In pictures: Labour conference: day three

Pensioners protest on the beach outside the Brighton Centre, where the 2009 Labour conference is taking place Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty Images

Alan Johnson, the home secretary, speaks Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Johnson with the justice secretary, Jack Straw Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

Postal workers protest opposite the Brighton Centre Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images

Sarah Brown speaks before her husband makes his keynote speech Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

Gordon Brown addresses his party Photograph: Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images

Brown makes his speech, watched by the cabinet Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Brown smiles as he gives his speech Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

Labour ministers Straw, Alistair Darling, the chancellor, Harriet Harman, the leader of the Commons, Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, Johnson, the home secretary, and David Miliband, the foreign secretary, during Brown's speech Photograph: Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images

Yvette Cooper and Ed Balls during Brown's speech Photograph: Martin Argles/Guardian

Brown gestures as he delivers his speech Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images

Former ministers Margaret Beckett and Jacqui Smith watch Brown's speech Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

Brown makes his speech to delegates Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Gordon Brown Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

Reaction to Brown's speech Photograph: Martin Argles/Guardian

Brown and his wife Sarah following his speech Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

The Browns after the speech Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA