It is a good day for local government at the Labour government. As well as the announcement about mayors and councils getting control of the warm homes programme (see 4.58pm), Labour has announced that councils are getting new powers "to strengthen public control of social housing" and to tackle homelessness.

, the housing secretary, will announce the plans in her speech tomorrow. But someone else is also giving a speech tomorrow, and Labour has presumably decided that, if Rayner is going to get any media coverage, her new policy needs to be out tonight.

Explaining the plans, Labour said:

A new requirement to notify - reducing much-needed social homes from leaving the sector by requiring housing associations and other providers to notify the council when they are selling a social home, while also doubling the time for this before a home is sold to maximise opportunities for councils, or other social housing providers, to buy the home.

A new duty to collaborate - compelling public services to work together to prevent homelessness and support those who are at crisis point, mandating early identification of those at risk of or experiencing homelessness, ensuring they are referred into the right support. Learning from Scotland and Wales, where such a duty is already in place, the government says this will ensure people get the right support they need and support the new national effort to end rough sleeping.

A new power of referral - a power for local authorities to refer a homeless household to housing associations and other providers to be housed unless the private provider has a good reason not to do so. This measure will help tackle the number of families in temporary accommodation, which is at a record high - almost 180,000 children are currently living in temporary accommodation.

Improved rehabilitation services will offer offenders a "shot at redemption", , the justice secretary, has said. As the Press Association reports, Norris pledged a series of improvements to prison rehabilitation, including drug-free living units, help getting prisoners into accommodation and a new training scheme getting offenders to build homes.

In his speech to the conference, Norris said:

We have given probation officers - those unsung heroes of our criminal justice system - the toughest set of tools ever to manage offenders: curfews, tags, exclusion zones, and world-first new restriction zones to 'lock in' offenders to a small area.

And I am going further. I will prioritise unpaid work which is tough and visible. Because punishment must be seen to be done. Offenders in the community must reckon with their crimes, they must give back. And today I can also announce we will work to strengthen the rehabilitative value of community payback by equipping offenders with skills and routes into employment. Tough work, yes, but work with purpose too.

, the Labour mayor of London, is a strong opponent of the plan for a third runway at Heathrow. At a Politico fringe meeting, he joked that Andy Burnham's comments on this in his BBC interview were scripted by him. Burnham was critical of the plan before he became PM and yesterday, while dodging the question, he hinted he was still opposed.

Here are comments from the other main parties on John Healey's speech.

From the shadow chancellor

John Healey's new age of British industrialisation looks set to be powered by his own hot air.

He is a month away from his first budget and failed to say how he was going to tackle our out-of-control welfare bill, increase defence spending to 3% of GDP, scrap Labour's fuel duty hike, or put forward a credible plan to get our economy growing and young people into work. He did, however, dedicate time to praising his disastrous predecessor Rachel Reeves.

Yet another Labour speech that was high on vibes, low on detail, and silent on economic growth.

Anecdotes about Gordon Brown's red tie and the chancellor's favourite pub snack won't pay people's energy bills or bring down prices at the pump.

From , the Green party's Treasury spokesperson

The chancellor used his speech today to repeatedly stress a message of new leadership offering new hope – yet when it came to the substance behind the rhetoric, Britain was once again left with more of the same. From the continued commitment to rigid fiscal rules to the hard-line emphasis on chasing growth over all else, this may as well have been another speech by Rachel Reeves.

From , Reform UK's deputy leader

Delusional Chancellor forgets that Govt debt costs now way higher than at GE24 & way higher than Truss time.

Labour are bankrupting Britain

From , the SNP's economy spokesperson

People are genuinely frightened about the next wave of the cost of living tsunami that is headed our way this winter. The public know that they are about to be hit with energy, fuel and food prices that are simply unaffordable.

After a 30-minute speech from the UK chancellor - what people still don't know is if Andy Burnham's government has any plan to help.

In an interview with Matt Chorley for Radio 5 Live, , the chancellor, refused to say that Labour would commit to keeping the pensions triple lock in the next parliament. He just said that was a matter for the manifesto.

Labour's £15bn home energy upgrades scheme will be devolved to mayors, councils and communities, energy secretary said, as she gave a full-throated defence of climate policies. The Press Association reports:

Fahnbulleh said the warm homes plan would be devolved to give mayors, local government and communities the power to upgrade "millions" of homes.

