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Corbyn uses conference speech to tell May he would back Brexit deal on Labour's terms – Politics live

Afternoon summary

  • Jeremy Corbyn has used his party conference speech to tell Theresa May that, if she comes back with from Brussels with a Brexit deal on Labour’s terms, he would support it. (See 1.30pm.) This has been interpreted as an olive branch to the PM, which could heighten the chance of parliament passing a deal this autumn, although it would involve May accepting a compromise that is unacceptable to part of her party and that she has ruled out (staying in a customs union with the EU.) Corbyn’s offer does, though, help to counter claims that Labour is opposed to Brexit. The passage came in an hour-long speech which also saw Corbyn restate his demand for a general election and set out, in more detail than usual, the policies he would introduce to reverse austerity and revive public services. Appealing to Labour to unite, he said the party had defined “the new common sense”. Here is my colleague Dan Sabbagh’s story.

That’s all from me for today. I’m now about to take my chances with the trains. (See 2.25pm.)

Comments are due to close some time between 5pm and 6pm.

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This is what the two main anti-Brexit groups are saying about the speech.

This is a statement from the Labour MP David Lammy on behalf of the People’s Vote campaign.

It was good to hear Jeremy Corbyn reiterate his support for the policy passed by conference this week. He said he would listen to the members and he has by saying that Labour will reject any Brexit that does not match its six tests and that, if it cannot secure a general election then the option of a People’s Vote remains on the table.

And this is from Eloise Todd, the chief executive of Best for Britain.

Jeremy Corbyn has thrown down the gauntlet to the Tories by challenging them to meet Keir Starmer’s six tests, but it’s clear that this government can’t do that. The extreme Brexiteers in the Tory party certainly can’t

No form of Brexit can deliver the six tests or what Labour wants - the current deadlock in parliament and in negotiations with the EU show that. Only our current deal with the EU can meet those tests. That’s why the only way out of this mess is to call a people’s vote with the option to stay. Then the public can compare our current bespoke deal with whatever this government cobbles together.

Here is the Evening Standard’s take on the speech. It is, of course, edited by the anti-Brexit former Conservative chancellor, George Osborne.

Here is Ian Blackford, the SNP leader at Westminster, on the speech.

Labour have proven they have nothing to offer Scotland but economic chaos and incompetence – failing to provide any meaningful alternative to the Tories.

Jeremy Corbyn may have been forced into saying he would not accept a no-deal Brexit – but he remains committed, like the Tories, to taking Scotland out of the EU against our will.

The Conservative party response to Jeremy Corbyn’s speech is a bit OTT. This is from Brandon Lewis, the Conservative chairman.

Jeremy Corbyn has shown at every turn he is unfit to govern.

All he offers are failed ideas that didn’t work in the past and would leave working families paying the price with higher taxes, more debt and more waste – just like last time.

He confirmed Labour are opening the door to re-running the referendum, which would take us all back to square one.

And he didn’t even apologise to Jewish people for his total failure to tackle the anti-Jewish racism that is rife in the Labour Party.

Only the Conservatives offer people opportunity for the future.

CBI says much of Labour's vision right, but business must be invited 'into tent'

This is from Carolyn Fairbairn, the CBI director general, on the Corbyn speech.

Much of Labour’s vision for a more sustainable and fair country is absolutely right. Business not only supports it but holds many of the keys to making it a reality.

From onshore power to affordable childcare, the Labour leader’s speech echoes calls from firms for more action on climate change and to unlock productivity.

But this will only happen if Labour invites business into the tent. Continual public barbs and backward-facing policy are deterring entrepreneurs and investors, at a time when we need them most.

My colleague Jim Waterson tweeted this earlier.

Jeremy Corbyn (or whoever runs his Twitter account) has retweeted it, with this comment.

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And here is the same point from ITV’s Robert Peston.

Corbyn's speech - Verdict from the Twitter commentariat

This is what journalists and political commentators are saying about Jeremy Corbyn’s speech. Overall, they are pretty positive.

From the Daily Mirror’s Jason Beattie

From the Financial Times’ Sebastian Payne

From the Guardian’s Gaby Hinsliff

From the Spectator’s Isabel Hardman

From HuffPost’s Paul Waugh

From the Spectator’s James Forsyth

From the Guardian’s Heather Stewart

From the Times’ Patrick Kidd

From the Evening Standard’s Matthew d’Ancona

From the Independent’s Ashley Cowburn

From CityAM’s Owen Bennett

From Tim Montgomerie, the ConservativeHome founder

From Politico Europe’s Tom McTague

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And this is from the Times’ Sam Coates.

This is interesting, from Newsnight’s Nick Watt.

That is a reference to this passage, at 1.30pm.

Here is the full text of the speech.

Jeremy Corbyn's speech - Snap verdict:

Jeremy Corbyn’s speech - Snap verdict: This is Jeremy Corbyn’s first “normal” conference as party leader and that had all the strengths and weaknesses of a normal party leader’s speech. It went down a storm with activists in the hall, but its long-term impact on the wider national audience will be much more minimal. Corbyn did not use it to announce anything not already briefed to the media, but the policy offer we’ve had this week is important and of lasting significance.

The two best bits were probably the passages on Brexit, and on the economy. On Brexit he put the case against Theresa May, and the Tory handling of this, particularly effectively, and the argument about how it could be used as “a free market shock doctrine” for Britain deserves a wider audience. (See 1.25pm.) There were lines here that were well crafted, and worth re-reading. And his passage on the economy was also genuinely thought-provoking. (See 1.04pm and 1.06pm.) The Tories are already no doubt preparing a response saying he would clobber business, but what he is saying will resonate with people who have not seen their standard of living rise for years.

Corbyn is often accused of not being interested in domestic policy, but he countered that by devoting the first half of the speech to public services, with detailed accounts of what’s wrong and what he would do about it. It was a tad miserabilist - you would not want to live in the country described by Corbyn - but that does not mean he was wrong, and it did show that Labour has policies to put to the public if he really does get his early election. In that respect, job done.

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Here is my colleague Dan Sabbagh’s first story about the speech.

And here is Corbyn’s peroration.

Where the Tories have divided and ruled, we will unite and govern.

