Energy Secretary Ed Miliband is up first, and he starts by praising a "historic week for Britain's energy system".

He explains that on Monday, "142 years of coal-fired electricity generation" came to an end, and pays tribute to "the generations of coal workers... who powered our country for more than a century - we owe them a huge debt".

He goes on to declare that, today, "a new era begins" with investment in carbon capture and storage.

Mr Miliband hits out at "dither and delay" under previous governments, and says: "Just three months since the general election, we turn promise into reality."

He says the government has agreed commercial terms with "private sector partners" to build two clusters of carbon capture and storage facilities.

The prime minister is about to deliver remarks as the government has unveiled plans to spend up to £22bn to fund projects that capture greenhouse gases from polluting plants and store them underground.

Sir Keir Starmer will be introduced by his energy and net zero secretary, Ed Miliband, and the chancellor, Rachel Reeves.

The PM is expected to deliver some remarks, after which he will take questions from the media.

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With the Tory leadership race down to the final four, Beth's been at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham to watch the 'beauty parade' for herself, while Ruth and Harriet predict who will make it to the final two.   

Back in Westminster, it looks like Sir Keir Starmer may have taken Harriet's advice when he said he would pay back £6,000 of gifts he's received since getting into government, but Harriet thinks Labour needs to go further to put this scandal to bed.  

Plus, Beth has been investigating a question from a listener, about the best smelling politician, and she finally has an answer.

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By Gurpreet Narwan, political correspondent

Remember the £22bn black hole?

Within weeks of coming into government Labour was warning about its dire inheritance.

The chancellor told us that a difficult road lay ahead, priming the public for tax rises and public spending cuts. We were told the country couldn't afford to lift the two-child benefit cap and that pensioners' fuel payments would have to be cut.

Senior Labour politicians sounded the alarm.

"We would have seen the markets losing confidence, potentially a run on the pound, the economy crashing," they warned.

So, the public might be a little confused on budget day when the chancellor announces billions of pounds of investment spending- as she is strongly hinting she will do.

She's just announced £22bn in funding over 25 years for the carbon capture Industry. If there was no money, where has this money come from?

The Foreign Office has announced that it is providing an addition £10m in humanitarian support to Lebanon as Israel's incursion and bombing campaign against Hezbollah continues.

The aid - designed to respond to "serious concerns over a widespread lack of shelter, and reduced access to clean water, hygiene and healthcare" - will be delivered through "trusted humanitarian organisations", the department said.

This announcement follows the provision of £5m of aid, delivered through UNICEF.

More than 1.2 million Lebanese have been displaced by Israeli attacks, according to authorities in the country, while nearly 2,000 are reported to have been killed over the past year - most in the past two weeks.

Follow the latest on the crisis in the Middle East in our dedicated live blog here...

By Mark Kleinman, City editor

Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, will deliver her maiden speech to Britain's most important annual gathering of financiers and business leaders in mid-November.

Sky News understands that the Treasury, Bank of England and the City of London Corporation have agreed to stage the Mansion House dinner on 14 November.

The dinner will come just over a fortnight after the chancellor delivers her inaugural budget.

There are growing expectations in financial markets and the private sector that Ms Reeves will unveil substantial tax rises on 30 October.

On Thursday, she attacked the record of her Conservative predecessors, saying they had failed to prioritise investment in the UK economy.

"I am not going to make those mistakes," she said.

The chancellor's reception at Mansion House will be dictated in large part by her decisions about taxing the wealthy, as well as any move to increase the tax burden on the banking industry.

She is expected to announce further details of the government's plans to accelerate pension fund reforms in the coming weeks, with measures potentially forming part of her Mansion House speech, according to officials.

Earlier this week, Sky News revealed that Treasury officials were drawing up plans for Ms Reeves to visit China early next year, in order to participate in the first Economic and Financial Dialogue between the two countries since 2019.

A spokesperson for the Treasury declined to comment, while the City of London Corporation did not respond to messages.

Sir Keir Starmer should hold a COBRA-style meeting with his cabinet ministers to decide new rules on donations, a former Labour minister has said.

Baroness Harriet Harman, a host of Sky News' Electoral Dysfunction podcast, said there needed to be "new rules and processes in place" following the row over the prime minister and his top team accepting freebies.

While Sir Keir has repaid some of the gifts he has received this year, including tickets to Taylor Swift, the Labour peer said the government hadn't "quite got there yet" and should appoint the new ethics commissioner "to bring this all together".

She told the podcast: "I think they ought to have something like a COBRA where you get everybody in the same room, everybody who's involved, you know, the senior civil servants in the Cabinet Office, the cabinet members who are involved. And you all decide."

COBRA - which stands for Cabinet Office Briefing Room A - is often called in times of emergency, such as civil unrest or flooding.

Baroness Harman has previously been critical of Sir Keir's handling of the freebies row, saying he should watch football on TV to put an end to the media frenzy and that trying to justify his actions is making things worse.

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The government will remain neutral on the passage of a potential new law enabling assisted dying.

Cabinet secretary Simon Case confirmed the position in a letter to ministers this evening, meaning it'll be a free vote for MPs.

A proposal to change the law to allow terminally ill people the choice to end their own life is set to be introduced to parliament this month.

It will be tabled by Labour MP Kim Leadbeater on 16 October.

Ms Leadbeater said she hoped there would be "an open, robust, compassionate debate" - as she warned Britain's current law on assisted dying was "not fit for purpose".

'Suffering, Switzerland, or suicide'

Speaking to our health correspondent Ashish Joshi, Ms Leadbeater said terminally ill people currently have three options: "We've got suffering, we've got Switzerland, and we've got suicide."

"You can either suffer what is often a long, very painful death, which is horrible for you, and it's horrible for the people around you," she said.

"You can go to Switzerland, to Dignitas, but you can only do that if you have lots of money, if you are fit enough and well enough to travel.

"And the third option is you can take your own life."

Any change to the law would have "proper safeguards" and Ms Leadbeater denied it would end up being a "slippery slope" towards something broader, potentially taking into account mental health conditions.

"This is about people who are terminally ill  - it's not about people who are mentally unwell," she said.

The government has pledged nearly £22bn over 25 years to fund projects that capture greenhouse gases from polluting plants and store them underground, as it races to reach strict climate targets.

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband told Sky News that jobs that used to support things like coal-fired power stations will now "come back" under Labour.

"Today a new era begins," he declared. "A new era of a new industry, carbon capture and storage, as you describe, capturing the carbon and burying it underground rather than going up into the atmosphere.

"It's about good jobs across the country, and it's about a sign of where this government stands, which is we are going to invest in the future of this country."

Asked where these billions of pounds will come from, he replied: "Public investment. We believe in borrowing to invest. It's absolutely the right thing to do for Britain."

He hit out at "dither and delay" under previous governments that have "not taken advantage of these kinds of industrial opportunities".

Mr Miliband rejected that today's announcement is about turning around the "doom and gloom" narrative that it has been suggested has damaged business confidence.

"I'm in politics for change and hope, not doom and gloom. And that's what this is all about. And that's what the prime minister is about."

This is "the first part of what you'll be seeing from the government in the coming months", he said.