Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns pledges that the UK government will work with the US to make Donald Trump's presidency a success.

Reacting to Republican Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election, Jeremy Corbyn said that Mr Trump's campaign appealed to American voters who felt "left behind by the economic system."

Mr Corbyn condemned the use of what he called "racist rhetoric" during the campaign. 

He added he was looking forward to meeting Mr Trump, and said he expected to have "robust discussions" on the issues of climate change and world peace.

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The rhetoric of Donald Trump got some Americans to say that they would consider relocating to another country if the real estate billionaire was elected president. 

US actor Samuel L. Jackson said in 2015 that he would move to South Africa. 

Following Trump's win South Africa's Eyewitness News is reminding Mr Jackson of his comments and even offering to pick him at the airport:

Reacting to the US election result, the Labour MP Jack Dromey has described Donald Trump as a "loathsome xenophobe who divides"...and he's defended his own part in the campaign to ban Mr Trump from the UK.

Mr Dromey said in January that Donald Trump "should not be allowed within a thousand miles of our shores."

Today he told the BBC "we must never allow the politics of hate to divide...but we need to recognise that there are millions of people who feel left behind, ignored by the political system. This is a crisis for liberal democracy."

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has praised the emergency services for their response to today's Croydon tram crash and called for "the most detailed possible investigation" into the cause of the accident.

He said: "My heart goes out to all of those who were injured and the families of those who have lost their lives as a result of this incident.

"I also want to say a big thank you to the emergency services. The firefighters who were there in the rain, in the dark. The ambulance workers who were there, the police who were there, cutting people out of the wreckage, getting them to Croydon University Hospital to give them the best possible treatment they can.

"It's at times like this that communities can come together and we should thank all those who came together to help those in desperate need, but clearly there needs to be the most detailed possible investigation into the cause of this accident. Basically tram systems are usually very safe. Something has obviously gone catastrophically wrong and life has been lost as a result of it."

The first and deputy first ministers congratulate Donald Trump on winning of US election.

Donald Trump's election presents Britain with challenges and opportunities, says James Landale.

The secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, Harun Khan, has made a statement , externalon Donald Trump's election victory.

Mr Khan said: "The people of the United States have clearly spoken and I congratulate Mr Trump."

He continued: "There is however, a justifiable concern about his election. It is hugely worrying that a man who has openly called for discrimination against Muslims and other minorities has become the leader of a superpower nation. 

"We hope the bombast and rhetoric we have seen from Mr Trump in the last few months gives way to a more reconciliatory approach. The president-elect must demonstrate that his election is not a green light for bigotry for the rest of the world."

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According to The Guardian's, external diplomatic editor Patrick Wintour, it says something about the shock of the British political establishment that the most coherent and visible response initially came from Nigel Farage, external, the only UK politician that can claim to have any real personal contact with the Donald Trump wing of the Republican party.

Mr Farage said Mr Trump’s victory would be one of the two great political revolutions seen across the world in 2016. “I thought Brexit was big, but, boy, this looks like it is going to be even bigger,” he said.

Theresa May – who is due to meet the populist Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, on Wednesday – will be struggling to understand how she gets purchase with a leader with whom she will have to try to recast the “special relationship”. 

Mrs May congratulated Mr Trump on his victory, saying the UK and US “are, and will remain, strong and close partners on trade, security and defence.”

She added: “I look forward to working with president-elect Donald Trump, external, building on these ties to ensure the security and prosperity of our nations in the years ahead.”

But her still young team have little or no knowledge of Mr Trump, and the old Conservative links with the Republican party have either atrophied, or remained closest to the old Republican foreign policy establishment, which largely shunned Trump.

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