Pressed on a timetable for bringing forward a bill, he said: "Having consulted with groups over recent weeks and months, we believe more time is needed to draft the best version of a Hillsborough Law.

. How precisely will the planning system ensure communities can’t object to or slow down new prisons? How will the new prisons be funded? What kinds of offence does the prime minister believe should and should not result in custodial sentences anyway?That is the risk - that in the fullness of time this comes to be seen as a speech long on diagnosis but short on prescription.

The inverse is possible too: that this speech sets a framework for the decade of national renewal that Sir Keir continues to describe as his goal.That requires the government to deliver over the coming weeks, months and years. Can they do so?That’s a question which is impossible to examine without mentioning the

which have been the talk of this conference’s parties and dinners.The jubilant activists have provided an important morale boost to the top ranks of the Labour Party who - whatever the public denials - are deeply concerned about whether the prime minister has the right team in the right jobs, and deeply divided over the answer.

It may sound mundane given the scale of the challenges Starmer diagnosed in his speech, but delivery in government relies on a Downing Street firing on all cylinders.

Even cabinet ministers have spent much of the past few days privately bemoaning what they see as the deficiencies in how the government is functioning.About 1,100 jobs have been put at risk with the news the van-making plant will close.

Simmons expressed regret a deal could not be secured to continue production in Luton.She said: "We know the unions and ourselves and MPs worked really hard to put different options to Stellantis to see if we could keep the plant open, they turned them all down unfortunately.

"Jonathan Reynolds [the Secretary of State for Business and Trade] talked to them. Even Keir Starmer talked to them and I believe grants opportunities were put on the table to Stellantis but I think they made their mind up. They were going to close this plant."A South Carolina man convicted of bludgeoning his ex-girlfriend's parents to death has become the first US death row inmate to be executed by firing squad in the last 15 years.