the guardian also leads with the prime minister seeing off a commons rebellion. the i reports relief in downing street following another close vote. the times says theresa may threatened tory rebels with a general election if they didn't back her over brexit. the metro leads on a different story — former olympic showjumper has a bizarre method of taking revenge against her former lover. clearly, brexit is the leading story for most of tomorrow 5 papers. that's where we will go for a while. sebastien, kick us off, with the independent by‘s take. sebastien, kick us off, with the independent by's take. they summed up independent by's take. they summed up what happened, theresa may has got through another one of those nail—biting folks, this is the big confrontation that has been building up confrontation that has been building up the months between the prime minister and certain elements of her party, they scraped through the vote to stay in the customs union and if it had not been for four labour mps

of all brexit persuasion the government what i've lost. all the stories will be in the papers tomorrow about the prime minister's position. she's obviously fa ntastically wea k position. she's obviously fantastically weak in this situation. it's all about surviving and she can't see a way to do that she fetches, but she has definitely survived —— chief urges. her wea kness survived —— chief urges. her weakness is the strength, probably what will keep her in downing street for some time longer and will keep a checkis for some time longer and will keep a check is brexit plan on track for a couple more weeks. she could have faced a confidence vote, says the i newspaper if this had gone another way. they seem to have pulled out every trick in the book today to convince these tory remainer mps, they were threatening allsorts, saying they would call a no—confidence vote in the prime minister, they said that could lead

toa minister, they said that could lead to a general election and jeremy corbyn in downing street which of course no tory mp wants to see. so some real threats and dirty tricks played. and it seems to have worked, just about. all that matters in the end is do you win the vote or not. on the margins are so narrow, as sebastien says, literally three or four mps would have made all the difference. presumably no accident that the image in the i newspaper shows are behind bars! you have to feel for her, getting a brexit plan through the commons will be a huge struggle because there is no unity among mps on the labour side, theresa may came up with this compromise at chequers only last week, although it feels a long time ago, she came up with this compromise and she's trying to get it through to get mps to back it because if they don't then who knows what happens, do we fall out of the

european union without a deal or potentially no brexit deal at all? let's continue the theme but moved to the ft. jack, they concentrate on this idea of theresa may and her frail grip. how frail is it? it's been frail since the general election last year. that was the key moment when the brexit story changed, theresa may expected to get a big parliamentary majority to push it through with everything she wanted to do. strong and stable! would remember it well! of course the exact opposite has happened and her problem now is that she can't get anything through parliament. everything is a compromise, everything is fudging. the brexiteers pulling one way, the remainers anotherand brexiteers pulling one way, the remainers another and it's all about survival for her. sebastian, remainers another and it's all about survivalfor her. sebastian, you mentioned these four mps, had they voted the other way the government

would have lost. and there would have been a vote of no—confidence and there would be talk of a leadership challenge which has been since borisjohnson leadership challenge which has been since boris johnson and leadership challenge which has been since borisjohnson and david davis walked out. i think many of the labour party will be angry with the these four mps who are long—term eurosceptics and in a different world jeremy corbyn would have been one of them. the people that voted against the government are traditional socialist eurosceptics who believe it is a capitalist club and they want out because it's right to their constituents. mr corbyn was very much one of those. in that sense this is not a huge and of retribution that a labour leader can force on them but on the other hand a lot of mps, led the campaign is on twitter tonight say that these four people could have brought down theresa may ‘s government, what are they doing, why is the opposition there? if you are a labour mp representing the seat that voted predominantly to me if and in the

north of england many do, that is their dilemma. the party tells them one thing, they vote for another. that's true, but as sebastian says these four who voted with the tories, it goes much deeper than that, these people have campaigned against the eu for a long time and couldn't bring themselves to vote for softer brexit even though it could have led to labour ending up in power. they care more about brexit and the customs union than they do about who is in government, i guess. to pick up from what jack said, that's the thing we are seeing now, the old party alliances of tories voting for tory policy and labour voting for labour policy, all thatis labour voting for labour policy, all that is broken down now. people seem to care more about particular outcomes of brexit than tribal loyalties to their party. we talk about these great political realignments, but we are seeing in the house of commons right now that people like jacob rees—mogg on one side and chuka umunna on the labour

side, they really have parties within parties, they tell them how to vote and what to say on tv and what have you. a lot is changing. it is incredibly fluid at the moment. one final march to this, jack, the times talking about this idea that the message from downing street was, back me or it's time for another general election? desperate stuff although there is some truth in it. if she had lost the vote tonight it's not impossible that we would have gone for another election to ensure that sebastian feels the same, covering politics for the last figures. journalists love general elections! to appoint! there's the story that the tory chairman brandon was agreed not to vote in crucial vote, they call it pairing where one mp from one side is off they agreed that another mp from another side watford. one female mp is on

maternity leave, he said he wouldn't vote but he broke his promise and voted for the tories. they claim it was a mistake but i don't think people will be convinced by that given that the vote was one of such magnitude that it could have brought down a prime minister. magnitude that it could have brought down a prime ministerlj magnitude that it could have brought down a prime minister. i think the game, it's all about she lives to die another day. she's got through this thing but there are so many more hurdles to come, even in the next few days. everyone in the conservative party just next few days. everyone in the conservative partyjust wants to get through to tuesday, get through this session and then mps will go away over the summer, hopefully come down and come back in autumn when there will be many more crunch votes, they might vote, very much things on the wire as theresa may tries to get to her compromise, the reality is that everyone knows that she could fall at any moment. let's turn our attention to donald trump for the moment. jack, going back to the telegraph, a reference to what he's said in the last few hours that he

