Labour risks losing its backers to Jeremy Corbyn’s new Your Party, John McDonnell has warned.

Mr McDonnell, who was Mr Corbyn’s shadow chancellor when he was Labour leader, said of his own party: “The tactic that they’re using at the moment, the strategy they’re using, is the old traditional one from the right – ‘don’t worry about those who vote Labour, because they’ll always vote Labour, there’s nowhere else for them to go – so let’s target Reform’.

“It’s a catastrophic mistake because … there is somewhere else to go, both in terms of the Greens and possibly the new party that Jeremy is establishing.

“The more you shift to the right, particularly the racist right, the more you will lose our support and our biggest problem at the moment … is the stay-at-home vote.”

Shabana Mahmood said there was a “big difference” between her plans for indefinite leave to remain and Reform UK’s policy.

The Home Secretary told a fringe event at Labour conference: “I think that there is a difference between where they are, which is to rip up the settled status of people who are already a part of us – there’s a big difference between that and what I’ve been talking about, which is to ask the question about whether the rules we currently have that help someone become a part of us are still rules that maintain public confidence.”

She suggested the social care visa system had been exploited by criminals, saying one of her constituents had told her “every drug dealer in Birmingham is now becoming a care provider”.

Shadow Chancellor Sir Mel Stride said that ditching the two-child benefit cap “isn’t just irresponsible – it’s unfair”.

He added: “Rachel Reeves must come clean: where’s the money coming from? Will it be more and more debt, or even higher taxes? The UK is in the grip of Labour’s cost-of-living crisis and the public deserve the truth.

“With both Reform and Labour committing to the spiraling welfare bill, only the Conservative Party is committed to Britain living within its means.”

In a post on X, former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: “The Prime Minister has just delivered his Labour Conference speech.

“Over the course of an hour, he shared a list of his government’s greatest achievements.”

He added that “you can find them here” and shared a link to YourParty’s website with a page that said “nothing to see here”.

Rachel Reeves would not say whether she was planning to scrap the two-child benefit cap.

Asked about reports she would do so at the Budget, the Chancellor told a fringe event at the Labour conference: “Keir said in his speech today that we will reduce child poverty in this Parliament, but we will set out the policies in the Budget.

“I think we’ve been pretty clear this week that we can’t commit to policies without us explaining where the money is coming from.”

Adding that there were “real financial constraints” due to persistent inflation, tariffs, global conflicts and increased borrowing costs – along with expected changes to OBR forecasts – she said: “I would be the first person to want to find some money down the back of the sofa to pay for lots of different things.

“But I have to be Chancellor in the world as it is, not in the world as I might like it to be.”

Sir Keir Starmer’s speech saw Labour “reclaiming” the Union flag, Rachel Reeves has said.

Asked about the flags being waved by the audience in the conference hall, the Chancellor told a fringe event: “What was really good about today was we were sort of reclaiming it for our values.

“I’m really proud of our country, I think this is, honestly, the best country in the world.

“I love this country, but we should be proud of the flag, it does represent our country.”

She added: “I don’t want that flag to be sort of co-opted by the far right.”

Readers can vote in our online poll here on whether the Prime Minsiter is right to claim Nigel Farage “doesn’t like” Britain.

Asked whether he thought Mr Farage was a racist, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy told the BBC: “I’m not going to play the man. I’m playing the ball, as our leader did.

“I will leave it for the public to come to their own judgments about someone who once flirted with Hitler Youth when he was younger.”

Responding to Sir Keir Starmer’s speech, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said: “Keir Starmer has all but confirmed that tax rises are coming.

“The Prime Minister could have used his speech to own up to the mistakes he’s made on the economy, admit the country was living beyond its means, and set out a plan to avoid further punishing tax hikes this autumn, but he did not.

“In Labour’s first year, inflation has doubled, economic growth has halved and unemployment has risen almost every single month. Everyone in Britain will now pay the price for Starmer’s weakness with a smaller economy and higher taxes.”

Nigel Farage warned he is “more determined than ever” and vowed to “teach Starmer a lesson” at next May’s elections.

