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From rail nationalisation to immigration policy, The Standard’s chief political correspondent, Rachael Burford, has a rundown of everything you need to know from the Labour Party conference in Liverpool so far.

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00:00Labour Conference is well underway here in Liverpool. Here's everything you need to know.
00:04On the first day, dozens of activists were arrested for holding up signs in support of Palestine Action,
00:09which is a group prescribed under terrorism legislation.
00:12Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband was even confronted in Pizza Express by demonstrators
00:16and refused to come out and meet the protesters.
00:19Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has announced Avanti West Coast will be the latest train operator
00:23taken into public ownership from next March.
00:26She also confirmed £50 million of upgrades for Euston Station, including more seating and better toilets.
00:32She also said that the hated last-minute platform announcements that leave passengers scrambling to get their trains
00:38will be phased out over the next year.
00:40Prime Minister Andy Burnham has repeatedly refused to back a third runway at Heathrow.
00:44While an application for Heathrow expansion has not gone in yet,
00:48the previous Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, confirmed the plans would go ahead.
00:51Chancellor John Healy is announcing that Britain will see a new era of industrialisation brought by the Royal Navy.
00:57But he is facing questions about what taxes he will have to raise in his first budget next month
01:02to pay for the government's plans.
01:03Later on Monday, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will announce a new safe and legal route for refugees to come to
01:09Britain.
01:09The scheme will prioritise Palestinians and women from Afghanistan.
01:13We will be seeing a few more tarkages now.
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