Labour conference 2011: live coverage

Rolling coverage of the final day of the conference in Liverpool

9.11am: Lord Falconer, the former Lord Chancellor and a friend of Tony Blair's, was on the Today programme this morning talking about the way Blair was booed by some delegates during the Ed Miliband's speech on Tuesday. I've taken the quotes from PoliticsHome.

Falconer claimed those delegates were not representative of the party as a whole.

I've just been in Liverpool for the last four days and [Blair] is a popular figure within the Labour party. He led the Labour party for 13 years, he's been a member of the labour party for 30-odd years.

I think probably the group of people who responded unfavourably to him within the Labour party had probably felt that all the time that he was leader. I don't think that it reflected real hostility to him within the Labour party as a whole.

Falconer also claimed that one of the problems was that Blair was not actively defending his record.

What's happened is that he's withdrawn from mainstream politics, he's doing these things, many of which bring good, and he's not defending himself in a way a mainstream politician defends himself.

8.31am: It's day five, and the Labour party conference is finally limping towards the finishing line. It wraps up at lunchtime and the highlight will be the closing speech from Harriet Harman, the deputy leader. She has already been giving interviews and these are some of the points she's been making.

She said that some of the some of the 3,000 workers who are set to lose their jobs at BAE Systems will address the conference at some point today.

She said Ed Miliband was the only party leader "that's really speaking up for people's concerns, recognising the squeeze on people's living standards and people's fears for the future". She said Miliband's conference speech on Tuesday was "bold and d! ecisive" .

She said she was "shocked" by the way the government as planning to change the electoral registration rules. It has been claimed that up to 10m people could come off the electoral register because giving information to electoral registration officers will not longer be compulsory.

Here's the agenda for the day.

9.30am: Shaun Woodard, the shadow Northern Ireland secretary, presents the Northern Ireland report.

Dave Sparks, the leader of the Local Government Association Labour group, presents the local government report.

Debate on creating strong and sustainable communities, with a speech from Caroline Flint, the shadow communities secretary.

Around 12.15pm: Harriet Harman, Labour's deputy leader, closes the conference.

After five days here, you ought to be able to draw some conclusions about the state of Labour and at some point this morning I'll put up a "10 things I've learned at the conference" post. I'll also be bringing you all the conference news, looking at the best Labour politics in the paper and on the web and posting a summary at lunchtime.


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