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Prime Minister Theresa May has welcomed the news that Saudi Arabia is to lift a ban on women drivers.

"As a long standing friend of Saudi Arabia I welcome the Kingdom taking this important step towards gender equality," she said.

"The empowerment of women around the world is not only an issue I care deeply about, it is also key to nations' economic development."

Tom Moseley
Political reporter

There are plenty of visible displays of support on show at the Brighton Centre, where members are flocking in ahead of the leader's speech.

And with nearly two hours still to go before he takes to the stage, some people are already starting to form queues.

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Shami Chakrabarti, who led an inquiry into anti-Semitism, external in Labour's ranks last year, is asked about reports of anti-Semitic comments made on the fringes of the conference.

She says this is "an enormous conference and not every fringe meeting is of Labour members or affiliate groups".

And she says she is proud that conference backed "a rule change that I recommended".

Members voted for measures against "racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia or otherwise racist language, sentiments, stereotypes or actions, sexual harassment, bullying or any form of intimidation towards another person".

A small minority voted against the rule change but Baroness Chakrabarti argues that, with Labour now the largest political party in Europe, "we're so numerous that we're going to have a few flakes there".

She declares: "This is not a right or left issue. This is a right and wrong issue."

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Shadow attorney general Baroness Chakrabarti says Jeremy Corbyn's speech will set out "the broad vision of the kind of country we want to live in and the world we want to build".

Speaking to the BBC's Norman Smith, she rejects the suggestion that Labour has "a huge mountain to climb" to win power.

It's "one more heave" she insists, though she adds: "It's a big heave."

Labour members have "got our feet firmly on the ground but we have our eyes on the prize", she says.

Reality Check

Here's a new one from former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, who wrote on the Conservative Home website, external that the UK is the world's fourth largest economy.

We heard a number of claims last year that the UK had fallen from being the world's fifth largest economy to being the sixth as a result of post-referendum currency movements. We debunked that claim in this Reality Check.

The latest figures from the World Bank, external confirmed that the UK remained in the number five spot last year.

So we're not sure on what basis Mr Duncan Smith thinks the UK has been promoted to number four - maybe he is just talking up the economy.

Do Labour supporters at their party conference have Conservative-voting friends?

The UK and EU will be "crunching through the detail" of Ireland issues in their latest round of negotiations.

Today Programme
BBC Radio 4

Angela Rayner has said her party would give public sector workers an inflation-linked pay rise.

The shadow education secretary said Labour would raise pay but would not be able to meet a 5% rise.

She told the Today programme Labour were trying to undo years of "damage" caused by the Conservative Party.

BBC Breakfast

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A little earlier, BBC Breakfast asked Labour's Angela Rayner for her view of comments made by Kensington MP Emma Dent Coad about Prince Harry.

The MP was reported to have told a Labour fringe event: "Harry can’t actually fly a helicopter... He tried to pass the helicopter exam about four times and he couldn’t get through it at all... So he just sits there going ‘vroom vroom’.”

Ms Rayner praised Prince Harry's role in the Invictus Games for military veterans in Toronto and his "service in our armed forces".

The shadow education secretary added that Labour members "have different views... about the royals" but insisted the conference has shown unity.

On Tuesday, Labour backbencher John Woodcock - who has been an outspoken critic of leader Jeremy Corbyn - called Emma Dent Coad's comments "highly inaccurate" and said they "in no way reflect the views of my party".

On Tuesday, conference voted to accept changes to the party's rules, which were backed by the ruling National Executive Committee (NEC).

These included strengthening membership rules against anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination, which had been the subject of debate in the conference hall.

The debate followed a fringe meeting in which MP John Cryer said he was shocked at some of the anti-Semitic tweets by party members that come before its disciplinary panel.

However Len McCluskey, who leads Unite the Union, told the BBC that he had never heard anti-Semitic language at any party meeting he had attended.

Other votes covered the expansion in size of the NEC and the lowering of the threshold of nominations that leadership candidates must obtain from MPs and MEPs, from 15% to 10%.

BBC Breakfast

Labour has had "a fantastic conference" this year, according to shadow education secretary Angela Rayner.

"We are a government in waiting," she told BBC Breakfast.

"We have a plan for Britain which means everyone can do well."

She was asked whether there is a "cult of Corbyn" at the conference, allowing the leader to "say pretty much anything" in his speech later.

Ms Rayner said the conference was "not about us just patting each other on the back" - but she predicted the Tory conference will be "a beauty parade of whoever wants to be the next leader of the Conservative Party".

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It's the final day of Labour's conference in Brighton, which means the major speech of the week - from leader Jeremy Corbyn.

He is to tell supporters Labour is "on the threshold of power" and stands ready for government.

Mr Corbyn will say Labour's general election showing has "put the Tories on notice", calling on ministers to "pull themselves together or make way".

He will also accuse the Conservatives of "self-interested Brexit bungling".

Aides said new policies would feature in the speech, in which he will also say business must be more accountable.

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Sexuality, jobs and hope for the future are the big topics at Radio 1 Newsbeat's debate in Birmingham.

The Labour leader says his party backs his "different" strategy and is ready for another election.

Here's a round-up of Tuesday at conference:

• Jeremy Corbyn says his shadow chancellor is right to look at all "scenarios" if Labour forms a government - including a run on the pound
• The Labour leader tells the BBC the party has united around his "different" economic strategy and defends the need for more borrowing to fund his spending priorities
• Shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth calls for a £500m NHS winter bailout
• Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner pledges £500m extra per year to reverse cuts to Sure Start centres
• Deputy leader Tom Watson promises action on gambling addiction, praises Jeremy Corbyn and tells the party that "love wins and so will we"
• Away from the conference, European Council president Donald Tusk has said not enough progress has been made on Brexit talks, after meeting Theresa May in Downing Street