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Lib-Dem MPs were today urged to take “one last chance” to stop the NHS reforms after activists at the party’s spring conference in Gateshead refused to endorse the plans.

Labour leader Ed Miliband wants dissidents to join with his party on the issue in the Commons, as Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg is left at odds with his own rank and file.

The Deputy Prime Minister called on his party to support the NHS and Social Care Bill, which has been extensively modified by Lib-Dem amendments.

But while he fended off a motion at the weekend to oppose the Bill outright, the conference voted down a clause backing his line.

A Labour source said there will be an Opposition debate tomorrow. “There is still one last chance to stop this Bill tomorrow and we are appealing to Liberal Democrats to take it,” he said. Mr Clegg told conference: “It is not a Liberal Democrat health Bill but it is a better Bill because of the Liberal Democrats.”