We represent the new common sense of our time. And we are ready to deliver on it.

We must speak for the people to whom Theresa May promised so much but has delivered so little.

And we must take our message to every town, city and village. United and ready to win, ready to govern as we were in 1945, 1964 and 1997.

So that when we meet this time next year let it be as a Labour government. Investing in Britain after years of austerity and neglect and bringing our country together after a decade of division.

Conference. Let every constituency, every community know Labour is ready. Confident in our ideas, clear in our plans, committed to rebuild Britain.

We don’t want to live in a society where our fellow citizens sleep rough. A strong society is one that gives all our young people the chance to realise their potential and in which all of us know if our parents need care they will get it.

Our task is to build that Britain and together we can.

Corbyn tells May he would back Brexit deal on Labour's terms

Corbyn calls for a general election.

But let me also reach out to the Prime Minister, who is currently doing the negotiating.

Brexit is about the future of our country and our vital interests. It is not about leadership squabbles or parliamentary posturing. If you deliver a deal that includes a customs union and no hard border in Ireland, if you protect jobs, people’s rights at work and environmental and consumer standards - then we will support that sensible deal. A deal that would be backed by most of the business world and trade unions too

But if you can’t negotiate that deal then you need to make way for a party that can.

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Corbyn sets out Labour’s Brexit policy.

So let me say to the country. As it stands, Labour will vote against the Chequers plan or whatever is left of it and oppose leaving the EU with no deal.

And it is inconceivable that we should crash out of Europe with no deal - that would be a national disaster.

That is why if Parliament votes down a Tory deal or the government fails to reach any deal at all we would press for a General Election.

This gets a very loud and long round of applause (which sounds as it it is being delivered partly as a riposte to the round of applause that Starmer got yesterday from people not so keen on a second referendum.)

After the applause dies down, Corbyn adds softly.

Failing that, all options are on the table.

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Corbyn says the Tories want to use Brexit to impose 'free market shock doctrine' in UK

Corbyn says the Tories want to use Brexit to impose “a free market shock doctrine in Britain”.

The Tories are well aware of this but some see Brexit as their opportunity to impose a free market shock doctrine in Britain.

The Prime Minister is in New York today promising that a post-Brexit Britain will offer the lowest corporation tax of all the G20 nations. Handouts to the few, paid for by the many and an already tried-and-failed strategy for boosting investment.

Sajid Javid has set out his plan for more tax giveaways and to rip up people’s pension rights.

Liam Fox is itching to scrap workers’ rights and privatise the NHS with a side order of chlorinated chicken.

And then there’s Jacob Rees-Mogg who has expressed his personal faith in a Brexit Britain by deciding to base his new investment fund in the Eurozone.

Corbyn ends this passage with a particularly good soundbite.

The Tory Brexiteers unite the politics of the 1950s with the economics of the 19th century, daydreaming about a Britannia that both rules the waves and waives the rules.

Corbyn says May offering UK choice between no deal and bad deal over Brexit

Now Corbyn has got to Brexit.

Labour respects the decision of the British people in the referendum. But no one can respect the conduct of the government since that vote took place.

We all hoped that the people’s decision would be followed by effective and responsible negotiations that would protect living standards and jobs.

Instead, the main negotiations have taken place between different factions of the Tory party and the only job this government is fighting for is the Prime Minister’s.

Theresa May used to say that ‘no deal is better than a bad deal’. Yet now, after two years of botched negotiations she is threatening the country with just that choice: a bad deal or no deal. That is a threat to our whole economy, especially our manufacturing industry and to tens of thousands of skilled jobs here in Britain.

Corbyn calls for “a far more determined effort to help bring the terrible war in Syria to an end”.

The Syrian conflict has been fuelled by the military intervention of multiple powers. And it will need those same powers to deliver a negotiated peace settlement to end the killing and allow the return of the refugees.

Corbyn says Labour would recognise a Palestinian state as soon as it gets to office.

And let me next say a few words about the ongoing denial of justice and rights to the Palestinian people. Our Party is united in condemning the shooting of hundreds of unarmed demonstrators in Gaza by Israeli forces and the passing of Israel’s discriminatory Nation-State Law

The continuing occupation, the expansion of illegal settlements and the imprisonment of Palestinian children are an outrage. We support a two-state solution to the conflict with a secure Israel and a viable and secure Palestinian state.

But a quarter of a century on from the Oslo Accords we are no closer to justice or peace and the Palestinian tragedy continues, while the outside world stands by.

As my great Israeli friend Uri Avnery who died this year put it: “What is the alternative to peace? A catastrophe for both peoples”.

And in order to help make that two-state settlement a reality we will recognise a Palestinian state as soon as we take office.

Labour’s foreign policy will be “driven by progressive values and international solidarity”, he says

That means no more reckless wars of intervention, like Iraq or Libya.

It means putting negotiations before confrontation, diplomacy before tub-thumping threats. It means championing human rights and democracy everywhere and not just where it is commercially convenient.

And working to resolve the world’s injustices, not standing idly by, or worse, fuelling them in the first place.

Conference, sometimes our hopes can be betrayed. Many of us campaigned for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, imprisoned by the Myanmar military for fighting for democracy. Today, the Myanmar military government which Aung San Suu Kyi nominally leads stands accused of grave atrocities against the Rohingya people.

Corbyn accuses President Trump of turning his back on international law.

When President Trump takes the US out of the Paris accords, tries to scrap the Iran nuclear deal, moves the US embassy to Jerusalem and pursues aggressive nationalism and trade wars - he is turning his back on international cooperation and even international law.

And he accuses the British government of condoning Saudi war crimes.

We need a British government that can not only keep the country safe, but can also speak out for democratic values and human rights.

Today’s Conservative government continues to collude with the disastrous Saudi-led war in Yemen, turning a blind eye to evidence of war crimes and the devastating suffering of millions of civilians.

That’s why I was honoured to attend the vigil this week held by Liverpool’s Yemeni community, in protest against what is taking place.

This gets a particularly loud and long round of applause.

Corbyn says evidence 'now points clearly to Russian state' being to blame for Salisbury poisonings

Corbyn turns to foreign policy.

