Jeremy Corbyn insists he would serve full term as prime minister

Amid rumours that he is considering standing down, Mr Corbyn told BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show he would lead Labour into the next poll.

And asked if he would serve a full term in office, Mr Corbyn said: "Of course."

Mr Corbyn said: "I'm taking the party into the general election... to end austerity, to bring forward policies that bring about a better standard of living and better opportunities for people all across this country.

"I'm enjoying doing that, I'm campaigning all the time - I did 40 events during August alone all around the country."

Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth has said it would be misguided to abolish the position of deputy Labour Party leader.

He told Sky News: "Whatever people think of Tom Watson, and he's got supporters and he's got people who are not so keen on him in the Labour Party.

"I thought getting rid of the office of deputy leader of the Labour Party was counter-productive, misguided."

Asked about the resignation of one of his closest aides, Andrew Fisher, Mr Corbyn said: "He is wanting to leave in order to spend time looking after his son and being with his wife and his family - because this is a very stressful and very full-on job.

"And he is working with us for the rest of this year - he will be here for the general election campaign, he is as we speak... downstairs."

Asked about Mr Fisher's comments that he was sick of the "blizzard of lies" within Mr Corbyn's team, the leader of the opposition said: "I think he said that because he was extremely distressed at that point about whatever was going on in discussions within the office at that moment."

On Mr Fisher, Mr Corbyn added: "He is a great colleague, a great friend... I've worked with Andrew for 15 years, when I was a backbencher and many other times. He is a great writer, he's a great thinker and he's done a huge amount of work in the party.

"We get along absolutely very well and he's promised that whatever happens in the future he will be working with me on policy issues."

Following the abandoned bid to scrap Tom Watson's position as deputy leader, Mr Corbyn said he did not know that the motion would be put "at that time".

He insisted he gets on "absolutely fine" with Mr Watson, and told Marr: "I knew there were discussions going on about the role of deputy leader - I did not know that particular motion was going to be put at that time."

Asked why he didn't know, Mr Corbyn said: "I'm not all seeing and all knowing - I'd love to be."

Jeremy Corbyn defended his plan to go into a general election without saying whether he would campaign to remain in the European Union in the referendum he is promising.

The Labour leader hopes to negotiate a new Brexit deal with Brussels and put that to a public vote against the option of staying in the EU.

He told the BBC: "What we have said is that we would want to hold a consultation, a special conference of our party at the point that we have got this offer from the EU, we've got this as a remain - and hopefully reform - option.

"Because I do think even those that are strongly in favour of remain would recognise the EU needs to have some reforms."

In response to MPs and activists - including shadow cabinet ministers - calling for the party to come out in support of remain now, Mr Corbyn said: "I will go along with whatever decision the party comes to."

But he added: "Please remember why people voted leave, why people voted remain, but also remember there is more that unites all of those people - over austerity, over investment, over education, over housing, over health, over a green industrial revolution - than there is that divides them."

Jeremy Corbyn said he wanted the UK to become carbon neutral as quickly as possible and pledged to fly less than predecessors if he became prime minister.

"I fly as little as I can now" he told the BBC. "I take trains wherever I can."

Promising to do the same in government he said "an example has to be set".

Wales First Minister Mark Drakeford said the Welsh Government will campaign for Remain under his leadership.

He told the Labour Party Conference: "It's time to go back to the people in a second referendum where remain will be on that ballot paper.

"And conference, I can tell you now that my Welsh Labour government will continue to stand up for Wales by campaigning wholeheartedly, vigorously and unapologetically for Wales to remain in the European Union."

Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said Labour will introduce a price cap for school uniforms and close "tax loopholes" to make education fairer.

Speaking at the Labour Party conference in Brighton, she said: "I can say today that our very first budget will immediately close the tax loopholes used by the elite private schools, and use that money to improve the lives of all children."

She said a renewed "Sure Start Plus" programme would help children, and a new "National Education Service" would offer free nursery education for all two, three, and four-year-olds.

She also pledged to end the "spiralling cost of school uniforms".

She said: "Parents forced into debt, children in clothes that often don't fit, and the Tories failing for four years to keep their promise to act."

She said Labour would set a price cap to "stop the scandal of children priced out of school".

Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson said the party must lead the campaign to remain in the EU in a second referendum.

At a fringe rally at the Labour conference he said: "We are a remain party. We are a European Party. We are an internationalist party.

"That is who we are. Not perfect, not pure. But overwhelmingly committed to Britain remaining in Europe.

"By backing a people's vote, by backing remain, I am sure we can deliver the Labour government the people of this country so badly need."

Shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth said a Labour government would abolish all prescription charges and rebuild crumbling hospitals.

Mr Ashworth told the party's annual conference in Brighton: "Look at the state of our NHS. We have lost 14,000 beds in the NHS under the Tories.

"Operating theatres close as ceilings fall in and sewage pipes burst. Mental health patients languish in old-style dormitory wards. Diagnostic equipment is outdated."

He added: "Patients deserve better, so in the election, we will outline a plan to rebuild our hospitals and health centres.

"We'll invest in the best modern equipment and technology and it will all be done through actual real spending, not cash-cons like Boris Johnson's and it certainly won't be done by PFI either."

On prescriptions, he said "the next Labour will abolish all prescription charges", which Mr Ashworth called a "tax on illness".

Independent MP Ian Austin, who quit Labour earlier this year, launched a "campaign against extremism" with an ad van poster which said Jeremy Corbyn was unfit to lead the party.

The electronic poster at the back of a van read: "Jeremy Corbyn: Unfit to lead the Labour Party, Unfit to lead the country."

Launching the campaign in Brighton, Mr Austin said: "The campaign we're launching today is a cross-party campaign supported by people from right across the political spectrum. It's a campaign to oppose racism and extremism wherever we find it.

"We're launching today because we want to shine a spotlight on what has happened to the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

"Jeremy Corbyn and the people around him have taken a mainstream, social-democratic party and turned it into something completely different."