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What does Trump’s victory mean for UK politics?

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Tim Bale cautions against any straightforward reading across from the politics of one country to that of the other.

He says we often pick a side normally the one that seems closest to the side we’ve picked at home.

But we should slow down and calm down. The UK is not the US .

The kind of rage- and religiously-fuelled, hyper-populist, market-capitalist approach that worked for Trump this time round couldn't gain any traction here.

Many Tories will worry that if they don’t try and match Trump , blow-for-blow, pound for pound, then Reform UK will do even more damage to them than it did back in July .

But this would be the continuation of the fool’s errand on which the Conservatives have been embarked on.