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isles. particularly in the western isles. —— scotland. a clouding over process but staying largely dry for england and wales. as with all deeper into the week ahead, many of us, quite cloudy off then, very breezy. a bit of rain around at the majority of time, that will be affecting north—western areas of the uk. for most of us, reasonable weather for the week ahead. hello, this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines. the indonesian vice—president suggests the number of people killed by yesterday's earthquake and tsunami on the island of sulawesi could rise to thousands. elon musk, the head of the the electric car—maker tesla, will stand down as chairman and pay a $20 million fine to settle his dispute with us regulators over tweets he wrote about taking the firm private. theresa may arrives in birmingham for the conservative conference,
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amid problems for the party even before it begins. president trump supports the judicial committee's decision to nominate brett kavanaugh for the supreme court, saying he expects things to turn out "very well." and europe extend their lead over the united states at the ryder cup in paris. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me arejohn rentoul, chief political commentator at the independent, and rachel cunliffe, comment and features editor for city am. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. as the conservatives gather in birmingham for their annual
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conference, the sunday times has the headline "boris vs may — now it's war." the paper has an interview with borisjohnson where he sets out his personal manifesto for the party to win the next general election. the sunday telegraph leads on the data breach which has affected the conservatives' conference app. the paper says the party faces a potential fine of up to £2 million. the sunday express says theresa may is planning to take onjeremy corbyn, by promising a housing and transport revolution. the observer reports that the government is to produce the first official guidelines on the maximum amount of time young people should spend on social media, amid concerns over mental health problems in children. the mail on sunday is launching a campaign to save parks, which it says are falling into disrepair or being sold off by cash—strapped councils. the independent on sunday has a photograph of patients evacuated from a hospital in indonesia following the earthquake and tsunami there. its front page article is a warning from theresa may's former deputy, damian green, to fellow
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conservatives to stop squabbling over brexit. those are the papers, and not surprisingly, on the eve of the conservative party conference, that is the story dominating so many front pages. the sunday times perhaps summing up the big battle of the week, which will be response in versus theresa may. yes and no. -- borisjohnson versus theresa may. yes and no. -- boris johnson versus versus theresa may. yes and no. -- borisjohnson versus theresa may. i wouldn't want to suggest the sunday times is slightly over reading this. warisjohnson is times is slightly over reading this. waris johnson is not times is slightly over reading this. warisjohnson is not going to launch a leadership challenge. —— boris johnson. there is no suggestion mps are thinking about that. i think she is safe for the moment. he has got
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his disagreements, which are well—known, the shape of brexit. but she is prime minister and she has got to negotiate it. he may well get a very well attended fringe meeting on tuesday. but then the delegates, sorry, the representatives, will go home on wednesday and nothing will have changed. yes, they have to different interviews. boris doesn't seem to be going for theresa may at the moment, he is going for her brexit plan but not the prime minister herself. he is going for her through her brexit plan, given that this is the main item on the agenda. i get the feeling slightly that boris is getting a little bit desperate these days. there is no secret he wants to be leader, wants to be prime minister. it used to be the case that conservatives felt boris could reach people outside the usual conservative voter remit. obviously he was a successful mayor of london, and he was a conservative
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that people who don't normally vote conservative would listen to. i don't know that is the case now. since he left cabinet he has been very provocative and divisive, and in the articles he has been writing, he has got lots of media attention, which is great for him, but he is not the unifying figure used to be. while his rhetoric may play incredibly well with party members at the conference, and i am sure he will fill a hole with adoring fans, mps don't particularly like neither. -- filla mps don't particularly like neither. —— fill a hall. so he doesn't necessarily have the voters, or the tory mps. interestingly, the sunday express has picked up on theresa may's land to crushjeremy corbyn. because of course last week at the labour party conference there were i’ows labour party conference there were rows over brexit, but overall they did get out a big economic message. their radical left—wing agenda of nationalisation. clearly the conservatives are a bit worried that the labour party might actually be appealing to many of the voters they
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need to win over. yes, i mean, this is theresa may's attempt to try to counter that. that domestic agenda that the labour party have quite successfully put across this week. and in particular, i mean, one of the things that went down pretty lowly well was labour's plan to levy extra tax on second home owners. —— down particularly well. theresa may has her own response to that, which is to increase stamp duty on foreign buyers of opti in britain. —— property. which will no doubt be announced at the conference and will go down quite well. it is not quite the radicalfar reaching forward—looking plan that labour came up with. well, they might have problems paying for it, but when it comes to the message they are trying to put across... i am absolutely no supporter of labour's plans, but if you are going to try to put forward a housing agenda that speaks to ward
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mary people and says, i understand the problem and i am going to fix it, you have to have something more radical, i think, it, you have to have something more radical, ithink, then it, you have to have something more radical, i think, then an extra tax on foreign buyers. —— ordinarily people. new zealand has actually banned foreign buyers from purchasing property altogether. the simple answer to the housing crisis is to build more houses, especially, if foreign buyers are a problem in london, which is primarily where they are, build more houses on the green belt. i know you disagree with me on this. a terrible idea! an extra stamp duty of 1% to 3%, it is only going to be on the very top end properties, it is not going to trickle down to the rest of the housing market. it is not actually going to help the majority of people in the country. it is not going to do anything to counter the message thatjeremy do anything to counter the message that jeremy corbyn understands people's needs, even if his policies won't work, his message is clear. people's needs, even if his policies won't work, his message is cleanm will undoubtedly be a tough week for theresa may. couldn't really have got off to a worse start with this data breach, which we have been