But it’s not just the economic system that is unsustainable. Britain’s relationship with the rest of the world, our foreign policy is no longer sustainable either.

We are entering a new fast-changing and more dangerous world including the reckless attacks in Salisbury which the evidence painstakingly assembled by the police now points clearly to the Russian state.

Corbyn announces green jobs revolution

Corbyn has now reached the passage briefed overnight where he announces a green jobs revolution.

I can announce today that our programme of investment and transformation to achieve a 60% reduction in emissions by 2030 will create over 400,000 skilled jobs. Good jobs based here and on union rates bringing skills and security to communities held back for too long.

And we will go further, with plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to zero by the middle of the century.

I know that sounds ambitious. It is ambitious and will be delivered with the most far-reaching programme of investment and transformation in decades.

Labour will kick-start a Green Jobs Revolution that will help tackle climate change, provide sustainable energy for the future and create skilled jobs in every nation and region of the UK.

Corbyn says climate change is 'biggest threat facing humanity'

Corbyn turns to climate change.

There is no bigger threat facing humanity than climate change, and 21 years ago, Labour’s then Deputy Leader John Prescott played a prominent role in helping to secure the Kyoto Protocol. That united the world’s major economies behind an agreement to cut carbon emissions and obliged them to give poorer countries access to low-carbon technology. It was about solidarity, recognising that the air we breathe does not respect national boundaries and we all have an interest in every nation reducing emissions.

The contrast with the America First posturing of Donald Trump and his decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Accords could not be sharper. We only have one planet, so we must re-engage with countries seeking to walk away from Paris. But we must also lead by example. Yesterday Rebecca Long Bailey set out our plans for energy, developed with our Environment Secretary Sue Hayman, plans that are ambitious, will create hundreds of thousands of jobs and will make Britain the only developed country outside Scandinavia to be on track to meet our climate change obligations.

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Corbyn cites an unlikely admirer.

That’s why Labour speaks for the new majority, why last year we won the biggest increase in the Labour vote since 1945, and why Labour’s ideas have caught “the mood of our time”. And conference, it isn’t me saying that – it’s a former Conservative Treasury minister, Lord O’Neill. I’ve never sought to capture the mood of a Tory minister before, but let me say to his Lordship: you’re welcome, come and join us in the new political mainstream.

Corbyn is referring to this FT article by O’Neill, the former Goldman Sachs chief economist.

Corbyn turns to the passage briefed overnight about “greed-is-good” deregulated capitalism.

Ten years ago this month, the whole edifice of greed-is-good deregulated financial capitalism, lauded for a generation as the only way to run a modern economy, came crashing to earth with devastating consequences. But instead of making essential changes to a broken economic system, the political and corporate establishment strained every sinew to bail out and prop up the system that led to the crash in the first place.

The price of that has not just been stagnation, wages falling for the longest period in recorded history, and almost a decade of deeply damaging cuts to public services. It’s also fuelled the growth of racism and xenophobia and has led to a crisis of democracy at home and abroad.

People in this country know that the old way of running things isn’t working any more. And unless we offer radical solutions, others will fill the gap with the politics of blame and division.

And this is what Labour can offer business, Corbyn says.

We will rebalance power in the workplace, but I say to businesses large and small: Labour will also deliver what you need to succeed and to expand and modernise our economy. More investment in our transport, housing and digital infrastructure. More investment in education and skills, so workers are more productive. Action to save the High Street, as Rebecca Long Bailey set out yesterday. And action to deal with rip-off bills that hit us all. But most of all, commitment to a Brexit that protects job, the economy and trade, and determined opposition to one that does not.

Corbyn says Labour should welcome having workers on boards

Corbyn expands on his thinking on inequality.

Inequality is not just a matter of incomes. It’s about having a real say too. That’s why we are not only determined to rebuild our economy, communities and public services, but also to democratise them, and change the way our economic system is run in the interests of the majority.

John McDonnell’s proposals for Inclusive Ownership Funds will mean workers sharing more fairly in the rewards of successful businesses. And I listened carefully to the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and read the excellent Commission on Economic Justice report he was involved in, which rightly argued: “economic justice needs to be hard-wired into the way the economy works”.

And he turns to poetry.

The 19th century Chartist leader and poet Ernest Jones wrote:

And what we get, and what we give,

We know, and we know our share;

We’re not too low the cloth to weave,

But too low the cloth to wear.

He was making the point that workers know the reality and injustice of their position. Labour believes a worker’s position is on the board. That’s why we’re proposing to give the workforce of all large UK businesses the right to elect a third of the seats on the board, giving employees a genuine voice and a stake, shifting the balance at work in favour of the wealth creators, improving both decision-making and productivity in the process.

Decisions taken in boardrooms affect people’s pay, their jobs and their pensions. Workers deserve a real say in those decisions. That’s nothing for businesses to be afraid of. They should welcome the expertise and understanding that workers will bring to the company board.

Corbyn turns to economic policy.

We can no longer tolerate a set-up where the real economy, in which millions work, is just a sort of sideshow for the City of London and for banks fixated on piling up profits around the world.

The change we need requires new ideas and new thinking, as well as learning from those that have worked in the past and in other countries. We need to explore new forms of ownership and public enterprise, and learn from creative local initiatives such as those taken by Labour councils like Preston. And let’s take up the call from TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady to use new technologies and automation as an opportunity rather than a threat, a chance to raise living standards and give people more control of their own lives.

Here is my colleague Aditya Chakrabortty on what is happening in Preston.

Corbyn says he wants to make an appeal to “the older generation who built modern Britain.” He goes on:

It was you who rebuilt our country after the war, kick-started our economy, built our NHS and created our social security system.

It was your generation that built the council housing, won our rights at work and made our country a better place for all. It was your work and taxes that paid for a better retirement for those who went before you.

So we owe it you, the older generation, to rebuild Britain so you too have peace of mind and dignity. And we will fulfil that obligation with the triple lock on pensions protected along with the winter fuel allowance, a free bus pass and a national health and care service that can look after you and your families with respect. That is solidarity between the generations.

Investing in young people will help address crime, Corbyn says.

Every study tells us that investing in young people and communities is key and crime thrives amid economic failure. So under Labour there will be no more left-behind areas and no more forgotten communities.

