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By the time you read next week's edition of The Independent on Sunday, thanks to the time difference in Australia, the World Road Race will be over and a Briton could be donning the champion's jersey for the first time in 35 years.

"All this month my legs have felt hard, like they're made of steel," says Mark Cavendish as he stirs the ice in his coffee, just a few days before capturing the points jersey in the Tour of Spain. "It's like last year before I won Milan-San Remo; you just know when you've got good form, you don't do your legs any muscle damage with a hard ride, you can feel them getting stronger. And that's what's happening now."

As for the Worlds in Melbourne, Cavendish is realistic that with 3,000 metres of climbing, the outcome may not be decided by his speciality, a bunch sprint. "I'm not going into it thinking 'I'm going to win this'... but there's a chance."

As for those rivals who say the Manxman simply cannot climb well enough, the 25-year-old all but sniffs in disagreement. "People forget a lot of things. I'll win what I aim to win," he says, while recognising that with just two riders for support it will not be a disaster if he does not finish on top Down Under.

Although he has already donned the rainbow jersey of world champion on the track twice, Cavendish will not be lacking motivation. "The Worlds has always been a big thing for me. When I was at the Academy, I said to Rod [Ellingworth, the road coach] that I want to be world champion. Even after taking the track championships, the rainbow jersey you get doesn't have solid bands, like the one you get in the world [road] championships. I said to Rod, at least once in my life, I want those solid bands. I need them."

But if his Worlds dream hasn't changed since his amateur days, this year there has been a change, of sorts. Cavendish is famous for saying what he thinks without holding back, but in the Tour de France he avoided any verbal fireworks.

"It's all been about not giving people the fuel, so they can't criticise me, it's not worth it," he says. "The whole Tour, I said to myself 'I'll just do the usual bland staff, not talk, answer every question with I'm happy to be here'."

Cavendish claims some journalists regularly take his comments out of context and, as a regular trawler of the worldwide web, he gets very annoyed when he reads any misleading articles.

Here, at least, he lets rip: "If I've done something bad, and I get the shit for it, I don't care, it's when it's an ill-informed ignoramus who writes complete shit, someone who is so far off the truth it's not a fact, it's an opinion, that's what gets me.

"In my press conference in January I said that 2010 was all about the second half of the season [the Tours of France and Spain and the Worlds]. And there were still journalists who asked: 'Is Mark Cavendish in meltdown this spring?' "

He cites one particular run-in with a reporter: "In 2010 on the Champs Elysées stage, [this journalist] says someone has accused me of pulling [getting illegal tows] on cars.

"Are you fucking kidding me? If I go back, let alone if I'm dropped, I have two race officials, TV cameras, an ice-cream van and a marching band following me. How the fuck am I going to hold on to a car?

"[The journalist] comes out with that. How is that going to sell more newspapers? It certainly doesn't make him look like a good journalist, it makes him look like a cock, he's coming to try and ruin a sport. Go home and fucking write for a trashy magazine if you want to do that shit."

Cavendish's success rate is such that he is also coming across some increasingly nefarious attempts to lay him low in sprints. At least one team, he tells The Independent On Sunday, are trying to get him to lose by systematically lodging protests.

"They openly complain about every single thing and they openly admit it," he says. "I've spoken to guys in that team and say 'why do you do it?' and they said 'we've got to find a way to beat you'. That's not fair, and that's not sporting."

He says one particular team manager protests at Cavendish's sprints because he "tries to fuck with me at every possible opportunity, which is ironic considering he was a sprinter and I actually looked up to him. But now I have no respect for him".

So no change there then, and whether Cavendish has really changed is certainly open to debate. But we will soon find out whether he is going to spend 2011 wearing a jersey with the rainbow stripes of world road champion for the first time.

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The Segway was hailed before its launch as a green transport solution of the future. One such believer in the emission-free scooter-cum-skateboard was a former Yorkshire miner turned multimillionaire philanthropist called Jimi Heselden, who last year bought the American firm which invented the self-righting two-wheeler. But in what appears to have been a freak accident, Mr Heselden has been found dead after apparently plunging 30ft over the side of a cliff while riding one of the machines he hoped would revolutionise the way we travel.

