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. He suggested that Tory extremists were putting the future of the coalition at risk.

Chris Huhne has now finished. Full details of the measures that will give strengthen the rights of energy consumers are now on a news release on the Department for Energy and Climate Change's website.

Let that be a warning to the Conservative right here: we need no Tea Party Tendency in Britain.

Ofgem is already stamping out bad doorstep practices that lead to energy mis-selling, with the guilty companies suffering swingeing fines.

Today I can announce a new package to help the hard-pressed consumer this winter and every winter.

Requiring energy companies to tell you whether you could buy more cheaply on another tariff.

It is just that consumers still think that they face the same bill whoever they go to.

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He says that he and Vince Cable have been competing for the "most unpopular minister" slot in the poll of Tory activists on ConservativeHome website. That means they "must be doing something right", he says.

You can read all today's Guardian politics stories here. And all the Guardian politics stories filed yesterday, including some in today's paper, are here.

. Steve Richards in the Independent says Tim Farron's speech to the conference on Sunday was "a political work of art, mapping out a more social democrat argument while declaring several times his overwhelming admiration for Nick Clegg's leadership".

In his new study of coalition Government, Clegg's Coup, Jasper Gerard argues that the Lib Dems need to exchange what he says one minister calls "fluffy bunny voters", the idealists who prefer ideological purity to power, with realists (wily foxes?) who are willing to make the compromises required by government.

Do take a look at the Comment is free rolling comment blog from the conference. Among today's contributions is one from George Monbiot, who has put up a terrific short post about corporate lobbying at the conference. Here's an extract.

Whilst firms have every right to talk to their workers and ex-workers about getting their pension rights in a different way, we need to make sure that people are making well-informed decisions and not losing out on valuable pension rights without realising it.

Steve Webb, the pensions minister, is delivering his speech to the conference. He begins with a rather good joke. Pointing out that Shirley Williams will be speaking on the platform in about 20 minutes, he says that for the first time in his life there will be more people in the hall when finishes his speech than at the start.

, the former Lib Dem leader, has joined the debate about the euro. (See 8.50am.) He told BBC News that the party's policy on the euro was "right at the time".

This is almost word for what what Gordon Brown used to say when he was asked about wanting to be leader. And we all knew what to make of that.

Q: Aren't you conceding then that the UK is not in the same position Italy?

Clegg says it is not happening as quickly as he would like. But the government is introducing the greatest move towards transparency in this area the country has seen.

, the Lib Dem grandee and health bill "rebel", take part in a question and answer session on health.

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