We know the earliest years are a crucial time to open up children’s life chances. Yesterday I visited the Greenhouse nursery in Liverpool and heard their experiences. But across the country, nurseries can’t make ends meet and youth clubs and nurseries are closing.

Decent early years education is now at risk of becoming a privilege. Families most in need are not even entitled to it and many who are struggle to claim it, because the system’s fragmented and underfunded.

Corbyn then confirms the plan, announced yesterday, to expand free childcare.

This Government’s limited childcare pledge has turned out to be free in name only. So today I can announce that Labour will make 30 hours a week of free childcare available to all two, three and four year olds.

And we will provide additional subsidised hours of childcare on top of the free 30-hour allowance, free for those on the lowest incomes and capped at £4 an hour for the rest.

Labour will invest in the people who care for and educate our children. We will raise the standards of childcare across the board with a 10-year plan to shift to a graduate-led workforce and improve the pay and skills of childcare staff with a new national pay scale for all early years workers starting at £10 an hour. This is an investment and a pay rise for a workforce, 98% of whom are women and 85% of whom earn around the minimum wage.

There are more details here.

Labour spend more on policing, Corbyn says.

As Diane Abbott told us yesterday, you can’t keep people safe on the cheap. That’s reflected in the fears of people like Ruth, who told me:

“We’ve had an increase in our council tax to pay for more police but we have no police station. The only increase we have had is in the crime rate I worry about my elderly parents’ safety in their own home.”

Ruth’s fears are not unfounded. Violent crime is rising while police numbers have fallen to their lowest level for 30 years. The Chief Constable of Bedfordshire says: “We do not have the resources to keep residents safe and no-one seems to be listening.”

Well Labour is listening. We’ll put another 10,000 police officers back on our streets, playing a vital role in tackling crime and making people safer.

Corbyn says Tories have created 'hostile environment' for disabled people

Corbyn says the Tories have created a “hostile environment” for disabled people.

The Tories have created a ‘hostile environment’ for disabled people. Hundreds of people write to me about it every week, people like Richard who says: “My wife was diagnosed with progressive multiple sclerosis 20 years ago. A few months ago we were told that she needed to reapply for Personal Independence Payments. She had an assessment by someone who wasn’t medically trained, we have now been told that all her benefit will be stopped.”

Richard adds: “I have tried to be her rock but the stress and suffering I can see my wife going through is so very cruel and I have had to be put on anti-depressants.”

These are the human consequences of a Tory Government that puts tax cuts for the wealthy ahead of care for disabled people.

Corbyn says Labour will “embark on the biggest home building programme in half a century”.

Corbyn turns to housing.

Austerity is putting other strains on the NHS too, one in five homes in England are now unfit for human habitation and 120,000 children are living in temporary accommodation.

So as John Healey has pledged, we will put a levy on those with second homes. Think of it as a solidarity fund for those with two homes to help those without any home at all.

There are more details here.

Corbyn turns to the NHS.

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the NHS Labour’s proudest creation and it stands as a beacon for those still fighting for universal healthcare free at the point of need. Its founder, Nye Bevan, inspired by the collective health provision in his home town of Tredegar, described a free health service as “pure socialism”. And so it is. We all contribute through our taxes so that it’s there for all whenever we need it.

The Tories have pushed the NHs into crisis, he says. And he turns to mental health services.

And there is a mental health crisis too, causing real pain and anguish. A woman named Angela wrote to me recently, and she said: “My mentally ill daughter was told she would have to wait 12 months to get an appointment with an appropriate therapist. As a mother, I am at my wits end to know how to help her any more. I would hate her to become another suicide statistic.”

This has to stop and under Labour it will. We will deliver real parity of esteem for mental health services to protect people like Angela’s daughter.

Corbyn says privatisation and outsourcing has become 'national disaster zone'

Corbyn says privatisation and outsourcing has become “a national disaster zone”.

And the giant privateer Carillion has gone bankrupt, sunk in a sea of reckless greed, leaving hospitals half-built, workers dumped on the dole and pensions in peril, while Carillion directors continued to stuff their pockets with bonuses and dividends, and small businesses in the supply chain took heavy losses or went bust.

And speaking of bankruptcy, the Tories are now extending it into their own backyard. A Conservative Government and Conservative local councillors have combined to push Northamptonshire over the edge, putting vital services and those who rely on them at risk.

Eight years of destructive austerity and obsessive outsourcing have left other councils teetering on the precipice too, and this Government must be held to account for their social vandalism. It is Labour councils and only Labour councils that are taking every step to protect people and services and we must thank them for it.

Privatisation and outsourcing are now a national disaster zone. And Labour is ready to call time on this racket.

Corbyn now turns to public services.

Conference, change in our country is long overdue. Every month this Government remains in power, the worse things get. Evidence of the failure of privatisation and outsourcing is piling up day after day. What has long been a scam is now a crisis.

Just look at the last few months: The Birmingham prison run by G4S had to be brought back into public ownership after the Chief Inspector of Prisons described it as the worst he had ever visited. The privatised probation service is on the brink of meltdown. Richard Burgon, the next Secretary of State for Justice, will end this scandal.

On the railways, the East Coast franchise has collapsed for the third time in a decade, bailed out by taxpayers yet again. You get on a train at Kings Cross and you never know who will be running it by the time you get to Edinburgh.

This is the best joke of the speech so far, and it gets a decent reception.

This week the Tories “received a letter from the antisemitic and Islamophobic Hungarian government, thanking them for their solidarity, just as the rest of Europe united against it,” Corbyn says.

Our Party will never stay silent in the face of growing Islamophobia, whether from the far right on the streets, or the former Foreign Secretary’s disgraceful dog-whistle jibes at Muslim women.

Corbyn says May is personally responsible for 'nasty, cynical' immigration policies

Expanding on this theme, Corbyn turns to the Windrush scandal. And he criticises Theresa May personally.

We can never become complacent about the scourge of racism. Race hate is a growing threat that has to be confronted. Not just here in Britain, but across Europe and the United States. The far right is on the rise, blaming minorities, Jews, Muslims and migrants, for the failures of a broken economic system.

