hello. this is bbc news with clive myrie. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment — first, the headlines.

borisjohnson leads the race to be the next prime minister after today's conservative party ballot. tonight he clashed with rivals over brexit in a live tv debate. two teenage neo—nazis, who encouraged an attack on prince harry for marrying a mixed—race woman, are jailed for terrorism offences. and more weather warnings as thunderstorms, torrential rain and flooding look set to batter parts of the uk again. and the united states says it will send an additional 1,000 troops to the middle east — as tensions build with iran after last week's attack on two oil tankers in the gulf of oman. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are isabel hardman from spectator, conservative commetator tim montgomerie and faiza shaheen from the centre for labour and social studies.

the gloves were off, and so was rory stewart's tie. was it getting hot in there, in that debate stuidio, between the candidates for the tory leadership and prime minister? some suggest there was a hell of a lot of hot air flying around, with emily maitlis the attendant fire crew. well, what do the papers make of it all? the telegraph refers to the debate as ‘the boris and rory show‘, reporting that it was a good day for both the favourite and the outsider in the conservative leadership race. ‘defensive and evasive, but still the favourite for number 10' — that's the lead on the guardian as the former foreign secretary takes 126 of the 313 votes cast in the second round of voting today. boris johnson under pressure over his brexit and tax plans, that's on the front of the times, as the frontrunner failed to guarantee leaving the eu

on the 31st of october. but the i writes that the former foreign secretary emerged from his first tv debated unscathed with a softened stance on brexit and tax cuts. in other news, the daily mail reports on a grandmother who is seriously ill in hospital following an incident involving prince william's official convoy. a spokesman for the royal couple told the paper they were ‘deeply concerned and saddened'. all eyes on boris johnson. all eyes on borisjohnson. he wasn't at the channel for debate. how did he do? you did 0k, ——he did 0k. he didn't commitany he do? you did 0k, ——he did 0k. he didn't commit any gaffes that he did have some weak moments. when he was

answering about islamophobia within the conservative party, he downgraded it. he also downgraded one of his tax plans which suggested he wasn't as concrete on his policies as you might hope someone who is trying to argue they are competent, should be. is that potentially why his advice has been, from his minders, don't get too involved in these debates?” from his minders, don't get too involved in these debates? i think its probably one of the reasons. when you're front runner in a contest, you don't want to give yourself more contests than you need to. i also think something of a vindication on one of the reasons why he said he won't take part in channel for's debates that took place a couple of days ago, there was an awful lot of blue on blue action in these debates where one tory is taking chunks out of another tory is taking chunks out of another tory and actually, it is not a forum that does the conservative party as

a whole any good. i don't think many people, i am a committed conservative, but i don't think many people have watched tonight '5 debate and will think much more positive of the conservative party from it. it was all a bit shouting at times, people talking over each other, and we didn't get really much enlightenment as to where any of the candidates stood because you get 30 seconds and not much more to try and actually unpack what are very complex issues. you are a committed member of the labour party, so you would have loved it tonight? well, i didn't love it. i am concerned about the next few months in the future of this country. i listen to headlines about borisjohnson this country. i listen to headlines about boris johnson being this country. i listen to headlines about borisjohnson being the front runnerandl about borisjohnson being the front runnerand i do about borisjohnson being the front runner and i do think we are already in some sort of dystopia. all of the things he has done, whether it be islamophobia comments, homophobic comments, i wonder if, rather than

that he struggled with the question oi'i that he struggled with the question on islamophobia, he was essentially taking a page out of trouble's paper. people have said this was obvious or his press conference last week — make a page out of trump's paper. he said last week, politicians will say what they think. and now he is saying he can't be islamophobia because his great grandad is muslim, that's essentially what he was saying. i saw a comedienne in america saying that britain wasjust saw a comedienne in america saying that britain was just about to have their own that britain was just about to have theirown trump and that britain was just about to have their own trump and there is a lot of us that to see the way he is behaving that that is what he is like. maybe he is owning it.|j behaving that that is what he is like. maybe he is owning it. i think that's unfair, to be honest. trump has tried to impose a muslim travel ban into america. let me finish. didn't answer the question of islamophobia very well but what he was saying in terms of his great—grandfather was, he wanted

