for its "staggering" failure to attract more black students. and finally, the atlantic says the miss america pageant is having a #metoo—era makeover. there will no longer be a bikini or swimsuit competition and contestants will no longer be judged on their outward appearance. is that possible? so, let's begin. with me is geraint anderson who's an author and former stock broker and columnist known as city boy. good to see you. let's start with the story about brexit and the opposition party in the uk, the labour party, jeremy corbyn saying we are going for a much softer approach. it seems like they want to have their cake and eat it, so they wa nt to have their cake and eat it, so they want to not lose labour voters who supported brexit, they want to differentiate themselves from the

tories, and i suppose one motivation for this is when brexit does go horribly wrong, as i believe it probably will, and have ten mile queues at dover and so forth, they can say, this has nothing to do with us. can say, this has nothing to do with us. the way we would have done brexit, this wouldn't have happened. to me, it is this terrible fine line they are trying to tread which is not to lose their brexit supporting voters and on the other hand, trying to somehow differentiate themselves from the tories cannot have their fingerprints on brexit. right from the word go, jeremy corbett has been seemingly hedging this bets. he has not done ever a speech like the prime minister, theresa may did, quite soon after the decision, soon after she was given thatjob as prime minister, when she said brexit means brexit and no deal is better than a bad deal. those kind of comments. it has shifted now, more

the time to be quite further away. it has swung very much in the direction of we want to stay in a customs union, want to stay in a market. that is public -- partly because public mood has been shifting. it is a very difficult path to tread, but there is a recent survey that suggested perhaps 5% more people want to remain them leave. he is thinking about this party, this supporters, those who voted him and labour mac, those are brexiteers, but also those who want to remain. but the thinking is thinking about others who perhaps might think actually, if i want to think and say as closely tied to the eu, maybe i have two align myself with labour. that is clearly, there is only very few supporters there. now he can perhaps attract some of those remainders and maybe the youth of this country who failed to vote,

failed to participate in the brexit vote, is also appealing to younger voters where he is getting a lot of success voters where he is getting a lot of success with the membership. it is a very difficult inking is trying to do and personality... he is not alone. all the political leaders right now. theresa may. it is not easy. let them look at politics, and italy, and this is the maiden speech on the part of a new prime minister of italy, giuseppe conte, he has no political experience, a lawyer, this is this first foray as it were, and he is pretty high profile. he had a lot to say about russia, president putin, which will not be going down well i imagine that this european neighbours. no, it is slightly odd. i'm not sure of this motivation. it aims to be another example of this trend towards populism we are seeing across the world. is that populism, two align yourself to president putin? i don't understand. it has

not been clearly explained. he just think it is a bad thing. he hadn't explained it. he is also deciding that we need to crack down on immigrants, and that is this major thing, and it is once again mirroring the likes of trump and so forth. he is claiming he has stated this maiden speech that he is not a racist. the problem, as soon as you start demonising migrants in some way, they have half a million illegal immigrants. it is perceived asa illegal immigrants. it is perceived as a major problem and they have terrible in employment, over io%.m london, we don't have a sense of the feeling of the problem of the migrants coming across the water, because they are literallyjust going across to italy. they have had 600,000 migrants arrive in italy in the last four years. imagine if they we re the last four years. imagine if they were all in dover, and as the

feeling here in the uk. it is easy for us to point the finger. with the eu rules, if you are an asylum seeker, you have to stay in the country in which you land. that is what is seeking to change. he has aligned himself with the likes of hungary, which is worrying because this is a very right wind movement, and anything that spreads hate in that way, even if it is not the actual intention, is a worry. we will skip over the world and, because he talked about that already. i want to talk about the daily terror —— telegraph. the university of mac minister attacking cambridge and oxford. university of mac minister attacking cambridge and oxfordlj university of mac minister attacking cambridge and oxford. i went to cambridge. what is your take on this story, and is there a realfailure within these to make huge historic institutions to change, or not? when i was there about 25 years ago,

there were so few black faces. there we re there were so few black faces. there were whole university that didn't have any black people in them at all, and it is bizarre, and i think it is perceived as this... this is bizarre, when you think about cambridge and oxford and how you get into those universities. it is about muqqy' into those universities. it is about muggy, isn't it? into those universities. it is about musgy, isn't it? certainly, into those universities. it is about muggy, isn't it? certainly, the public schools are exam making machines and exam passing machines andi machines and exam passing machines and i have always claimed, not with fa ke and i have always claimed, not with fake modesty, that one of the things that a good school does is basically training new to pass those exams, get those three as. it is our schools training new, but it depends what school you go to, and depends on the resources of your parent as to whether you get extra tuition, extra funding. i think 7% of stu d e nts extra funding. i think 7% of students go to public school and yet

