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A lookback over the highlights of the last week on the Daily Politics - with presenters Andrew Neil, Anita Anand and Jo Coburn. It was our second week back after the recess and we spent a lot of it at the Labour conference in Brighton, and the end of the week looking towards the Conservative gathering.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 2
Former Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett offered her thoughts on the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, if there should be a similar vote in the UK, and whether Tony Blair was fit for the job of presiding over the EU.
Greg Clark, who sits in the Tory Shadow Cabinet, gives his view on Europe on the day the Irish vote on the Lisbon Treaty.
Colette McBeth reports from Dublin as she tested the mood of the Irish people on the day of their second vote on the Lisbon Treaty.
The top political stories from the BBC News website for the week ending October 2 - set to music.
THURSDAY OCTOBER 1
The Daily Mail's Quentin Letts reviews the ups and downs of the Labour conference week in Brighton.
The First Battalion The Royal Welsh is preparing to leave Chester for southern Afghanistan next month. Adam Fleming spoke to them about the challenges ahead.
Armed Forces Minister Bill Rammell spoke to Andrew Neil on the British campaign in Afghanistan.
Giles Dilnot crosses the divide to see how Labour's conference message has gone down in Brighton's neighbour. Labour will be defending a small majority in Hove - a Parliamentary seat mainly held by the Tories over the years.
Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone jolts your memory and reviews Labour's last 12 months as Gordon Brown gives his last conference speech before the general election.
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 30
Transport Secretary Lord Adonis was quizzed on the Sun's political leanings, public spending and why transport did not feature in Gordon Brown's conference speech, before explaining plans for high-speed rail lines.
Barry Sheerman, John Dunford David Blunkett talk about Labour's education reforms and Ed Balls' plans for schools to share executive headteachers.
Adam Fleming spoke to executive head Greg Wallace on how he runs three schools in a 'federation'.
Former spin doctors Charlie Whelan, who worked for Gordon Brown, Lance Price, who was Labour's Director of Communications, and Tony Blair's former official spokesman Alastair Campbell gave their views on the Sun deserting Labour to support the Conservatives.
Former Home Secretary David Blunkett, who has written for the Sun, talks about relations between newspapers and political parties after the tabloid decided to drop Labour and support the Conservatives.
Bookie Robin Hutchison joined Anita Anand to explain if Gordon Brown's keynote conference speech and the Sun's switch in political support were having any effect on the betting on the result of the next general election.
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 29
Lord Mandelson spoke to Andrew Neil just after Gordon Brown's conference speech in Brighton.
Gordon Brown spoke about taxes and spending, anti-social behaviour, ID cards, voting reform and the NHS in his hour-long speech to the Labour conference - his last one as PM ahead of the next general election.
Unison General Secretary Dave Prentis and Unite's Tony Woodley talk about relations between Labour and the unions.
Alan Johnson told the Labour Party conference that more needed to be done on anti-social behaviour.
The actor, presenter and Labour supporter Tony Robinson gives his take on Labour's future with views of the party's leader and its policies.
Former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is questioned about Leicestershire Police's failings ahead of the death of a mother and daughter.
Labour donor and Putney party chairman Peter Carpenter claims it is not too late to switch leader and he wants the PM to go as soon as possible.
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 28
Chancellor Alistair Darling was questioned by Andrew Neil about banking bonuses and Baroness Scotland straight after his conference speech.
Alistair Darling's conference speech is examined by Trevor Kavanagh from the Sun, Kevin Maguire from the Daily Mirror, former Labour deputy leader Roy Hattersley, director of the London School of Economics Howard Davies, and head of the British Bankers' Association, Angela Knight.
Former London mayor Ken Livingstone gave his views on the Labour conference and the challenges facing the party.
Former Labour deputy leader Roy Hattersley joined Anita Anand in the Westminster studio to look at whether Labour could win the next election.
Giles Dilnot tests the waters in Brighton with past, present and potential future Labour MPs who talk about the Daily Politics poll on the party leadership as they gather for their conference.
Labour activists back Alan Johnson to be Labour leader were Gordon Brown to stand down, according to a Daily Politics survey of Labour Party activists.
Siobhan Freegard, founder of the website Net Mums, joined Anita Anand and Roy Hattersley discuss the decision by childcare regulator Ofsted to tell two policewomen that it was illegal for them to look after each other's children while they worked shifts, because the childcare was for more than two hours a day.
Alistair Darling's full address to the Labour Party Conference in Brighton where he claimed Gordon Brown's leadership had prevented a global recession from turning into a depression.
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