britain still to be a beacon for muslim people around the world and he wanted muslims to feel welcome in britain. yes, he has made illjudged remarks at times but it was actually a big contrast with trump. trump wants america to be closed doors to muslims. when sajid javid said let's have an independent investigation into islamophobia, allegations of islamophobia in the conservative party, boris was one of all of the cat — make candidates who agreed. — make candidates. evenif even if he is not adopting trump tactics, he doesn't have much empathy. he doesn't seem to understand that his comments as a politician or indeed a leading to journalist, can have consequences beyond people giggling at them. they can actually hurt people. surely he

knows what he is doing. which suggests he lacks empathy because surely he must understand that mocking the way that muslim women look, if they choose to where the burke, is not going to help their already quite precarious standing in oui’ already quite precarious standing in our society. i don't want to dwell on this because its been picked over. ——if they choose to wear a burqa. he might think that there are people out there that might like that sort of thing. i agree with him that sort of thing. i agree with him that sajid javid was the smartest on that sajid javid was the smartest on that in that he forced the other candidates to all, under the studio lights, say yes, yes, we are going to commit to a enquiry. yes, but you put the dog whistle out there. if you are america and you are appealing from right wing racist votes, you leave stage left. just remember that full stop the place where those remarks about the burqa

we re where those remarks about the burqa were made were actually within an article where he was defending the right of muslim people in this country to wear... crosstalk. grima he didn't defend it. ---- he didn't defend it. he finally got suspended from the conservative party because he said all 11 —year—olds girls should be scared of muslim men and that was in the guardian and the paperand other that was in the guardian and the paper and other places and we finally got him suspended. there is an issue and i hate to say it, he is may be playing to some people that don't mind him saying these things and in fact might agree with him. was emily thornbury plane to islamophobia... was emily thornbury plane to islamophobia. .. i hope was emily thornbury plane to islamophobia... i hope not... in a addition of question time she said she hopes young people didn't have to be served by public sector workers wearing a burqa. there seems to bea workers wearing a burqa. there seems to be a level of scrutiny and pylon with borisjohnson that to be a level of scrutiny and pylon with boris johnson that doesn't apply to other politicians.

the thing is, he could be our prime ministerandl the thing is, he could be our prime ministerand i think the thing is, he could be our prime minister and i think it is right that we look at a series of gaffes... crosstalk. when it is a journalist, people say, ok. when its borisjohnson people get upset. journalist, people say, ok. when its boris johnson people get upset. he has built up such a strong brand that people pay far more attention to what he says than someone like emily toynbee. —— polly toynbee. a spectator is a firm but unfair and that's a good mantle that journalists can live by. tory leadership rivals raise heat on johnson. questions over strength of

brexit and tax pledges. he wasn't the only one coming under pressure on this pledge and rory stewart as well, though he has his own problems in this regard. how do you get out of the eu by the 31st of october with parliament standing in the way? no—one could answer that question. with parliament standing in the way? no—one could answer that questionlj no—one could answer that question.” love the way everyone is now calling him johnson. no—one in love the way everyone is now calling himjohnson. no—one in britain called him johnson. they all call him boris. i did an interview with sky news australia this morning, they call him boris. how did he become doris? boris is more of an exciting name. —— boris. he is noticing that rory stewart is now called rory because it stands out more than stewart. i think there was

good pr with boris and he is partly that jovial nurse, that good pr with boris and he is partly thatjovial nurse, that people like to associate with him. ———— partly being that jovial. dealing with brexit, there were no answers from the four that we believe we should leave on october 31, potentially with a no deal, and from rory stewart. i don't think we got answered by anyone tonight and my hopeis answered by anyone tonight and my hope is that i've never been a big fan of debates, us style debates, partly because we are at parliamentary democracy, not presidential style, but i would rather we have someone like boris johnson or rory stewart in front of someone johnson or rory stewart in front of someone like you, clive, where you can grill them on issues and not let them get away with it because frankly the interruptions from other candidates, trying to just say something for 30 seconds, we weren't really learning much here. an extended interview, that's been the traditional way in britain we have

