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Home secretary Priti Patel has faced a torrent of criticism after failing to boldly denounce Donald Trump over inciting riots in the US capital overnight. Patel avoided Trump’s name in her condemnation of the riots despite the president having instructed protesters to march on the capital. Sky News’ Niall Paterson caught the minister out, telling her […]

US president-elect Joe Biden has addressed citizens amid the storming of Congress by Donald Trump protesters. In an address to the nation, Biden, who was set to be certified as the incoming US president by Congress on Wednesday said: “Let me be very clear, the scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect a true […]

UK politicians have begun reacting to news of Donald Trump protesters storming Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. Trump supporters broke into Capitol Hill on Wednesday in an attempt to interrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s US election victory in Congress. Thousands descended on to government grounds following a speech by Trump in which he added pressure on president […]

Nicola Sturgeon has told Donald Trump that the travel ban on people entering Scotland also applies to him. Scotland’s first minister made the remark amid rumours the US president could skip Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony by flying to Scotland. Addressing the press during a coronavirus update, Sturgeon said she hoped Trump’s immediate travel plan was […]

A set of elections in the southern state next week will shape the future of America. ALBERT SCARDINO explains why Georgia has always been the fulcrum on which the country turns. The race to control the national government in America approaches another mile marker next week with runoff elections in Georgia for two seats in […]

Remember the lessons of 2016… A new year doesn’t mean everything will be better. Over the last few weeks, as I’ve read and heard many people express an entirely understandable longing to be rid of 2020, I’ve been reminded of the eerily similar outpouring of relief and/or hope which issued forth four years ago. 2016, […]

Joe Biden has ruled out prioritising signing trade deals when he enters office in January – in a snub to Boris Johnson’s Brexit Britain. Biden looks set to take a similar ‘America First’ approach to the economy as his predecessor Donald Trump. The 78-year-old Democrat politician told the New York Times: “I’m not going to […]

Nigel Farage has insisted his £10,000 bet on Donald Trump winning the US election was a “great price” after he was asked if he accepted he has lost his money. Farage appeared on ITV’s Peston to defend the money he spent ahead of election day, and still refused to accept it was a fair election. He said: […]

Donald Trump is looking to secure a series of ‘mini’ Brexit trade deals with the UK, his trade chief has claimed. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer suggested that the US and UK could agree deals which reduce tariffs on items such as Scotch whisky if a pact is successful. The government hopes to broker a full free trade […]

Subscribers of a Tory Party newsletter in Northamptonshire have been advised to campaign like Donald Trump by “weaponising fake news”. Activists were told they could “learn lessons” from Trump, adding: “A lie can go round the world before the truth can get its boots on.” It calls on members to “fight woke-ism” and attacks Labour’s landmark […]

A minister in Boris Johnson’s government has claimed he will “miss” Donald Trump, claiming he was “quite a good friend”.  Ben Wallace, the defence secretary, has insisted that the president has always fought Britain’s corner on the world stage. He told The Sun: “I’ll miss Donald Trump, because he was quite a good friend to Britain.” Speaking during a […]

President-elect Joe Biden has become more popular than Donald Trump ever was during his presidency, a new CNN Gallup poll has found. Biden received a 55pc approval rating, having jumped six percentage points since the election, while Trump shrunk to 42pc, down three points since November 3. Trump’s highest rating was 50pc in a Bloomberg […]

BONNIE GREER on the breath of fresh air that Joe Biden’s pick for secretary of state represents. President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for secretary of state, Antony Blinken, speaks French. This is not unusual for many who join the foreign service of the United States. Former senator and presidential candidate, John Kerry – Barack Obama’s foreign secretary – […]

Joe Biden will be an infinitely tougher prospect for Vladimir Putin than Donald Trump. Yet the Russian president still has time on his side, says JOHN KAMPFNER. George W Bush, not a man commonly thought of as soft, said this of Vladimir Putin at their first meeting in 2001: “I looked the man in the […]

The European Union is proposing a new transatlantic alliance with Joe Biden’s America to repair their strained relationship caused by Donald Trump’s presidency. A draft report sights China’s “growing international assertiveness” as a challenge that needs both the EU and US to work together, even if they “do not always agree” on how to address it. […]

BONNIE GREER on America’s problem with socialism – and the challenges facing The Democratic Party. When I am asked whether the US has ever been more divided than it is now, I used to reply that the republic, after all, had a Civil War. But now, even that catastrophe may stand alongside what may be called […]

