and some aggressive language being used by backbenchers. wobbly —— about tenure. i do not think we've got really any more answers. for all the threats over the weekend was a relatively polite session today. the threats over the weekend was a relatively polite session todaym is getting surreal because each time there is a preview thing this is a huge moment, a moment of epic history. absolutely nothing moves at all. and yet you sense it is ethics of the papers have to put it on the front page. she has been pleading for time for ages now but it is dramatic even though nothing much moves. the clock is ticking and it is still not clear what form brexit is still not clear what form brexit is going to take. it is an extraordinary drama. in a strange way quite a slow—moving one because she comes to the house of commons and says the same thing each time and says the same thing each time and actually does not move it on very much. so on we go, i guess we

are on very much. so on we go, i guess we are on to the summit in december i'iow. are on to the summit in december now. i think the eu ruled out an emergency council meeting in november so it must be december. to be fairwe november so it must be december. to be fair we need to say downing street is insisting progress is being made an equally it is a two—way street and while there has been issues on our side with some of the negotiating technique not being particularly lauded by people within the tory party let alone critics from them remain calm or wherever, equally there has been this intransigence from the eu and you soon they do want to do a deal with us soon they do want to do a deal with us otherwise they would be happy for us us otherwise they would be happy for us just to us otherwise they would be happy for usjust to go us otherwise they would be happy for us just to go out with no deal and not worry about it. that could be the way the article 50 legislation is drafted that the ball is in the court of the eu but they do not seem to have made the efforts themselves to have made the efforts themselves to push things in a forward direction. i think some said they have. the article 50 is very clear, it is for the eu to frame the departure of any country who wants to do this. and the problem with the

irish border, when some tory mps say they need to be more flexible but we as the uk signed up to the soft order, it's been absolutely central to things. that phase one agreement was absolutely there. and boris johnson saying they were misled about its significance but it is obvious if you guarantee a soft water. and this is one thing we all agree on, theresa may said that. they can agree on the end but not the means of getting there. there is constructive ambiguity in phase one so constructive ambiguity in phase one so it is open to interpretation and the eu interpret the backstop in a way that is quite contrary to the expectations of the uk when they signed up to it in the first place. theresa may did say today, she talked about getting some legally binding arrangement, a form of

customs arrangements between the eu and the uk which effectively is like staying in the customs union. again anathema to most voters. at least temporarily. and you have the two main political parties both standing on manifesto pledges of taking us out of the single market and customs union and only the lib dems who did not, being annihilated at the polls. so what is that telling us, which mandates are we going to listen to, the referendum result presumably and also where people voted in the last general election. it was not staying ina general election. it was not staying in a customs union as far as i can tell. i think labour for some time have been committed and this is getting a sadly complicated, to a customs union. now the argue because we have left it is different but it will be based on the same. there is a lot of playing with words but it seems to me one of the big problems

with this is when theresa may was strong and we forget that before the election disaster from her point of view, she was quite strong. and a stable! but cabinet ministers were quite scared of her, she was way ahead in the opinion polls. and i think she could have defined a route to take that was realistic instead of trying to please all the ha rdliners of trying to please all the hardliners and say that we will carry on having free access to the eu market but then i have to say but we will not take their laws and will not have free movement. actually at that point, she was 30 points ahead in the polls, cabinet ministers terrified of her, but she acted wea kly terrified of her, but she acted weakly when she was strong. now she's trying to be assertive when she's trying to be assertive when she is so fragile. and pleading for time but not a lot of left. another quite event coming up, the budget

next week and the financial times think philip hammond has got a £13 billion annual windfall to ease nhs pressure. it seems all the predictions were wrong and he has 13 billion more than expected. a nice amount to find, the office for budget responsibility has said it has been too negative in its predictions of what income tax and corporation tax receipts are going to be so he has this windfall of this story is linked directly to what we have just been discussing because there have been threats among tory backbenchers to vote down the budget which again would compromise the leadership of theresa may. equally some of the issues arising from the budget, the idea that the conservatives need to go back to fiscal basics and go back to a narrative of low tax which has been somewhat contradicted not only by the chancellor but by some mps. thatin by the chancellor but by some mps.