Its victims include the Windrush generation who helped rebuild Britain after the war and were thrown under the bus by a Government that reckoned there were votes to be had by pandering to prejudice. The ‘hostile environment’ policies – shameful brainchild of the present Prime Minister – led to the scandal of British citizens being deported, detained and left destitute. That is nasty, cynical politics that demeans our country.

Corbyn accuses Tories of hypocrisy on racism and antisemitism

Corbyn accuses the Tories of hypocrisy on racism and antisemitism.

So conference, we won’t accept it when we’re attacked by Tory hypocrites who accuse us of antisemitism one day, then endorse Viktor Orban’s hard right government the next. Or when they say we are racist, while they work to create a hostile environment for all migrant communities.

Corbyn says Labour will ''always be implacable campaigners against antisemitism'

Turning to the antisemitism controversy, Corbyn says this sumer was “tough”. He goes on:

Ours is the Party of equality for all. The Party that has pioneered every progressive initiative to root out racism from our society.

But conference, being anti-racist means we must listen to those communities suffering discrimination and abuse.

I believe we are all stronger from listening and learning from each other.

The Jewish people have suffered a long and terrible history of persecution and genocide. I was humbled to see a memorial to that suffering two years ago, when I visited the former Nazi concentration camp at Terezin.

The row over antisemitism has caused immense hurt and anxiety in the Jewish community and great dismay in the Labour Party. But I hope we can work together to draw a line under it.

I say this to all in the Jewish community:

This party, this movement, will always be implacable campaigners against antisemitism and racism in all its forms.

We are your ally.

And the next Labour government will guarantee whatever support necessary to ensure the security of Jewish community centres and places of worship, as we will for any other community experiencing hateful behaviour and physical attacks.

We will work with Jewish communities to eradicate antisemitism, both from our party and wider society.

And with your help I will fight for that with every breath I possess.

Anti-racism is integral to our very being. It’s part of who you all are, and it’s part of who I am.

Corbyn urges Labour to 'listen a bit more, and shout a lot less'

Corbyn appeals for unity.

Our movement has achieved nothing when divided. The only winners have been the rich and the party of the rich: the Conservatives.

Real unity is based on the freedom to disagree and debate and then come together around democratic decisions, as we have done this week.

So we need to foster a much greater culture of tolerance. An end to abuse, online and in person.

We must learn to listen a bit more, and shout a lot less.

To focus on what unites us.

To accept losing a vote, while maintaining the right to pick up the debate again.

We are on a journey together and can only complete it together.

From there he turns to Peterloo.

Next year marks the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre when 15 peaceful demonstrators were killed and hundreds injured on the streets of Manchester by troops sent in by the Tories to suppress the struggle for democratic rights.

The great English poet Percy Shelley wrote a poem about the massacre. That was the origin of our slogan: “for the many not the few”.

Among those killed at Peterloo was a man named John Ashworth and a woman named Sarah Jones.

In the next Labour government, our very own Jon Ashworth, as Health Secretary, and Sarah Jones, as Housing Minister, will be carrying forward the struggle to protect and extend democratic rights. Hopefully without becoming martyrs in the process.

(Peterloo also led to the formation of the Guardian, but we don’t get a mention.)

Corbyn urges activists to use social media to challenge the mainstream media.

You challenge their propaganda of privilege by using the mass media of the 21st century: social media.

And we’ll do it in traditional ways too. On the doorsteps and in the town centres so that people know there is a Labour Party that will stand up for them and is ready to rebuild and transform Britain.

Corbyn says in UK press freedom has too often meant 'freedom to spread lies'

But he supports the freedom of the press, Corbyn says.

We must, and we will, protect the freedom of the press to challenge unaccountable power.

Journalists from Turkey to Myanmar and Colombia are being imprisoned, harassed or sometimes killed by authoritarian governments and powerful corporate interests just for doing their job.

But here, a free press has far too often meant the freedom to spread lies and half-truths, and to smear the powerless, not take on the powerful.

Corbyn is now having a go at press barons.

You may have noticed that not everyone is entirely happy about all this.

It turns out that the billionaires who own the bulk of the British press don’t like us one little bit.

Now it could be because we’re going to clamp down on tax dodging. Or it may be because we don’t fawn over them at white tie dinners and cocktail parties.

Or it could even be because Tom Watson has been campaigning for the second part of the Leveson media inquiry to be set up - something the last Prime Minister promised, but failed to deliver.

Labour is going to anchor what it does in communities, he says.

Our mass membership is not just a source of funds of course.

That membership and our millions of affiliated trade union members are the voice of their workplaces and communities, and with our new community organisers we will anchor everything we do in people’s day to day experiences.

That is our strength. And together, we are going to change Britain.

Corbyn summarises some gains at the local elections. And he goes on:

We have also been raising more money for our party. But not a penny of our funds came from a dodgy donor or a shady businessmen’s club.

Our money comes from hundreds of thousands of people across our country who believe in what we stand for.

So I don’t have to play tennis with an oligarch to keep our party organisation running. Labour trades in hope for the many, not favours for the few.

Now some local colour.

Since Jennie took over, we have registered significant electoral successes. In May, we saw the only bit of blue in Greater Manchester turn red as Labour won back control of Trafford Council.

And just for balance - as I know the Liverpool-Manchester rivalry can be a bit of a thing - there is not a single Conservative council on Merseyside either, and not a single Tory councillor in the city of Liverpool.

(I am using quotes from the text released by the party. Corbyn is making a few very minor changes as he goes along, but - unless they are significant - I will stick with the released text.)

Corbyn talks about Labour’s success.

This year we mark the centenary of the Representation of the People Act, which saw eight million women getting the vote for the first time, along with five and a half million working class men.

We now have more women members of the Labour Party than the entire membership, male and female, of the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties put together.

He praises Jennie Formby, the new general secretary, saying “her integrity and her determination are real assets for our party.”

Corbyn is now starting.

Someone shouts “C’mon Jezza.”

Corbyn says thank you. And he says he will start in the way people would expect - by thanking the workers who have made the conference possible.

And he thanks his family, for their help and advice. There is always a lot of advice being given, he says.

Tu eres mi fuerza y mi apoyo. Gracias Laurita.

