Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has said US President-elect Donald Trump should "grow up". Speaking on the Andrew Marr programme on BBC One, Mr Corbyn criticised Mr Trump's view on immigration and said he needed to recognise that the American economy "depends on migrant labour."

Mr Corbyn, whose wife is Mexican, said she felt "absolute anger and outrage" at the idea of a wall on the Mexican border.

Although he said Mr Trump had tapped into the anger felt by "left behind America" and the communities "left to rot" by corporate business, he condemned Mr Trump's "populist agenda" that blamed Muslims, Mexicans, women - "pretty much everyone else" - except the corporate America that Mr Trump "represents."

Asked what his party's cure was for the communities in Britain he also described as "left behind", Mr Corbyn said he wanted to see the country investing in new industries, with a "national investment bank" to promote good quality investment.

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Ed Miliband says Jeremy Corbyn's "political outsider status" will serve him well as he seeks to emulate Donald Trump and oveturn the odds at the next election. The Labour leader's challenge, he adds, is to get a message across that is able to appeal to both those "who want reassurance and those who want big change".

Onto Brexit, the former Labour leader says he is going to "disappoint" people - including some of his own MPs - who want to stay in the European Union as he believes that there can be no second referendum.

June's referendum result must be respected, he insists, and he believes if that there was a second vote in which voters were asked to choose between a "hard destructive Brexit and reversing the result, hard destructive Brexit would win". However, that does not mean that former Remain supporters should "cede the field" to their opponents. 

Defence staff chief Sir Stuart Peach said the UK would "continue to be the cornerstone nation in Nato, working with the United States," even after Donald Trump's election as US president and the UK's withdrawal from the EU. 

On defence spending - a key sore point for the incoming US president-elect, who believed European Nato members do no contribute enough - Sir Stuart said the UK was one of the few countries that met its target of spending 2% of GDP on defence. 

Post-Brexit, Sir Stuart said he believed it "vital" that Nato nations continued to share intelligence information. 

Former Labour leader Ed Miliband is talking about Donald Trump's victory over on ITV. He tells Robert Peston that Mr Trump won more support from trade unionists and working-class Americans on low incomes than any Republican for 30 years and his victory is a "deep rejection of an economic system that seems to have failed some many people". The left, he suggests, needs to come up with "much bigger solutions" if it is to respond. 

Crispin Blunt, chair of the foreign affairs select committee, has said a win for Marine Le Pen in 2017's French presidential election would herald a world of "great power politics.

"What's at stake here is the liberal international order we've all grown up with," he said.

Mr Blunt commented on Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election, calling it "a wake-up call" for European countries on issues like defence spending and integration. 

Mr Blunt also called it "implausible" for UKIP interim leader Nigel Farage to take a leading role in building UK relations with the incoming Trump administration. 

"No need for Nigel," he said. 

France's far-right leader has told the BBC that Donald Trump's victory in the US has boosted her own chances of being elected president next year.

Marine Le Pen, who leads the French National Front (FN), said Mr Trump had "made possible what had previously been presented as impossible".

She is widely expected to reach the second round of the election in May.

Ms Le Pen also held up Russian President Vladimir Putin's rule as a model of "reasoned protectionism".

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Peston on Sunday is under way over on ITV. At the moment, Robert Peston is talking to Sir Howard Davies, the City grandee, about Brexit and its impact on the UK's financial services industry. Sir Howard also wrote the report on airport capacity which backed a new runway at Heathrow. 

UKIP has hit back at Jeremy Corbyn after the Labour leader suggested some of its language and views were "similar" to those of the French National Front. 

In a statement, UKIP said it had made it clear for many years that it does not endorse Marine Le Pen nor her party's policies. 

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Marine Le Pen has defended her party from accusations of racism, saying she could not allow Andrew Marr to make such a claim. 

He had quoted her father, Front National founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, saying he had called the Holocaust "a detail of history".

Ms Le Pen said: "I don't think it's racist to say that we cannot take in all the poverty of the world, we cannot take care of hundreds of thousands of people arriving here because our first obligation is to protect the French people."

During his interview, Jeremy Corbyn referred to a chat he had had with protesters angry about the BBC's decision to broadcast an interview with Marine Le Pen. At 0900 GMT, there were approximately 30 or 40 demonstrators outside the BBC's New Broadcasting House headquarters in central London waving placards and shouting anti-fascist slogans. 

French National Front leader Marine Le Pen said: "Clearly Donald Trump's victory is an additional stone in the building of a new world to replace the old one."

Ms Le Pen regards Trump's victory as a victory of the "people over the elite".

She also set out the questions she believes voters are asking: "Do we want a multicultural society... where fundamental Islam is progressing, where we see major religious claims, or do we want an independent nation with people able to control their own destiny, or do we accept to be a region managed by the technocrats of the European Union?"

Andrew Marr makes a passionate defence of his decision to interview the far-right French politician Marine Le Pen. 

He acknowledges that the decision to give airtime to the French National Front leader has "upset and offended a lot of people", particularly given that the interview is being broadcast on Remembrance Sunday.

But he tells viewers that Ms Le Pen believes her party is "on the march" in France after Donald Trump's US victory and she could conceivably be the next French president next spring. 

The Labour leader dismissed the idea that Donald Trump would be well placed to improve western relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying: "It's not about strong leaders, it's about strong movements towards co-existence and towards peace."

Advocating international co-operation on issues of foreign relations, Mr Corbyn called for the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe to take a more leading role in foreign policy toward Russia. 

Mr Corbyn said that while he had many criticisms of Russian leader Vladimir Putin - "human rights abuses in Russia and the militarisation of society" - he believed there would need to be a process of demilitarising the border between Russia and Nato member states in eastern Europe. 

He said: "We can't descend into a new Cold War".