Tourism is a major contributor to the UK economy, providing jobs for 3.1 million people and representing 9 per cent of UK GDP. It will play a key role in Labour’s plans for growth and jobs across the country.

On the World at One I joined BBC presenter Martha Kearney and panellists Anna Soubry, from the Conservative Party and Douglas Carswell, from UKIP to discuss the national and international news stories of the day.

The dinner was held at the Imperial War Museum in London and was to commemorate the role that women played in the First World War and the impact the war had on changing gender roles in the workplace.

Today at Deputy Prime Minister’s Questions I challenged Nick Clegg on whether he now regrets the Government’s £3 billion pound top down reorganisation following reports in the Times newspaper that some of his Cabinet colleagues have said they do regret this policy.

The phone lines were busy this evening at LBC for the next instalment of my regular phone in with Iain Dale.

Question Time was televised live from Clacton this evening just after the polls had closed in both Clacton and the Heywood and Middleton by elections.

The by-election in Clacton on sea takes place this Thursday, following the resignation of Douglas Carswell in August. I met with Labour's candidate, Tim Young, to visit West Cliff Theatre to hear about the work they do.

Following Nick Clegg's speech to Lib Dem Party Conference, Harriet Harman MP, Labour’s Deputy Leader, said:

This evening the Labour Party held an Eid reception to celebrate this occasion with people from across the country.

Today I met with a group of pensioners at their weekly lunch club at the Back O‘th’ Community Centre in Heywood & Middleton.

As the Lib Dem Party joined in Glasgow for their annual conference on Saturday, Harriet Harman, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party said:

This morning I joined local campaigners and members of the community to visit the site of the old Peckham Lido and which the group would like to restore and re-open for the benefit of the local community.

One in four of us will suffer a mental health problem at some stage during our lives.  We all know someone who has one of the common mental illnesses such as depression or anxiety or a more complex condition such as bi-polar disorder.

Thousands of ill and disabled people up and down the country have been waiting for months to find out whether they will get the Government’s new disability benefit – Personal Independence Payment (PIP) – which is for people who need help with the extra costs of living with a long term illness or disability.

DEPUTY LEADER Conference Speech Harriet Harman 2014

It was great to see so many members, officers and councillors from Camberwell & Peckham CLP attend Labour Party Conference this year at our annual get together for lunch at Pizza Express.

Art makes Children Powerful was the theme of a Panel event on Young People and the Arts in Manchester today. 

Yesterday, in Manchester, I launched the Labour Arts Alliance.  You can read the press release below.

You can read my report by clicking here.

The phone lines were busy this evening at LBC for the next instalment of my regular phone in with Iain Dale.