The Reform UK leader said: “This Labour conference lacks any vision and we are going to continue, I’m sorry to say, in economic, social and cultural decline.

“But Starmer is right about one thing. We are facing a big fork in the road. He is a human rights lawyer who will bow down to foreign courts and outdated treaties. And he has no idea of the division that open borders have caused within our communities or indeed the anger, the sense of unfairness that people feel over two-tier policing and two-tier justice under two-tier Keir.

“What he and the rest don’t understand, and the reason we’re leading in the polls, is this country has had enough of a failing, gutless political class. It wants real change.

“Now look, I’m not a vindictive person in any way at all. But Reform will teach Keir Starmer and the Labour Party a lesson next May. We will teach Starmer a lesson next May that British political history will never forget.

“I am now, as a result of this week and the abuse that has been heaped upon our supporters and voters, more determined than ever. Don’t underestimate that.”

The Reform UK leader said: “His total level of denial over broken Britain is quite extraordinary.

“We all know the roads are clogged in a way they never were before. We all know you can’t get a GP appointment. We all know that crime is out of control, so much so that here in London men don’t wear watches, women don’t wear jewellery, and don’t get your mobile phone out otherwise somebody on a moped will take it.

“Britain is broken and it needs fixing. And our vision for the future is the positive one. We believe that we can do it.”

Nigel Farage insisted that Sir Keir Starmer “does not believe in Britain”.

The Reform UK leader said: “Starmer says I don’t like or love this country. Well let me say this, for 30 years I fought for British sovereignty, I fought for us to be a self-governing nation. Why? Because I always believed the best people to govern Britain were the British people themselves.

“And him? He of course didn’t like the vote, the greatest result, the biggest democratic mandate ever given in this country when in 2016 we voted Brexit. No, he spent the next few years trying to overturn that result.

“He doesn’t believe we should govern ourselves. He’s happy be it Brussels, be it the UN, be it a series of foreign courts, he’s happy for us to be governed from there.

“He does not believe in Britain, he does not believe in the Britain that most of you out there believe in. And his total level of denial over broken Britain is absolutely extraordinary.”

Nigel Farage said: “I used to think the Prime Minister was a decent man. Somebody that I could talk to and chat to. We might disagree on worldview, but I thought he was a profoundly decent human being.

“I am completely shocked at his behaviour. I hope when he wakes up tomorrow morning he feels ashamed of what he has done. This is a desperate last throw of the dice from a Prime Minister who is in deep trouble. A Prime Minister who can’t even command the support of half of his own party. But I am sorry to say I now believe that he is unfit to be the Prime Minister of our country.”

The Reform leader said Sir Keir Stamer’s’s invoking of patriotism was “quite extraordinary”.

He said: “This is still the Labour Party of Gordon Brown. Remember, that ‘bigoted’ woman who talks about mass immigration.

“It’s still the Labour Party of Emily Thornberry who thought the Cross of St George on a van in Rochester was something truly awful.

“It’s a Labour Party that can never accept any sense of English identity even if it was more tolerant of Scottish or Irish or Welsh identity.”

Nigel Farage has said Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s branding of Reform UK plans as racist “will incite and encourage the radical left” and “directly threatens the safety” of Reform UK campaigners.

He said: “Reform want illegal migrants deported from our country. As I speak, a further 400 have crossed the English Channel today.

“Reform want the benefits system to be for UK citizens, for British citizens only, not for foreign-born nationals. Reform want foreign criminals removed from our country ASAP.

“Labour says these policies are racist and immoral, and, by implication, Reform supporters, Reform voters, Reform sympathisers, are racist too.

“Yes, if you think we should patrol our borders, you are, by the definition of the Prime Minister and his Cabinet, all racists.

“Now, I don’t normally worry about abuse being thrown at me. I’ve got kind of used to it over the course of the last few years, but to accuse countless millions of being racist is a very, very low blow.

“Why? Well, this language will incite and encourage the radical left. I’m thinking of Antifa and other organisations like that. It directly threatens the safety of our elected officials and our campaigners, and, frankly, in the wake of the Charlie Kirk murder, I think this is an absolute disgrace.”

