from west to east. rain spreading from west to east. but it will be milder for most of us. hello — this is bbc news, with me, rachel schofield. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment — first the headlines: scottish minister mark mcdonald has resigned from the holyrood government amid allegations about his private life. labour's shadow chancellor john mcdonnell has called on the main political parties to agree a new independent system, to tackle sexual harassment at westminster. when all the political parties meet my view is that there should be an element of independence in there, particularly for support as well, so people can feel confident about where they can report these things and, at the same time, how it can be dealt with. the prime minister of lebanon, saad—al—hariri, has resigned saying in a live television broadcast that he fears for his life. mr hariri's father, who was also prime minister, was assassinated in 2005. a report by 13 us federal agencies has concluded that humans are the dominant cause of the global warming.

the white house has downplayed the conclusions. on meet the author, our guest is one of our most celebrated writers. william boyd will be talking about his new collection of short stories. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are nigel nelson, political editor at the sunday people, and political commentator jo phillips. i have to say, we have been treading ina i have to say, we have been treading in a minefield slightly, because as expected, lots of allegations and rumours and it's a lot about westminster. nigel, kick us off with

the sunday telegraph. may's aids sacked on allegations of tory sleaze. an allegation... not an allegation... we use this word all the time. but gavin barlow, now theresa may's chief of staff, used to be in the widths office. what the telegraph is saying his concerns we re the telegraph is saying his concerns were expressed in the whip‘s office when gavin barlow was there. this is about michael fallon. separately, there was the former chief whip who is now the defence secretary, williamson, and questions about what he knew about things that had been going on. this is one of the things they will be looking at when they start bringing in a whole new safeguarding system. the whip‘s office doesn't know things. they use it to try and pressurise mps to do what they want them to do. whips

argues they are disciplinarians. that will have to change of westminster. pa rt of westminster. part of the problem of this is people who work for mps and political parties have nowhere to go. they are not employed by the palace of westminster, the parliamentary estate, like the cleaners and security staff and people like that. so if you work for an mp in that end he is the person you want to complain about, who do you want to complain about, who do you go to? do you go to the whip? bnp? it is ridiculous parliament doesn't have a system the rest of us would take for granted, whether it is the bbc, a newspaper office or in financial services. there will be interesting to see how they deal with this. change on monday. of the seven party leaders, they will meet to thrash out a new system. that is one of the things they will address. mps will no longer be in sole control of their staff. what is also interesting about this is this sense of where does the trails stop? the

worry, the next question will be, who knew what and why did they not report it? and it's that thing of knowledge is power. if you know something about somebody, as nigel said, the whip, they have this information. jo move us the mail on sunday. a wonderful segue. this concerns, top tories bathrobes pass at male aide. this is a story based on the recollections of a former olympic rower and conservative activist, alex storey, who has been talking to the mail on sunday and tells a story of how he went out for a drink with mr pincher, was not an mp at the time, went back to his flat and felt deeply uncomfortable about what happened. mr pincher, now the mp for tamworth, said if he had ever felt

offended by anything he'd said, he can only apologise. but again, it comes back to this whole thing about power and whips. because alex storey said he has decided to speak out because mr pincher was a government whip. politics is about patronage. that is a real problem. this is especially affecting younger researchers, people who may be doing their first job. people wanting to get on and wanting to please. that is it, the getting an bit. one of the problems about the new safeguarding system they are doing, they might be up to protect them in they might be up to protect them in the sense against bosses or people who are paying them too much attention. the problem is an awful lot of these people and wanting to be mps themselves. what they don't wa nt to be mps themselves. what they don't want to do is somewhere in the future have a black mark against

them. that will be a very difficult cultural change for the commons to make. we were talking through the evening about the development, the resignation of a minister, msp mark mcdonnell. the sunday post, that is understandably because of the scottish angle, the main story. showing this is notjust westminster but a wider issue. absolutely, and i dare say there will be more to follow across the uk. mark mcdonnell has resigned, saying apparently his behaviour may have been inappropriate. —— mark mcdonald. but we don't know whether what it refers to. according to the sunday papers, another complaint from a parliamentary administrative assistant about a backbench msp as well. a statement has come in from mark mcdonald. he says it's been brought to my attention is on my previous actions have been considered inappropriate, where i have believed myself to be humorous or attempting to be friendly, my behaviour might have made others uncomfortable. my behaviour is entirely my responsibility, i apologise