interrogated our politicians and i think since the debates happened between cameron, clegg and brown in 2010, i wonder whether we will start to get tired of them and realise they are not such a good format. the person with a clever line, a clever aside, they win debates and that's not a good indication on who would be the best prime minister.” thought it was great on one level having members of the public asking questions from various bits of the south of the uk, i noticed, they won't any northerners on the screen, but it did also mean that the candidates could add some verbal padding to their answers while they tried to think of what they could say. particularly, ithink, with the amazing sounding foster mother who has fostered more than 100 children. they were rightly praising her but they went on a bit, basically, saying, we are so grateful for your service, we will do more on these things, ina service, we will do more on these things, in a nebulous way, we won't actually commit to any more spending

01’ actually commit to any more spending or structural reforms. look at the things i did that aren't entirely related to this but have something to do with children... she might have found that incredibly annoying. fostering 100 children would require a huge amount of dedication that won't actually —— wasn't actually reflected in the candidates.” suspect one is less likely to do that or not do it with as much frequency and enjoyment if you've got a studio audience there because you look a bit embarrassing. yeah, maybe. but the way they would have prepped to have these 30 seconds perfect answers... that went on for about five minutes... and there was about five minutes... and there was a lot of padding. michael gove said quite often, "i was the first one. also when rory pointed at boris, they wanted to come back at each

other. it is difficult with that many people on stage and a one—hour debate and actually, yeah, i think we should look at other people actually grilling them. you or others. the problem is, even when you do that, actually, us as the public, don't have to say. ultimately, it is the conservative people that will have a say. we are acting like this is a general election and actually, we don't have a say. who would look at what we heard today and not think, well, we've got a problem in terms of who's going to lead the party? and what is going to happen in terms of the parliamentary arithmetic? they are all in denial about what's possible in parliament. it isjust the truth of the fact, you can't anything through. daily telegraph, the boris and rory show. tim, blind date of candidates makes for excruciating television?

there are quite a few things on social media tonight about rory stewart's usual body language, at times. he did seem to feel it was excruciating at times. on the front of the daily may, don't know if you can get it up, but they have the picture where he looked most —— daily mail. i think rory will be disappointed by it tonight. it is spectacularly well in the ballot of mps, he stormed ahead of dominic raab and sajid javid, but tonight he did not have the new tricks. he didn't really have that gentleness and the un— macho style that he had on channel 4. and tory members out there won't like the real sort of taking chunks out of other tories. a little setback for him today. why do you think it went, it seemed to go

in the wrong direction for him? he may have got a little bit carried away with his own surprising success in attacking boris johnson, away with his own surprising success in attacking borisjohnson, in particular, because that has given him a great deal of attention he would not have got otherwise. he started this contest as the joke candidate, walking around kew gardens. in these very direct attacks on borisjohnson have really helped him. they think this evening, as tim says, he did not come across as tim says, he did not come across as the one rising above it all. if you can play rory mania to cleggmania in 2010, all these people saying the same thing, this is the old politics, at saying the same thing, this is the old politics, et cetera, rory stewart was going in for the old politics attacks this evening. which didn't make him look particularly, i suppose, graceful. as the front page of the male shows. they say it was rory buying to bpm or running a latte is class. he looks like i did

after running the london marathon. perhaps he just couldn't bear all the noise anymore. there it is. was rory vying to bpm or running a pilates class? he took his tie off, where did that come ——to be the pm. he is meant to have been the most normal one. he is obviously acting a bit strange. that tells me... because the other four aren't strange. it has been a bit of an upper—middle—class lovren of rory stewart in the last few weeks. it has been like, well, rory stewart, he is the most normal one —— love in. i'm glad to see his line, especially around theresa may's deal, was a reminder that he isjust the status quo in a lot of ways. he is not really anything new. putting aside his getting frustrated and

