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' away, away, behind 'away, behind it, some slowly clear away, behind it, some spells of sunshine. probably some cloud across much of scotland and showery rain for the western and northern isles. here, temperatures 15 or 16 but england and wales, to be just getting up to 22 and 2a so starting to feel a bit warmer again. that trend continues through tuesday and wednesday. always the chance of more showers in scotland and northern ireland but for england and wales, amy dry, spells of sunshine, a starting to again. —— mainly dry. bye bye. hello.
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this is bbc news with chris rogers. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines: the manufacturer of one of britain's most popular weedkillers, roundup, is insisting that it is safe after a court in the united states awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to a man who says it caused his cancer. an airline employee who stole an empty passenger plane from seattle airport is thought to have died after crashing on a nearby island. police investigating the death of 7—year—old joel urhie in deptford in south—east london, have arrested two men on suspicion of murder, attempted murder, and arson with intent to endanger life. a bbc investigation finds police overtime spending has reached its highest level since 2013, as the number of officers continues to fall.
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and dina asher—smith wins her second gold of the european championships in berlin, winning the women's 200m sprint final, just four days after taking the 100m title. welcome to the papers, looking ahead to what is in the headlines that you'll be reading over breakfast or sunday lunch tomorrow. with me are political commentator jo phillips and political editor of the sunday mirror and sunday people, nigel nelson. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. we were just saying, our latest sporting hero should be on the front pages. absolutely. it is such a fantastic achievement, why not? instead, we've got brexit, you'll be pleased to know. and boris. yes, lots of boris. the observer leads on brexit.
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the paper has done analysis which it says shows more than a 100 constituencies that voted leave would now vote remain. the sunday times front page has the same picture on the front of the observer, of the former foreign secretary boris johnson, who has been embroiled for the past week in the row over comments he made about the burqa. the sunday times says the cabinet is "at war" over his comments. but the sunday express says that a poll the paper has conducted shows that the majority of the public support mrjohnson over his comments and don't believe he should be reprimanded, as it would threaten the right to free speech. the sunday telegraph reports on a letter written by the us ambassador to the british government that says the uk should follow the same tough stance as america when it comes to dealing with iran. the mail on sunday says all was not well in the run—up to the royal wedding of prince harry and meghan markle. and the sunday mirror has the story of a 10—year—old boy who weighs 17 stone, and says he cannot get the treatment he needs to lose
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weight because of cuts to the nhs. lots of boris johnson, lots of borisjohnson, haven't seen him in ages. he went quiet, didn't he? have you missed him? your theory is that it quite likes being on the front page. we will get to him in a moment. let's talk about brexit. this is quite a significant poll that the observer has conducted, which shows that if there was a referendum today, we might have a different result. we might. yes. they haven't asked the question, if we had a referendum today, how would you vote, but what they have done is pulled together, i am going to tell you what it is called, actually. it is called multilevel regression and post— stratification. it is a data analytic term. the translation is, poll. yes, they have wrought together lots of information, including from the 0ns, and that is important, they are notjust going
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out and asking a question. so it is a poll and data. yes, slightly more than a poll. what they have discovered is that in 2016, out of a 632 seats in england, scotland and wales, 229 were remain, 403 leave. now that has changed from 341 remain, an increase of 112, to 288 leave. what is interesting and significant is that most of these, weather has been quite a significant swing, and if it was any election, a 12- 14% swing, and if it was any election, a 12— 14% swing would be huge, is in the labour heartland, in the north, particularly around liverpool. so there is pressure onjeremy corbyn as well. i think it is interesting, but as we have said before, it is also about people who, i think, were misled into believing that leaving was going to be easy and quick. but you can have all the polls in the world, the position is that there
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shouldn't be a second referendum. they haven't made that clear. there are certain factions within the labour party who are keen on a second referendum. i was going to say, we have had labour mps on here saying there should be a second referendum. that's right. the leadership is saying that we don't think there should be a referendum, but not in those kind of strident enough terms to say there will not bea enough terms to say there will not be a second referendum. and i think there won't be. the only way this might happen is if there was a huge and demonstrable change of heart by the british public. i don't think these polls are showing that. it is showing people are fed up with brexit, aren't we all, and nobody realised the complexities of what we are about to face. and of course there is the huge uncertainty about whether theresa may will be able to pull off a deal, whether we will end up pull off a deal, whether we will end up with no deal, what's no deal will look like, and so it goes on. you can understand people getting very twitchy about it. we haven't quite
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got to the point where you have mass demonstrations in the streets. i know we have had one big demonstration, but we are talking about something like every weekend. people have got to show they want to stay in europe. they accept we made a mistake. then you might get a second referendum. but actually, people need to be engaging in conversation with their constituents —— constituency mps. conversation with their constituents -- constituency mps. isn't it partly oui’ -- constituency mps. isn't it partly ourfault, asjournalists -- constituency mps. isn't it partly our fault, as journalists and politicians, that people do find brexit boring and complicated and don't quite understand everything, all really know? yes, i think, well... people, particularly the bbc, have tried very hard to do lots of explainers and be very balanced. i think for the newspapers, who are much more partisan, they have taken positions and stuck to them. i think the truth is that we went into that referendum with the nobody actually knowing, and the people who are
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asking the question is, well, hang ona minute, asking the question is, well, hang on a minute, what happens if... they we re on a minute, what happens if... they were dismissed by the borisjohnsons and the michael goves. we have had it began in the last week, people sneering at the governor of the bank of england, saying, what does he know? while! i find the concentration is very much on the political fallout of brexit as well. there is more reporting on that than what brexiteers. that's right, often because it is easier to understand. more entertaining, as well. it sells papers. there is that, too. it has become more complicated. if you think about where we started from, we are getting our heads around membership ofa we are getting our heads around membership of a single market and the customs union, then we have had so the customs union, then we have had so many different versions of how a customs union might work. and so it goes on. every week it gets more difficult. you have to try to remember what actually went before. sol remember what actually went before. so i think i do understand why people find it all a bit too much. 0k,