misspoke when he gave his press conference in helsinki. not the image she likes to portray. he likes to give the impression that he is on top of things, this big strong confident leader. what we've seen todayis confident leader. what we've seen today is an embarrassing attempt at a u—turn after that eye—popping press c0 nfe re nce a u—turn after that eye—popping press conference alongside vladimir putin, where he basically backed a foreign adverse array over his own government ‘s view on what happened in the us election. —— foreign adverse array. he's come and a huge criticism and pressure from everyone in america, even his own party, no one thinks he did a good job. we've never seen one thinks he did a good job. we've never seen this embarrassing attempt to get out of it when he claims he just said the wrong word. he said that he said the word wouldn' instead of sebastian. it's taken him three days to realise that and does not excuse all the other things is a

and clearly believed. not a good blood but it may undo some of the damage in the eyes of some of his supporters. that this is not the first time. we know his views on vladimir putin quite clearly. i think they were very much accentuated in that press conference, we accentuated in that press conference , we saw accentuated in that press conference, we saw it. what other republican party going to do about it? they note his behaviour and how he feels about russia and putin and he feels about russia and putin and he is still there. he feels about russia and putin and he is stillthere. i he feels about russia and putin and he is still there. i do think that this time was different, asjack has just said. a lot of an usual suspects came to criticise, newt gingrich, the former speaker of the house, who has famously been on his side, said he needed to clarify the remarks. will this change his attitude strategy? probably not. what could be interesting is how those republicans who have expressed doubt now, whether they will do that in the future or back away. there are some important mid—term elections coming up in the us and i

don't think there will be much criticism of him in the run—up because republicans are fighting for their jobs. because republicans are fighting for theirjobs. after those elections, especially if the republican party does badly, you might see some of them turning on the president and blaming him for what has happened. the other thing with donald trump, he quite likes criticising you behind your back but being nice to you to your face, when putin was next to him he stuck up for putin, then he went and changed his mind. the same thing with theresa may, really good about her in the sun and then stood next to her in the press conference as if she is his best friend. not a very impressive approach to building relationships! it did show that there are limits to trump is. every time he does something outrageous everyone is shocked and condemns it and all that, but this one really seems to have hit a note, just about the guy representing america on the world stage. people don't seem to be happy

with how he's doing it. that's it for the papers, will be back later, probably with more about brexit and trump. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you — 7 days a week at bbc dot co uk / papers — and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. and thank you, for now, to my guests sebastian payne from the ft and jack blanchard from politico. and we'll have more from them in a longer papers review at 11—30. good evening. you may be looking for rain by now after this prolonged dry spell. some of us had rain in the form of scattered showers, most of them have faded, the evening looked like this from one weather watch in weymouth. as we head on to what is left of the night there could be

some showers across the far north of scotland, otherwise dry with clear spells, temperatures not dropping farfor london, cardiff or spells, temperatures not dropping far for london, cardiff or plymouth, i6 far for london, cardiff or plymouth, 16 degrees, further north aberdeen and newcastle, more like 10 degrees, some rural spots in the north east could get to 9 degrees. tomorrow looks fine for most parts with sunshine although like today the shower clouds will bubble up, not everywhere, if you are looking for rain this would be reliable but sunspots in another scotland will see a shower, sunspots in another scotland will see a shower, some sunspots in another scotland will see a shower, some of these showers in southern scotland tomorrow afternoon are likely to be heavy, possibly thundery. some showers in northern ireland, lots of dry weather, down towards the south—west is more chance of a shower for the east, dry and sunny for the most part, very light winds and temperatures towards the south—east getting up to 27 degrees. even further north—west, birmingham and manchester, 2a degrees. as you look ahead to thursday again a lot of sunshine, it will build the heat,

just a small chance of a shower, or cloud into the north—west later, keeping things cooler but look at the orange colours on the chart the south and east. temperatures in london and 229, maybe 30 degrees, a lwa ys london and 229, maybe 30 degrees, always cooler when we have that extra clout into the north—west. that cloud comes ahead of the frontal system. if you are looking for rain this may give you optimism. watch what happens as the front sinks south and east of vista, some heavy rain for scotland, northern ireland, northern england but as it pushes down england and wales the fund should fizzle so very little rain getting into the south—eastern corner. friday is another day of hot sunshine, further north or cloud and a slightly cooler fresher feel. that's dying front continues to move out of the way as we get into the weekend. you guessed it, high pressure will still be in charge,

just about. so things for the weekend do but generally dry. some sponsor forms weekend do but generally dry. some sponsorforms and weekend do but generally dry. some sponsor forms and time, a weekend do but generally dry. some sponsorforms and time, a little patchy rain but not a lot. this is bbc news. the headlines at 11:00pm: the government narrowly survives an attempt by pro—eu conservative mps to change its post—brexit trade strategy. in an apparent u—turn, donald trump says he misspoke at yesterday's news conference with vladimir putin, when he appeared to defend russia over his own intelligence agencies, regarding claims of russian meddling in the 2016 us presidential election. isaid i said the word would instead of wouldn't. the sentence should have been i don't see any reason why i wouldn't, or why it wouldn't be rush hour. —— why it wouldn't be russia.

millions in north—west england face the prospect of water rationing.