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said Labour’s conference has been “extraordinary”.

He said: “I’ve been watching party conferences for half a century. Never before have I seen one name so dominate a conference, and the remarkable thing is it’s somebody that isn’t even a member of the Labour Party.

“It has been obsessive. Whether it’s the Home Secretary, whether it’s the Health Secretary, it’s a constant attack on me and what I stand for and what we as Reform UK – a party that has led the opinion polls now for over 100 polls – it’s an attack on everything that we stand for and believe in.

“What I’ve learned this week is that the government are incapable of beating us on our arguments and as a result the Prime Minister has decided to descend into the gutter and all of his cabinet with him.”

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is now giving a live broadcast with his response to Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour conference address.

In response to Sir Keir Starmer’s speech, John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “The Prime Minister boasted of his vision for a ‘Britain built for all’, but what about pub owners shutting their doors, family farms, businesses on the brink of bankruptcy, or young people facing unemployment?”

“It is clear that the Government has nothing to offer taxpayers and sees them as merely cash cows to feed an ever more gluttonous public sector, with more punishment set to follow in November’s Budget.

“If the Government is serious about so-called national renewal, it should be giving working families and hard-pressed small businesses a break by getting spending under control and cutting taxes.”

“People say that a nation like ours can’t be a community. That’s it’s too diverse, too divided, I reject that. It goes against everything I stand for, everything I understand about this great country that I love.

“So no matter how many people tell me it can’t be done, I believe Britain can come together. Can come together.

“That is my ambition. The purpose of this government: end decline, reform our public services, grow our economy from the grassroots.

“And with resolve, with respect, with the flag in our hands we will renew this country until we can say with total conviction that Britain is built for all!”

His speech concludes.

Starmer holds out his hand to people who see politics differently to him but want to put the country first.

“If you want to stand against grievance, this is your fight too.”

He says the politics of grievance is trying to turn Britain into a place where you look at your neighbours and no longer see them as “fellow partners in the project of Britain.”

He accuses the Tories of never standing up to the politics of grievance, “but I will”.

He says he does not accept that Britain is broken, because of the myriad opportunities.

“Is that broken Britain, conference?”

He cites energy, manufacturing, foreign tech companies investing in Britain.

Trade deals signalling to the world that “Britain is back”.

Starmer says “a new world is coming”, and the NHS need to be prepared for it.

AI, he says, will save lives, and the NHS needs to use it.

He will also put patients in control of their health with technology.

Starmer says factime consultations will speed up meetings, and liberate people from geographical restrictions.

He announces a completely digital NHS trust offering millions of appointments, “A new chapter in the story of our NHS”

Starmer says that he will always control public spending and the fiscal rules are non-negotiable.

“They protect working people and our children’s future”.

He says national renewal “isn’t just moving money around.”

Working class towns need to be backed by investment but don’t want to rely on hand outs.

“Mark my words, we will stop this, we will smash the gangs, we will crack down on illegal working, we will remove those with no right to be here, and we will secure Britain’s borders.

“But there is a moral line, and it isn’t just Farage who crosses it.

“If you throw bricks and smash up private property that is not legitimate that is thuggery.

“If you incite racist violence that is not concern, it’s criminal.”

“If you say or imply people cannot be English or British because of the colour of their skin… if you say they should now be deported then mark my words we will fight you with everything we have.

“Because you are the enemy of national renewal.”

“And it will be a fight, conference, it doesn’t get easier from here.”

Starmer defends a woman in Oldham who criticised eastern European immigrants who caused antisocial behaviour.

He said “what was really happening, was that she an ordinary working class woman from Oldham, felt she had to prove to a Labour politician that she wasn’t racist before she could bring up the issues from her community.”

Starmer says Labour had become a party that patronised working people, and “that’s why we changed the party.”

He says there are still some people who say we can ignore the small boats crisis.

“I say to them very plainly, we will tackle that crisis.”

He says voters “want secure borders”. He defends granting asylum to the most vulnerable, but “secure borders are also vital for a decent, compassionate country.”

