Ed Davey warns NHS will be privatised and gun laws rolled back by ‘hypocrite’ Farage in Lib Dem conference speech – as it happened

Ed Davey following his leader’s speech at the Lib Dem conference. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

5.48pm BST

Afternoon summary

• Labour MPs have condemned Donald Trump for his “lies” about the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, wanting to introduce sharia law in the capital. (See 4.13pm and 5.09pm.)

• And Streeting has rejected Trump’s unproven claims of a link between taking paracetamol in pregnancy and autism, urging mothers-to-be to ignore the US president’s remarks.

• The Liberal Democrats are the only remaining block against “the forces of darkness” led by Nigel Farage, Ed Davey has told his party’s annual conference in a speech that repeatedly and at times personally took aim at the Reform UK leader.

• The UK is expected to suffer the highest inflation among G7 nations this year, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has said.

• Allowing Hongkongers who have moved to the UK to stay permanently after five years could net more than £4bn for the Treasury by 2029, according to a thinktank.

For a full list of all the stories covered on the blog today, do scroll through the list of key event headlines near the top of the blog.

5.33pm BST

What Farage has said in past about gun control laws

In his conference speech Ed Davey suggested that a Nigel Farage government would relax gun controls, exposing Britain to the risk of US-style mass shootings. (See 3.03pm.)

Christopher Hope from GB News says that, while Farage has argued in the past that gun laws in the UK are too strict, the party says it is not planning to do anything about that.

Here is what Nigel Farage said about gun controls in the UK in January 2014:

Nigel Farage said: “I think proper gun licensing is something we’ve done in this country responsibly and well for a long time, and I think the kneejerk legislation that Blair brought in that meant that the British Olympic pistol team have to go to France to even practise was just crackers.

“If you criminalise handguns then only the criminals carry the guns. It’s really interesting that since Blair brought that piece of law in, gun crime doubled in the next five years in this country.”

“I think that we need a proper gun licensing system, which to a large extent I think we already have, and I think the ban on handguns is ludicrous.”

A Reform source now says: “Reform has no intention of changing the gun laws.”