It has been a great conference, he says.

A conference of a Labour Party that’s ready to take charge and start the work of rebuilding our divided country.

They’re still cheering ...

The “Oh, Jeremy Corbyn” cheers start as soon as he is at the podium.

It goes on for quite a while.

Jeremy Corbyn is introduced as the leader of the Labour party and our next prime minister (which is how opposition party leaders are usually introduced).

Now they’re playing You’ll Never Walk Alone.

Heather thinks they should bring back the choir.

Jeremy Corbyn's speech

Jeremy Corbyn is due to start any moment now.

From the shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner.

This is from my colleague Heather Stewart.

Momentum, the Labour organisation for Jeremy Corbyn supporters, has put out a press notice saying this has been Labour’s largest conference in more than a decade, with over 13,000 people attending the conference itself and more than 6,000 people attending The World Transformed, the Momentum-led politics festival taking place in the city alongside the conference.

Natasha Josette, a Momentum spokesperson, said:

While we didn’t get everything we’d hoped for, it’s clear that there’s no going back to a time when the party’s grassroots were ignored. Momentum will continue to campaign for open selections and for a more member-led party - and to support the Labour Party in building a fairer, more democratic Britain.

Here is a picture of the seats in the hall from earlier. They are not all, or almost all, full. Jeremy Corbyn is due to start soon.

A choir is on stage singing at the moment - “It’s been a long time coming.”

Corbyn stickers on the chairs at Labour conference.
Corbyn stickers on the chairs at Labour conference. Photograph: Will Oliver/EPA

In her speech to the Labour conference Dawn Butler, the shadow women and equalities secretary, explained what she would do in the first term of a Labour government. Sleeping doesn’t seem to feature. She said:

Labour will deliver a fairer society for the many. We will equality proof all legislation before, during and after implementation, ensuring no individual or group is unfairly discriminated against by our laws. This would prevent another Windrush scandal ever happening again.

Labour’s new Equality department will work alongside other departments to:

implement up to 10 days paid leave for those suffering from domestic abuse

change the law so that people can bring forward cases on multiple grounds of discrimination

strengthen the Equality and Human Rights Commission

integrate the UN Convention on rights for people with disabilities

ensure British sign language is given full legal status

re-establish a women’s national commission

launch the emancipation educational trust

supply free sanitary products in schools, colleges and homeless shelters to end period poverty

And conference all this will commence in our first term of office. I know what you’re thinking - when will we find time to sleep?

But who needs sleep when the next Labour government will be the most progressive, aspirational government in this country’s history.

Dawn Butler speaking at the Labour conference.
Dawn Butler speaking at the Labour conference. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

Here is Richard Burgon, the shadow justice secretary, explaining why he gave Laura Smith a standing ovation last night after her “general strike” speech. (See 8.53am.)

Jonathan Ashworth reading Aneuran Bevan’s In Place of Fear before giving his speech at the Labour conference.
Jonathan Ashworth reading Aneuran Bevan’s In Place of Fear before giving his speech at the Labour conference. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

Dennis Skinner tells conference NHS saved his life

Having said that we have not seen Labour MPs speaking from the platform (see 11.16am), Labour HQ arranged for Dennis Skinner to give a speech just as I was pressing the button on that post.

Skinner paid tribute to Jeremy Corbyn for expanding the size of the party. He told delegates:

Now we’ve got a front bench created by Jeremy Corbyn, arising out of that magnificent splurge in the numbers of people who joined the party, now nearly 600,000, from 200,000.

Blair and Brown tried to get rid of the debt. Wilson tried to get rid of the debt. Jim Callaghan tried to get rid of the Labour party debt. Along comes Jeremy Corbyn and the debt has been repaid.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we had a Labour government to start making sure that we repaid the debts of society as a result of the Thatcher and this tedious Theresa government that we’ve had recently.

Most of his speech was about the NHS. Skinner said he would not be speaking if it had not been for a successful operation he had had in 1999. At the risk of giving us “too much information”, he went on:

When I went in there, I was bleeding, passing blood, and I knew that I had a big problem. I was treated by an Irishman, with a wonderful Irish brogue, and he whispered to me as we came out of the operating theatre: “I think I’ve got it all.” You can’t get words like that anywhere else.

Those words were like magic to me. And that’s because of a nationalised, publicly-owned National Health Service.

I go to parliament, to the palace of varieties, and I look across at those Tories and nearly every one has got private insurance. They were the people who voted against the National Health Service - not the exact people, but people like them in 1947, when they voted against it several times because they didn’t want a publicly owned national health service.

Dennis Skinner speaking at the Labour conference.
Dennis Skinner speaking at the Labour conference. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/Getty Images

10 things we've learnt from the Labour conference

Nothing reveals the state and character of a political party as much as its annual party conference. With the proviso that we haven’t seen the full text of Jeremy Corbyn’s speech yet, here’s my stab at identifying 10 things we’ve learnt about Labour from what’s been happening in Liverpool.

1 - Labour is still moving left. In Left for Dead?, his excellent new book on Corbynism, and where is stands in Labour’s history, Lewis Goodall says that there is still “a battle to be fought” and that “whether Corbynism becomes a traditional social democratic government on steroids or something altogether different is up for grabs”. Many of the policy announcements we’ve seen this week come straight from the social democratic playbook (almost literally, in the case of green jobs, it’s alleged - see 9.25am.) But in other areas Corbyn is pushing the party into new and very radical territory. On nationalisation, the party published plans for water this week showing, not just that water companies will be nationalised, but that councillors, workers and consumers will take charge of “strategic governance”. (Presumably the same principle will apply for other nationalised industries, although the party has not said that yet.) And, on ownership, the employee share ownership plan amounts to an enormous grab from corporate UK, going well beyond the 2017 manifesto.

2 - Centrist opposition to Corbyn in the party is fading. The first two conferences under Corbyn’s leadership were dominated by rows between the Corbynites and the centrists, and last year the centrists were at least visible. This year, on most domestic or foreign policy, they either can’t get coverage, or aren’t trying. (For example, have you heard anyone speak out about the share ownership plan?) The two exceptions are antisemitism and Europe, which is where all centrist energy now seems to be focused.