Starmer says he’s had enough of self-appointed spokesmen for working people lecturing, who crash the economy like Liz Truss, or slag Britain off in the United States.

“No. No more of them!

“Labour is the patriotic party!”

Starmer says the target that 50% of kids going to university is not working in modern Britain.

He is scrapping the target.

The new target is that 2/3rds of children will instead either go to university or take a “gold standard apprenticship”.

The target was put in place by Tony Blair’s government.

He also announces that further education will be made a defining cause of the government, raising the quality of teaching, qualifications linked to jobs, new technical colleges.

Starmer says his dad felt disrespected as a toolmaker because he worked with his hand.

He worked late nights while Starmer enjoyed nights at University in Leeds.

He highlights the apprentices at the Clyde shipbuilding centre.

“I thought about my sister, a care worker, who works with adults with Down syndrome.

“Vital for our country.

“Then I think about my Brother. He was failed by the education system, put to one side, barely even seen.”

He wants a Britain where people are treated with dignity for making different life choices.

He says he doesn’t want to denegrate the universit

Starmer highlights expansion of free school meals, saying Britain must never have children going hungry.

Starmer says inequality is baked in for life by the age of four for some children.

He says their investment in nurseries and support for teachers and carers is essential to national renewal.

“It’s working people who paid the price of Tory decline. That’s why we invested in our NHS, fired up energy, British steel, sick pay, ending fire and rehire, record investment in Scotland and Wales, and new rail lines.

“Spreading prosperity right across Britain.”

Keir Starmer receives luke-warm clapping for defending the last Budget and its “difficult decisions”.

He acknowledges the pressure put on businesses with Labour’s NICs hike.

He insists it will be better for growth in the long-term.

“A firmer foundation to take our country forward.”

“A Britain built for all. Every decision we took this past year it’s all been in pursuit of that mission.”

“We’re all in it together. Come on.”

He slams the country the Tories built, selling off assets, closing down programms that helped people.

He reiterates that the defining mission of this government is to improve the economy, with growth, and boost wealth.

“Growth is the pound in your pocket… the little things that bring joy to our lives.”

“But it is also the antidote to division. That’s the most important aspect of national renewal.

“It can either build a nation or pull it apart… Britain needs an economy that unites.”

Starmer says you can’t blame working people for looking to Farage, after letting them down for years.

The financial crash and Covid.

He says Labour must never defend a status quo that “manifestly failed working people.”

“That’s what I say to people who think it would be nice if we could just go back to politics before Brexit or the crash.”

He delivers an implicit criticism of the Blair government’s failures on immigration and infrastructure.

“Look at our world now. Because in our age of insecuerity we can see now that it does matter.”

He calls for a more muscular state.

Starmer says he’ll never doubt British values. “Rules that protect those in need, respect for difference under the same flag. The freedom to live and let lift.”

“The progress, the prosperity, the peace I’ve seen throughout my life.”

Starmer welcomes Trump’s proposed peace plan for Israel and Gaza, calling on all sides to join together to bring it into reality.

He gets a massive cheer for reiterating his recognition of Palestine as a state.

Starmer hits out at the Greens as well as Reform, saying snake oil merchants are on the left and the right.

He claims Farage doesn’t like Britain and needs the country to fail in order for him to succeed.

“A competition of victims”

“But it is a great country. It will always be a great country… that throughout history has stood its ground, stood by its values.

“A nation of resolve, a land of respect, a Britain built for all.”

“The basic ordinary hope of a better future for our children restored for millions.

“A Britain that has rediscovered the belief and pride to take control of its future.

He brands Reform offering the “path of decline” that leads to ruin and chaos.

“It’s a tempting path. It asks nothing of people, makes no demands, suggests no difficulties.”

He says Farage is offering a mythical cure.

Keir Starmer warns Labour MPs that his project of renewal will not have cost-free choices.

But insists it will spark a better Britain in the long-term. A defence of his strategy.

He says he wants to “celebrate difference and oppose racism”.

Keir Starmer says his task of national renewal is “urgent”.

