Naomi Klein says: "Bernie Sanders’ historic campaign in the US primaries... was powered by millennials who know that safe centrist politics offers them no kind of safe future.

"By the way, Bernie is still the most popular politician in the United States today," the No Logo and Shock Doctrine author adds.

"The public is hungry for deep change - they are crying out for it," Naomi Klein tells the Labour conference.

"The trouble is, in far too many countries, it’s only the far right that is offering it, or seeming to, with that toxic combination of fake economic populism and very real racism.

"You showed us another way."

Naomi Klein turns her attention to the US President Donald Trump, comparing him to "that horrible thing currently clogging up the London sewers".

"I believe you call it the fatberg?" she says, prompting laughter and applause in the conference hall.

She builds on the fatberg metaphor stating that he is a "merger of all that is noxious in the culture, economy and body politic".

She adds: "We're finding it very, very hard to dislodge".

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has denied that Labour’s policies would cause a run on the banks, saying today that the financial sector is interested in the party’s proposals.

Asked if there would be financial instability under a Labour government, the shadow chancellor said: “Quite the reverse. What we’re getting from asset managers and pension fund asset managers is they like what we’re saying about infrastructure.”

Mr McDonnell denied that investors were getting spooked by the prospect of a Labour government and said the financial sector came to Labour for security around the Brexit transitional arrangements.

On comments about "wargames", Mr McDonnell said: “One of the groups at Momentum practises war games and things like that and they were looking at all the different options.”

There's a rapturous reception for Naomi Klein, who says she has seen "energy and optimism" at the Labour conference.

Turning to the outside world, she says: "Friends, it's bleak out there."

The world is "upside down", she says.

In the UK, she adds, the Conservatives are "planning to exploit Brexit to push through disastrous pro-corporate policies without debate".

Business resumes in the conference hall with a speech by shadow international development secretary Kate Osamor.

She introduces today's guest speaker, author Naomi Klein.

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Labour MP Stephen Pound tells the World at One that the party is in danger of "losing the plot" by potentially asking MPs to put themselves forward for re-selection before each election.

Welsh Labour member James Cleverley has been booed at the party's conference after speaking against plans to reduce the role of MPs in choosing the next Labour leader.

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell says Labour needs to scenario-plan for a run on the pound if they get into power - so people know they will be able to react to it.

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Labour MP Stephen Pound says the threat of mandatory reselection of MPs is like a "sword of damocles" which he says is doing the party "no good".

He warns that the party is in danger of "losing the plot" by potentially asking MPs to put themselves forward for re-selection before each election.

While he accepts that there have been MPs who have been "complete shockers" in the past and refused to engage with their constituents, he says there is a mechanism for dealing with those not doing their job properly and anyone unhappy with their MP should raise issues directly with them.

In her speech earlier the shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said a Labour government would spend £10m ending "period poverty" in schools in England.

Ms Rayner told the Labour Conference in Brighton that schools had to give every child the support they deserved "so I am proud to say that as your secretary of state I will allocate £10m from our departmental budget to end the scandal of period poverty in our schools".

Earlier this year, a charity, Freedom4Girls, reported that girls in the UK were missing school because they could not afford sanitary protection.

Unite leader Len McCluskey is among those giving shadow education secretary Angela Rayner a long standing ovation.

Conference adjourns for a lunch break until 14:15 BST.

Following the Grenfell Tower fire, Angela Rayner says a Labour government would provide funding for schools to ensure "flammable cladding can be removed, sprinklers installed and asbestos cleared".

Angela Rayner says Sure Start children's centres transformed her own son's life but the Conservative government has cut funding for it.

Labour would give £500m a year to Sure Start centres, "reversing these cuts in full".

The shadow education secretary says the government's schools funding formula in England will "hit the most disadvantaged areas the hardest".

A Labour funding formula would be "genuinely fair and properly funded", she says, adding: "Teachers will be at the heart of our new national education service and we will pay them properly to do it."

"What a year it has been," says shadow education secretary Angela Rayner.

Theresa May warned of a "coalition of chaos", Ms Rayner says. "Now, conference, she's leading it."

Turning to the Conservatives' manifesto, Ms Rayner says that "there are more education policies that are being reviewed or abandoned than are actually being implemented".

She adds: "They're binning their manifesto. We're building on ours."

Labour would establish a "cradle to grave" national education service, she says.