'Trump's victory will be influential in London'

Dr Noga Glucksam says Londoners will be affected in a "variety of ways" by the Trump administration

Donald Trump's election victory will be "really influential" in London, an academic has said.

Dr Noga Glucksam, of Richmond American University London, said: "Whatever is the culture in the United States tends to ripple into political culture in other places."

The associate professor's comments followed the re-election of Trump, who will become the 47th president of the US.

Most British people were unhappy that Trump has been elected, according to a snap YouGov poll on Wednesday.

"London is such a cosmopolitan city and Londoners are such a cosmopolitan community.

"A lot of the things that are going to likely come out of the next Trump administration are going to effect Londoners in a variety of ways - in terms of economic situations in the world... the security situation in the world... the culture of politics."

'Decent president'

A poll of 4,807 British adults on Wednesday showed that reaction in Britain has been largely negative, YouGov said.

Of those surveyed, 57% say they were unhappy, compared with 20% who were happy.

More than half - 55% - said they believed Mr Trump's second presidency would be bad for the UK.

More British women were unhappy with the result than men - at 65% compared with 49% respectively.

Fawaz Gari said he thought Trump had been a "decent president" in the past

A group of students at the Richmond American University London, in Chiswick, had a mixed reaction to the result.

“I thought Donald Trump was going to win it. I really didn’t want Kamala Harris to win,” said Fawaz Gari, a 26-year-old international relations student.

“Donald Trump, he’s been a pretty decent president."

Mr Gari, who is from the Middle East, added that he hoped Trump would stop the Israel-Gaza war after 20 of his friends recently died in Palestine.

Also pleased was Bence Dvorszki, a 19-year-old, from Florida: "I was excited - when my Dad sent a screenshot of the election results in the morning, I was genuinely happy.

“My brother said ‘If Kamala wins the election then we’re not going back to the US.’”

“I woke up pretty disappointed this morning,” said Jaden Wood, 23, from California, who is studying for a masters in international relations.

"I personally am very disappointed for the future of women and for the future of our country, it was not the right choice," she said.

“However that is what the system has lent itself to, and we’ll have to take it from there.”

Jaden Wood said Trump was "not the right choice" for the US

Julia Learner, 22, from the US, added: “If this is what the people want then this is what we get. That’s the point of democracy.

“I think we can still be strong and move beyond this and not regress, despite what the President would like."

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: "Many Londoners will be anxious about the outcome of the US Presidential election. London is - and will always be - for everyone.

"We will always be pro-women, pro-diversity, pro-climate and pro-human rights.

"The lesson of today is that progress is not inevitable."

And Dr Michael Keating, professor of political economy at the university, said politics in the US "does not reflect" British or European norms.

"The vast majority of Europeans would never elect Donald Trump, but they'd never have elected George W Bush either," he said.

Dr Michael Keating said that politics in the US does not reflect British or European norms

"In most European countries, people who prefer a Trump presidency number in maybe the 20% zone.

"So there's a huge value difference between Europe, Britain and America and you just have to accept that America has different values.

"As a direct result, [it] is going to elect Republican presidents that in Europe might be considered unelectable."