Politics

British diplomats reportedly believe that Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron and Irish premier Michael Martin will be the first leaders to hear from Biden.

The peer has previously denied being racist, after calling Leo Varadkar, who was then Ireland’s taoiseach, a “typical Indian”.

Corbyn was suspended last month after claiming that the scale of anti-semitism in the Labour Party had been “dramatically overstated for political reasons”.

"He is undermining almost two decades of work establishing our reputation for producing genuinely reformist and evidence-based policy research."

“There is overwhelming evidence that entities connected to key government figures have made staggering fortunes from these procurement contracts."

Government would reinstate controversial clauses that enable ministers to break international laws if Lords try to strip them out.

"The UK will now be conscious of the fact that they have a US president who’ll be focusing in a completely different way to Donald Trump on the impact of the Brexit deal."

Biden warned that the Good Friday Agreement cannot be “a casualty of Brexit” and said a UK-US trade deal would be dependent on the peace terms being upheld.

“Now it’s a joyful moment for us. We are enjoying it. We will celebrate with firecrackers, distributing Indian sweets to people and praying in the temple."