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Caerphilly MP Wayne David rejoins Labour justice front bench

Mr Farron told BBC News the Liberal Democrats would provide grid references showing where exactly they want to see five new garden cities built between Oxford and Cambridge.

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Mr Clegg, who quit as party leader following the electoral mauling in May which saw the Lib Dems lose all but eight of their seats, will return to the conference stage in Bournemouth.

Labour’s shadow-Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn MP is already scheduled to speak at the LFI reception.

“I think on the whole things will be very similar to how they were before”.

Lord Falconer said he was in favour of renewing Trident but said it was for the party to debate the issue. Nobody clings to the bottom of a truck and risks their life without a jolly good reason.

This decision suggests that Mr Corbyn is keen to reassure small businesses that his well-publicised left-wing views do not necessarily mean that he is opposed to supporting commercial ventures.

I think there are two closely related elements to winning back the Labour MPs: proper information, and economic strategy.

The Lib Dems boasted this weekend that their membership had risen to more than 61,000 – fewer than the number of people who have joined Labour since Mr Corbyn was elected leader last weekend.

“Because let’s be clear: for all the huffing and puffing we’re going to hear from those who want to leave the European Union , they have no answer to that fundamental strategic question”.

Probably some Labor members are rethinking new party rules which opened the leadership election to anyone forking over $4.60. The “prime minister’s questions” session will give many Britons their first extended look at the veteran left-winger who became the Labour Party leader Saturday after a months-long campaign. Besides which, we have a letters page just for that objective .

He described Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as a “gent” but warned the party was not “economically credible”.

The Sunday Telegraph claims senior Labour figures have criticised the sentiments expressed in the poem.

In 2003 he said: “It’s about time we started honouring those people involved in the armed struggle”.

She added: “I like and admire Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell (the shadow chancellor)”.

However, Mr Farron insisted that because she had resigned the party whip “she is not ours”. “This general seems to have forgotten that we live in a democracy”.

At a fringe event, former party president Simon Hughes said the party will recover if it campaigns on Europe, housing and Heathrow: “We must be clearly and unambiguously the party wanting the United Kingdom to stay in the EU”.

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