The country’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is known for his belligerence and the sheer number of fights he picks. But, SUNA ERDEM says there are signs that a less antagonistic approach is becoming apparent. Days before the defenestration of Dominic Cummings from Number 10, another controversial political figure in a country 2,000 miles away was making […]

What the world craves now is some slightly more ‘precedented’ politics, says MITCH BENN. I don’t know about you, but I could really use some boredom right now. It’s pretty exhausting living in ‘unprecedented’ times, isn’t it? Every day something else unprecedented befalls us, whether it’s an unprecedented pandemic, an unprecedented level of chaos in the response […]

A news presenter has been left “surprised” after health secretary Matt Hancock insisted he had “absolutely nothing to say” about the behaviour of outgoing US president Donald Trump. Hancock said there was a “close relationship” with Joe Biden He said: “The prime minister was the first European leader that the president-elect called, and we have […]

Readers have their say on Donald Trump’s loss and Joe Biden’s win in the US election. I’m so glad to see the back of Donald Trump: the polarisation and divisiveness, the twisted stories, the 1960s salesmanship, the general sense of anxiety he’s left on the world. Wherever he goes I hope Farage, Johnson and Cummings […]

Ken Clarke has said Boris Johnson’s Brexit bill shows the prime minister has “absolute contempt” for the way of Westminster business is conducted. The former Tory chancellor was discussing the internal market bill when he said Johnson’s determination to push through the legislation was a Donald Trump tactics and could lead to major repercussions with US president-elect Joe Biden. […]

A Brexiteer MP has claimed that he did not send his ‘ill-advised’ letter to Joe Biden warning him about Brexit, after being convinced by Donald Trump’s lawyers. The Tory had drafted a letter congratulating Biden for his win, before insisting that the president-elect does not interfere in Brexit, because the EU referendum “gave us a […]

Even when he is finally turfed out of the White House, the US president will likely remain a toxic figure in US politics and society, says JAMES BALL In the weeks immediately following a US election, coverage typically turns to the future. Who might the incoming president look to for his – it’s always been […]

Boris Johnson’s tweet congratulating Joe Biden on his US election victory was originally designed for Donald Trump, it has been revealed. The message sent by Boris Johnson on Saturday evening showed the word “Trump” faintly in the background. This led to online speculation that Number 10 had originally prepared a message to herald a Trump win, […]

For liberals, good news has been a long time coming. So don’t feel inhibited about celebrating two key moments, says IAN DUNT. There’s been some kind of glitch in the Matrix. We seem to have ended up in a tolerable reality. When we woke up last Wednesday morning, things were operating as normal. Joe Biden looked […]

Donald Trump is “vulnerable to prosecution” after he leaves the White House, when his presidential “cloak of immunity” will go away. Legal experts have warned that a number of lawsuits and investigations face Trump once he returns to private life. At present, the American justice department has a policy that sitting presidents cannot be prosecuted […]

A source close to the Democrats has dismissed suggestions there will be a ‘special relationship’ between Joe Biden and Boris Johnson following the US election result. “They do not think Boris Johnson is an ally,” the Democratic source told the Sunday Times. “They think Britain is an ally. But there will be no special relationship […]

Nigel Farage has been mocked after complaining about the result of the US election, which saw his good friend Donald Trump voted out of the White House. Farage’s wager came in response to Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer, who had staked $10,000 on his former boss not winning a second term. Farage said he had […]

Donald Trump has faced mockery after his campaign held a press conference at a local garden centre in Pennsylvania after earlier appearing to claim it would be held at a luxury hotel. In a since-deleted tweet, Trump had said there would be a “big press conference” at the “Four Seasons” on Saturday morning local time. […]

Joe Biden has promised to be a “president for all Americans” after topping the 270 electoral college votes needed for victory over Donald Trump in the US presidential race. The former vice-president was called as the winner of Pennsylvania on Saturday, meaning he has an insurmountable lead in the race for the White House. Biden, […]

US comedian Stephen Colbert has given a passionate speech denouncing Donald Trump and urged Americans to “stay cool” amid rising tensions over voter fraud. In an eight-minute-long monologue posted on Twitter, Colbert said the president had been acting like a “sad, frightened fraud” after alleging the US election had been rigged. On Thursday, major US networks stopped broadcasting […]

Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon has been permanently banned from Twitter for suggesting the beheading of Anthony Fauci, America’s top public health adviser. Bannon said he wanted to “pike” Fauci and FBI director Christopher Wray’s heads as a “warning” to bureaucrats. Fauci, who Trump publicly slandered and suggested firing, has been assigned extra government […]