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At-a-glance: Labour conference
| | Here are some of the highlights from each day of the Labour conference in Brighton. THURSDAY - Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon help the leadership survive a vote on whether Tony Blair should set an early date for pulling troops out of Iraq by an 86% to 14% margin.
- Labour would make the House of Lords more democratic soon after being re-elected, says Lord Falconer.
- Britain will back calls for an international treaty on small arms control, pledges the foreign secretary.
- Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott warns delegates against complacency and disunity in the run-up to the next election.
WEDNESDAY - Rock star Bono issues calls for more action to combat the spread of Aids and the debt crippling African countries
- Home Secretary David Blunkett seeks to make the fight against crime an election issue pledging to put 25,000 Community Safety Offices on the streets six months early
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- Education Secretary Charles Clarke pledges an education 'crusade' and says Labour will face up to the tough issues like student fees
- Tony Blair tells BBC Radio 4 the Iraq war was justified despite there being no weapons of mass destruction
- Health Secretary John Reid promises to make the NHS more personalised and convenient to use.
- Tory ex-Cabinet minister John Redwood proves an unlikely attraction for a Labour audience as he takes on Europe Minister Denis MacShane at a fringe meeting about the European constitution.
TUESDAY - Tony Blair says he is sorry information on Iraq's weapons was wrong, but that he cannot apologise for removing Saddam Hussein from power
- Thousands of hunt protesters demonstrate against plans to ban hunting with hounds. A dead horse and two dead calves are found near the demonstration.
- Northern Ireland secretary Paul Murphy collapses at the Brighton conference centre and is taken to hospital. He is later discharged
MONDAY - Gordon Brown tries to rally the troops with a barnstorming speech on how Labour should fight the next election on its economic achievements. Moments later Alan Milburn says "screaming" about successes is not to right way to campaign
- Pensions minister Alan Johnson says the state retirement age will remain at 65 but suggests those who work longer could be rewarded in their state pension
- Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock reluctantly concedes George Bush will probably win the US presidential election
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- Jack Straw urges his party not to have one of its "periodic panic attacks" but warns against complacency at the next General Election
- The Labour conference calls for the railways to be re-nationalised despite the party leadership's attempt to rule it out
SUNDAY - Delegates inflict the first defeat of the 2004 conference on the party leadership in a debate over housing policy. An amendment giving local councils the same borrowing rights as housing associations is backed
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- Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott brands hunt protesters a "braying mob" and celebrates the introduction of right-to-roam legislation
- Labour delegates force a vote on whether to pull British troops out of Iraq just hours after Tony Blair says such a withdrawal would be surrendering to terrorists
- At a conference fringe meeting Peter Mandelson urges Tony Blair not to "buckle" under the strain of Iraq
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