The warm homes plan provides funding and cheap loans for insulation, clean heating, solar panels and batteries for five million homes, to cut bills and greenhouse gas emissions, and lift people out of fuel poverty.

Fahnbulleh said high energy bills were the result of Britain being exposed to global fossil fuel markets, saying the country had a privatised energy system designed to benefit shareholders, not families or businesses.

For a fair and affordable energy system, she said, the public needs to be in control, and "public control cannot just mean national control, it has to be local control because power should always sit close to people".

Fahnbulleh told the conference:

The government will devolve the warm homes plan, the biggest investment in home upgrade in British history.

Instead of decisions being made in Whitehall, we will give mayors, local government and communities the power to invest millions of pounds in their place, to upgrade millions of homes, to renew estates, to train up young people for skilled jobs, to boost local businesses in their supply chain, to lift up their community.

This will be the great homes upgrade.

has confirmed that his viral encounter with TikTok personality Feroz Khan in New York did not happen by accident. At a Politico fringe event, Miliband revealed that he had to do two takes.

Here is an assessment of John Healey's speech by , the Guardian's economics editor. She says the chancellor offered "an upbeat vision of a reindustrialised Britain with fresh opportunities for young people, but he gave little sense of how he intends to pay for Andy Burnham's radical plans".

In his speech to the conference earlier, , the business secretary, announced that the government would close the "bogus self-employment loopholes" that deny workers basic rights.

He said:

Loopholes in our employment laws being used to define workers as self-employed when they are clearly not, denying basic employment rights, undercutting businesses who are doing the right thing, and leaving people with the sense that playing by the rules doesn't pay.

Everyone can see this isn't right. It is a fundamental question of fairness … This Labour government will put an end to it.

Explaining how this would work, Labour said:

Reynolds announced a formal consultation, due to be published in the coming weeks, on how to clamp down on abuses, give greater legal certainty to workers and potentially extend core employment rights to those often excluded from them. It will consider proposals to have a legal assumption of worker status when a case is brought to tribunal and to de-emphasise the personal service test when assessing status in order to clamp-down on misuse of substitution clauses. This could help workers such as parcel couriers, delivery drivers and gig economy workers.

has signalled that she is considering watering down her plans to make it harder for foreign workers to claim permanent residence in the UK amid growing demands for a U-turn from cabinet colleagues and unions.

In a speech to Labour conference, the home secretary said the government will "come to a position that balances fairness for those who came here legally" after acknowledging that "some have said elements of these reforms are not fair".

Her comments follow demands from Angela Rayner and Unison's general secretary Andrea Egan to drop changes to indefinite leave to remain which would penalise foreign overseas care workers looking after the UK's older citizens.

Mahmood told conference:

As we restore control and fairness to our asylum system, we must do the same for legal migration too. Fair to those who seek a new and better life here, like my parents did, and fair to those already here, including British workers, and especially the young.

That same principle underpins my reforms to the right to live here indefinitely, ensuring settled status is earned, by those who have shown a consistent commitment to this country.

I know that, throughout our consultation process, some have said elements of these reforms are not fair. To that: let me say this. We will come to a position that balances fairness for those who came here legally, and fairness to British citizens across this country.

confirms that she is announcing a new legal route for refugees that prioritises Afghan women and girls and Palestinians.

, the home secretary, is addressing the conference now.

She says the job of a Labour government is to make the country fairer and she explains why that matters to her.

My parents came to this country from rural Kashmir because they knew that they would get a fair shot at a better life here, a fairer shot than they could ever expect back home, where past was present and where your birth dictated your future.

They were largely welcome to this country because most Brits thought it was right to welcome people who came here legally, build a new life and contribute to our nation. There were exceptions to that welcome. Of course, this was the 1970s, but they were exceptions and not the rule.

Fairness is what unites us in this country, and a fair society unlocks the very best of us. Because when people think this country is fair, they are more open and generous to others. When we are secure in ourselves, we are more tolerant to [others] because the existence of one group does not threaten another.

And so a proud Muslim like me can be a proud Brit and a Brummie too.

When fairness isn't present, the opposite is true. When this country feels unfair, people turn inwards. A Britain that is unfair is one that is smaller and colder for those who look like me.

So my job is to create that fairness in our immigration system and on our streets.