The Liberal Democrat Conference: Conference agenda today

TOPICS being debated by conference today are:

the water industry

international security

Post Office privatisation

rural affairs

drugs, including decriminalisation of the use and possession of cannabis.

Malcolm Bruce, the party's Treasury spokesman, will present a Liberal Democrat Budget.

The party's gold bird logo is not going to be axed, the outgoing president, Charles Kennedy, said yesterday during a debate on internal party matters.