that in itself is interesting and the comet and which the budget was handled is going to be crucial. the issue around leadership has been around whether the tories are looking confident and this is a major test. that is the fate of most to end up being perceived as incompetent. if it was not for brexit we would be talking a lot about this budget. and what tax could philip hammond put up that could philip hammond put up that could get through the house of commons, we have been talking about that and we cannot think about any. but this is the dream answer, to find this amount of money from nowhere. because tax receipts have been underestimated. that is the dream scenario. with all assumed he was not going to do any risky tax rises, this absolutely confirms, this undiscovered money. of course

some conservatives in the party would say this is why we have low corporation tax because then you have these higher receipts. the anti—communist rhetoric is what the tories are trying to espouse. we have deceived the figures add up. the metro carries the story about plastic in our bodies. we have a lot of campaigns trying to reduce unnecessary use of elastic. and a p pa re ntly unnecessary use of elastic. and apparently we are all ingesting it is not just through fish apparently we are all ingesting it is notjust through fish but apparently we are all ingesting it is not just through fish but through the air, water, withers knows what else. and with what implications, does it say what we get as a result of this. obviously it is alarming but what, is it clear what the implications are? toxic is the word that occurs. chemicals leaching out of plastic offals. i drink from plastic bottles all the time. could explain why i'm feeling so tired

but it is obviously serious because the use of plastic, although deeply unfashionable in every sense, is still intensive. and it shows the interest that the media still has. we discovered in our investigations tea m we discovered in our investigations team that the plastics taken from households has been dumped in malaysia. so clearly there is an appetite amongst the readership generally for these kind of stories. before we run out of time, camilla has her name on this one.|j contributed has her name on this one.” contributed slightly to this but david and chris hope did most of the work. this is macron saying the armistice commemorations, the centenary on november the 11th in paris is happening at the same time when you have a normal marketing of

the time of the cenotaph. it is going to go. emmanuel macron saying it should not be a grand scale military events because for the french the first world war was an unmitigated disaster and here military generals are pushing back on that and think that is an insult to the troops families and we need have something else in brussels. i was trying to establish which members of the royal family might be going, difficult with prince charles laying a wreath at the cenotaph. even theresa may has not confirmed yet to emanuel macron again playing power politics. president trump is acted in paris and you expect him to wa nt to acted in paris and you expect him to want to see the pomp and ceremony of such an occasion celebrated. very different the whole approach and attitudes and of course the history in france than in the uk where obviously this is going to be a big

and very sombre but pretty grand scale commemoration. yes be honest it is every year. it is remarkable. he has a sense of theatre, he thinks it is conveying symbolism that does not work for france. he's much more sensitive i to symbols, emanuel macron, compared to some of his predecessors. when that was the beginning of the world war commemorations, he did not turn up. and that was strange because that is his hometown and he courted a lot of controversy so again suggesting that the man of the people is not quite the man of the people is not quite the man of the people of france that he might have been on election. thank you very much for now. that is it for the papers for the time being. 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, steve richards and camilla tonimey. goodbye. good evening. today once again we saw a generous dose of autumn sunshine across a large portion of the uk. this was the scene in worcestershire just this afternoon. and through the next few days there is a lot more settled weather to come and there will be a fair amount of sunshine as well. the reason being high—pressure dominating the weather and will continue to do so at least until the end of this week. a few fronts just toppling to the north of that high introducing more in the way of cloud and quite heavy rain into scotland through the course of the night. the wind will also strengthen across the northern half of the uk

in the coming hours. to the south lighter winds, clear skies, look out for some patchy mist and fog first thing on tuesday, maybe a few pockets of ground frost as well. further north with the wind and the cloud, a much milder story. rain across northern scotland quite heavy and will then work its way across west of scotland as we move through tuesday morning rush—hour and perhaps some heavy rain across northern scotland briefly. it should become a little lighter as the day goes on, a few spots of drizzle to the north coast of northern ireland. the wind is a factor throughout the day, gusting 40, 50 miles per hour across parts of scotland, northern ireland and northern england, particularly to the lee of high ground. but to the lee of the mountains in scotland, it could get up to 17 degrees in the sunshine in aberdeen, 15 in some clearer skies in london. through the middle of the week, for wednesday, high—pressure still dominating. we lose the heavy rain in scotland. sunny spells just about everywhere. and temperatures 15, 16 degrees. a pretty similar picture again on thursday, but as the day goes

a weather front approaching to the north—west once again. more heavy rain and again targeting the north—west highlands. elsewhere some high cloud, hazy sunshine and temperatures around average for the time of year. it is all change within the week, this weather front coming in, it is a cold weather front and it marks the line between this mild atlantic air which will sweep down into the continent by friday, and arctic air which will come blasting across us to take us through the weekend. accompanied by a northerly wind. so a real change in the story by the time we get to the end of the week. there will still be a lot of sunshine and fair weather around in the forecast for the weekend but it will feel a good deal colder and that wind will be biting. this is bbc news, i'm carol walker. the headlines at 11pm. theresa may updates the commons on her

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