A growing number of Republicans are distancing themselves from President Donald Trump, who has doubled down on claims of voter corruption in the US election. Representative Adam Kinzinger, a Republican from Illinois, tweeted that the President's claims of fraud were "getting insane". The Evening Standard’s assistant news editor Michael Howie says some believe Mr Trump isn’t just making a bad moral decision but a bad strategic one, too.
And, the devastation facing London’s economy has bosses warned some businesses will never emerge from the ‘body blow’ of a second lockdown. England is just one day into four weeks of restrictions but central parts of the capital were already feeling the impact. Evening Standard business journalist Joanna Bourke says the extension of the furlough scheme has some worried lockdown will also be extended past December 2nd.
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