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reporting here on bbc news this evening, with people using the conference up, suddenly finding that confidential details may have been available to others. —— conference app. quite an extraordinary story. they shut it down quite quickly, but the breach and people's priddis see —— privacy was unforgivable, really. and just unbelievably incompetent. you know, labour, even momentum, which isjust you know, labour, even momentum, which is just the jeremy corbyn you know, labour, even momentum, which is just thejeremy corbyn fan club, has organised its supporters at the labour party conference using an app and social media and all the rest of it. and they are amateurs. and they are able to run this... do you even need an app for a conference? you even need an app for a conference ? i haven't you even need an app for a conference? i haven't been before, tomorrow is going to be my first attempt at this. do you need to download an app? can't you just turn 7 was download an app? can't you just turn up? was this then being too flashy and ambitious and getting it wrong,
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or do you really need one? you don't. brandon lewis, in this article, says it was apparently due to be unveiled as a sign of how much the party has modernised. digital strategy is really important to the conservatives, well, to all politicians, getting britain digital, making use of technology, digital, making use of technology, digital written, looking outwards, it is all part of the message that we are kind of ahead of the curve on everything. —— digital britain. so to have bass app failed so spectacularly, especially when gdpr, the new dart regulations, and become an inmate, and they fail the last hurdle... they do really need this conference to appear to be efficiently run after the disaster last year when theresa may u nfortu nately last year when theresa may unfortunately coughed and spluttered her way to a speech and the letters fell off the wall and a pet —— a protest handed her a p45. yes, to begin with a stumble like this is really embarrassing. you know, it gives no credibility to the idea
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that the conservatives know what they are doing. it is just unbelievable. we were talking about new technology, but of course it has its downsides. it has its dangers. and the observer front pages talking about action needed to curb children's social media use. interesting to see, this is a conservative ministers suggesting it should be up to the government to try to discipline how much children are using their iphones and ipads. well, it is a conservative minister, yes, ina well, it is a conservative minister, yes, in a conservative government, which has actually been quite ban—happy with lots of things. we have the sugar tax, the ban on energy drinks, potentially, to children. all kinds of talks about restrictions on search engines and media use by adults. this is not a ban. this is a device. matt hancock,
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the health secretary, has asked the chief medical officer to look into the health implications. i think what he is trying to get out here is that excessive social media use by small children goes beyond it being a social issue and a parenting issue and into being an actual health issue. nonetheless, there will be some in the conservative party who feel that this is part of that trend towards government meddling too much, that it should get off people's backs? it is the nanny state, very much so. telling people, pa rents, state, very much so. telling people, parents, how to bring up their children. so are a lot of conservatives won't like it. i think it isa conservatives won't like it. i think it is a sensible thing common to recognise that there is a problem and that people might want sensible advice on how to deal with it. well, it interesting, we were talking about the conservative party conference, the defence secretary, gavin williamson, announcing that the uk is sending 800 troops to the arctic in a warning shot to russia.
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now, should we see this as a warning shot to russia, or do you think this is part of a wider political strategy by the ambitious defence secretary? well, gavin williamson is another tory mp who would like to be prime minister, known for being a little bit scary and for having a pet tarantula, which is all you need to know about him. but i think his point here about renewed russian aggression on many, many fronts, whether that is digital attacks or, obviously, what we saw in salisbury, and now the arctic as well, concerns about russia really pushing the boundaries of what it has been doing, and sending a very strong message that britain is not going to stand for it, which is why we are sending 800 troops to the arctic. fascinating, coming after all the problems, the poisoning, the un— masking, apparently, of the two assassins, the sanctions, this appears to be ratcheting up the pressure eve n appears to be ratcheting up the pressure even further. well, yes.
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gavin williamson is merely drawing attention to the fact that our british troops in norway, on exercises, in the arctic, which happens to be near russia. but, i mean, it is an example... you think it isa mean, it is an example... you think it is a bit of spin? i think it is an example of how this conference is going to be a nightmare for the conservatives, in the sense that as soon as any cabinet minister says anything it will be interpreted as a leadership bid. and in this case it isa leadership bid. and in this case it is a leadership bid. yes, of course. in most cases it will be a leadership did, that is absolutely true. but there is also the serious point that you do want to signal to russia that we are prepared to stand up russia that we are prepared to stand up to them. i think people do see that as a serious concern and a serious threat. but you think there are all teary motives here? well, i do think it is going to be something that happens throughout the conference, particularly at sajid javid orjeremy hunt or penny mordant say anything, it is going to
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be viewed through the prism of the jostling for the succession. you didn't mention jacob rees—mogg. jostling for the succession. you didn't mentionjacob rees—mogg. i know he isn't a cabinet minister, but he is going to say something. he gets a free pass because he is a lova ble gets a free pass because he is a lovable eccentric and people will just report that straight, as to do with brexit. and also, actually, people don't take on seriously as a leadership contender, i suspect, because he is not in the cabinet.|j think they are absolutely taken seriously as a leadership contender. well, the bookies do. we will undoubtedly see an awful lot on that. let's look at the telegraph front page. matt cartoon.
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