secretary david gauke as newjustice secretary is facing because there was a suggestion in the sunday times a couple of weeks ago that the government would try to block his release but david gauke has said they cannot do that because there is little chance of success. i think it is important for the government to get this right because it is obviously very high profile. and if there was a fresh prosecution, it ta kes there was a fresh prosecution, it takes the political heat of the government in the immediate time. absolutely. david gauke was under pressure last week because of this and the victims are very concerned because they say he knows their oppressors and they are worried about him coming out and they have launched a crowdfund is an attempt to stop it. it is politically difficult but this courageous person has come forward over this assault in 97 and we will see what happens. and a lot of those victims did not know he was going to be released which is one of the big bits of the scandal. the financial times, we have to be careful with this story,

it is an investigation from the ft but they are making some pretty serious allegations about what they are presented as an evening of debauchery. this was two report going undercover at this presidents clu b going undercover at this presidents club dinner which i had never heard of but apparently has been going for 33 years and it is men only, the guests, 360 guests and they hire 130 hostesses to entertain the men in the evening. hostess inc happens a lot in clubland and so on but some of this reporting is quite strawberry, the things that happened that are —— quite extraordinary things like groping and things that would be constituted as sexual assault. and without going into names, there is a long list of people invited to this event, the ft says they don't know if they went

but it is titans of industry and the like? completely, a lot of well—known names on the list, obviously we do not know if they actually attended but it goes to show that a position of authority or power is not necessarily an indication that you're going to get away with this kind of thing. the presidents club has said they received leads hosted their annual dinnerand received leads hosted their annual dinner and raised several million pounds for disadvantaged children and the organisers say they are appalled by the allegations are bad behaviour that the financial times is talking about and this it is unacceptable and the allegations will be investigated fully and prom ptly will be investigated fully and promptly and appropriate action taken. i suppose that surely the focus this comes at a time where the zeitgeist is very much women have been demeaned in public life and by powerful men, it is hollywood, westminster, all over the place. how

do we move from this to a situation where the system itself is changed? that is really important and everything about the metoo has been spotlighting this behaviour. and also spotlighting all sorts of incidents is picked has to be backed up incidents is picked has to be backed up by incidents is picked has to be backed up by concrete and systemic changes, slightly granular, but that stop this thing and give women the confidence to be able to report things independently without fear of a backlash. but also a change in what is deemed to be acceptable. this is clearly something, this is an event and yes, there are denials, and yet it was deemed to be acceptable. even if only half the allegations are true, you would have thought the ft stands by its story, but even if half of them were true it is shedding a light on the way in which some people choose to amuse

themselves. and i think it is shedding a light on the scope of the problem. we would be kidding ourselves if we pretended this sort of thing did not go on a much smaller scale in smaller firms. of thing did not go on a much smaller scale in smallerfirms. we we re smaller scale in smallerfirms. we were talking earlier and we said that the city has not had its own metoo moment yet and that is significant and this could be an early indication that it could come soon. moving on to the daily telegraph, this is a story we often hear from the united states, telegraph, this is a story we often hearfrom the united states, but britain hooked on prescription drugs? the figures in this are quite stunning. the figure they have drawn out is 64 million nhs prescriptions each year for antidepressants to bed to 22,000,002 thousand which is an extraordinary amount considering the population is only 70 million and ministers are looking into a review of prescription drugs not only

anti—depressant but powerful painkillers. we have heard a lot about fe nta nyl which is painkillers. we have heard a lot about fentanyl which is an extremely powerful opiate painkiller. there is a concern of the rise of prescriptions which is allowing people to be hooked on them. another figures shows that two thirds of the people on these medicines are women in their50s and people on these medicines are women in their 50s and 60s and that is incredibly concerning. and just above it, the story from scotland, the union flag sometimes flying? above it, the story from scotland, the union flag sometimes flying7m is only going to be flown once a year from now is only going to be flown once a yearfrom now on. i think it is only going to be flown once a year from now on. i think it was only flown a couple of times a year anyway. the cynic in me says this might be an attempt by nicola sturgeon to stir up her support base in scotland again. obviously she was kind of flavour of the month until last year and support for the snp is now falling slightly. i think

supporters of it will think this annoyed the daily telegraph, a quintessentially english paper, and people it are quintessential english tory mps. and moving on your huffington post and the story that everybody has been covering, boris johnson getting slapped down. is it a problem for borrowers rather than theresa may? i don't know if it is —— for boris johnson. theresa may? i don't know if it is -- for boris johnson. i don't know if it is, a lot of the news organisations are leading on him being slapped down but if you are not following the intricacies of what is happening in the cabinet and with brexit at the moment, boris johnson saunders looks like he is just championing the nhs again —— sort of look. as he did in the referendum campaign with the £350 million promised for the nhs. again,

