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Starmer joins world leaders in congratulating Trump on victory

Sir Keir Starmer has joined world leaders in congratulating Donald Trump after he declared victory in the US presidential election.

The UK prime minister said he looks forward to working with President Trump in the years ahead and says the relationship between the UK and US will “continue to prosper”.

“As the closest of allies, we stand shoulder to shoulder in defence of our shared values of freedom, democracy and enterprise,” he added.

Elsewhere, Ukraine’s President Volodomyr Zelenskyy said he looked forward to “an era of a strong United States of America under President Trump’s decisive leadership”.

There had been questions about whether the US would continue supporting Ukraine, after former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said a Trump win would probably be bad news for the country which was invaded by Russia in 2022.

But Zelenskyy said in a meeting Trump in September that they “discussed in detail the Ukraine-US strategic partnership, the Victory Plan, and ways to put an end to Russian aggression against Ukraine”.

U.S. President Donald Trump applauds as he arrives with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prior to signing the Abraham Accords, normalizing relations between Israel and some of its Middle East neighbors in a strategic realignment of Middle Eastern countries against Iran, at the White House in Washington, U.S., September 15, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
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President Trump with Israel’s prime minister Netanyahu. Pic: REUTERS/Tom Brenner

He’s been joined in congratulating Trump by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, France’s President Emmanuel Macron and Hungary’s Viktor Orban.

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Asked during the election campaign how he would support Israel in its war against Hamas if re-elected, Trump said: “Nobody’s done what I’ve done for Israel”.

Netanyahu dubbed Trump’s win “history’s greatest comeback” which offered “a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America”.

Hamas says Trump’s victory “puts him to the test” on his claims he could stop the war within hours.

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