Between a coughing fit, a prankster handing her a P45, and the stage falling apart around her, Theresa May's conference speech didn't exactly go as planned. But is Wednesday's disaster the final nail in the coffin for the prime minister's job, or can she recover? Plus we look at the UK's response to police brutality during the Catalan independence referendum, and we ask whether even the biggest mass shooting in modern American history will have any impact on the chances of gun control laws in the US. All that and more today on Update The State.

Check out the Washington Post's controversial column on gun control at http://wapo.st/2fQKfdi, and the Vox takedown of it at http://bit.ly/2yoNeES. And don't forget to follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/UpdateTheState.

(c) Update The State 2017. All rights reserved.

WARNING: UNAUTHORISED USE OF THE MUSIC CONTAINED IN THIS PRODUCTION IS SUBJECT TO CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.

All copyrights, licensing, duplication and distribution rights for the music are held exclusively by Music Bakery Publishing (BMI).