Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said Donald Trump’s surprise victory was driven by “public anger” and is a wake-up call for the world.
Mr Corbyn said the win represented a rejection of a “failed economic consensus” that is not working for most people – but that some of the new president-elect’s policies were “wrong”.
The Islington MP, who himself fought a fierce campaign to be re-elected leader this year, said "Americans have made their choice" - but added many people would be understandably shocked by the dramatic poll-defying upset.
But at the same time Mr Corbyn said the public anger which had driven Mr Trump to office should be a “global wake-up call” to the governing elite that change was needed.
"Trump's election is an unmistakable rejection of a political establishment and an economic system that simply isn't working for most people," he said.
"It is one that has delivered escalating inequality and stagnating or falling living standards for the majority, both in the US and Britain.
"This is a rejection of a failed economic consensus and a governing elite that has been seen not to have listened. And the public anger that has propelled Donald Trump to office has been reflected in political upheavals across the world.
"After this latest global wake-up call, the need for a real alternative to a failed economic and political system could not be clearer.
"That alternative must be based on working together, social justice and economic renewal, rather than sowing fear and division.
“And the solutions we offer have to improve the lives of everyone, not pit one group of people against another."
But Mr Corbyn he said he believed the "decency and common sense" of the American people would prevail and sent his solidarity to "a nation of migrants, innovators and democrats".
