Donald Trump’s victory is an “additional stone in the building of a new world”, Marine Le Pen has said.

The far-Right leader of the Front National in France said that Mr Trump “made possible what had previously been presumed impossible” and said she hoped voters in her country would rise up against “the elite” just like they had in America.

She vowed to seize on the “global revolution” started by Brexit and Mr Trump to win the French presidency next year.

Her comments on the BBC’s Andrew Marr programme came hours after her niece, Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, a rising star in the FN, claimed that Mr Trump’s representatives had invited her to work with the President-elect.

The telegenic 26-year-old blonde, who became France’s youngest MP in 2012, wrote on Twitter: “I answer yes to the invitation of Stephen Bannon, CEO of @realDonaldTrump presidential campaign, to work together.”

Mr Bannon is a potential contender to become Mr Trump’s chief of staff and the FN recently sent an emissary to make contact with the president-elect’s team.

On Sunday, his team denied Mr Bannon had been in direct contact with Ms Maréchal-Le Pen.