“Britain stands at a fork in the road. We can choose decency or division.”

He launches into Nigel Farage instantly, branding him the “politics of grievance”.

He says it’s a “fight for the soul of our country”.

Starmer thanks Margaret for her introduction. “After all those obstacles deliberately put in your way, with this Hillsborough law you and other campaigners have served a degree of justice for the 97 but also for thousands of people you will never know and never meet.”

“This party was founded to listen to working class people like that, people that are suffering, even when the state turns its back.

“Now injustice has no place to hide.”

Keir’s on stage, here we go.

Hillsborough campaigner Margaret Aspinall is the person picked to introduce Keir Starmer.

She lost her 18-year-old son at Hillsborough, and is explaining “why the Hillsborough Law is so important”

“I want to die knowing we changed history.”

“97 people were unlawfully killed, and the perpetrators walked away scot-free… this law will make consequences if you tell lies!”

Nigel Farage will criticise Sir Keir Starmer for calling his immigration policy racist in a live broadcast immediately after the Prime Minister’s speech to the Labour Party conference.

The Reform UK leader will say Sir Keir’s comments have put his party’s candidates and activists at risk and declare him “wholly unfit to be Prime Minister”, The Times has reported.

A party official told the newspaper: “Labour have threatened the safety of Reform councillors and campaigners across the country.”

Andy Burnham departs conference after days of making waves.

An official statement from the Israeli government has said Britain’s Labour government is a “disgrace”.

“While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump are working tirelessly in Washington to end the war in Gaza, the Labour Party chooses to embrace Hamas and fully adopt its lies, including the fake genocide campaign. The world stands with the US and Israel in their efforts to end the war. Labour stands with Hamas. It is a disgrace for Britain that this is the party in power.”

Sir Keir Starmer has been pictured with his wife Lady Victoria ahead of his Labour conference speech at 2pm.

Organisers handing out flags of all four Union nations in main hall. Expect a patriotic theme for Starmer’s speech

Labour deputy leadership hopeful Lucy Powell told an event on the fringes of Labour conference: “We’re pleasing no one by on the one side trying to sort of out-Reform Reform, and then on the other side we’re kind of losing our more progressive voters to the left, and we see that in the polling figures.

“As the Government and as the Labour Party, we should be a lot clearer about setting the terms of the debate.”

Shadow Health and Social Care Secretary Stuart Andrew said: “Labour talks tough on the NHS, but behind the headlines there is no credible plan. They failed to resolve their dispute with the militant BMA, and their inflation-busting pay rises show this government will cave into the unions.

“Social care needs urgent, practical reform – not Labour’s sectoral bargaining plan that leaves council taxpayers to cover the cost. The funding will barely make a dent, forcing councils to fill the gap and pushing up council tax further.

“A strong NHS and sustainable social care system depend on a strong economy – and on both fronts, Labour is failing. Only the Conservatives will restore economic stability, cut waiting times, end strikes and make the NHS and social care systems work for the people they serve.”

Labour is telling its members and conference attendees that they must ask for consent before even shaking hands.

Posters in the Liverpool conference toilets remind attendees about the importance of consent, warning: “Please show respect at all times toward all attendees.

“Check out first with people about how they feel about any physical contact – whether that’s a handshake, a high five, a fist bump or a hug.

“Remember, if anyone says ‘no’, whether through words or through body language, you must always respect their wishes immediately.”

The left-wing firebrand journalist Owen Jones has been expelled from Labour conference sparking a furious free speech row.

Mr Jones was spotted yesterday filming his annual Labour conference video, in which he chases after Cabinet Ministers to ask them tough and often awkward questions.

However he has revealed this morning he awoke to discover an email informing him he has now been banned from returning to the secure zone.

Wes Streeting called for the return of Angela Rayner, who quit as deputy prime minister in a row over her tax affairs, in his conference speech.

As he unveiled new measures on pay for social care workers, the Health Secretary said: “There’s someone else who’s made a real difference too, who understands the struggle care workers face, because she was one.

“She brought that experience to the Cabinet table as the care worker who became our country’s deputy prime minister.

