Westminster held its breath this week as Joe Biden was in striking distance of

being declared the next US president which will have big consequences for the UK.

There is no question in my mind that Britain's interest lies with a Joe Biden victory,

with a US administration that wants to play a role in bringing the world together to

tackle coronavirus that wants to rejoin the Paris agreement on climate change

that wants to work to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

Welcome to Payne's politics, your central... weapons. Sebastian Payne. In this week's episode, we will be examining what a Biden presidency would mean for

Britain as we heard from the Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy at the top there and whether Boris Johnson

is ready to do business with a rather different kind of president.

Joining me to discuss is the F.C. Chief Foreign Affairs commentator Gideon Rachman and Bronwyn Maddox,

the director of the Institute for Government Think Tank.

And later we'll be discussing Ritchie Sunak's fourth major economic package in six weeks,

as the Chancellor returned to the Commons to extend the

furlough scheme until March. Was it a good use of money?

A minute helped repair relations between Westminster and the devolved nations.

Political editor George Parker and Scotland correspondent Muodickey will be discussing.

Well, we're recording this on Friday morning.

It's been quite a long week for all of us political

obsessives having watched CNN back-to-back had very little sleep. We're doing

this as the final votes are coming in. Gideon, how obsessively have you

been watching the coverage? Or have you managed to do it in a more

professional way of taking a more stand back up out as opposed to scrolling through Twitter?

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