50% of people at oxbridge are from public schools. the universities minister is attacking them saying, diversity is an absolute failure. what should they do? there is a positive discrimination, which i think in america has a mixed record, because if you are from a minority of perceived as having got into a high grade university as a result of positive discrimination, you might feel guilt, do i deserve to be here? what they need to do more simply than that is make themselves more accessible, do everything they can to target bright, ambitious people from ethnic minorities, say that we are not a scary place, come to us and at the moment it is a scandal and at the moment it is a scandal and it was 27 years ago when i was there. we will keep an eye on that as well, and i'm sure i will talk about this again. this america. the inner beauty pageant. it is not

about your appearance or what you look like any more, so the swimsuit segment is gone. come on, tell us what you think about this. it is obviously, there was an issue with management of this america a few yea rs management of this america a few years back with e—mails, and they have a lady who was not in this america herself, greater, gretchen carlsen, and i suppose the idea is it that need —— #metoo movement. carlsen, and i suppose the idea is it that need —— #metoo movementm isa it that need —— #metoo movementm is a beauty pageant. it is what you do for charity and how you are an ambassadorfor do for charity and how you are an ambassador for mist america arrays lot of muggy, et cetera. i tweeted that in this america announcement about all of this, they have hatched tag by brian mckinney, ——

#byebyebikini. i would like your response. it could be realistic, is it realistic to have a beauty pageant about inner beauty, but you would have to blindfold the judges. he says, we spend our lives judging people i looks, so swimsuit or not, there will bejudged people i looks, so swimsuit or not, there will be judged on their looks. is that the case? i am afraid we are alljudged on how i look. is that the case? i am afraid we are alljudged on howl look. in television? that is why you are the presenter, of course. you had to look the part and it is a product of a rather sexist, outdated thing, and to be honest, anything that is slow, showers the decline of that —— we will see you soon. hello once again. it's variations on a theme, rather than a great change of weather type that

many of you are experiencing just at the moment. blue skies on tuesday in the sheffield area. it didn't start that way but you got there eventually, like so many other places did. and even when there was some cloud in the sky, well, a number of our weather watchers in the worcestershire area, and in some of the surrounding counties, in fact, were rather taken by that pattern in the skies. now, what's driving our weather at the moment? well, high pressure very much the dominant feature, awayjust to the north of scotland. we'll speak more about that area of low pressure, because we can't discount it, even though it's just there, way down towards the southern parts of france. so wednesday, a lot of dry weather, quite a lot of sunshine for many from the word go. that's probably not the case for the eastern side of the pennines, where yet again overnight, if you ever lost it, we'll see a fair amount of cloud coming in off the north sea, tending to thin as we get on through the day, and again, with a wee bit of sunshine in the skies, temperatures in a number of locations exceeding 20 degrees celsius. it's not all plain sailing, i have to say. many of you will know already that the pollen levels are very

high, especially across the greater part of england and wales, so bear that one in mind if that's relevant to you. here we are through wednesday evening. a good evening for a barbecue, not too much in the way of breeze, pleasantly warm in a number of locations. the cloud just becoming a wee bit more extensive again to the eastern side of the pennines, and some of the low cloud just lurking there or thereabouts across these northern and eastern shores, on what is not going to be a particularly cold night. now, that pattern for thursday doesn't look an awful lot different to the one i showed you for wednesday, with the notable exception that we've just pushed that area of low pressure, and its attendant fronts and troughs, a little bit further north in france. and that will have the effect ofjust thickening up the cloud across the some of the southern counties of england, maybe the south of wales too. and, from that, we could well see some showers. maybe the odd one or two could be really quite sharp. that mightjust be a problem for the channel islands. it mayjust come a little bit further north. elsewhere, just one or two showers

close by to the donegal border there in northern ireland, maybe the odd one over the highlands, but essentially it's a fine and settled look to our weather. and even as the weekend begins to loom, well, do you know what? that high pressure is still there or thereabouts. yes, we still have these little mini weather fronts, if you like, just bringing a bit of instability into the mix, so you couldn't rule out one or two showers. at this particular moment, we think somewhere across southern or western parts more likely to see them, but again, many of you are in for a dry weekend. hello — this is breakfast, with charlie stayt and louise minchin. a second eruption at the fuego volcano in guatemala, which has already claimed more than 70 lives. residents and rescue workers flee from a new clouds of ash and molten rock — nearly 200 people are still missing after sunday's explosion. good morning — it's wednesday 6th june.

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