3 - Corbyn is succeeding in making party conference proceedings much more activist-centred. There were 1,650 voting delegates here - up 50% from two years ago - and they have probably had more opportunities to speak than in recent years. That is because MPs seem to have been culled from the platform. Members of the shadow cabinet who in previous years would have got a speaking slot have been left off the agenda, and there have been almost no MPs making contributions from the floor (something that used to happen frequently.)

4 - But the power of constituency activists remains quite limited. In the past the key split in the party was between left and right, but now the most interesting feuds are those within the Corbynite left - between the big unions and Momentum-led activists. And the unions tend to win. Europe is the obvious example (more on that below), but the vote on party rule changes also saw CLP delegates squashed. The new union-friendly rules on leadership nominations and the selection of MPs went through even though most CLP delegates (69% and 66% respectively) voted against. (The CLPs get half the votes at conference, but unions and other affiliates get the other half.)

5 - Labour’s election readiness is patchy. Corbyn is pushing for an early general election, but in quite a few policy areas it does not have much new to say to the electorate. Welfare would be one example (which the New Statesman’s Stephen Bush has written about perceptively here.) Social care would be another. But the economy is one area where plans are well advanced, which helps to explain why John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, is seen as increasingly important. (Interestingly, in her speech yesterday, Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, said Labour would win the next election “under the inspirational leadership of Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell”.)

6 - Keir Starmer has won the affection of the Labour party. Starmer has been shadow Brexit secretary for two years and, although he has been widely admired for his judgment and his forensic ability, he has never been seen as a speaker with emotional appeal. This week he delivered a speech that thrilled delegates (or most of them). That’s not because his personality has transformed; it was a tribute to the fact that he has got Labour into the position where it is technically open to the possibility of a second referendum on Brexit. But ...

7 - The Labour leadership (which means Corbyn and McDonnell) have no enthusiasm at all for actually staging a second referendum. Although party policy has shifted, this is much more of a cosmetic shift than a statement of intent because we have heard a lot this week to suggest that Corbyn and the most influential people around him have very, very strong objections to the idea of staging a new in/out referendum. A lot of that is explained by the fear that going all out for remain could cost Labour sets in leave areas. This is another area where the leadership is siding with the unions, not the constituency activists.

8 - Labour can still manage a good, old-fashioned stitch-up. The culture of the party has changed, but the Corbynites are just as willing to use the party machinery in sly ways to achieve their goals as their predecessors, as we saw this week when the plan for a female deputy leader was unexpectedly dropped - apparently because the leadership was worried that the election could be used be pro-Europeans to get a mandate for a firm commitment to a second referendum.

9 - Corbyn’s lack of enthusiasm for halting Brexit doesn’t seem to have damaged his standing with activists. In fact, he seems as popular as ever, and in public there has been almost no criticism of his leadership at all. In his recent book about being a Labour activist, Things Can Only Get Worse?, John O’Farrell says: “I don’t think it’s unreasonable to assert that if just one of those 35 Labour MPs who nominated Corbyn had not done so, then the United Kingdom would still be in the EU.” That is certainly arguable, but you won’t find many people who agree in Liverpool, where many activists have been wearing or carrying “Love Corbyn, Hate Brexit” merchandise, without any signs of cognitive dissonance at all.

10 - Emily Thornberry is the leader-in-waiting. That does not mean she will necessarily be the next leader, but most parties have an unofficial lead candidate in the imagined race for next leader and Thornberry now carries that title. There is a consensus that it is time for the party to elect a woman, and Thornberry is currently the most high profile and impressive candidate. She confirmed that with her speech yesterday - one of the most impressive of the week.

A delegate handing out ‘Love Corbyn, Hate Brexit’ stickers at Labour confernce.
A delegate handing out ‘Love Corbyn, Hate Brexit’ stickers at Labour confernce. Photograph: James McCauley/REX/Shutterstock

Updated

Losses arising from the collapse of engineering giant Carillion should be borne by the private sector, the Labour conference was told. As the Press Association reports, delegates were told that “private spivs” behind the stalled project to build a new hospital in the city will get compensation.

Work on the Royal Liverpool Hospital was halted earlier this year when Carillion went out of business and completion will be delayed for years. Unions have welcomed news that government money will be used to complete the project.

Ian Bruce, of Unite, told the conference that the private sector should not receive any compensation. As the Press Association reports, Bruce said:

They should be told you rolled the dice, you lost, now pay up, and any compensation must not be at the expense of the people of Liverpool, who have already suffered enough.

While we welcome the commitment on funding the hospital, we have had no commitments about who will build it and how workers will be treated.

The Royal Liverpool must be completed with direct employment, not bogus self-employment, with decent rates of pay for the workers, with unions given full and free access to the workplace.

And there must be no chance of the dirty, disgusting practice of blacklisting occurring.

In his speech to the Labour conference Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow health secretary, proposed a £5m annual young cancer patient travel fund. It would help families who face extra travel costs when their children are being treated for cancer away from home. Any family could apply regardless of income.

Ashworth said:

Childhood cancer already places a deep emotional and physical strain on families, without the extra worry of being able to afford expensive travel costs for treatment.

“We should be doing all we can to support these vulnerable children and their families when they need it most. We must make sure that wealth never stands as a barrier to treatment.

Labour’s new commitment to a young cancer patient travel fund will provide the help that families need. We will ensure that all children, regardless of background, have access to the best possible treatment and are supported every step of the way on their road to recovery.

Jonathan Ashworth speaking at the conference.
Jonathan Ashworth speaking at the conference. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

On the Today programme this morning Graham Stringer MP, a Labour leave supporter who has defied the party whip and voted with the government on Brexit, described the Labour conference vote on Brexit as “a classic Labour Party conference fudge.”

He said it would be dangerous for the party to ignore the views of leave voters.

I think there is real electoral peril if we start going back on that commitment, not just not from many Labour Leave voters and people who voted Labour in the past and voted Leave, but there’s also a respect for democracy amongst people who voted Remain who just respect the decision and want us to get on to it because all the major party leaders gave a commitment that the referendum would be implemented.

