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By Paul Richards 2.00pm The conference hall is filling fast. The set is blood-red. So are many of the delegates' eyes, after three late nights. Some kind of strange colour-coded ticketing system is in operation, to guide people to their…
By Alex Smith Peter Mandelson has just come off the stage at conference to a rousing reception, having framed the next general election as one where voters can either fight for continued change through active government, or vote to return…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Charles Clarke has been busy today. This morning, he gave an interview to the Evening Standard in which he said Gordon Brown should stand down for "his own dignity", citing grounds of ill-health, and that…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 I've just received the email below from the PM ahead of the G20 in Pittsburgh, which he is flying to today. To receive these emails, click here. Dear Alex, Later today I will be flying to America to represent…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Below is some video and the full text from Gordon Brown's speech this afternoon to the TUC: Friends let me first of all thank your General Secretary Brendan Barber, your President Sheila Bearcroft, and all the…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 The full text of Peter Mandelson's lecture to Progress this morning is now available on the Progress website. Mandelson says: "What has been instructive is how the past year has exposed the limits of David…
By Douglas Alexander MP The following is a summary of the speech I've just given to Co-operative Party Conference in Edinburgh. The Co-operative Party has a long and proud history and a strong and vital association with the Labour Party…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 At tonight's Compass Summer Lecture, Jon Cruddas has called on Labour to renew around the four key tenets of equality, community, sustainability and democracy. Expanding on his four key pillars during a forty…
From @LabourList Here is the text of an email sent by Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband to Labour party members today, with details on the agreements reached at last week's G8, and the plans looking ahead to Copenhagen in December: -- It…
From @LabourList Ken Livingstone called for radical economic alternatives to address the recession at yesterday's Progressive London Global Economic Crisis conference. The former Mayor of London believes the consequences of the economic…
By Dan Whittle This afternoon, I am giving evidence to the Committee on Standards in Public Life inquiry into MPs expenses. This is my opening statement: First may I start by saying that we are grateful to the Committee for undertaking this…
From @LabourList Here are the most important points of the PM's statement in the House this afternoon on plans for Constituional renewal: * All MPs' past and future expenses should and will be published on the internet in the next few days…
