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226: Will Donald Trump Go Gently Into The Political Night?
40 minutes Posted Nov 5, 2020 at 5:07 pm.
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Lockdown life returns to the UK but for the moment the country is gripped with the fiercely contested US presidential election. Joe Biden looks on course for victory and if he wins, will Donald Trump go quietly? And which outcome works in Britain’s favour?

With attention elsewhere, the chancellor has performed another U-turn, this time on the furlough scheme, as England’s second lockdown begins. Has it come too late though for workers?

Joining Arj Singh and Paul Waugh, senior Labour MP Angela Eagle and HuffPost UK’s man in New York, Graeme Demianyk, talk through a potentially seismic week.

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