after british prime minister theresa may suffered a series of mishaps during her speech at the conservative party conference. the daily telegraph headline — luckiess may centre stage in tragic farce. one reviewer said "it was hard to watch—and it's going to be impossible to forget". the guardian financial pages has more detail on the eu ordering amazon to repay 250 million euros it says the online retailer received in illegal state aid from luxembourg. and the china daily reports on a company that is designing office services with no humans so no friendly cashier in the canteen or meeting room booker. with me is mark davies — ceo of strategy consultancy camberton. good morning. let's start with the spanish, catalan independence

referendum. the kings intervention dasha he rarely makes televised addresses — he has been accused of coming down on the side of madrid. he has come down on the side of the institution. you would expect him to come down on that side. it is amazing that both side have played this so badly. they called this referendum on the six of september. it was called illegal. they pushed forward with it. the government approached the date so appallingly, it was extraordinary. so there is the king and the president on the other and the catalans. it would have been more sensible to run this a lot longer, run a campaign much as

in scotland, and get a better turnout and get a result that looked far more legitimate. yesterday, we looked at one of the main dailies gci’oss looked at one of the main dailies across spain. today, a catalan —based media organisation. yesterday, the headline was these unconstitutional. today, the king has disappointed many catalans. where do we go from here? it is a pr disaster. it is. your previous guest saying it is a political issue and has not become an economic one. when it becomes an economic one, they will have to find a way through it and they will have to have another referendum at some point, a long way into the future— to — three years — address some of the underlying

discontent. the european commission? from catalan's perspective, what would that is be in the eu? date may have to make their application on the basis of their economic position and while it is reasonably strong it is not a foregone conclusion. the las vegas sun looking at the various angles of the situation. the mandalay bay shooting dominating the headlines again. president trump's visit. your thoughts? it isjust horrendous... president trump's visit went reasonably well but it lays bare his approach to gun control. if you remember back to the rattle and shootings in france. —— the shootings in france, the

bata cla n the shootings in france, the bataclan shootings would not have got any further. 59 people have died asa got any further. 59 people have died as a result of gun ownership in the us. there have been 273 mass shootings this year. if you take a mass shooting to be for people dying at the same time and at the same place. and yet, there is a political stalemate on this one. nobody seems to think anything can be done. $400 million a year is paid in membership fees to the national rifle association. until the ease our lobby that is as well funded on the other side of the debate, they will never change their gun laws. looking at the story on many of the uk papers, theresa may, the british prime minister's slightly shaky

speech to the tory conference?m was excruciating to watch. it was very difficult to watch and it will be very hard to forget. the year sent much sympathy in the room?” think she did not use the sympathy to the extent that she might have done. a lot of occasion where the hall tried to clap and she held up her hands and tried to stop them. in my view, she needed to take an opportunity to brief whenever she could. perhaps not the moment to brief was the handing of the fake p 45. she possibly had no idea about what was going on. it looked as though she was handed a piece of paper because she had forgotten

something or part of the speech was left out. from the back of the hall, itjust looked like she had a floor manager passing her a piece of paper. not until the pictures came out on the news last night, could you see the cabin at an it became apparent what was happening. the cabinet themselves had absolutely no idea. no one in grabbed him and moved into the side. you can see that on the face of borisjohnson, amber rudd. she made a fewjokes but it must have been awful. without those jokes, it would have been completely devoid ofjokes because there weren't many in the speech. do not think it is as damaging as many of the commentators are saying. the problem is that she had a lot of policy initiatives which people did not hear and that is because we were

sitting there cringing. what will be interesting is how those policy initiatives are picked up. there are people on the right of the party he will not like them they look a bit ed miliband —ish. but this could be a change in the narrative if it goes down well in the country. it will be a difficult two days but power still sits with her and i do not think anybody will move into the cabinet and at the back benches are still supportive. so many spoofs of the letters a nd supportive. so many spoofs of the letters and the different ways of spelling things, including labour. how good is this the labour? it will play very, very well and there will bea play very, very well and there will be a lot of funny means that will come out. a press release was released saying that they thought it was a watershed of the money put into social housing. if an

organisation, which does not have a lot to say, can look and the policy and say this makes a difference, that can change things. it is going to be about policy. it was a disaster from a presentational perspective but policy ideas is why the conservatives are lacking at the moment and if they can change that... moment and if they can change that. . . they moment and if they can change that... they might see a shift. we will move on to the guardian financial pages, came back 250 million euros in illegal tax aid from luxembourg. it is a different type of taxes. in the apple case, 13 billion was ordered to be repaid yesterday but that was about positioning the company and having a sweetheart deal by putting an office

in the country. luxembourg is the place through which they can channel a lot of their business and a lot of the big companies are doing precisely that. if they can close that loophole, it will make it much easier for the individual state governments to tax. ultimately, we need to move to a place of consumption tax rather than allowing people like facebook to do a lot of business in the country and have little access. really good to see you. officers without humans, we will talk about that another day. thanks the company we will see you soon. good morning. the farmers may well have ploughed fields but that hasn't stopped our weather watchers from posting photos of the harvest moon. it has clouded over. not quite a full moon. 98%. we will see the full moon tonight.

the time being, the cloud has arrived and we will see strong winds and rain but the next few hours and then that eases away through the south—east corner. it would be a damp old start first thing thursday morning. if you are travelling to work there will be outbreaks of rain and still pretty blustery. behind it, quite a clearance and some decent spells of sunshine to look forward to. not a bad start through northern england, northern ireland and scotland. scattering of showers to the north and west but they should be isolated. into the afternoon, we continue with the risk of a few showers and maybe one or two showers driven along by the north—westerly breeze to the north midlands. it should be dry with spells of sunshine. the winds lighter and we will see highs likely at 11 to 17 degrees. 63 in terms of fahrenheit. with the clearer skies

by day, it will lead into clear skies by night. for the football, it could turn chilly and that is worth bearing in mind if you are going to watch the international matches. the reason for the chilly feel, high pressure is set to build from the west. quieten things down quite nicely but it means a chilly start to our friday morning before more wet and windy weather arrives at the start of the weekend. friday morning first thing, we could see a touch of light frost and that is certainly worth bearing in mind if you are a gardener or a grower. despite the chilly start, there will be lovely spells of sunshine coming through. temperatures will recover. 9-16. by the end of the day, more cloud into the western scotland and northern ireland. a cloudy weekend ahead for many of us. there will be rain around and particularly into the north and west.

the best of the bright spells into the east. saturday looks likely to be the most unsettled day. after a misty, murky start, the showers will be light and by sunday, things will be that little bit quieter and any showers will be chiefly out to the north and west. highs again 11—17. enjoy. hello, this is breakfast, with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. theresa may fights for her political future after the cough, the chaos and the comedian at the conservative party conference. while we will never... excuse me. it's understood dozens of tory mps are considering asking her to stand down, but cabinet colleagues have been phoning the prime minister to offer their support. boris, job done there, - her the also this morning: