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Just Stop Oil has sprayed the US embassy in London with orange paint in protest at Donald Trump’s victory within the US election.

Warning that “the world has slipped further into fascism as well as climate breakdown”, the marketing campaign group mentioned: “Trump’s win puts the lives of ordinary people at risk, everywhere.”

The campaigners, who’ve focused high-profile websites an artefacts akin to Stonehenge and the Magna Carta, in addition to sporting occasions together with Wimbledon and the British Grand Prix, turned their sights to the US embassy as Britain awoke to information of Mr Trump’s return to the White House.

In footage shared to social media shortly after Mr Trump took to the stage in Florida to declare victory, activists could possibly be seen dousing an exterior wall of the US embassy at Nine Elms with their attribute orange paint.

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