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Party Conferences 2008

L-R Party leaders: Nick Clegg, David Cameron, Gordon Brown

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Conference 2008 best bits

Cameron: I am a man with a plan

David Cameron tells the Tory conference he has a plan to fix Britain's "broken society" and get it out of an economic "mess".

No time for a novice, says Brown

Gordon Brown tells Labour's annual conference he is the man with the experience to steer Britain through tough times.

Lib Dems 'headed for power'

Nick Clegg tells Lib Dem delegates they are on the road to power in his first conference speech as party leader.

FEATURES, VIEWS AND ANALYSIS

Brown's task

Did the Labour leader do enough to keep his job?

Playing it straight

Assessing the man with a plan's message

Clegg's start

Will Lib Dem leader be able to build on conference?

CONSERVATIVE CONFERENCE

PM plans scorched earth - Tories

BA criticises Tory Heathrow plan

Afghanistan 'priority for Tories'

Tories 'to help have-a-go heroes'

Party to offer marriage advice

Cameron: We're in this together

Tories pledge council tax freeze

More Academies promised

Tories would scrap Heathrow plan

More single rooms in NHS - Tories

Tory teaching offer to ex-troops

Tory warning on multiculturalism

LIB DEM CONFERENCE

LibDems hang up on cold call

Lib Dems approve income tax cuts

Lib Dems cool on euro entry date

Lib Dems not like Tories - Clegg

Huhne calls for better policing

As it happened: Clegg's speech

Delegate views

LABOUR CONFERENCE

Miliband rejects speech 'hearsay'

Darling pledges action

Labour Party finances 'improving'

Sarah 'surprised me', says Brown

Prescott attacks 'bitter' Clarke

Cruddas in 45% top rate tax call

Potter author in �1m Labour gift

Energy security 'vital' - Hutton

Hardie is 'greatest Labour hero'

Labour pressed over windfall tax

Kelly to step down from cabinet

Harman hails Labour 'fight back'

OTHER CONFERENCES

Salmond: Freeze HBOS deal

Q&A with Alex Salmond MSP

Plaid challenges Brown over poll

Plaid's attack over credit crunch

UKIP message 'must change'

Greens coming of age, says Lucas

Unions blast welfare reform plan

At-a-glance: TUC conference

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Gay Tories

Gay people have a duty to vote Tory, says Margot James

Fond farewell

Ruth Kelly says goodbye to Labour conference

Cam-puted

All 400,000 words Cameron has used analysed

AT-A-GLANCE

Liberal Democrat conference

Labour Party conference

Conservative Party conference

WORDS, WORDS, WORDS

What the party leaders told their conferences - and why

VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS

Gordon Brown's speech in full

Cameron conference speech in full

Clegg conference speech in full

David Miliband speech in full

George Osborne speech in full

Daily Politics conference highlights with Andrew Neil

NICK ROBINSON AT THE CONFERENCES

Team Cameron knows all too well that Europe is a "ticking time bomb", as William Hague likes to put it.

I do note, however, that the Tory leader explicitly invited the country to compare himself with Margaret Thatcher in 1979

If you thought you knew what the Liberal Democrats stand for, think again. That was the single, simple and relentless message

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