Rolling coverage of political reaction in Britain to the election of Trump as US president
9.27am GMT
In retrospect it is probably a good thing that, when MPs debated a proposal to ban Donald Trump from the UK in January this year, they did not end up voting to keep out the man who has just been elected president of the United States.
It is worth reading the debate again (I covered it at length on the live blog here) to be reminded just what a shock to conventional politics today’s result is. It will have a profound impact on Britain, perhaps – if it signals a long-term shift in the character of Western democracy – even as great as Brexit.
Related: US election 2016: Donald Trump says ‘it’s time to come together’ – live
Politics blog | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2016/nov/09/britain-reacts-to-shock-us-result-politics-live
Sig Nordal 