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This is the moment a protestor storms the stage and throws glitter all over Keir Starmer during his Labour conference speech.The man rushed on stage at the beginning of the address.He shouts: “We demand a people’s house, we are in crisis – politics needs an update. We are in crisis.”After being interrupted by a heckler, Mr Starmer opened his speech at Labour Party conference by saying: “If he thinks that bothers me he doesn’t know me.“Protest not power, that is why we changed our party conference.” More

Mark Drakeford has told the Labour Party conference that he aims to unseat all Conservative MPs in Wales at the next election.The Welsh Labour leader addressed crowds in Liverpool on Monday 9 October.“As we approach the general election, our ambition is to make Wales once again a country free of Tory MPs,” Mr Drakeford said.“Free of their toxic brand of personal attacks and culture wars, free of a deep hostility to devolution, their casual cruelty and their malign neglect.” More

Rachel Reeves claimed that Liz Truss “is still leading the Conservative Party” despite “being out of Downing Street”.The shadow chancellor took aim at the former prime minister as she made a speech at Labour conference in Liverpool on Monday 9 October.“I’m telling us what we already know, Liz Truss might be out of Downing Street, but she is still leading the Conservative Party,” Ms Reeves said.She went on to say that the “one sensible thing” the Tories announced last week was a phased smoking ban, before joking that the government won’t have any cigarette packets left to write their other policies on. More

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer told Welsh delegates at the party’s conference in Liverpool it is “time for change”.As activists gathered for what could be the final Labour conference before the election expected next year, Sir Keir said the party would make the “positive case for change” with a pitch to swing voters that would “weld together” competence and the offer of fresh hope after 13 years of Tory rule.The party’s members gather in Liverpool enjoying consistent double-digit poll leads over the Tories and buoyed by the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election triumph over the SNP, but Sir Keir also warned against complacency. More

Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner has pledged that the next Labour government will make misogyny a ‘hate crime’.Speaking at the annual Labour Women’s Conference in Liverpool, the British politician began off by saying, “Let’s face it – sometimes it’s tiring being a woman in this world, especially under a Tory Government!”Rayner then went on to state that although it’s hard for impoverished women to get a job at the Palace of Westminster, the Labour government now have more women MPs than men.She added: “Labour is the Party of equality… We’ll make misogyny a hate crime.” More

Sir Keir Starmer labelled this week’s Conservative Party conference “a circus” as he hailed Labour’s by-election win in Rutherglen and Hamilton West.The Labour leader travelled to Scotland on Friday 6 October to celebrate with Michael Shanks, describing the win as a “seismic result” for his party.Sir Keir also took aim at Rishi Sunak and the Tories as he addressed a crowd.“Whilst we’ve been busy here, you’ll have seen the Tories have been in Manchester. What a circus,” he said.“Rishi Sunak pretending that he’s going to do things differently? The nodding dog who passed all those decisions that he now says are a complete failure.” More

Humza Yousaf has been forced to apologise after he clashed with the leader of the Scottish Conservative Party over the Scottish Government’s record on policing and crime.The SNP leader hit back at rival Douglas Ross after he was questioned on a fall in officer numbers and plans by Police Scotland to cut some of its stations.“His post-truth, his lies about the police service, it simply will not wash here in Scotland,” Mr Yousaf said.Alison Johnstone, Holyrood’s presiding officer, then stepped in and suggested it was “wholly inappropriate” for him to accuse Mr Ross of lying.She then asked Mr Yousaf three times for an apology, with the first minister initially saying he would instead describe Mr Ross’s comments as a “deliberate inaccuracy” and “post-truths”.The clash between Mr Yousaf and Mr Ross came days after Rishi Sunak joked that Nicola Sturgeon could face prison. More

Penny Mordaunt said ‘stand up and fight’ 12 times in a bizarre speech at the Conservative Party Conference.On 4 October, Rishi Sunak closed the annual gathering of Tory politicians held this year in Manchester, but not before the Leader of the House of Commons delivered a rallying speech which appeared to give nod to ex-prime minister of the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher.Addressing the conference, she said, “stand up and fight for the freedoms we have won against socialism, whether it is made of velvet or iron.”She walked off to rapturous applause, but left many rather puzzled. More