Charles Kennedy takes questions at a press conference in Blackpool yesterday. Photograph: Martin Argles
The first of the big three party conferences, the Liberal Democrats' annual meeting, got under way in Blackpool yesterday. We'll be covering all three here on our conference blog.
Today, Matthew Tempest will be reporting on the Lib Dem debate on Europe, and on Sir Menzies Campbell's speech on foreign affairs - expect Iraq to come up. We've selected the rest of the conference highlights, if you're not feeling up to the full agenda.
Jeremy Browne will be filing a conference diary - it's his first as an MP, and Oliver King will be talking to another member of the new intake, Nick Clegg. Meanwhile Hélène Mulholland is finding out what Sarah Teather has to say on local income tax.
Guardian photographer Martin Argles is sending some exclusive pictures from the event - there'll be a gallery later today.
While you're waiting, Michael White has been reflecting this morning that party conferences ain't what they used to be, and polls have shown - perhaps surprisingly - that the Lib Dems would benefit if Ken Clarke and Gordon Brown headed the two other parties.
