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Andy McDonald quit the shadow cabinet after he was instructed to argue against a national minimum wage of £15 per hour, he claims.

“In Keir Starmer’s essay, migration was only mentioned in the context of, ‘we need to tackle the challenges of our time, such as climate change, terrorism and migration’. I thought it was quite strange that migration would appear in the same sentence as terrorism - and climate change as well, ...

The Labour deputy leader challenged Boris Johnson to apologise for his own ‘racist, homophobic and sexist’ comments.

The Labour leader said Rosie Duffield, who is not attending the party conference in Brighton after receiving threats and being branded transphobic, was wrong to say “only women have a cervix”.

Refusing to nationalise energy firms is a major departure from the leadership of Labour under Jeremy Corbyn.

"If the Prime Minister wants to apologise and remove himself from those comments he has made that are homophobic, that are racist, that are misogynistic, I will apologise," she said.

An announcement to boost HGV driver numbers by up to 5,000 is expected this weekend.

Corbyn said the current leadership “props up rather than challenges our broken political and economic system”.

But a power sharing alliance with the SNP was dismissed as a “political dead end”.