It is believed Mr Heselden was driving an off-road version of the £5,000 upright scooter on a heavily rutted path through the idyllic landscape near his home when tragedy struck. The 62-year-old's body was discovered in the River Wharfe by a walker on Sunday on the edge of his country estate at Boston Spa near Wetherby, West Yorkshire. His Segway was found near by.

A spokesman for West Yorkshire Police said the entrepreneur was pronounced dead at the scene.

"The incident is not believed to be suspicious and the coroner has been informed," he said.

Tributes were paid to the local businessman who used his redundancy payout following the 1980s miners' strike to develop the Concertainer – an adaptation of a medieval defensive system using wire baskets of earth and water which replaced sandbags as a means of protecting troops. The anti-blast device rapidly became one of Britain's most successful defence exports and helped its inventor earn a fortune of £166m and a place in the Sunday Times Rich List.

His purchase of Segway in December last year surprised observers in the UK who felt the device had more than a touch of Sir Clive Sinclair's doomed electric vehicle the C5 about it. Its intuitive controls and gyroscopic balancing systems may have appealed to technology fans but the Segway, which can be difficult to operate, initially proved a hard sell to the public and was for long dismissed as little more than a rich geek's toy. Despite attracting celebrity drivers such as Dame Helen Mirren and Dick Cheney, the Segway remains banned on British pavements and roads where it is deemed unsafe by the Department of Transport, although it can be used on private land.

Yet Mr Heselden became convinced of the potential of the inventor Dean Kamen's commuting device, launched in 1999, after commissioning research in the United States, where it is legal in many cities.

The scooter, which bears more than a passing resemblance to a golf trolley, has witnessed a surge in popularity in recent years among parking enforcement officers and university campus police, countering the negative publicity generated by George W Bush, who fell off a Segway in 2003. It is now estimated that there are 80,000 Segways in use worldwide.

In Britain, the Segway won the support of the then Tory transport spokesman Robert Goodwill as well as the Liberal Democrats' Lembit Opik. Fans of the machine are keenly awaiting the results of a pending test case. Philip Coates, 51, was charged this year under the 1865 Highways Act for riding his 12mph Segway on the pavement on his five-mile trip to work in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and is due to return to court in November.

Earlier this month, Mr Heselden signed over a £10m cheque for the Leeds Community Foundation which channels money into disadvantaged areas in his home city.

The gift brought his lifetime donations to £23m. He had chosen to base his company, Hesco Bastion Ltd, close to his old childhood home in one of Leeds' most deprived communities.

He said recently: "Life turned out pretty well for me, but I still work in the same area where I grew up and every day I see people who for whatever reason are down on their luck."

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George Osborne tonight seized on the International Monetary Fund's upbeat assessment of the UK as an economy "on the mend" to underline the need for next month's tough austerity package.

The chancellor said a report by the fund showing that the UK needed a dose of belt-tightening was a "very welcome endorsement" of the government's budget strategy.

"They [the IMF] have made it pretty clear that the deficit reduction plan that we have set out is essential for bringing about sustainability in our budget," the chancellor told the BBC. "It reminds us that if we divert from the course the new government has set out then we really will be heading back into a disastrous period of economic instability for Britain."

Osborne said the IMF's endorsement chimed with support for the government from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European commission, the CBI and the governor of the Bank of England.

After a two-week fact-finding mission to the UK, the three-man IMF team said: "The UK economy is on the mend. Economic recovery is under way, unemployment has stabilised, and financial sector health has improved."

Osborne announced £6bn of spending cuts within a week of becoming chancellor, raised taxes in an emergency budget in June and is preparing the toughest round of cuts since the war in next month's comprehensive spending review.

The IMF study said plans to cut public spending and raise VAT to 20% in January were unlikely to slow growth, but it believes the Bank of England should stand ready to pump more money into the economy through quantitative easing should the economy slow more than expected.