i'm not sure that this is a particularly bad story for him. and i think it works, as kate said, in his favour. there are not any fresh ideas coming out of number ten, there is a vacuum and he is coming up there is a vacuum and he is coming up with slightly mad ideas like this bridge to france last week but this isa bridge to france last week but this is a populist and popular proposal which is more money for the nhs which is more money for the nhs which i think voters will recognise as seriously needed. moving onto the i. as seriously needed. moving onto the i, fake news unit to fight web threat. i was reading that italy had done something similar. and we have heard so much about fake news factories in various countries, using twitter and facebook to propagate this stuff. theresa may has decided that part of the response to this has to be a dedicated unit to stop it and make sure it is not happening and there is also a parliamentary enquiry into

how twitter and facebook, who claim they are platforms not publishers, are being used for this kind of thing. it is important because there is not only the fear of russian interference into the referendum and so interference into the referendum and so on interference into the referendum and so on but a more pernicious and people died really notice it is there and they think it is real news oi'i there and they think it is real news on facebook, they trusted because it is their —— people don't really notice it. going back to the metro to cheer ourselves up. this is the nomination of daniel kaluuya for best actor. there is a lot of incredibly young talent up for awards this time round. this the daniel but also rachael morrison who is upfor daniel but also rachael morrison who is up for the first e—mail cinematographer —— female. i watched

the film at the weekend, it is fantastic, mudbound. it is nice to the big presence for this kind of thing across a few of the papers. and i'm ashamed to say i did not know this, but a nomination for lady bird, the director of that, a woman, is only the fifth woman ever to be nominated for best director. which is extraordinary, only the fifth in 90 years and given there were no women on the nominations list that was picked up at the globe that will grab the golden globes. the whole atmosphere in hollywood the temple movement has shone the spotlight on women and people of colour but it is extraordinary as you say that it is only the fifth woman nominated. and

let's finish with kyle edmund. this isa let's finish with kyle edmund. this is a great story for british tennis, obviously andy murray is injured and kyle edmund has become only the sixth british man to reach a grand slam semifinal. so much was made last week that andy murray would not be there, johanna konta was our only hope and all of a sudden, for people with only a casual interest, up pops kyle edmund. if you don't follow every match on the taught you might not have heard of him but it is a fantastic achievement for him but what struck me, he did not stop playing tennis until he was nine years old and he is only 23. my daughter is seven at the moment, she started when she was forced it gives parents like me great hope! —— when she was four. and her mum and dad are heading out to see him. dad is already out in australia and his mum

is following on. my favourite line was that he joked that his mum sent him to tennis lessons because he was annoying him to tennis lessons because he was ann ' him to tennis lessons because he was annoying her! the same with your daughter? yes! thank you very much and if you're daughter makes it to the semifinals of australia i presume you're flying out. thank you both indeed. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you, seven days a week, at bbc.co.uk/papers, and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you to jane and kate. goodbye. hello once again. i think your impression of wednesday's weather is going to be very much formed byjust where you are in relation to storm georgina. it is the latest named storm, this time named by the irish authorities, and there are gusts of wind up to 80

mph across the top of scotland and there will be disruption to power supplies i suspect and also travel. that is the sort of beast we are dealing with. there is the mass of cloud and there are the isobars and we just keep adding to them and, as a consequence, the storm is deepening so they become more squeezed and the winds become stronger and eventually, for a good part of the night and for the west of the british isles, there will be gales if not severe gale force winds especially close to that centre close to the western side of scotland. at the same time it will throw quite a band of rain across many parts of the british isles. early on wednesday you have that double whammy of gales and also some heavy rain to contend with. there is the centre, you can see the number of isobars, that is where we will see the strongest winds, certainly a 70 mph gust is not out of the question and some exposed locations may well be pushing towards 80 mph. that could mean some disruption to ferry travel,

there will be speed restrictions on the bridges for sure and even as we come further south, anywhere near this frontal system the winds will be really quite squally and there will be a lot of surface water and spray around in addition to what is falling from the sky, some of this rain is really quite heavy. it will not be that way across east anglia and the south—east in the first part of the morning but very soon thereafter down comes that weather front from the north and west. following on behind, a mixture of sunny spells and some blustery showers but all the while we will have that strong wind near the top end of scotland and through the northern isles as well and the temperatures will begin to dip away as the last of the mild air is swept off into the near continent. thursday in its own right, there is a new centre of low pressure close by to northern ireland, notjust as windy but a noticeably breezy day with again a combination of some sunny spells and some showers. as we move towards friday, that is a quieter day, perhaps a frosty start but less in the way of wind, quite a bit of dry weather, some sunshine but on the cool side.

this is bbc news. i'm matthew price. the headlines at 11: boris johnson is rebuked after calling for more money for the nhs. scotland yard is investigating a new allegation of sexual assault againstjohn worboys. rupert murdoch's plan for a takeover of sky has been provisionally blocked by uk regulators. and on newsnight, we have a first—hand report from a big—men—only charity dinner, where senior businessmen get drunk and where some grope young female hostesses. yes, it raises money, but it also raises questions.