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michael gove, andrea leadsom and dominic raab are the latest candidates to enter the race for the conservative party leadership — making it eight mps officially in the running for thejob now. a british climber dies on mount everest. robin haynes fisher is the tenth person to die on the mountain this season. four children are released from hospital after two teenagers died in sheffield. a man and a woman are questioned on suspicion of murder. exit polls in the republic of ireland suggest voters have overwhelmingly backed reforms to the country's divorce laws. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be
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bringing us tomorrow. with me are the broadcaster, john stapleton, and the political reporter, kate proctor for the evening standard. tomorrow's front pages are all now in. we'll start with the mail on sunday and it reveals that dominic raab, the former brexit secretary, has now entered the tory leadership race. michael gove is also throwing his hat in the ring — that's on the front page of the sunday times. it says the environment secretary will make his case to lead the uk, in a podcast interview with the bbc‘s nick robinson. the telegraph also leads with michael gove‘s leadership bid. the newspaper says he's pitching himself as a "unity" candidate, and as the best choice to take onjeremy corbyn. let's turn to the observer. it says moderate conservatives are trying to stop borisjohnson becoming prime minister, in order to prevent a no—deal brexit. and borisjohnson is also facing an onslaught from brexiteers — that's according to the sunday express.
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it says nigel farage has criticised the former foreign secretary, saying you can't trust him over brexit. so, the race for leadership is well and truly on — and it dominates those front pages. your face is yourface is a picture, john. it says it all. let's begin with the tone of the unofficial race because it's not meant to startjust now. the front page of the males as the races turning toxic already. the front page of the males as the races turning toxic alreadym the front page of the males as the races turning toxic already. it says here that it has exploded into life andi here that it has exploded into life and i think that is true this evening with people coming out with various newspapers saying they will run to take and e—mail is trying to explain that it is already quite toxic if you think of friday, theresa may said she was resigning and people did not wait a second. they might put out a nice tweet and
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then cracked on with their leadership campaign. very dignified... so there is some upset today and it began with rory stewart who is running. he backed remain in the referendum and he said he could not serve under borisjohnson should he become leader because they are poles apart when it comes to brexit. that kind of division is what is playing out the tween the candidates who are remain as, the soft brexiteers and the ones who are leave and after a harder brexit. the mail on sunday also has a piece with dominic raab positioning himself as an arch brexit, even beyond boris johnson. the use of the word toxic is correct in the case of mail on sunday because they quote mr stewart as saying, as calling borisjohnson as saying, as calling borisjohnson a pinocchio. he said he could not possibly work with someone like that and he cites the example of meeting borisjohnson a few weeks ago and
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borisjohnson a few weeks ago and borisjohnson a few weeks ago and boris johnson assured borisjohnson a few weeks ago and borisjohnson assured him that he would not crash out of brexit but now boris is saying he would. level rory stewart says you cannot trust borisjohnson rory stewart says you cannot trust boris johnson and as rory stewart says you cannot trust borisjohnson and as we will see he is not the only one saying that. additionally we have iain duncan smith calling rory stewart idiotic for making those remarks. yes, it has all started. less than 24 hours then and they are calling each other names. what do you make of the strategy? do you think it is a good idea for this turning on boris en masse? how is that scene?” idea for this turning on boris en masse? how is that scene? i don't think it matters who. all this does is perpetuates the notion amongst ordinary people out there that this lot are behaving like schoolboys. it is like question time to come on, grow up. this is a crisis facing the
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country and it was started by sliding each other off in this way and we will, in the eyes of many people, diminish them all.m and we will, in the eyes of many people, diminish them all. it is trying to get through that first stage of the elimination process amongst the mps before it goes out to the members. and boris gets so much attention because he was the person who led the leave campaign. people have so many issues with the way that campaign was held itself. it is almost like unfinished business in a way. unfinished business in a way. unfinished business and former baggage. in a way with doris johnson. business and former baggage. in a way with dorisjohnson. let's turn to the sunday telegraph. the head live is from michael gove. headline is from michael gove. he has declared that he is in their and apparently the stories here, don't quote directly but refer to a private dinner spider
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—— party he went to last week. he called himself the candidate of unity. he is a man to be taken seriously. what he has to do is get over the fact that he supported mrs may's plans. he has some people to persuade and the big boys are up there now. michael gove and boris johnson, and here we are three years on starting it all over again. i know the tories are worried about using these arguments againstjeremy corbyn and a senior conservative has
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warned against it, they don't think it works. because when you keep saying that about corbin it seeps into the general public and although this is about trying to get to those 120,000 conservative association members who have a vote, if he keeps trashing jeremy corbyn in that way, some conservatives don't think it helps them at all. just to confirm, michael gove has declared. they are brief things but they are just so strong. yes, he is going for it. earlier we spoke to chris mason and he said that gove will declare on a podcast tomorrow morning. before we move podcast tomorrow morning. before we m ove o nto podcast tomorrow morning. before we move onto the next newspaper, you mention exit is and there are candidates in there who began as remain and have reluctantly accepted brexit. will that work against them? in some quarters that will but on
