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Many people will be shocked by Donald Trump ’s victory in the US presidential election and his nasty and divisive campaign.

Trump’s election is our latest global wake up call. We need a real alternative to a failed political and economic system.

His victory is an unmistakable rejection of a system that simply isn’t working for most people.

It has given us escalating inequality and falling living standards. In both the United States and Britain too many people have been left behind.

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In both countries, people feel angry that their communities have been abandoned, at the lack of investment and job opportunities for young people. It’s a message we’ve got to heed.

We need a society that is prepared to invest in infrastructure, in housing, in education and in healthcare and the quality jobs those industries support – a society that is not going to leave anyone behind.

Many of Trump’s solutions, and the divisive rhetoric around them, are clearly wrong. We need leaders who do not abuse women, or use racist rhetoric, and who do not pit one group of people against another.

Donald Trump won by a narrow margin, leaving voters across America divided.

He’s now got to bring people together.

I have no doubt that the decency and common sense of the American people will prevail, and we send our solidarity to a nation of migrants, innovators and democrats.

Everyone has to be included in our political decisions and the way we take those decisions. This truth applies as much in Europe as in the US.

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The real alternative to the failed politics of business as usual will be achieved by working together, social justice and economic renewal, rather than sowing fear and division. The solutions we offer have to improve the lives of everyone, not set people against another.

Americans have made their choice. The urgent necessity is now for us all to work across continents to tackle our shared global challenges: to secure peace, take action on climate change and deliver economic prosperity and justice.