"The government's strong and credible multi-year fiscal deficit reduction plan is essential to ensure debt sustainability," the IMF said. It advocated the end of universal state benefits and cuts in public sector pay and pension entitlements to bring down record peacetime borrowing, which rose to more than £160bn last year.

"The plan greatly reduces the risk of a costly loss of confidence in public finances and supports a balanced recovery. Fiscal tightening will dampen short-term growth but not stop it as other sectors of the economy emerge as drivers of recovery, supported by continued monetary stimulus."

After discussions with the Treasury, the Bank, the CBI, unions and thinktanks, the IMF team said recovery would proceed at a moderate pace, with growth of 2% in 2011 rising to 2.5% in the medium term.

While there were risks that the economy could perform less strongly than expected "given the continued fragility of confidence, still-strained balance sheets among households and banks, signs of renewed housing market weakness, and the possibility that headwinds from fiscal consolidation could turn out to be more powerful than expected", there were also reasons why it could be stronger.

The Bank of England would need to be "nimble" if the impact on growth of budget cuts was more severe than expected. There was no reason why interest rates needed to rise from 0.5%.

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The sedate world of dim sum dining is set to be rocked by allegations of sexual harassment among the waiting staff of one of London's best-known and award-winning Chinese restaurants.

In an unusual case of alleged workplace discrimination, a gay Chinese waiter has begun legal proceedings against the Michelin-starred restaurant Yauatcha, in Soho, where he says he was the victim of homophobic abuse and harassment by staff and customers.

Vincent Ma worked at the top London eatery until, he claims, sexual jibes and a failure to provide sufficient rest breaks for his diabetes forced him to leave.

The 31-year-old says some colleagues began making comments after they discovered he was homosexual. He added that his high workload, coupled with his diabetes, caused him to lose weight, and this made the inappropriate remarks grow more frequent.

In his claim, lodged at an employment tribunal, Mr Ma says: "I was losing weight and, due to the tightness of the company uniform, a black T-shirt, my body figure was being shown. On one occasion, my nipples were popped out due to low temperature and one manager said to me it was sexy."

On another occasion, his nipples were pinched by a gay customer, he claims. When he complained to a duty manager, he says he did not receive a proper response but was asked: "Do you like it?" He also alleges that one of the managers asked him whether he was a virgin.

Mr Ma said: "My loss of weight leads me to look attractive, but it brought me trouble as I suffered from sexual harassment from some duty managers. I can't tolerate their actions when it becomes frequent and aggressive; I was the centre of the world that everyone makes jokes on."

Yauatcha was opened as a minimalist teahouse and Chinese restaurant in 2004 by Alan Yau, the man behind Hakkasan and the Wagamama chain. Its food and staff have become favourites among restaurant critics and celebrities, with one critic describing Yauatcha as "pure Sex and the City territory".

Mr Ma has very little praise for his former employers. He resigned on 29 May after he lost weight and suffered from diabetic retinopathy. "I still have dreams, but I feel negative about this country," he said. "I feel that I was being discriminated. I wonder if there's justice in the world, especially now I am an individual to stand against a company."

Hakkasan Limited, the restaurant group which owns Yauatcha, strenuously denies the allegations. Interim chief operating officer David Anderson said changes had been made to Mr Ma's duties after he said he was diabetic, and that he received the same training duties as everyone else, and though inappropriate comments were made, Mr Ma "actively participated" in it. A spokesman said: "Hakkasan and Yauatcha have a company policy not to comment on individual cases."

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Tension between David and Ed Miliband reached a new height last night as they waited anxiously to find out which of them will be elected leader of the Labour Party today.

Bookmakers, who had made David the front-runner since the race began in May, suddenly installed Ed as the favourite yesterday just as the votes were being counted.

Friends of David accused their opposite numbers of moving the betting market by making false claims that the two Miliband camps had held talks on how to handle a result that would leave one brother a triumphant winner and the other a deeply disappointed loser.

