Downing Street have said that Donald Trump had spoken of his close connections with the UK while Theresa May congratulated him on his win.
Donald Turump said the UK was a "very, very special place for me and for our country".
Boris Johnson has urged Trump's critics to stop the "whinge-o-rama" and be "positive about the possibilities".
Trump has contacted a number of world leaders in the wake of his surprise victory in the US presidential race, including those of Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, Israel, Turkey, India, Japan and South Korea. May is thought to have been the ninth leader he called.
Downing Street confirmed that Trump and May had since spoken on Thursday and had agreed that "the US-UK relationship was very important and very special and that building on this would be a priority for them both".
"President-elect Trump set out his close and personal connections with, and warmth for, the UK. He said he was confident that the special relationship would go from strength to strength."
Earlier, Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg told the BBC's World at One he saw both Brexit and Trump's election as a "triumph of optimism for people in America, who believe in the American Dream and believed that the liberal elite were taking it away from them" while in the UK he believed it was "about feeling that the UK could stand on its own two feet".
But former Labour leader Ed Miliband said: "I think we should be deeply worried about the implications for many of the things that we care about ... tackling climate change .. dealing with problems in the Middle East ... his attitude to Russia."
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