Sir Keir Starmer has arrived in Liverpool with his wife Victoria, ahead of the Labour Party conference starting tomorrow.
Sir Keir was greeted by supporters as he was spotted at Lime Street station and the Pullman hotel.
The annual conference is due to take place at the city's Arena and Convention Centre from tomorrow, September 25 and will last until Wednesday, September 28. Due to the conference taking place, the ACC confirmed a number of pedestrian diversions will be in place from today and parking "may be busier than usual".
Diversions will be around the Keel Wharf area as more information can be found by clicking here.
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Expectations will be high for Sir Keir Starmer to set out the dividing lines between his party and the new Tory government. Supporters of the Labour leader hope he will use the four-day event to capitalise on the unpopularity of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng's economic measures.
Hopes that Sir Keir can lead the party to victory at the next general election will still be higher than at last year's conference, which was seen as a make or break moment for him.
Ahead of the conference, deputy leader Angela Rayner gave a flavour of Labour's attack line on the Government's "trickle-down" economics and said her party would focus on "growth for the longer term". She told BBC Breakfast on Saturday: "We wouldn't be making the choices around the tax cuts at the moment, we don't think that's the way forward.
"We would be asking the oil and gas companies to pay a little bit more when they've made billions of pounds of profit, instead of putting it all on the national debt. We don't think that's the right priority. We've seen trickle-down economics before. It doesn't work, we don't believe it'll stimulate the economy. And, you know, I think it will make the next generation worse off."
Tomorrow, the highlight of the day will be a speech by Deputy Leader Angela Rayner at 11:25am, followed by a meeting to discuss party reports, before a discussion on 'winning the General Election' takes place from 1.30pm.
The afternoon will see a session discussing and debating and constitutional amendments, followed by votes on these at 3pm. Monday will see a morning session from 10.20am on "Better Jobs and Better Work" with the main speech from Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves expected around 12.35pm.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will take to the stage in the main hall from 2pm on Tuesday, September 27 for what is expected to be one of the biggest moments of the whole event.
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