The Daily Politics

On Jeremy Corbyn's proposal for rent curbs, Labour's general election co-ordinator Andrew Gwynne says that cities such as New York have rent controls "and if New York has them then London can have them".

He says rents have "soared" under am unregulated market and action is needed to bring them down, adding that the details will be fleshed out in a Green Paper in due course.

More broadly, he says the party needs to "put the flesh on the bones" of its manifesto and demonstrate it has a "precise plan" for government.

South Shields Labour MP Emma Lewell-Buck has thanked NHS staff after a fall at the Labour Party conference.

The MP was one of a number of delegates at the conference at The Grand Hotel in Brighton, and had been giving a speech on dyspraxia and how it causes her clumsiness., external

Jeremy Corbyn's speech ended with a singalong to an old John Lennon number - Power to the People.

"A million workers working for nothing, You better give 'em what they really own," it goes.

The Labour leader was clapping along with with gusto, before joining in with the traditional end-of-conference singing of The Red Flag and Jerusalem.

A delighted-looking Jeremy Corbyn enjoys the applause of the crowd and congratulations of colleagues.

Party members then sing the Red Flag - the socialist anthem traditionally sung at the end of Labour conferences.

That's followed by the other traditional song: Jerusalem.

"We will not let you down," Jeremy Corbyn tells voters as he ends his speech.

"Labour can, and will, deliver a Britain for the many not just the few".

Jeremy Corbyn said at the start of his speech: "Against all predictions in June we won the largest increase in the Labour vote since 1945 and achieved Labour’s best vote for a generation."

It is true that this was the largest increase in the vote since 1945. Labour made a 9.8% gain compared with 2015. In 1945 under Clement Attlee, Labour made an 11% gain.

The best share of the vote Labour achieved before this was in 2001 (16 years ago) under Tony Blair when they got 42% of the vote. Under Jeremy Corbyn in 2017 they got 41% .

If talking about raw numbers, this was the most votes Labour had received since 1997 (12.88m people in 2017, 13.52m in 1997).

"We have left the status quo behind, but we must make the change we seek credible and effective," the Labour leader says.

He adds: "I hope we have left our own divisions behind."

Labour must be "campaign ready" and "government ready", he tells party members.

"It is often said that elections can only be won from the centre ground," the Labour leader says.

"And in a way that's not wrong - so long as it's clear that the political centre of gravity isn't fixed or unmovable, nor is it where the establishment pundits like to think it is."

Arguing that "a new consensus is emerging from the great economic crash and the years of austerity", he suggests that "2017 may be the year when politics finally caught up with the crash of 2008".

He tells Labour: "We are now the political mainstream."

The UK should be "a candid friend" to the United States, Jeremy Corbyn says.

"The values we share are not served by building walls, banning immigrants on the basis of religion, polluting the planet, or pandering to racism."

He adds: "If the special relationship means anything, it must mean that we can say to Washington: that way is the wrong way."

"We cannot be silent at the cruel Saudi war in Yemen, while continuing to supply arms to Saudi Arabia," Jeremy Corbyn says, to applause.

He calls on Aung San Suu Kyi to "end the violence now against the Rohingya in Myanmar".

He urges leaders to "tone down the rhetoric" over North Korea.

There's yet another ovation when he calls for "real support to end the oppression of the Palestinian people" and "a genuine two-state solution of the Israel-Palestine conflict".

Jeremy Corbyn condemns terrorist attacks in London and Manchester as "horrific crimes".

He thanks Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, London mayor Sadiq Khan and the emergency and security services.

He adds: "We also know that terrorism is thriving in a world our governments have helped to shape, with its failed states, military interventions and occupations where millions are forced to flee conflict or hunger.

"We have to do better and swap the knee-jerk response of another bombing campaign for long-term help to solve conflicts rather than fuel them."

Mr Corbyn says "hurricane damage in the Caribbean, floods in South Asia and Texas. and earthquakes in Mexico" show that "our inter-dependence as a planet could not be more obvious".

The "environmental crisis" needs a globals response, he says, again condemning President Trump's decision to pull the US out of the Paris Climate Change Treaty.