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people find it all a bit too much. ok, i'm on board now, let's move on to the sunday times. come on. no staying power. sorry, yes. let's move on to the express. no, the sunday times! i've been told the express, be quiet upstairs. boris sparking cabinet war. this is over the burqa argument. yes, this is boris, and we all know what he said andi boris, and we all know what he said and i think we all agree that he said it without giving it a second thought because he writes an article, he is paid as a journalist, he is widely applauded as a writer. this was not an off—the—cuff remark. he said it and he meant what he said. why he did it, we can only guess. nigel has his theories. what is interesting about this story on the sunday times is that it mentions steve bannon, who was an adviser to donald trump until they specked at uley fell out. —— spectacularly fell
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out. it is understood thatjohnson and bannon in a meeting a couple of weeks ago here. interestingly, what steve bannon is saying is that the former foreign secretary should not bow at the altar of political correct this, and he talks about is boris needing to be himself in the digital age, authenticity is all. —— on the altar of political correctness. we know what steve bannon did in masterminding trump's campaign using social media and digital stuff. it looks like he think that boris might be a new trump. well, he would like to think that boris might have got something better. i would have thought so. what is also interesting about this piece is that the times has spoken to former cabinet ministers. they are saying they are totally frustrated with the leadership of theresa may. — — frustrated with the leadership of theresa may. —— spoken to four cabinet ministers. the handling of it, the disciplinary action of what borisjohnson might it, the disciplinary action of what boris johnson might face. it, the disciplinary action of what borisjohnson might face. they it, the disciplinary action of what boris johnson might face. they say
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it has let jeremy corbyn off the hook for anti—semitism. i don't know who these four cabinet ministers are they are not named in paper. i find it absolutely bizarre. the person who let jeremy corbyn off the hook this week was boris johnson, by writing the article in the telegraph in the first place. had he not done that these front pages would still be full of anti—semitism, anti—semitic problems in the labour party. it is all about this desire for attention. he wants to be the centre of attention. there are a lwa ys centre of attention. there are always two stories to these things. you are quite right aboutjeremy corbyn and anti—semitism, there is the offences that have been committed but there is also the political game people try to make out of those offences as well. it is interesting because the sunday telegraph is one of the few papers that reports on and supports boris johnson. they even have his father stanley writing in the telegraph... nice that the telegraph is keeping thejohnson nice that the telegraph is keeping the johnson family afloat. yes. what they are saying is that tory grassroots and tory donors are
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saying that this whole thing is ridiculous, but borisjohnson shouldn't go before the tory party discipline everybody. — — shouldn't go before the tory party discipline everybody. —— that boris johnson. frankly, he has to do. if complaints are made, the body has to investigate. they made is narrated. lam sure investigate. they made is narrated. i am sure they will. but they at least have to industry. then stanley johnson weighs in and says boris johnson weighs in and says boris johnson should have gone further in the article, saying that the burqa should be banned in schools and hospitals. personally, ithought it was. i didn't think you could do surgery was. i didn't think you could do surgery and teach kids wearing a burqa. anyway, we can see where the telegraph is coming from there. behind boris, and presumably it will be when he finally makes his pitch for the leadership. lots of people welcome the debate over the burqa in one way 01’ welcome the debate over the burqa in one way or another, whatever side you are on, but i think it is his actual comments that people were annoyed by. it is that point, it is not an off—the—cuff remarks, were you say, i'm sorry, i didn't mean it
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like that, which we have all done. this was written. it was written and that lang which was chosen deliberately. he knew precisely what he was doing. he is a politician and a journalist. he knew the silly season would be the perfect point grey journalist season would be the perfect point greyjournalist to... season would be the perfect point grey journalist to. .. yes, he wants to be the prime minister one day. we hear you, we get you. explain the story in the times. universities, zero courses. it is that time of the year. trying to fill universities up with students. it is that time of the year that in a few years time you will be the anxious parents sitting there waiting for your son to come back and open that envelope, 01’ to come back and open that envelope, or get a text message, to know that gcse or a—level. there are families all over the country waiting for results. i have never heard this about foundation courses at art colleges. nigel knows more about this. i have a son who may have
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taken one of these courses. this is one of those things you don't think about until you have too. one of those things you don't think about untilyou have too. like one of those things you don't think about until you have too. like so many things. the argument seems to be that is they have now doubled, the numberof be that is they have now doubled, the number of these so—called year zero coui’ses the number of these so—called year zero courses have doubled. the way it works is, kids who don't do well in a—levels can go to university still, but they must do a foundation year, and after that they do their three—year university course. that's basically it. which, in theory, is lovely, because it is a taster. at in reality it is another £9,000 in fees. —— but in routed. in reality it is another £9,000 in fees. -- but in routed. so they have to pay for four years rather than three? and when you are doing anything for a degree... they are doing a foundation, i think the trying out stock is a great idea because lots of kids might go to university and think, this is boring it is not for me whatever. it's the money. if the money. it is the bums on seats and cash in the tills.
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well, my son has a dual british and american nationality, and i hope it doesn't decide to go to university in america because it is double the price over there. thank you they much. we have run out of time. thank you very much. 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 tojo phillips and nigel nelson. now on bbc news, it's time for the film review. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news, and taking us through this week's releases is jason sullivan.
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