“Angela Rayner, this achievement is yours. Thank you.

“And we want her back as well.”

Wes Streeting called Nigel Farage a “snake oil salesman of British politics”.

He told the Labour Party conference: “We must win another fight too, one against the poison of post-truth politics.

“At Reform’s conference, a discredited doctor claimed that the Covid vaccine gave our royal family cancer.

“This man wasn’t just some fringe figure – he’s Reform’s health adviser.

“And these anti-vax lies have consequences: they’ve led to the return of diseases we thought we defeated – measles, whooping cough, children dying from preventable illness in this the 21st Century.

“When Farage was asked whether he’d side with medical scientists, he said, ‘I wouldn’t side with anybody’ – anti-science, anti-reason anti-health.

“Nigel Farage is a snake oil salesman of British politics, and it’s time to stop buying what he’s selling.”

Wes Streeting quotes Sir Isaac Newton’s ‘standing on the shoulder of giants’ at the beginning of his conference speech.

But with Labour’s plunging poll rating perhaps the Health Secretary should take note of another phrase associated with the famous mathmetician – ‘what goes up, must come down’.

Labour has launched another shocking attack on Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, this time comparing him to self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate, It comes after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer previously accused Mr Farage of promoting “racist” policies.

This time the comments were made by Sir Keir’s right-hand man Darren Jones, a Cabinet Minister who is the Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister. Speaking in front of a crowd at Labour’s annual conference, he said he put Mr Farage in a “similar category” to Mr Tate, an online influencer who is being sued by four women over claims he assaulted them, which Mr Tate denies.

Mr Jones said: “There is a more muscular approach to attacking Reform. We don’t just want to be in a position where we are responding to the crazy things tey are saying. and also we should be under no illusion that we win tat argument by making a Labour argument not by making a Reform-style argument.”

He said the Conservatives were “pretty busted at the moment”, adding: “And so Reform are the real challengers.”

Mr Jones said Reform had spoken about providing more chances to “white working class boys”. He continued: “What are Reform offering? They literally have no offer to them whatsoever, apart from hate and division, othering and wanting to tear the system down.”

He said Nigel Farage “wants to tear everything down”.

Sky News Political Editor Beth Rigby, who was interviewing Mr Jones, said: “He has a big following with big people, particularly young men. He’s much more popular with them than you.”

Mr Jones replied: “So does Andrew Tate, but that doesn’t mean it’s okay. And I put them in similar categories, quite frankly.

“They are snake oil salesmen that are misleading people and taking them down a dark path for them and for our country. We have to bring a light into that debate.”

Earlier this week the Crown Prosecution Service said Andrew Tate will face no criminal charges over allegations made by four women who are suing him in a High Court civil case.

Sir Keir Starmer’s net popularity rating has dropped to minus 48, according to new polling.

The survey by More in Common puts Tory leader Kemi Badenoch on minus 21, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage on minus nine and Lib Dem Sir Ed Davey on minus four.

Darren Jones said “you don’t need to worry about it” when asked why ministers will not explicitly rule out raising VAT at the Budget.

Asked about his remark yesterday that the manifesto pledge “stands today”, the Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister said: “Now it’s tomorrow today and it still stands.”

Pressed to explain his language, he told a Labour conference fringe event hosted by Sky News’ Beth Rigby, he said: “You don’t need to worry about it.”

The latest YouGov poll has Reform UK in first place with 29%.

Labour is second on 22%, the Tories are third with 16%, and the Lib Dems are fourth with 15%.

The poll of 2,585 people was carried out from September 28-29.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has suggested Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is “racist”.

Asked if he believed the Brexiteer was racist personally, Mr Streeting told Times Radio: “Let me put it this way because I don’t have a window into Nigel Farage’s heart and soul.

“I remember the leaflet that Reform put out in Scotland in the by-election that said that Anas Sarwar would prioritise the interests of the Pakistani community.

“If that leaflet directed against a proud Scot of proud Pakistani heritage was not racist, then I don’t know what is. And, if Nigel Farage allows that to go out from his party, what does that make him?”