"They are trying to portray David as contemplating defeat; he is not," said one ally of the shadow Foreign Secretary. "He has stuck to his guns and his values in this campaign and not told the party what it wanted to hear. If the party wants a different direction, so be it. He can hold his head high."

A former Cabinet minister who is backing David conceded there were last-minute jitters that he would be pipped at the post by his younger brother. "The party may vote with its heart rather than its head," he said.

Supporters of Ed, who is politically to the left of David, suggested bookmakers had finally caught up with the momentum that would take him over the finishing line. They hinted at informal discussions on how to handle the result, despite a strong denial from David's team.

The Ed Miliband camp gave off the air of confidence. His partner Justine Thornton, who is expecting their second child, will travel to Manchester for the result, then head back to London, and has made plans to return to the conference on Tuesday when the new leader will make his all-important keynote speech.

The Milibands and the three other candidates – Ed Balls, Andy Burnham and Diane Abbott – will not know the result until about 3.58pm today. They will be in separate side rooms with one aide, and will have to surrender their phones and Blackberries so that they cannot communicate with the outside world. They will be called to a central room and told the result.

Their body language will be studied closely as they walk on to the conference platform at 4pm. Ed Miliband will be accompanied by his campaign agent Sadiq Khan, the shadow Transport Secretary, and David by his political adviser Madlin Sadler.

There are not meant to be any coded signals to supporters and broadcasters, which can go wrong. In the 2007 deputy leadership contest, Gerry Sutcliffe, agent to the favourite Alan Johnson, was supposed to take off his glasses if his man had won. He was so surprised by Harriet Harman's victory that he forgot and put his head in his hands. Ms Harman's close allies knew she had won – because, by prior arrangement, she had her handbag over her left shoulder.

Gordon Brown and Ms Harman, the acting leader, will make speeches before the result is officially announced by Ray Collins, the party's general secretary, and Ann Black, the chairman of Labour's national executive committee.

The announcement, due at 4.30pm, is unlikely to be short and sweet. No one is expected to win more than 50 per cent of first preference votes, so the one coming last will drop out and the second preferences of the people who backed him or her will be redistributed until one candidate wins a majority. These votes will be crucial. It is impossible to predict how they will split. But some Labour MPs believe Ed Miliband's campaign has been tailored towards winning them.

After the result, the contenders will put on a show of unity under the new leader. It won't be easy for the Milibands to rebuild a relationship that has soured during the election.

While the loser contemplates his future, the winner will have to prepare quickly for his first major interview as leader – on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show tomorrow.

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The controversial power for police to hold terrorist suspects without charge for 28 days is to be scrapped within months, The Independent  has learnt.

The detention period – the longest in the western world – looks certain to be trimmed in an overhaul of anti-terror laws by the Coalition Government, political and security sources signalled last night.

The 28-day limit became a symbol for human rights activists of an increasingly authoritarian approach to civil liberties over the last decade, although police and Labour ministers insisted it was essential because of the increasingly complex and global nature of terrorist conspiracies.

No final decision has been taken on the period that will replace it, but ministers are seriously considering halving the time limit to 14 days, with suspects able to be released on bail at any point during the second 14 days. Currently the police are not able to bail any suspect arrested on suspicion of a terror offence and must decide whether to charge or release within 28 days.

The pre-charge limit was successively raised by the last government from 24 hours to 28 days between 2000 and 2006. Attempts to increase it further to 90 days and 42 days were abandoned in the face of parliamentary opposition.

Theresa May, the Home Secretary, announced in June that the 28-day period would be reconsidered as part of a wide-ranging review of counter-terrorism measures. The use of control orders, under which suspects face tough restrictions on leaving home, and of stop-and-search powers are also being examined as part of the review.

Mrs May temporarily renewed the 28-day detention power for six months in June, meaning that ministers will have to decide whether to renew it for a second time by the end of the year. She told MPs that she supported the reduction of the period "over time".

