WOKINGHAM MP John Redwood has decided not to congratulate Joe Biden on winning the US presidential election because Donald Trump’s lawyers claim they have “good evidence” of election fraud.

On November 8, the Tory MP drafted a letter to Mr Biden to congratulate him on his victory and said “it is a pity” that Mr Trump was disputing the result “without setting out convincing evidence”.

But the following day, Mr Redwood said he had decided not to send the letter because he was expecting “a month of rallies and court cases to seek to reverse Mr Biden’s current lead” and he will “pause as these issues develop”.

A post on his website reads: “Mr Trump’s lawyers stated they had good evidence about people trying to vote in person only to discover their vote had already been cast.

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“In Nevada they think votes were cast by people not living in the state. There are also in some states issues about delivery and dates of postal votes.”

Mr Biden is set to become the 46th president of the USA after a projected win in Pennsylvania on Saturday took him past the threshold of 270 electoral college votes needed for an overall victory.

However, Mr Trump is refusing to accept the result.

He has made unsubstantiated claims about election fraud in swing states and his lawyers have filed an injunction to prevent Mr Biden’s projected victory in Pennsylvania from being certified.

In Mr Redwood’s draft letter, he said Mr Biden had a “clear mandate” to take charge of the USA after “gaining more votes than any previous President”.

The Brexiteer also said the result of the EU referendum in 2016 “gave us a larger percentage mandate for exit than your own convincing win”.

He insisted the British government will uphold the Good Friday peace agreement and it has no plans to impose a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, despite “false EU rumours”.

Before the election, Mr Biden urged the UK to respect the Good Friday Agreement and refrain from imposing a hard border.