Reform UK’s efforts to walk away from the European Convention on Human Rights are “wrong” and “reckless”, the Northern Ireland Secretary has warned.

At the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, Hilary Benn said that the “Good Friday Agreement enabled Northern Ireland to move away from the bloody and brutal trauma of the Troubles, towards peace and progress”.

Mr Benn continued: “It was, without doubt, the greatest achievement of the last Labour government.

“It took courage. It took patient negotiation, and yet, what does Nigel Farage want to do?

“He actually wants to undermine the Good Friday Agreement by walking away from the European Convention on Human Rights.

“And after all that the people of Northern Ireland have been through, I cannot think of anything more irresponsible – it’s wrong, it’s reckless, and we’ve got to make sure it never, ever happens.”

Labour activists and delegates in Liverpool have been urged to be “vigilant” by the party’s conference arrangements committee chairwoman, ahead of Sir Keir Starmer’s speech.

Lynne Morris made the announcement as she opened the third day of the gathering.

It follows a pro-Palestine heckler at Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s speech yesterday and a protester who ran on stage during the Prime Minister’s address last year.

She said: “In order to deliver a safe conference, we would ask you to be vigilant and to report any concerns you have to a member of staff or steward immediately.

“If there is someone sitting with you in your delegation or in a seat near to you that you do not recognise, or that are concerned about in any way, please inform the regional, Scottish or Welsh teams.”

Only delegates and those with tickets, which includes several journalists, will be let into the hall for Sir Keir’s address, Ms Morris said.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage warned that Sir Keir Starmer is “not fit to be Prime Minister” in a video on X.

It comes as the Prime Minister has used Labour’s conference to repeatedly attack the insurgent party.

The Prime Minister has been pictured rehearsing his Labour conference speech with his wife Lady Victoria Starmer.

Wes Streeting has become the latest Labour politician to hit out at Reform UK’s immigration plans after Sir Keir Starmer and others branded the proposals as “racist”.

Asked what Reform UK’s plans to scrap indefinite leave to remain would mean for the NHS, the Health Secretary told LBC: “I mean, there are doctors, nurses, care workers, NHS, staff earning less than £60,000 a year, who have come to this country, who have given back, not just through their taxes, but through their service to our country.

“If we were to send those people back, I think that would be a disaster.

“And my message that I’m giving in my speech Labour Party conference today is to those of you listening who are in that situation, who are fearing for your future now in the way that you weren’t some weeks ago: “Farage says ‘go home’.

“I say ‘you are home’, and I’m grateful for the service that you give to our national health service, to our social care system and to our country.”

We’ve grown so used to bad economic news that it hardly seems surprising any more, but there was yet another blow for Chancellor Rachel Reeves today as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer prepares to deliver his big conference speech.

The UK economy grew by an unrevised 0.3% between April and June as official figures confirmed a marked slowdown from the first quarter, but revealed growth was better than first thought throughout much of last year.

Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed second quarter growth in the economy remained unchanged from its earlier estimate, at 0.3%, marking a steep pull-back from 0.7% expansion in the first three months of the year.

But the data also showed a rebound in household disposable income per person between April and June 2025, which increased by 0.2%, compared with a 0.9% fall in the first three months.

The ONS said this was driven by a rise of £4.4 billion in wages, largely in the private sector, while at the same time there was a £4 billion fall in taxes on income but this related to the 2023-24 tax year.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting was asked on BBC Breakfast whether patients would struggle more now to see a doctor and was told some viewers were anxious about everything going online.

He said: “The reassurance I can provide your viewers is actually it will do the opposite, by getting people who can be seen online seen online.

“That’s not just better for them in terms of it being more quick, more easy, more convenient, it also alleviates pressure, frees up capacity for people who want to be seen face-to-face.

“And I use the word want deliberately, because there will be some people who need to be seen face-to-face regardless, and it may be that someone like me, who’d rather not take some time off work, would rather be seen online.

“Sometimes you do have to be called in face to face, but people should also have the choice.

