Ed Balls is on his feet at the Labour conference, he is introduced as the next chancellor.

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls arrives at conference alongside shadow work and pensions secretary, Rachel Reeves. Mr Balls will be addressing delegates shortly.

Labour should "stand before the British people as the the party of peace, equality and socialist change", Len McCluskey declares as he concludes his rabble-rousing speech to a standing ovation.

Len McCluskey dismisses David Cameron's plans for a devolution settlement saying constitutional change should not be decided by "posh boys in Chequers" but by political debate with the people. He says working people throughout England and Wales "have also had enough" and want change - and says: "Let the Scottish referendum be the tombstone on 20 years of our party's indifference to the interests of the working class".

Westminster Correspondent for The Herald, Kate Devlin

tweets:, external Appearance of Robin Southwell, boss of Airbus, at Labour conference points to the scale of problem w business Cameron faces over EU ref

'Work in the contemporary economy' is the theme of the current debate - being led by Unite general secretary Len McCluskey. He says the lesson of the Scottish referendum was that "working people matter, their views, their voices and their votes". He says the working class and young people had been "electrified" by political engagement.

Chuka Umunna, the shadow business secretary, sets out Labour's plans including an increase in the National Minimum Wage to £8, an end to zero hours contracts, investment in apprenticeships, reforms to employment tribunal fees and - to much applause - an inquiry into the blacklisting of construction workers.

Labour MP Stella Creasy

tweets:, external Now at #lab14 2 hear @ChukaUmunna set out how who you vote for does make a difference & why we are proud to be labour pic.twitter.com/mMv6uRKrEj

Ed Balls's planned policy announcement on child benefit has received criticism before he has had a chance to set out his plans to conference. The charity, 4children, said the proposed extension of a cap on rises in child benefit "sends out a bad message" and is one which "families won't want to hear and won't welcome". Chief executive Anne Longfield said it disproportionally affects families on low incomes who are already struggling and who have "carried the burden of the economic crisis".

Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna is on his feet again. He tells conference that better paid and more secure jobs will be central to a future Labour government's agenda. If you work hard day in, day out you should not have to live in poverty in modern Britain, he adds.

In other news, shadow chancellor Ed Balls has said that if there was a vote in the Commons on English devolution, the Labour Party would not "vote for something that wouldn't work". It comes as Prime Minister David Cameron holds a summit with key Conservative figures to discuss his plans to limit the voting rights of Scottish MPs on English issues.

The EU theme is continued by shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna, who is now making a speech. He says an EU exit would be bad for businesses. Labour would seek to reform and continue the UK's membership of the EU, he explains, before giving the floor to Robin Southwell, president of Airbus Group UK.

FT's deputy political editor Beth Rigby

tweets:, external Southwell to Labour to speak up for EU membership: "I am not here to talk politics but I hope to inform politics" #lab14 #EU

Conservative MP Stewart Jackson

tweets:, external No matter what Ed Balls says to @UKLabour the voters aren't listening because the party has zero credibility in failing to acknowledge past

On to Europe, the shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander accuses David Cameron of "burning bridges" in Europe to appease Conservative backbenchers and warns that a British exit from the EU would threaten the UK's economic prosperity. The Conservatives have pledged an in/out referendum in 2017 - allowing time for a renegotiation of Britain's terms of membership of the EU - if it wins the next general election.

Douglas Alexander reiterates Labour's position of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and stresses that blockades, rockets and occupations must end to allow "meaningful" negotiations to begin.

Henry Baker in Birmingham

Families should only receive payment for one child and not every child. This country is paying people to have more children? We should cap payments at one child.

Setting out a future Labour government's foreign policy agenda, Douglas Alexander warns that it would be "foolish" for Britain to retreat from the world, and tells conference the party's approach would be "proudly multilateral".

Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander is on his feet, and begins his speech by welcoming Scotland's decision to remain a part of the United Kingdom.