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the other hand there are many people in this country think we should just get on with it and i recognise the argument that whichever way you vote, we should respect the result. it is very hard tojudge. one of the things that concerns me the most about this situation now is that initially, of course, the tory party decides who to elect prime minister. in the end it is conservative party members and there are just 120,000 of them now. most of them are over the age of 55. and they live mainly in the south of england. and they support a hard brexit? so was at a fairand support a hard brexit? so was at a fair and reasonable way to proceed? it is the system and we must accept that that is it ideal? what feelings
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you get in the terms of an appetite for a general election?” you get in the terms of an appetite for a general election? i think once people think about the process of how the prime minister is chosen by hundred and 20,000 people with a vote, i think the wider public will maybe not be that happy with this process. i know labour will really mmp process. i know labour will really ramp up theircampaign process. i know labour will really ramp up their campaign now to force an election but if they want to try and do that within parliament they will still need to try and force a vote of no—confidence and they don't know if they will have the numbers to secure that. they are not sure they would be able to pass that. so i think labour they would be able to pass that. so ithink labourare they would be able to pass that. so i think labour are in a tricky position at the moment. the observer, borisjohnson position at the moment. the observer, boris johnson taking position at the moment. the observer, borisjohnson taking a position because he is part of a stop boris campaign. tory moderates battle to block no deal brexit the candidate against boris now is dominic raab. and he has declared
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his position in the mail on sunday. we all called boris johnson his position in the mail on sunday. we all called borisjohnson boris. we all called borisjohnson boris. we don't any of the other politicians boris. he has become a sort of brand and he is probably the most popular conservative amongst the public. but he is not the most popular conservative in the tory party, that is for sure. and there are many people who are dead against him leading the party and becoming next prime minister, not least the justice secretary quoted here who is quite critical of boris johnson and effectively saying it would be a disaster if he were the chosen one. you can't escape this fact. the re cord you can't escape this fact. the record of borisjohnson is not a good one. he has a on off relationship with the truth. he spent £60 million of ratepayer money ona spent £60 million of ratepayer money
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on a bridge that was never actually built, et cetera et cetera. there are many questions to be asked. just quickly... i was going to say that the concern about boris as he is willing to crash out with no deal. that is the fear. the express is pointing out you cannot trust boris. nigel farage raj, his party, the brexit party is likely to do well in the eu elections. he says you can't trust boris and you can't trust him because he supported theresa may's deal in bits and pieces over the last few months. there is a little bit of... this is basically another side saying you cannot trust boris. you have the real brexiteers and you have the remain as. boris may find himself stuck in the middle of two different groups and he can't draw on either side. the article also
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says that there are dossiers on the private life of borisjohnson. says that there are dossiers on the private life of boris johnson. he is a brand and so early on in the race that brand will have some damage to it. it is already damaged but it does not have that much effect on many people. boris johnson's does not have that much effect on many people. borisjohnson's private life is something that most people don't care about. 25 years ago, 35 years ago they might have but now they don't. trust is a different thing. the integrity and that he is genuine, that is the most important thing. but he has a very impressive rapport with the public and we see that time and time again when he does public visits. boris has been quiet for the last few months and i expect some campaign to kick into life shortly. he isjust letting eve ryo ne life shortly. he isjust letting everyone else that their names out there. quickly, is boris and interim
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leader and prime minister whereas you look at what dominic raab has put out this evening, he seems to be taking more of a long view with a bit of policy in there. you are quite right. dominic raab in the article on the mail on sunday outlined some things he would do and he is the first one i think to have that sort of detail. it was a bit of a manifesto. boris is not put anything out yet but raab was comprehensive, going through housing and income tax and increasing the threshold. he was talking about getting to the aspirational underdog, that was his phrase. that it is not too late to change the backstop. he thinks he can go back to europe and get a new deal, essentially, but that sounds mad. they still have to get to the eu and come back. let's finish off by turning back to the observer. labour needs to develop a back bone to the party or the leader? this is the
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labour deputy tom watson warning that the party will lose the next general election in any chance of forming a radical government unless it rewrites its brexit policy and commits wholeheartedly to a second referendum. we had a hint of this from john mcdonald earlier in the day and i think it is on the back of the realisation and we will find out more when the results are in tomorrow night, on the back of the realisation that many people have deserted notjust the conservative party but also the labour party as well because people are saying what on earth is the labour party policy over brexit? and they are suggesting they need to get a firm idea. when it came down to what i think the policy was so unclear people actually could not get behind them. so long—term labour voters decided to not go with labour this election. and when they look at what went wrong it will be their lack of clarity on the brexit policy. that is what tom watson is saying in that
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is what tom watson is saying in that is what tom watson is saying in that is what they will need to work on if they want to get voters back. before we go, boris johnson they want to get voters back. before we go, borisjohnson mejeremy hunt, esther, dominic raab, michael gove a confirmation tomorrow, and andrea leadsom as well... the list is growing and there will be some deals done. both of you, thank you very much. a fascinating weekend of politics. thank you for watching as well. 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. a big thank you to my guests this evening, john and kate. it's goodnight from us. next on bbc news, it's the film review.

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