unreservedly to anyone who i might have upset or who found my behaviour inappropriate. some clarification. innocence that is the nub of it. as michael fallon said when he resigned, whether or not it was a cce pta ble resigned, whether or not it was acceptable 15 years ago or what somebody... which it wasn't. of course, but to apologise for something that is now being brought to somebody's attention because it was inappropriate then... it's very difficult, because this whole area isa difficult, because this whole area is a minefield of what is now appropriate. and raising that issue about the nuances about what defines harassment. that's right. i've been spending a lot of time this week talking to people who work in the house of commons about where their red lines. it's very difficult. some people don't like being touched by an mp, in which case they will keep away from that mp, unless it happens to be their boss. they may be in a

bar late at night or something like that and get proposition, it varies between people and their experience of the house of commons and how they deal with it. some are happy to deal with it on their own, some of the younger ones are not. it seems a lot of people feel, even if they dealt with at the time, they feel there is now a culture where it needs to be highlighted. part of this is about changing the culture. we've probably been there, you and i, rachel, in those situations where it's been predominantly men, whether in an office or other environment and you feel vaguely uncomfortable because of the level ofjokes or what they call banter, i would ban that word! it's very difficult to actually be the person that says, i don't find this very acceptable, i find it uncomfortable. harriet harman, who i think has done more than any other single politician in this country for the cause of within and women's rights, has been so often written

off as a sort of misery guts, because she has been the person that very often is the lone voice that says this is unacceptable. that is easy for people to do when you are my age, it's not very easy when you are 23 and working as a researcher. the sunday express, you talked about theissue the sunday express, you talked about the issue of the culture of the westminster village. there seems to be at least one suggestion here and something that might help change the culture, talk us through its. the sunday express is saying it will be a crackdown on the subsidised drinking in westminster. there are about 30 bars within the place. westminster is like a small town, 10,000 people work for, shops, bars, restau ra nts a nd 10,000 people work for, shops, bars, restaurants and all those things. the drinking culture that has been complained about for many years, and andrea leadsom wants to have a go at it according to the sunday express. it is an awful lot different than when i went to the commons 30 years ago, the drinking culture really was something then. now it's a lot less, but there's a particular bar called

the tatarusanu sports and cultural club. it belongs to the precinct, researchers drink there, and there's a feeling that this is not under control and a lot of people want to see it closed down. jo, we are going to rattle through. the sunday times claimed to have an exclusive here with allegations again against damian green. we will clarify the moment his response. say what you can about this story. this is a claim that has been strenuously denied by damian green, that a former police chief, bob quick, former assistant commissioner at the net, claimed extreme pornography was found when he had his office raided. it was quite controversial, the police raiding him in 2008. they were investigating

leaks from the home office at the time. now it appears that there was some pornography, but it also goes oi'i some pornography, but it also goes on to say, the material was found to be lawful, but one of the investigating officers who viewed some of the images described some of the material as extreme. one officer... nothing was ever done at the time, and its lawful, so it seems to be a little bit... nothing to do with sexual harassment at. i damian green has been responding to these allegations, not least on his twitter account, saying he categorically denies them, they come from the tainted source and amount to an unscrupulous character assassination. in the paper it says the claim was untrue and damaging. the observer takes us back to michael fallon, which one could say is going full circle again. i'm picking a bit about story, if you wa nt to picking a bit about story, if you want to call it that. suggesting that a kiss some time ago might have

been the final downfall of michael fallon. in fact, been the final downfall of michael fallon. infact, generous been the final downfall of michael fallon. in fact, generous called jane merrick and she informed downing street he apparently lunged at her and attempted to kiss her on the lips in 2003 after they lunched together. the trouble is, we are conflating an awful lot of genuinely serious things that are going on with things that are fairly minor. she may have been terribly upset about it, but when you compare with some of the other allegations happening out there, i wish we could get everything in a bit more perspective. interesting, it comes back again, ties back to those original stories around julia hartley brewer, michael fallon and denying some allegations and minimising others, saying they date from another time. really saying what he thought was acceptable that he understands is no longer acceptable. it was an acceptable. and a lot of discussion if it was

ever acceptable. jo, we will bring things to a close with a slightly different story, a cartoon that ties the two together, at the bottom of the two together, at the bottom of the sunday times. nursery education and the demise of the nursery rhyme. exactly. i'm sure if we had more time we could all show off what nursery rhymes we remember. but the chief inspector of schools as children don't any longer than no old—fashioned nursery rhymes like the owl and the pussycat orjack and jill. they are not being taught in nurseries and schools, which is a great shame because research shows children who can sing a song and noah story off by heart are better equipped for school. the cartoon around this story is, slugs and snails, the proper version is slugs and snails and puppy dogs tails. they say slugs