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Labour conference - live updates: John McDonnell announces 'we're taking them back', as plan to nationalise services and scrap PFIs announced Labour conference - live updates: John McDonnell announces 'we're taking them back', as plan to nationalise services and scrap PFIs announced
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John McDonnell has been outlining Labour's plans for widespread nationalisation of services - including the scrapping of the Private Finance Initiative and move to bring existing deals back "in house". John McDonnell has been outlining Labour's plans for widespread nationalisation of services - including the scrapping of the Private Finance Initiative and move to bring existing deals back "in house". 
The shadow chancellor made the announcement during his keynote speech at the party's annual conference in Brighton. The Shadow Chancellor made the announcement during his keynote speech at the party's annual conference in Brighton.
It came after leader Jeremy Corbyn received rapturous applause from the party faithful as he opened the party’s conference on Saturday evening. But while the party appears remarkably more united than in previous years – in the wake of the general election result – it is clear that a debate over the party’s Brexit policy is looming behind the scenes.  Mr McDonnell also confirmed Labour would nationalise water, rail and energy industries, as well as bringing Royal Mail back under public control.
In an interview marking the start of Labour's conference, the Labour leader said he was also ready to “listen” to party members who want the UK to stay in the EU's single market. It came after 30 senior figures, including Labour MPs, signed an open letter calling for the party leadership to commit to full and permanent membership of the single market after Britain’s exit from the European Union.  Elsewhere, the party's National Executive Committee published a statement on its Brexit position after criticism that the issue will not be properly debated at the conference.
Labour recently shifted its position on Brexit, to one where it called for the UK to remain in the single market and abide by its rules - including free movement and adherence to the European Court - during a transition period out of the bloc. Delegates will now be given the opportunity to discuss the current policy but there will be no vote on contentious issues such as whether the UK should remain in the EU's single market.
However the signatories to the letter published in The Observer, including former shadow cabinet members Chuka Umunna and Heidi Alexander, as well as one of Mr Corbyn's closest allies in his early days as leader, Clive Lewis, said the party should go further to protect jobs and workers' rights. So far the truce between Labour's warring factions appears to have held in Brighton, but it is clear that a debate over the party’s Brexit policy is looming behind the scenes. One Labour MP said the failure to fully debate Brexit made the party a "laughing stock".
Mr Corbyn went on: “I understand what they are saying. I understand the points they are making and I understand the importance of workers moving from one place to the other. Earlier in the conference, Jeremy Corbyn suggested said he was also ready to “listen” to party members who want the UK to stay in the single market. It came after 30 senior figures, including Labour MPs, signed an open letter calling for the party leadership to commit to full and permanent membership of the single market after Britain’s exit from the European Union.
“But I also understand that there is an abuse of free movement by some of the employers, who have grotesquely exploited some very low paid workers.
“That has to stop. But we have to recognise that in the future we are going to need people to work in Europe and people from Europe are going to need to work here. There is going to be a lot of movement,” the leader said on BBC's Andrew Marr programme.