doing strange yoga poses, i don't see what he offered today that was anything different to the crisis in front of us. he's said they want to be honest. an eye on how that'll play with his base. maybe we should be honest about the scale of the problems we face and, ultimately, what we need to do to overcome those. he was always making out he was the honest one. but maybe the emperor had no tie. boom, boom. that was terrible. i thought owa chuck it in any way. laughter. cani in any way. laughter. can ijust talk in any way. laughter. can i just talk about in any way. laughter. can ijust talk about boris johnson briefly. i think sajid javid did very well. i think he was the winner of the bait in terms of performance. we all agree with saj, as they kept saying. boris johnson, also, we all agree with saj, as they kept saying. borisjohnson, also, his a nswer saying. borisjohnson, also, his answer on islamophobia wasn't great. but he did not make a big hello.

that was the bottom line. —— howler. he did not look ruffled, he did not look panicked, it did not ——he did not react nicely or merely for stopping few looked at the body language he looked serious at times. at times... damning with faint praise there. once in a while. i will have to choose my words carefully. you did not see the cloud or caricature here. ithink carefully. you did not see the cloud or caricature here. i think on a lot of the answers, particularly on tax, there was a gap when he talked about cutting taxes for higher earners, today he was talking about raising the national injones today he was talking about raising the national in jones threshold, which is a tax cut that would benefit people at the bottom of the pile. if he is trying to win leave leading labour constituencies are not midlands. it has to be the tory

party that takes on policies to windows bows, just as labour with his policies on tuition fees, rail renationalisation, protecting the winter fuel allowance is largely spending most of the money it is allocating for higher earners. so the tory party needs to move on things like national insurance, apprenticeships, so it starts to build this new wave a blue—collar support. that is the only way the tories will win the general election. i thought syzran maurice davey was moving in a direction. from the other candidates, apart from rory stewart, who said he would not make tax cuts because the country could not afford it, but he was worried about public spending, another response to labour. —— i thought he was moving in the right direction. he was talking about the effects of austerity on public services, if you talk to conservative mps, supporting a numberof conservative mps, supporting a number of gators, they thing they

are worried about is local government and the waiters collapsing — — government and the waiters collapsing —— candidates. government and the waiters collapsing -- candidates. it is interesting, all five have been in senior positions in cabinet and have voted for cut after cut and now they are coming out acting as if they didn't support the cuts and they need to spend more. it is interesting that they expect us to have collective amnesia about their actions in the past nine years. after you have re paired actions in the past nine years. after you have repaired the mess you have left the country and you can start spending again. that is what the tories have done. global financial crisis! neatly said weighing onto the front of the times. jeremy corbyn to back second referendum. is that true?” times. jeremy corbyn to back second referendum. is that true? i think, ultimately, because the members have a big say in policy, theyjeremy corbyn cannot move now or he will move in september. the members are overwhelmingly remain. there is a real sense, especially with what is happening with the leadership of the conservative party, if it is boris

that becomes prime minister that it looks more like a hard brexit or a no—deal brexit. brexit was never labour's project, it was never corbyn's project, it wasn't something most of us campaigned for. he didn't campaign at all, did he? he didn't campaign at all, did he? he didn't campaign at all, did he? he did campaign. there is a methodology that has been built there, but ultimately was never labour's project. the last labour manifesto said that you would respect the referendum result. it was absolutely clear. now you are reneging on that promise.” was absolutely clear. now you are reneging on that promise. i am talking about where brexit came across from. the labour manifesto was quite important. the labour party ultimately worried aboutjobs and workers' rights. what boris does give us a chance to do is pivot and say we cannot have a hard brexit, which is pushed by tories now. i think a second referendum for corbyn and labourand main think a second referendum for corbyn and labour and main position becomes much more likely. we have to leave