Sources close to the review told The Independent that the 28-day period would almost certainly be cut. One said: "I would be amazed if we end up in a position where it is retained."

One minister said: "Twenty-eight days will go. It is just not clear yet exactly what will replace it."

One option being seriously considered is holding suspects for up to 14 days and then being able to release them on bail during the second fortnight – something which is currently not allowed.

Opponents of that suggestion warn of the danger of releasing potentially dangerous individuals into the community before they have been thoroughly questioned.

Another possible compromise would be to reduce the period to 21 days. Supporters of a reduction point out there have been no cases in the last four years where it has been necessary to hold suspects beyond three weeks.

A reduction would be a boost for the Lib Dems, who support a limit of 14 days. The Conservatives backed 28 days the last time that the issue was debated in the Commons. David Davis, who was then the shadow Home Secretary, believes it should be reduced further – a position shared by other party figures.

Senior police officers are resigned to the prospect of a cut from 28 days, but believe they could accommodate a compromise of a 14-day period combined with a further 14 days during which a suspect can be bailed. Officers are privately known to dislike the fact that terrorist suspects must currently be either charged or released within 28 days without the possibility of bail.

A police source said: "Sometimes we arrest fairly low-level suspects. We gather the evidence and question the suspect but cannot bail them. There might be no real risk associated with giving that person bail – they are not likely to commit any offence and cannot destroy evidence because we have it – but we cannot do it."

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The Department of Health is axing 1,700 doctors, nurses and other health professionals who work on programmes concerning every aspect of NHS care.

The specialists were recruited from the NHS to work with civil servants because of their expertise. They include dentists, dieticians, psychologists, psychiatrists, consultants, nutritionists and experts in tackling public health problems.

Those being made redundant work at DoH buildings in London and at offices around England. They work to combat diseases, improve patient care, reduce the burden on the NHS from problems such as alcohol and obesity, and include some of those working on the government's drive to use the Olympics to encourage more people to be more physically active.

The DoH has not announced the move and has refused to answer questions about it from the Guardian. But staff affected were told in letters in June that they were being placed at risk of redundancy as a direct result of health secretary Andrew Lansley's huge shakeup of the NHS and public health. The letters say: "There are changes in the priorities for the Department of Health; this is because of the new government's agenda, and the funding needed for reinvestment in the NHS."

Human resources staff have said a total of 2,000 people are affected. They are all paid out of "programme funding" – budgets to fund particular areas of work which the government has decided to abolish by March 2011.

Only 300 of the 2,000 are guaranteed security of employment because they are civil servants temporarily working on specific programmes. DoH sources say that as some of the 1,700 are finding new jobs, around 1,500 are expected to see their posts disappear. The 1,700 represent about 40% of the DoH's 4,286 staff.

A March 2010 document available on the DoH's intranet says there will be "a reduction in programme-funded workers to zero in line with 2010-11 budget and business plans". It adds: "There are circa 300 civil servants funded from programme budgets … There are circa 1,700 non-civil servants funded through programme budgets."

At recent meetings, officials have made clear that everyone who is programme-funded will have no work beyond the end of March at the latest. Some have already been laid off. It is finalising details of redundancy packages.

The move is designed, the DoH says, to free up more money for direct patient care. But senior doctors are worried that it will deprive the ministry of vital expertise at a time when the NHS is set to undergo its biggest overhaul since its inception in 1948, and pressure to improve prevention and quality of care is intense due to the NHS's need to save £20bn by 2014.

Prof Lindsey Davies, president of the Faculty of Public Health, said: "Public health teams around the country have a crucial role in making sure we and our children can live healthier lives, now and in the future. The government clearly wants to commit to tackling some of the biggest killers such as obesity, smoking and heart disease. That's great – so why cut funds for public health workers? These people are working hard to make a real difference. Losing them now, when there's so much more to be done, just doesn't make sense."

Most have spent years working for primary care trusts, hospitals, medical charities or in medical academia before accepting an offer to bring their specialist knowledge into the DoH. Some have worked at the ministry for seven years.

