Hillary Clinton's campaign last night said it would participate in recounts of election ballots across three battleground states that were crucial to putting Donald Trump in the White House.

Mr Trump won the industrial heartland states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan by razor-thin margins in the presidential election on Nov 8.

A push for recounts was launched by Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, who claimed electronic voting terminals could have been hacked.

Marc Elias, the Clinton campaign's general counsel, said Mrs Clinton's team had carried out its own extensive review that "has not in our view resulted in evidence of manipulation of results".

But he said: "We believe we have an obligation to the more than 64 million Americans who cast ballots for Hillary Clinton to ensure that an accurate vote count will be reported.