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That's a wrap for Labour's first party conference since gaining power in July.

We've taken you through some of the key moments from the last week, but here's a bit more detail on the fourth and final day:

• Health Secretary Wes Streeting insisted he will not back down from his claim the NHS is "broken" - he told the conference that "working people deserve to be treated on time"
• Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson got a warm reception from the Liverpool delegation when putting VAT on private school fees - and she added that universities had been "turned into noisy political battlegrounds"
• Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall said there is still much to do as a result of "Tory failure"
• A non-binding vote to reverse the government's decision to cut winter fuel payments was carried by the delegation - the Unite union boss, Sharon Graham, said the cuts were "a noose around our necks"
• Earlier in the day, Sir Keir Starmer signalled a major shakeup of the benefits system
• And in wide-ranging interviews with the BBC, the prime minister also warned Britons to leave Lebanon immediately and defended his stay at a donor's property during the election

Christy Cooney
Live reporter

Our coverage of this year's Labour Party conference is drawing to a close.

Before we go, here's a quick round-up of everything we've heard over the last four days:

• Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Minister Angela Rayner kicked off the conference on Sunday by saying the government faced "tough choices" on the economy but also pledged to "get Britain building"
• "Britain is back" on the global stage said Foreign Secretary David Lammy on the same day, as he called on the collective West to "demonstrate it can outlast Putin" in Ukraine

• The economy then led the agenda on Monday, with Chancellor Rachel Reeves pledging a "new industrial strategy" intended to "unlock investment, create jobs and deliver prosperity"
• She said there would be "no return to austerity", though refused to back down over her decision to cut the winter fuel payment
• In Sir Keir Starmer's address on Tuesday, he told the hall his government would usher in a period of "national renewal", though warned there were no "easy answers" to the issues the country faces
• He attacked what he called the "weak and cowardly fantasy of populism" and said the "patient, calm, determined era of politics as service has begun"
• Health Secretary Wes Streeting said on the final day of the conference that the NHS was "letting people down" and needed widespread reform, though added that charges would be introduced for services "over my dead body"

With the unions winning their vote earlier on the winter fuel payment cuts, let's return to Rachel Reeves' speech on Monday.

The chancellor said that, after Labour took office, it was "made clear to her" that "failure to act swiftly could undermine the UK's fiscal position... with implications for public debt, mortgages, and prices".

Watch her comments below:

How many people are off work due to sickness?published at 12:45 British Summer Time 25 September

12:45 BST 25 September

By Gerry Georgieva

A bit earlier at the Labour Party conference, Health Secretary Wes Streeting said “nearly 3 million people are off work sick”.

This is true: in July there were over 2,785,000 people out of work due to long-term sickness.

The number decreased since April, when it was at its all-time high of 2,830,000, but is still up when compared to the same time last year.

There are also over 214,000 economically inactive people due to temporary sickness.

An economically inactive person is defined as someone who has not actively been looking for work or is not available to start a job.

About a fifth of those suffering from long-term sickness and more than half of those with temporary health issues say they want a job.

Jennifer McKiernan
Political reporter, reporting from Liverpool

Speaking just after her win, Sharon Graham tells me that, although the vote was non-binding, it mirrors a feeling "in the real world".

She adds that she thinks Rachel Reeves, who as we just mentioned won the parliamentary vote to cut winter fuel payments earlier this month, should now "U-turn".

"Leadership is also about acknowledging when you've made a mis-step," she says.

She also tells me that she was one of the voices calling for a card vote at the end, as that would have shown the strength of her win because union votes are weighted.

Henry Zeffman
Chief political correspondent

This was a non-binding vote. The means-testing of the winter fuel payments will still happen.

Yet the defeat for Labour’s leadership on one of the first controversial decisions they have made in government underlines the unease in the party over this issue.

Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves won the parliamentary vote on this issue earlier this month and managed to keep the parliamentary rebellion under control – that was more important for them.