Unison is in talks with the NHS about 294 staff who were due to lose their jobs. Dave Prentis, Unison's general secretary, said: "The government says that it is protecting the NHS frontline, but these medical experts are on the frontline of prevention. It makes no sense to get rid of the wide-ranging expertise that these specialists bring to the Department of Health and the vital role they play in helping to prevent diseases. Losing these jobs will cut the heart out of vital prevention work. It is far cheaper to keep people healthy and out of hospital than to treat them in it."

A department spokeswoman said: "Some of these were temporary programmes that were coming to an end anyway. We are reshaping and improving public health strategies. There will be plenty of opportunities and jobs to be done in both national and locally-led public health services." She said the government "was committed to increasing the health budget in each year of this parliament. We will spend that money wisely, including the prioritisation public health and preventative work."

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Benedict XVI hit out at what he described as the "increasing marginalisation of religion" during a dramatic second day of the papal visit during which police arrested six men for an alleged terrorist plot to attack the Pope.

Speaking to members of civil society in Westminster Hall, a venue filled with symbolism for the Catholic Church as the place where St Thomas More was condemned to death for refusing to abandon his loyalty to Rome, the Pope last night praised Britain's Parliamentary tradition for creating a "pluralist democracy which places great value on freedom of speech".

But he also attacked moves to relegate religion to the private sphere and said more should be done to protect religious festivals such as Christmas.

His comments came at the end of a hectic day which included a warning to children against the allure of "celebrity culture", a pointed discourse on the limits of science to explain human existence, and a historic meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Standing in Westminster Hall in front of four former prime ministers – David Cameron was absent for his father's funeral – the 83-year-old pontiff railed against secular intolerance of religious belief, a key theme of his four-day visit.

"I cannot but voice my concern at the increasing marginalisation of religion, particularly of Christianity, that is taking place in some quarters, even in nations which place a great emphasis on tolerance," he said. "There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be discouraged, in the questionable belief that it might somehow offend those of other religions or none. And there are those who argue – paradoxically with the intention of eliminating discrimination – that Christians in public roles should be required at times to act against their conscience."

His speech, billed by Catholic officials as the most important of the visit, is part of a Vatican fightback against the kind of secularism in Western societies that the Pope believes threatens the rights of religious people to practise their faith openly, such as the right for Catholic adoption agencies to refuse their services to homosexual couples.

It was a sober and critical ending to a day that had begun very differently with a dawn raid by anti-terror police on a rubbish depot in central London, where five street sweepers were arrested. A sixth man was taken into custody later in the day.

The men, some of whom are thought to be Algerian, were held on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. They all worked for Veolia Environment Services, a company contracted by Westminster Council to keep the streets of central London free of litter.

No materials or explosives were found at the site of the arrests which were reportedly sparked after an overnight tip-off. The men were being questioned last night and have not been charged.

Federico Lombardi, the Vatican's spokesperson, said the Pope was informed of the threat during his visit to St Mary's University College in Twickenham where 4,000 school children had gathered to greet the Pope to kick off the second day of his visit.

Apart from the school uniforms it could have been mistaken for a pop concert. Thousands of excitable children crammed into an open-air stadium waiting for the headline act.

When the Pope came into view, aboard his Popemobile, he was given the kind of greeting normally reserved for rock stars as thousands of children burst into excited screams.

"That Popemobile was so big," gasped nine-year-old Theresa Mortlock, a pupil from St Elizabeth's primary school in west London. "To see him in the flesh was amazing, I nearly fainted. My nan is so jealous".

Using a far more informal tone compared to his attacks on "aggressive secularism" the day before, the Pope warned children of the pitfalls of our "celebrity culture".

"I hope that among you listening to me today there are some of the future saints of the 21st century," he said. "We live in a celebrity culture and young people are often encouraged to model themselves on figures from the world of sport and entertainment

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The government has begun a review of the "right to buy" scheme for council house tenants, calling into question one of Margaret Thatcher's most vaunted policies as it reaches out to Liberal Democrat backbenchers ahead of their party conference.

