Politics

Michael Martin, the Taoiseach, said America’s election was “well organised”, adding that officials were ensuring the integrity of the vote as Joe Biden edged closer to victory.

“The people of Scotland overwhelmingly reject Brexit and the narrow, isolationist stance of Boris Johnson’s Government and believe Scotland will prosper as an independent country.”

Having been behind in the Keystone State since election night, the Democratic challenger now leads by 5,587 votes - after a dump of votes from Philadelphia erased the president’s lead.

The National Audit Office (NAO) said preparations for new border controls - already rated “high risk” - had been hampered by the Covid-19 pandemic.

“The best thing for America’s future is for Donald Trump to go to total war over this election to expose all of the fraud, cheating, dead/no longer in state voters, that has been going on for far too long."

It was some morning for this Tory Minister...

“I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England. I’d put the heads on pikes. I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats."

"He can’t even put his heart into these lies," journalist Molly Knight said.

The environmental campaigner was mimicking a tweet Mr Trump wrote about her last year.