“So if you’re someone watching this morning, thinking, ‘actually, the last thing I’d want to do is speak to someone over the phone, or the last thing I’d want to do is speak to someone through a screen’, by creating that ease and convenience and online access for other people who want to be seen and can be seen online, we free up capacity for people who would want to be seen face to face.

“So I think everyone wins from this. It creates more capacity in the NHS, desperately needed for all of us, but it also provides different courses for different horses.”

A new “online hospital” will deliver millions of appointments and help slash waiting lists, Sir Keir Starmer will announce.

The Prime Minister will use his leader’s speech at Labour’s conference to set out plans for NHS Online, which will connect patients to specialist clinicians.

The scheme, which will begin operating in 2027, will deliver up to 8.5 million extra NHS appointments in its first three years, Labour claimed.

In his speech in Liverpool Sir Keir will say “a new world is coming” and “in decades to come, I want people to look back on this moment as the moment we renewed the NHS for a new world”.

The online hospital will be accessible through the NHS app and will allow patients to choose between the digital service and their local hospital.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said Reform UK is a threat to everything the doctors’ union wants to see from the NHS.

Asked why he had suggested the British Medical Association (BMA) needed to “pick a side” between Labour and Reform UK, he told Times Radio that Nigel Farage’s party is “anti-science, anti-reason and anti-health”.

“We’ve seen Nigel Farage advocating an insurance-style system. He will check your pockets before your pulse,” he said.

Pressed on why that is a threat to the BMA, he said: “I think Reform UK is a threat to everything the BMA wants to see from the NHS.

“Similarly, do they really want in power in this country a prime minister in Nigel Farage who, when asked if he’s on the side of doctors and the medical advice they give on paracetamol to pregnant mothers who will be worried about what they’d heard, said, ‘I don’t side with anybody’. I mean, that’s anti-science.”

A £500 million package will help boost pay and improve conditions for care workers, Wes Streeting will announce in his Labour conference speech today.

The fair pay agreement will establish a new negotiating body that brings together social care employers and trade unions in England.

The Health Secretary will tell the gathering in Liverpool that “poverty pay” will no longer be tolerated in social care.

The initial investment in the agreement will mean that by 2028, care workers will expect to see a boost in their yearly wages, Labour said.

Mr Streeting will also restate Labour’s commitment to establishing a national care service.

Conservative Party chairman Kevin Hollinrake said: “Keir Starmer calls this a fork in the road, but he’s already driven Britain into a cul-de-sac of chaos.

“Families are fighting to cope with higher bills, higher taxes on their jobs and higher mortgage rates whilst his doom loop Chancellor is secretly plotting to pile tax upon tax, debt upon debt, which will further grind the economy down and shatter the public’s trust.

“And while Britain pays the price, Labour descend into a race to the bottom in their own ranks, led by a weak, visionless Prime Minister.

“Labour’s first year has been consumed by scandal, riven with hypocrisy, and crippled by poor judgment. The contrast could not be clearer – the Conservative Party, under Kemi Badenoch, are the only party who will strengthen the economy, secure our borders, and restore stability.

“Labour under Keir Starmer are serious only about clinging to power while the country pays the price.”

Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour conference address comes at a difficult moment for the Prime Minister.

He is facing questions about his leadership and speculation about a challenge from Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham.

Meanwhile, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is continuing to lead polls.

And Labour is battling to keep its promises on taxation, spending and immigration.

Sir Keir Starmer will warn that Britain faces a “defining choice” between “decency” and “division” in his address.

The Prime Minister is expected to use his speech at Labour’s conference to expand his attacks on Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

The insurgent party is now regarded by Labour as the primary threat to its re-election prospects.

Sir Keir will say: “We can all see our country faces a choice, a defining choice. Britain stands at a fork in the road.

“We can choose decency. Or we can choose division. Renewal or decline.

“A country, proud of its values, in control of its future, or one that succumbs, against the grain of our history, to the politics of grievance.”

The main event today at Labour’s party conference is Sir Keir Starmer’s keynote speech.

The Prime Minister is due to address the gathering in Liverpool at 2pm.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting is also among Cabinet members set to give their speeches.