The Lib Dems have been told the Tory housing minister Grant Shapps is looking for ways to increase the stock available to the swelling numbers on the waiting list. Shapps, who will attend the Lib Dem conference, is aware its rank and file want action on issues close to their hearts in return for support for the coalition.

For the Lib Dems, "right to buy" removes thousands of houses from circulation and prevents councils from being able to allocate homes to those on the lists.

Tenants who have lived in a house for five years or more are able to buy their home. But with 4.5 million people on council housing waiting list - 1.8 million households - and an average of over five years to progress through to the front of the queue, Lib Dems are pushing for a reform of the system.

A review of "right to buy" did not feature in the coalition agreement and Shapps said he would be extending it when he was shadow housing minister before the election.

Any attempt to end the scheme will alarm many in the Conservative party.

Shapps is supported in his review by Downing Street. He is reported to be aware that cities such as Hull have many more council houses than demand and so may decide to leave right to buy in place but has been persuaded that rural areas can not afford to allow a sale of stock at a time of soaring demand for council houses.

Shapps is also looking at allowing councils to borrow against the value of some of the houses they own and use those assets to build more homes.

The issue of what to do about housing has been a running sore through the coalition. Simon Hughes, the Lib Dem deputy leader, is to lead a call at his party conference to oppose Cameron's plans to end lifetime tenancies in social housing and introduce fixed term tenancies. The move, supported by Shapps, was seen as a way of bringing more flexibility to the housing and labour markets.

The emergency motion calls on the government to "rule out removing secure tenancies for current and future council tenants" and to "investigate alternative ways of managing occupancies when circumstances change, such as different levels of rent".

The motion says that less than 20% of council tenants earn an above average wage and that fixed-term tenancies would lead to a lack of incentive for council tenants to earn more for their families.

Hughes told Inside Housing said: "Proposing this motion for conference is one obvious way we could move the debate forward and ensure the voice of Liberal Democrats is clearly heard."

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Mr Justice Eady, whose rulings form much of the backbone of UK privacy law, is to hand over responsibility for defamation and privacy cases. From the beginning of October, his role as the senior media judge in England and Wales will be inherited by Mr Justice Tugendhat.

It is a move that is likely to be welcomed by much of the media, who have greeted many of Mr Justice Eady's rulings with a chorus of criticism. These rulings involved a number of gagging orders that prevented papers from publishing stories about allegations of affairs among celebrities. Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre once described him as the architect of a "judge-made privacy law" through his interpretation of the Human Rights Act.

One of his most famous cases was awarding Formula One executive Max Mosley £60,000 damages against News Group newspapers for invasion of privacy.

Mr Justice Eady is well-known for his criticism of the media. "The media have nowhere to vent their frustrations other than through personal abuse of the particular judge who happens to have made the decision," he said earlier this year. "It has become fashionable to label judges not as independent but rather as 'unaccountable', and as hostile to freedom of speech."

Mr Justice Tugendhat has generally adopted a more nuanced interpretation of the Human Rights Act. Controversial cases which have received widespread media attention include that of footballer John Terry's failed attempt to gain a super-injunction which would have prohibited media reports of his extramarital affair.

Terry, who had obtained a gagging order preventing the press from reporting the story, saw the order subsequently lifted by Mr Justice Tugendhat, who stated that it "was not necessary or proportionate".

Other high-profile cases involving the new senior libel judge include the dispute over the wedding photos of Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas. He represented the Hollywood couple in 2003 when they successfully sued Hello! magazine for taking unauthorised pictures of their nuptials after they had signed an exclusive deal with rival magazine OK!

Michael Tugendhat was educated at Ampleforth College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, before being awarded the Henry Fellowship at Yale University Law School.

He was called to the Bar of Inner Temple in 1969 and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1986, and a High Court Judge in 2003.

His elder brother, Christopher, is the businessman and Conservative politician who was formerly MP for City of London and Westminster, and vice-president of the European Commission from 1981-1985.

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