£1.5m fraud prevented

because she used a private email server while she was secretary of state. Chelsea was an important part of her mum’s campaign, travelling across the US supporting her bid to be first female president. Her daughter does not want her successes to be overshadowed by losing to Trump. She said: “She persisted and has achieved an extraordinary amount. While the 2016 election is part of her story, it’s by no means the majority of her story. The moral is persistence is always important to whatever you want to achieve in life.” Chelsea, who works for the Clinton Foundation, promoting economic development and opportunities for women, refuses to let that bruising experience grind her down. She said: “I wish the election had turned out differently, I wish that every day. And I still have tremendous respect and admiration for my mother’s persistence. “Of course, I’m deeply biased towards her because she’s my mom and also because I really believed that she would have been a uniquely great president. “That said, I don’t think about 2016 because there’s so much I’m enraged about in 2018. There’s so much the president’s doing every day that I disagree with, whether that is separating children from their families at the border or the Muslim travel ban.”

The first electoral test of Trump’s popularity will come later this year, with the mid-term elections, and she is hopeful his opponents will be out in force. She said: “We have to do everything we can to ensure we elect Democrats in November.

“I’m heartened by the number of women running for office. Quite a few have said Trump is the reason they’re running. Many women say they’ve got politicised through this.”

She hopes her mum’s campaign, which prompted slogans such as “life’s a b**ch, don’t vote for one”, will not discourage the female candidates who can reverse the damage done by Trump.

She said: “We have to continue to encourage women to step into the public arena. I’m hopeful an unprecedented number of them will win in November.”

Chelsea Clinton’s event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival today is sold out. She Persisted Around The World, Random House, £12.99. MORE than £1.5million of fraud has been prevented by a new scheme in which bank staff alert police to potential victims.

The Banking Protocol was introduced in March to prevent fraud. Workers contact police if a customer requests to withdraw or transfer a sum of money which appears unusual .

Police Scotland said they had responded to about 250 calls and a number of arrests had been made.

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