Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn got a big welcome from Labour members and supporters when he visited York as part of his campaign today.

Several hundred people packed into the events centre at Royal York Hotel gave him three standing ovations - when he arrived slightly late, at the end of his 40-minute speech, and when he left to go to two meetings in Leeds.

They stood four deep around the walls to hear him say he represented a change in the way politics could work in Britain to create a more equable, democratic and just society which didn't blame particular groups in society or marginalise people.

People were bored and fed up with "personality politics" and politicians trading insults, he said. "We can do things differently. I hope we can," he said.

"By being strong, by being hopeful, by being democratic, we are a force in politics, we are a force in society."

In his speech, he said his campaign wasn't just about the next leader of the Labour party.

"On another level, it is something entirely different, it is how we do politics, how we engage with each other," he said.

He called for his party to engage in "deeper discussions" about its economic strategy and for an end to austerity, which he called a political as well as an economic strategy.

He also outlined policies on protecting the NHS, increasing the public sector, ending welfare caps, more council housing, the environment immigration, poverty and international wars.

After his speech, he dealt with questions on mental health in York, improving rehabilitation of offenders, private funding of political parties and proportional representation.

Labour's MP for York Central Rachael Maskell sent a message apologising for not attending, but said Mr Corbyn had a "vital role to play" in changing their party.

Joe Riches, who stood for Labour in York Outer constituency at the last election, told the gathering Yorkshire and the Humber region had the strongest support for Mr Corbyn of all the regions. Campaigners for the Socialist Workers Party offered people arriving and leaving the meeting copies of its newspaper.