But don’t expect the debate over this issue to go away as the cut begins to take effect.

Gerry Georgieva
BBC Verify

We've just had a non-binding vote on the winter fuel payments at the Labour Party conference - which carried.

Earlier, Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall defended the cut to winter fuel payments, saying it "wasn’t a decision we wanted or expected to make”.

With the row still ongoing, new statistics show an interesting change in the number of people that claimed the benefit from abroad, external.

In total, just over 34,300 pensioners living in 25 European countries received the payment in 2023-24.

This is a slight decrease from the winter before, when there were nearly 36,000 claimants from abroad. This in contrast to Great Britain, where the total number of claims increased.

Most of the recipients abroad – about 26,200 people – are living in Ireland, followed by Germany (2,000) and Italy (1,600).

Under the government’s rules, people can continue to claim the winter fuel payment if they were already receiving it before moving to certain European countries. But this only applies if the country they moved to is considered to be colder than the south west of England – the UK’s warmest region.

For context, 99.7% of the 11.6 million Winter Fuel Payments recipients live in Great Britain.

Jennifer McKiernan
Political reporter, reporting from Liverpool

Labour conference delegates voted to support reversing the cuts to winter fuel payments.

That vote is non-binding, but is an indication of the strength of feeling in the party against the chancellor's decision, just weeks before her first Budget at the end of next month.

Jennifer McKiernan
Political reporter, reporting from Liverpool

Delegates voted by a show of hands on a series of motions.

When we got to the winter fuel payments part the vote was very close.

There were shouts of "card vote" (i.e. not a show of hands) but the chair tells the hall shouting at her will do no good and declared the motion "carried" - the unions have won the non-binding vote.

"Conference it was obviously a very emotional vote," she said, as shouted challenges continued.

"My view still is that that was carried. I don't want to move to a card vote. The advice I've been given is that it was carried... On the basis of the rules of the party."

There are cheers as she sticks to her guns.

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Trade unions have won a non-binding vote at the Labour conference calling for government to reverse the winter fuel payment cut.

Jennifer McKiernan
Political reporter, reporting from Liverpool

Unite's Sharon Graham is back in the audience as we wait for other motions and speakers to be heard, getting to her feet to applaud a motion on equal pay for women.

Then speakers from the floor are allowed to come to the stage.

There are loud whoops and cheers and many more delegates get to their feet - maybe 400 - to applaud a speaker from Dover and Deal.

"Every single year £200 comes into my bank account and every year I go and buy stuff for the food bank with it," she tells the hall. "Also we get a rise in our pensions next year."

Jennifer McKiernan
Political reporter, reporting from Liverpool

Seconding the motion, the Communication Workers Union's Alan Tate says he's been "inundated" with calls from worried members.

He says Labour should be doing the tough job of making the "ultra wealthy" tech giants and "making them pay their fair share".

"We should be taxing them, not taking away a lifeline for vulnerable people," he says to loud applause.

"There is nothing responsible about leaving the profits of private equity and investors untouched while working people are asked to balance the books with their pay cheques and benefits".

Jennifer McKiernan
Political reporter, reporting from Liverpool

I'm in the conference hall for the winter fuel payments motion.

Unite the Union general secretary Sharon Graham is getting a warm reception from a busy hall.

She says the decision to cut the payments is a "noose around our necks" and calls for a wealth tax.

"Britain needs investment not austerity mark II," she says

And about 100 delegates are on their feet cheering.

Next the conference moves onto taking a non-binding vote on whether to reversing the government's decision to means-test winter fuel payments.

Despite some disquiet among Labour MPs and opposition from the other parties in Parliament, the government won its vote a fortnight ago to implement the cuts by a majority of 120.

Throughout Labour's conference, trade unions have been urging Chancellor Rachel Reeves to U-turn on the cuts, which will see 10 million pensioners in England and Wales lose out on around £200-£300.

