express says war. the express says that european union is about to offer the uk a new deal, access to the single market without the condition of three movements for eu citizens. banks are not offering new rates to savers. add and deck‘s tv show is being rested. the mirror says they were in tears. it isa the mirror says they were in tears. it is a red letter day to day. the first time you have been in the studio togetherfor a first time you have been in the studio together for a while. the last time was in the newsnight studio. yes, we used to be stalwarts at newsnight. i think newsnight is

on somewhere else. but we have got you to ourselves. let us start with, punishing boris will tear party apart, tories are warned. on it goes. this is not a slip—up, it is carefully planned. this is the steve bannon rule book of how to do it, this is speculation, but i believe... i think he has tipped boris off. the technique is to make some scandalous issue which will get you headlines day after day, union will be in the headlines. it is summer, people are we, they do not read the small print. they think you are very important and deserve the attention. someone i was listening to set it as an attempt to wrest the tory leadership by proxy. one way to

get a headline is exactly as you have described, use controversial language. i can see boris sitting down to write this thinking, that will make my friends at the club last. no one will take it too seriously but they have. according to this story it is splitting the tories apart, civil war according to the independent. remainers within the party are saying he should be sent before the code of conduct committee, which says that he should demonstrate respect and tolerance, which he did not in this article. he would see his tolerance was on display because he said we should not ban the burka. but the outrage is in the wording of the letterbox. he has not broken the law. he has

broken the tory code of conduct and he has broken the ministerial code. there is a committee on business interests for ministers who leave ministerial office. he is not the first one to be caught out on this. a p pa re ntly first one to be caught out on this. apparently he signed a deal a couple of days after he was gone, he told them 14 days later, the committee was upset. but they are feeble. george osborne was rapped over the knuckles. that is chicken feed compare to this. this is the big story. if boris was to tear the tory party a pa rt story. if boris was to tear the tory party apart because he called women who wear face veils, called them like letterboxes, what will his epitaph be? it will be a scoop for the telegraph. he will have errant whatever sums he does. it is an

interesting story. if it is as bad as the independent says that is real trouble for the tory party. he will not be worried by this story, he will see it going exactly the way he wa nts, will see it going exactly the way he wants, he will be delighted. ian martin in the times, saying he is not that organised. let us look at the express. this is interesting. eu fears zero deal brexit. now the eu is getting worried. the story is saying that brussels has appeared to blink for the first time in the flex is back row negotiations. but that in mind they are offering a access to the single market without the condition of free movement of eu citizens. we want out of the single market. would they really do that?

why? read further down the story. you have got to page seven. these are quotes from a senior tory mp, who has made these observations. when he puts it in context he says they blinked, britain going to world trade organisation rules would not harm them. however he also warned it was a typical eu trap. it is a non—story. was a typical eu trap. it is a non-story. you must be an expert after listening to hours of house of lords debates. the house of lords ta ke lords debates. the house of lords take this seriously and has well informed debate about it, it would not have made much of that. but he

was saying this is not the norway model, but the jersey model. mr campbell bannerman says we would be tied to all their rules and regulations, common benefits system amongst other things, precisely what we are trying to get away from. let us move we are trying to get away from. let us move to the left teeth. bat to that ft. life expectancy has reached a plateau. we are not going to follow. people

started to believe that we would all get to live forever, nothing to do with how we behaves. the report mentioned here, life expectancy has slipped, profits of insurance companies have soared, self—inflicted wounds. obi city. dementia is not self—inflicted but it is damaging life expectancy. —— obesity. the rate of increase is slowing down. you have made an important distinction which i did not make clear. their profits have soared by £400 million. some cynics would see this is happening because of the slowdown, because posterity.

yes, but is that too short—term a measure? eight years. i have had angry listeners before see this, we should see, people are on average living longer but people are still dying young and there are still people whose life expectancy is disappointingly short. let us move on. a wonderful photograph. the telegraph. what nice people they are. they have managed to get equal pay. i am not surprised. she is a forceful woman. it seems to have been arrived at by

people working together in harmony and saying, why do you not get as much as i do? a long time ago... named them. they discovered that i was earning less and they went to the editor and said, she is working as hard as as. did something get done? yes. well done. it was part of the 19605 sympathetic attitudes. when you and your other half were presented together were you treated the same? she got more than me and she deserved it because she was full—time i was only there to do is there a week. in those days we were there a week. in those days we were the first couple ever to be allowed

to work together. she was my boss. but we were on the same level. how times have changed. we will move on to talk about another tv story. itv has had success with ant and dec but it isa has had success with ant and dec but it is a human story as well. ant and dec have said that the saturday night takeaway, a hugely successful programme, has been shelved until 2020, to a low ant to completely re cove r. 2020, to a low ant to completely

recover. dec has done a shore on his own. i do not think itv are too worried, they are doing the decent thing. it is a tribute to how good a partnership between two people can be. it is like eric and ernie. once you get a partnership that works well, you cannot replicate it. they are precious. their collaboration is valuable. we are going to test that out in 30 minutes. thank you. we will see you at half past 11. you can see the front pages of the papers on the bbc website. and you can watch it on the bbc iplayer. i will be back with the news at 11 o'clock.

many parts of eastern england were cheated to rain, more than a splash in east anglia. i am sure many gardeners and farmers plead a sigh of relief. that train came from the south. it is still starting to move. between now and that rain arriving at isa between now and that rain arriving at is a shallowly picture. showers become a feature of the west coast. friday morning will be cooler. humidity is dropping away. cooler

aircoming infrom humidity is dropping away. cooler air coming in from the atlantic. for friday, after a chilly start, the showers will get going quickly, and because it is chilly beer there will because it is chilly beer there will be some showers and some hailstones and thunder on a particularly across central and eastern parts of scotland. further west the ridge of high pressure. evening sunshine follows for many. friday night into saturday morning looks even chillier with a touch of class frost in their claims of scotland. a beautiful start to saturday that this low pressure comes in. the detail is difficult because there is tropical are mixed in. that can cause problems for computer model predictions at this time of year. saturday start fine

and dry and chilly. through the day—glo drug bills. but for many —— through this day cloud will develop. fairly heavy rain to come. south—east or sleep dry and quite warm. this is bbc news. ben stokes says he stepped in after homophobic abuse was shouted at two and. —— two men. to looting private catholic schools

are accused of covering up sexual abuse against pupils for more than two decade. strike on a rebel school bus in northern yemen, killing dozens bus in northern yemen, killing d oze ns of bus in northern yemen, killing dozens of children. more trouble for borisjohnson dozens of children. more trouble for boris johnson following his comments about muslim women wearing fullface they will.