Asked if he would vote with the Tories in favour if Theresa May secures a Brexit deal this autumn, he replied:

It depends entirely what the deal is. If she continues with the nonsense of Chequers, no, I would vote against that ... If it meets the Labour party’s manifesto commitments and the expectations of the referendum, I’m a democrat, I would respect that referendum decision.

Labour will not put second referendum in manifesto if there's early election, Long-Bailey says

Rebecca Long-Bailey, the shadow business secretary, has given a series of interviews this morning. I’ve already quoted her comments on Laura Smith. (See 8.53am.) Here are some of the other things she has said.

  • Long-Bailey said Labour would not include a commitment to a second referendum on Brexit in its manifesto if there is an early general election. Asked if a second referendum would be in the manifesto if Theresa May called an early election, Long-Bailey replied: “No”. She added that a second referendum was “hypothetical”, adding:

What we have said is that, in a very extreme set of circumstances, nothing should be ruled out, and that includes a people’s vote.

  • She said it was not impossible that Labour could vote for the final Brexit deal secured by Theresa May - although she stressed it was very unlikely. She told 5 Live:

If Theresa May, by some twist of fate or miracle, comes back to Parliament with a deal that actually puts our jobs and economy first and it meets the six tests that Keir has set out, and it secures that tariff-free access, a customs union arrangement, a single market deal that ensures that we have the same benefits that we currently have, then of course we would vote for that, we would vote in favour of it.

But, as things stand, we are a long way away from something like that.

Well I’ll let you into a little secret, you know, we talk to each other in the Labour Party and we did have fantastic policies before, but it’s not a cut-and-paste, no it’s not a cut-and-paste.

The report that we’ve got from our selection of industry experts, academics and engineers is a fresh approach and it’s looking at reaching... well this is an independent team of engineers, academics and experts, you can question them whether they’ve ripped off Ed Miliband’s policies, but they’ve looked at it from a pragmatic perspective from a commercial perspective, from an engineering and industrial perspective and assessed what is necessary to make sure that we reach our targets.

  • She said that Corbyn was not criticising Gordon Brown in the passage in his speech today referring to the financial crash. Asked about this, she said:

No he’s certainly not attacking the Labour party, no.

The question was prompted by a passage in the extracts from the speech released overnight. Corbyn will say:

Ten years ago this month, the whole edifice of greed-is-good, deregulated financial capitalism, lauded for a generation as the only way to run a modern economy, came crashing to earth, with devastating consequences.

But instead of making essential changes to a broken economic system, the political and corporate establishment strained every sinew to bail out and prop up the system that led to the crash in the first place.

People in this country know - they showed that in June last year - that the old way of running things isn’t working any more.

That’s why Labour is offering a radical plan to rebuild and transform Britain.

Some journalists have interpreted that passage as critical of Brown, the Labour prime minister at the time.

Rebecca Long Bailey being interviewed this morning.
Rebecca Long Bailey being interviewed this morning. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

Corbyn set to address Labour conference as party rejects MP's call for general strike

Jeremy Corbyn is probably the most radical leader the Labour party has had for about 80 years. But even he has to draw the line somewhere, and this morning the Labour leadership has had to distance itself from calls from a backbench MP for a general strike.

The proposal came from Laura Smith, a former teacher who was elected MP for Crewe and Nantwich last year. Smith was speaking last night at an event organised as part of the The World Transformed, the successful and well-attended Momentum-led politics festival taking place alongside the Labour conference, and she was talking about how to bring down the government. She told her audience:

Today we’ve heard calls for a true people’s vote. A general election.

Comrades, we must topple this cruel and callous Tory Government as soon as we can. And if we can’t get a general election, we should organise with our brothers and sisters in the trade unions to bring an end to this government with a general strike.

This prompted a standing ovation, including from the shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon, who was also on the stage. That prompted Smith to say: “That went better than I thought it would’ve gone.”

Today the Labour leadership rejected her suggestion. In an interview with the Today programme, Tom Watson, the deputy Labour leader, suggested Smith was a bit naive. He said:

Well, it’s not particularly helpful. But she is a new MP, and she was at a big fringe event, nothing to do with the party organisation, and I’m sure she got a little bit carried away with herself. Because if you actually look at the history of the general strike, most trade unions will tell you it was an absolute failure for the working class. Even my hero Ernest Bevin got a bit of a kicking over the decision to do that. And actually the prime minister at the time, Stanley Baldwin, remained as prime minister. So it didn’t work on its own terms.

It wasn’t particularly helpful. But I’m sure she did not mean it in those terms.

In a separate Today interview Rebecca Long-Bailey, the shadow business secretary, was more complimentary. Asked about the comments, she said: “Well that’s not our position.” But she went on:

Laura is an absolutely amazing MP, she’s one of the North West MPs with myself, she’s so full of energy and enthusiasm, but we’re certainly not advocating general strikes as Labour Party policy. Just to make it perfectly clear a general strike is not Labour Party policy.

In itself, this incident doesn’t matter much. No party conference is complete without an obscure MP saying something rash at a fringe meeting. But the fact that this sort of comment can attract this sort of applause does say something about what Labour is like under Corbyn.

And, to be fair to Smith, her suggestion actually was in line with Labour policy. The composite on Brexit passed yesterday said: “If we cannot get a general election Labour must support all options remaining on the table, including campaigning for a public vote.” It is just that she is interpreting “all options” in broader terms than her colleagues.

The highlight today is Corby’s speech. Here is our overnight preview.

Here is the agenda for the day.

9am: Jon Ashworth, the shadow health secretary, speaks.

11.15am: Dawn Butler, the shadow women and equalities secretary, speaks.

12.15pm: Jeremy Corbyn speaks.

At some point this morning I plan to include a post on 10 things we’ve learnt from the Labour conference.

And after Corbyn’s speech is over, I will post reaction and analysis. I plan to finish at about 3pm.

If you want to follow me or contact me on Twitter, I’m on@AndrewSparrow.

I try to monitor the comments BTL but normally I find it impossible to read them all. If you have a direct question, do include “Andrew” in it somewhere and I’m more likely to find it. I do try to answer direct questions, although sometimes I miss them or don’t have time.

If you want to attract my attention quickly, it is probably better to use Twitter.

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