In addition to calling for a reverse to the cut, Unite's motion also says "any public expenditure gaps" should be filled by "taxing wealth".

Stay with us and we'll bring you the outcome of that vote and what it means.

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Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has just finished speaking at the Labour Party conference, and she begins by highlighting some of the government's already announced plans - including the National Wealth Fund, GB energy, rental reform and prioritising tackling child poverty.

There's still so much to do, she says, as a consequence of "Tory failure".

Food bank use is soaring, and more than four million children are growing up poor, she tells the conference.

"The only way to get Britain growing again is to get Britain working again," she says, before introducing the "biggest reforms to employment support in a generation".

This includes a new jobs and careers service and new plans to join up support for work, health and skills - led by regional mayors, the work and pensions secretary explains.

She announces she will lead a new child poverty task force alongside Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities Bridget Philipson.

Kendall also says the government has invested an extra half a billion pounds in the Household Support Fund to help the families "who need it most" this winter.

A bit more from Philipson's speech, which ended a little bit earlier.

She criticised the last government for overseeing a "threadbare" childcare system, teacher shortages, and "stubbornly high" school absence.

She also said apprenticeships were "vanishing" and that universities had been "turned into noisy political battlegrounds".

"Never again," she says.

As we just mentioned, she told conference attendees that Labour will introduce a VAT on private school fees in the next few months. Using money from that, she said, the government will drive up standards.

The government is also planning measures to bring a renewed focus on apprenticeships for young people and tackling young people.

Branwen Jeffreys
Education Editor

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Education is about “changing the odds” Bridget Phillipson has just told the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool.

As part of that, VAT will be added to private school fees – a measure to be introduced within 100 days that is facing vociferous opposition from families arguing they will be penalised.

It got a warm reception from party members.

There was also confirmation that the first of new nursery places in primary schools in England will be rolled out from next year, along with breakfast clubs.

There are some radical changes ahead - new report cards on schools and a new mix of subjects to be taught in England's schools.

Nick Triggle
Health Correspondent

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has come out fighting.

Following revelations by the BBC that there is growing unease in the health service about messaging from government that the NHS is broken, he told the conference he would not back down.

He acknowledged the doctor’s diagnosis is sometimes hard to hear, but without it you cannot get the prescription right.

“When you put protecting the reputation of the NHS above protecting patients, you're not helping the NHS, you're killing it with kindness.”

This was to be expected. But it is likely to still leave those working in the health service asking ‘how do we fix it?’

Their gripe is not that they disagree with the message so much as they want to know what the government is proposing to do about it. They want – as one hospital leader told me – some hope.

Again, Streeting promised reform would come – in the form of a 10-year plan. But that is unlikely to be published until the spring.

There is a long, hard winter to come before then.

Before wrapping up his speech in Liverpool, Wes Streeting talked of delivering a fairer, "reformed NHS" where rich and poor patients are given the same healthcare choices.

"Our ten-year plan will give all patients the same information, same choice and same control," he told the conference.

Reform is already happening, Streeting says, as he goes on to cite examples of the NHS using artificial intelligence to detect cancer.

But world-class services shouldn't just be for the wealthy, he says.

Starting in the most disadvantaged areas, Labour will build up local services, Streeting said.

Where there is capacity in the private sector, patients should be able to choose to go there without cost, he added.

"Working people deserve to be treated on time just as much as the wealthy."

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David Cornock
BBC political correspondent

The Health Secretary Wes Streeting has insisted he won't back down from his claim the NHS is "broken" - despite the BBC reporting growing unease about the government's messaging.

He told the Labour conference in Liverpool: "When you put protecting the reputation of the NHS above protecting patients, you’re not helping the NHS, you’re killing it with kindness."

Streeting was speaking after senior sources in the health service told the BBC they believed some of the claims have gone too far - and may result in patients being put off seeking help and causing lasting damage to staff morale.

The health secretary told delegates: