ruining this country."

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Kenneth Clarke has called Boris Johnson's Brexit article an "irrelevant nuisance".

The Conservative MP was damning in his criticism of the foreign secretary's intervention saying "jumping off a cliff and spreading your arms, you'll find you're flying up to the blue yonder" is not a policy.

Veteran pro-EU Conservative MP Ken Clarke has accused Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson of "exploiting" Theresa May's weak position as prime minister.

Mr Clarke told BBC Radio 4's Today that "in normal circumstances" Mr Johnson would have been sacked after his 4,000 word article, external on his Brexit vision.

He accused Mr Johnson of making a pitch for a future Tory leadership election.

Mr Johnson has said his article was "sketching out" the "exciting landscape of the destination ahead" on Brexit.

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Prime Minister Theresa May and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson are in New York for a meeting of the UN General Assembly.

It takes place as a row continues over Mr Johnson's Daily Telegraph article, external, published ahead of Mrs May's major speech on Brexit in Florence on Friday.

As well as saying the UK would "take back control" of about £350m a week after Brexit - and that much of this could be spent on the NHS - he said he opposed paying the EU to secure temporary access to the single market during a transitional phase after the UK's departure.

Asked about the foreign secretary's newspaper article, which sparked accusations of "backseat driving", the PM told journalists: "This government is driven from the front."

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Welcome to live coverage as leader Sir Vince Cable delivers his Lib Dem conference speech. He will urge "sensible grown-ups" in other parties to join forces with the Liberal Democrats to prevent Brexit becoming a "disaster".

In his first leader's speech, he will also defend his call for a further referendum on the outcome of EU talks.