it there. —— remain. that felt like three minutes. and you kept your taione. -- type on. laughter. idid. it taione. -- type on. laughter. i did. it has been good to see you all on a very interesting note. that's it for the papers tonight. 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, isabel, tim, and faiza. goodbye. good evening. your latest sports news. eoin morgan set a new tournament record for sixes at the cricket world cup on tuesday. england beat afghanistan by 150 runs

at old trafford and watching was our sports correspondent andy swiss. ——he added extra impetus to the england innings. he struck 1760s in 148 from just 71 deliveries. he was helped by 90 from jonny bairstow and 88 from joe root and low order hitting. england amassed 397 in their 50 overs. in return from afghanistan were resolute but never in the game. they ended with three workers each. mark wood jumped in with a couple of extra. never, never have over thought i could play a knock like that. i'm delighted that they have. i think coming in at the time where it was a 50—50 show whether myself orjoss went in probably help that. after a faced a few balls i had to start taking risks because of him coming in next.

and then after i got dropped it was a matter of keep going. geraint thomas will be fit to defend his tour de france title despite a heavy crash in the tour de suisse on tuesday. thomas came off during the fourth stage of the tour of switzerland. his warmup for the tour de france. he sustained injuries to his shoulder and head. his team say they are confident he will make a full recovery in the coming days. thomas describes it as a small setback. the group doctors were right withdraw him when they did. samco was discovered australia as they secured safe passage through the women's world cup. beating jamaica 4—1. sam kerr scored all of them. the keeper may not want to watch too many of the replays. she is level leading goalscorer in this competition with

five. marta has scored 17 down the yea rs five. marta has scored 17 down the years for brazil. her effort helped brazil beat italy and make the all—time leading goalscorer for brazil. they qualified along with group c winners italy. scotland need to beat argentina tomorrow night to give themselves a fighting chance of making it through to the last 16 of the women's world cup. only a win is enough. even then it may not be enough. even then it may not be enough. they will have the backing of sir alex ferguson. he was very complimentary about the team, their determination, their stamina, the togetherness of the team to finish so strongly in both games. and it's absolutely brilliant for myself, as absolutely brilliant for myself, as a manager, for him to contact me and also for the players, for him to pass on his best wishes. but he will be tuning into the games. it is brilliant. a great bit of support from an absolute legend. the england

under—21s have lost their opening match of the european championships after conceding two goals in the last six minutes. they were beaten 2-1 last six minutes. they were beaten 2—1 by france. manchester city's phil foden put england ahead with a fine goal after france miss a first half penalty. england then had a player sent off as france missed another penalty. they did get the equalisation minute from time. jonathan ko ni with the finish. in the 95th minute they snatch victory. a moment to forget for the crystal palace defender. they are back on wednesday against romania. you are up—to—date from the bbc sport centre. we will be back from six o'clock. from me and the team a hello there, we still have a lot of clout for england and wales, further downpours as well. they will move through the south—east of england, east anglia, out into the north sea.

we could see a fresh batch of storms arriving in the south—east and east anglia late morning and into the afternoon. patchy rain for a while for lincolnshire and the midlands. further west it should be brightening up, drying up, straightforward sunshine and showers for scotland and northern ireland, temperature similar to what we had on tuesday. those storms should be moving away from the south—east corner during the evening. then we will keep some showers coming from the north—west of uk where pressure is lower. 0therwise with clear skies it would be as you meant for england and wales and we will have early sunshine. some places will stay dry on thursday, but we have showers moving as with from wales in the south—west. not too many showers for northern england. a scattering of showers across northern ireland is a frequent and heavier showers in scotland. those haemorrhages sitting at around 16— 20 celsius. —— those showers.

i'm ben bland in london. the headlines: the race to be britain's next prime minister — the final five candidates to lead the governing conservative party go head to head, with all of them clashing over brexit. none of us wants a no deal outcome. i haven't had anyone on the stage to guarantee anything yet. raise your hand, raise your hand. go to. —— crosstalk. the race for the white house — president trump is about to launch off his 2020 re—election campaign in florida. i'm gary 0'donoghue in orlando where huge lines of trump supporters