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"In the uncharted waters we sail, the challenge of change demands nothing less than a new model for our economy, a new model for a more responsible society and a new model for a more accountable politics."

So said Gordon Brown today as he sought to rally the Labour troops and reignite support across the country in a conference address which had - yet again - been billed the speech of his life.

The Newsnight team were in the auditorium as Mr Brown made a series of new commitments.

He promised ten hours of free childcare a week for a quarter of a million two-year-olds; he said the most disruptive fifty thousand families in Britain would be part of an intervention project with clear rules and punishments; councils would have the power to ban 24-hour drinking in problem areas.

There were new statements on constitutional reform: Gordon Brown gave a commitment to a referendum on whether there should be changes to the system for electing members of Parliament, and signalled he would make the House of Lords a totally democratic and accountable second chamber for the first time.

Tonight, Jeremy Paxman will present the show from Brighton - interviewing, among others the Energy Secretary Ed Miliband.

Michael Crick and David Grossman will be analysing what the PM had to say, and Jackie Long has spent the day away from the conference in Walsall, talking to people there about Gordon Brown's pledges to tackle anti-social behaviour.

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