Donald Trump's election as US president has opened a "Pandora's box of hate", an MP has said as she recounted abuse directed at her.

Carol Monaghan (Glasgow North West) said she tweeted that "xenophobic, racist, sectarian and sexist rhetoric has just been legitimised - we should all be very afraid" in the wake of Mr Trump's victory.

The SNP MP added her tweet was used on Fox News, which "opened the floodgates".

Ms Monaghan told a parliamentary debate focused on Mr Trump's impending state visit: "I'm not going to treat you to the whole selection but I'll read a couple of brief ones - 'Mind your damn business and stay the hell out of our politics', 'The silent majority has spoken, we do not want to end up like your p**s poor country', and it goes on but I won't read the whole thing.

"Here's another one 'Keep your vulgar comments on your side of the pond, we should have let Germany run over you in the 1940s'."

She added: "Regardless of why people voted the way they did, a Pandora's box of hate has been opened and the right-wing has become emboldened both in the United States and across Europe, and this is something we should all be worried about.

"Dark rhetoric that should never be uttered is now being freely expressed."