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Donald Trump was branded a “fatberg” by author Naomi Klein, to rapturous applause from delegates at Labour’s Party Conference in Brighton.

The Canadian writer, visiting the conference as an international guest speaker, compared the US President to a build-up of fat, sanitary products, nappies and condoms which builds up in city sewer systems, clogging pipes with noxious gunge.

As Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn looked on, laughing, she told the crowd President Trump was a “shambling, multi-headed beast.”

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She went on: “It’s tough to know exactly how to adequately sum him up, so let me try a local example.

“You know that horrible thing currently clogging up London’s sewers, I think they call it the fatberg - well Trump is the political equivalent of that.

“He is a merger of all that is noxious in the culture, in the economy and in the body politic - all kind of glommed together in a self-adhesive mass, and we’re finding it very, very hard to dislodge.”

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She added: “We have to laugh, what else can we do? Whether it’s climate change or the nuclear threat, Trump represents a crisis that if left unchecked could echo through geologic time.”

The Shock Doctrine author accused the Tories of exploiting “wrenching crises” to push a their agenda.

She said: “We see this dismal cycle again and again. We saw it after the 2008 financial crash. We’re seeing it already in how the Tories are planning to exploit Brexit to push through disastrous pro-corporate policies without debate.”

And she said the “vultures” were already circling over hurricane hit Puerto Rico.

“The business press is filled with articles about how the only way for Puerto Rico to get its lights back on is to sell off its electricity utility. Maybe its roads and bridges too.

“This is a phenomenon I call the Shock Doctrine. The exploitation of wrenching crises to smuggle through policies that devour the public sphere and enrich a tiny elite.”

The biggest applause of Klein’s speech was reserved for her declaring Jeremy Corbyn “the next British Prime Minister.”