THE Communist Party of Britain has welcomed the defeat of Donald Trump in the US presidential election.

General secretary Robert Griffiths said yesterday that this is “a symbolic victory for the millions of trade unionists, anti-racists, women, environmentalists and black and ethnic minority campaigners who want to see progressive change in their country.

“It is also a setback for the far-right mobs, proto-fascists and dangerous conspiracy-mongers who have gathered around Trump to defend the racism, rampant inequality, corruption and violence which disfigure American society,” he added, “although these people have not gone away.”