That concludes our live online coverage of Monday at the Labour Party conference. Business in the main hall resumes on Tuesday from 09.30 BST with speeches from environment spokeswoman Maria Eagle, shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint and shadow transport secretary Mary Creagh. For more of what happened today, including Ed Balls' speech, click on the Key Video tab above, or keep up with the latest programming by clicking on the Live Coverage tab. Andrew Neil will be broadcasting a round-up of events and views on Today at Conference on BBC Two from 23:20 BST. These will be available online soon afterwards.
- Labour Party conference is taking place in Manchester
- Sessions from: 09:30-12:45 and 14:15-16:00
- Shadow chancellor Ed Balls set out range of policy pledges
- Also debates on foreign affairs and Northern Ireland
- Questions remain about UK devolution after Scottish referendum
Some more reaction to Ed Ball's speech, from theIndependent. The paper's political editor Andrew Grice notes that Labour has "softened its opposition to expansion at Heathrow Airport despite Ed Miliband's previous hostility to the building of a third runway there".
So what do the papers have to say about Ed Ball's announcements today? TheDaily Mail concludes that the shadow chancellor's "major speech" was an attempt to "improve his economic credibility", make a pitch for the family vote, and to apologise for Labour's past "mistakes". Meanwhile, the Financial Times is headlining with: "Ed Balls's deficit hawkishness fails to impress".
Labour MP Emma Reynolds
Director of Centre for Social Justice, Christian Guy
Editor of PoliticsHome.com, Paul Waugh
Labour's Deputy Leader in the Lords, Philip Hunt
Shadow Northern Ireland secretary Ivan Lewis warns that the political situation in NI is at its most fragile for many years. He says the NI Executive has failed to make progress on legacy issues such as flags, parades and the past. He calls on the prime minister to help end the stalemate. It is important, he says, for NI to rediscover the hope that led to peace.
Stepping away from conference for a moment, UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage is urging people to sign a petition demanding that Scottish MPs stop voting on matters that only affect England. He also wants a full debate on changing the Barnett Formula, which allocates money to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The move is a response to Westminster party leaders' pledges to devolve more powers to Scotland if the country voted against independence.
Shadow Northern Ireland secretary Ivan Lewis is the last of today's big speakers. The conference is now voting on party matters.
Spare a thought for the working people of Surrey, says Labour's candidate in Guildford Richard Wilson. He said all 11 Surrey MPs were Conservative - people had "been used to voting Tory". But they have "the same struggle" and there are three food banks in Guildford, he adds.
BBC News website reader
I am very disappointed in Ed Balls' proposal to cap child benefit for a further year if Labour regain power after the next election. As a working mother I earn around £28K a year but my husband stays at home so we only have my salary to live on, but it is just over the maximum salary for working tax credits so we are not entitled to any extra benefits aside from child benefit. £20.50 a week really doesn't go very far.
The Guardian's Andrew Sparrow
Following his speech to conference this morning, Unite general secretary Len McCluskeytells the BBC's World at One programme that Labour must go back to listening to ordinary working people "and not take them for granted". He also says his union will push for an immediate increase in the national minimum wage, unsatisfied with Labour's timescale to increase it - to £8 - over the course of a five-year parliament.
Your comments on Ed Balls' speech
BBC News website readers comment on the BBC storyEd Balls sets out priorities for 'first Labour Budget'. turfssays: Mr Balls said Labour was serious about "balancing the books". How can you balance the books when the Treasury borrows money from the Bank of England at a rate of interest so there will always be a national debt? JH writes: Labour intend to increase the minimum wage to £8/hour by 2020. The current living wage for London is £8.80. How can they present this as a policy and not be ashamed? Labour are no longer the party of the people. essexash comments: Just remind us Ed, what was the deficit at the end of Labour's reign compared to what it is now?
James Kirkup and the Telegraph's political team
Political columnist for the FT, Janan Ganesh
Jack Sommers for The Huffington Post
Can Ed Balls be austere enough? That's the question our economics editor Robert Pestonaddresses in his latest blog. He says the shadow chancellor has a difficult trick to pull off: to be seen to be austere and fiscally righteous but not as austere as George Osborne, "because then there would be little reason to vote Labour".
BBC's Chris Mason, in Manchester
Labour must stand up for the squeezed middle, says Dave Prentis, general secretary of Unison, but it must also look after "our betrayed base". He says hardworking people are having to make appalling choices - buy food or stay warm. Unison's NHS workers in England have voted for strike action in a dispute over pay. Mr Prentis is calling on the Labour leadership to support Unison members.
Labour MP Chris Bryant
Do voters trust Labour to run the economy? That's what the World at One's Martha Kearney was askingearlier today on BBC Radio 4. She spoke to local residents in Manchester and Ipsos MORI's head of political research, Gideon Skinner.
Labour candidate Jamie Hanley
Editor of Total Politics, Sam Macrory
Assistant editor, The Spectator, Isabel Hardman
To be honest I would not let Ed Balls loose with my change let alone the nation's finance. And believe me two Eds are not better than one!
Mail Online deputy political editor, Tom McTague
Here's Ed Miliband on stage with colleagues involved in the campaign to keep Scotland a part of the United Kingdom. Cue music and a jolly clap-along.
Shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves says her first act if Labour came to power would be to scrap the "bedroom tax" - the changes to housing benefit that the government calls the "spare room subsidy". Ms Reeves says: "That day cannot come soon enough." She adds that she has written to the Lib Dem leader, Nick Clegg today urging him to support Labour on this issue.
Thanks all round from the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, for the part played by key Labour figures in the Better Together campaign. MPs, MSPs, unions and party workers all got a mention. Joking that it was starting to sound a bit like the Oscars, Mr Miliband called the major players up on stage for a photo-call.
What do Labour Party delegates think about plans to limit Scottish MPs' voting rights on English matters? Daily Politics reporter Adam Fleming took the mood box - an unscientific test with a box and plastic balls - to get reaction from the conference in Manchester. He asked delegates whether they thought Scottish MPs should be banned, or not, from voting in Westminster on matters that only affect England.Here's their verdict.
A passionate speech from the Scottish Labour leader, Johann Lamont. She calls hunger a moral crime and says Labour's goal is a "truly just society". If the Labour party is not a moral crusade, she says, "then we are nothing".
Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont's speech received a very warm welcome from conference delegates.
Labour MEP Richard Howitt