staying with the debate, the daily telegraph says it was a good day for the favourite, borisjohnson, and for the outsider rory stewart, who has almost doubled his support among tory colleagues. let's move on to the tampa bay times, based in florida, and another race for the top job. it is donald trump, of course, who has launched his 2020 reelection campaign, saying, we're going to finish the job. and the financial times looks at the reaction by regulators to facebook‘s announcement to launch a digital currency. now, abc news says the state of victoria today becomes the first australian juristiction to legalise euthanasia. and finally, the bbc online. it reports that the scots bought less alcohol last year than any year since records began in the early 1990s, aftera minimum price

per unit of alcohol was introduced in a bid to tackle scotland's drink culture. with me is kulveer ranger, senior vice president for strategy and communication at atos, the it services corporation. let's get stuck in, a lot to discuss. guardian talks about the debate. it says that borisjohnson was forced on the defence, that is their interpretation of how this debate went. look, this is a debate amongst a political party, amongst four candidates, who are pretty close together and are dominated by will they all will they not deliver brexit. that is what the whole country is talking about at the moment, and i think four of them we re moment, and i think four of them were saying they need to deliver brexit and the october deadline is what they are working towards. rory stewart stood out in terms of taking a different approach to that, saying that he felt that withdrawal agreement put together by prime

minister mae is something that he feels can still be worked on and a deal done. —— may. ithink feels can still be worked on and a deal done. —— may. i think there is differentiation there but the challenge is for people to understand what are the different shades of blue amongst the different candidates? yes, there was focus on boris, he is the favourite with the most support amongst conservative mps at the moment, and that is probably because of his track record. that is in your opinion. you have worked with him for a long time. well, yes, but a number of his collea g u es time. well, yes, but a number of his colleagues right now, i think 126 of them, voted in the last vote to support him, and i think they are doing that on the basis of seeing what he has achieved in his political career. but there is a long way to go yet. there will be a

few more rounds and then the final two and then it will go to the conservative party members. absolutely, so there is still a long way to go to some degree, but when we look at the guardian analysis, he looked like he was under pressure, there were cracks in some of his a nswe i’s there were cracks in some of his a nswers to there were cracks in some of his answers to questions from the general public, in particular the imams who asked him about some of his comments and says that words have consequences “— his comments and says that words have consequences —— imam. referring to what borisjohnson has said in the past about women who wear the burka, for example, and he has a record of things in the past which have been quite damaging. yes, but as he said, if people choose to take his words and magnify them into a different context, his actual article was about the right, and he shares the view, that they should be able to wear the burka. his own grandfather was a muslim. which is what he said last night. but the context of what he says and how he says it needs to be reported appropriately, and that is why he is the kind of candidate that appealed toa the kind of candidate that appealed to a city like london, who voted him in twice as their mayor. you have to look at why boris has been successful, as opposed to what people want to make out of the

comments that he made. so the daily telegraph, which we know he is a regular columnist for the telegraph, they are very pro— boris, they say it was a boris— rory show, and saying that they emerged as winners ofa saying that they emerged as winners of a chaotic debate on the television. it is interesting, when rory stewart was asked afterwards, as he was leaving, he said actually i don't think i did very well. it didn't work so well for me, the way the debate was run, as it were.“ we have to be honest, and the bbc does very well in presenting a debate every week on television called question time, universally people were feeling the format didn't work for any of the candidates. the article in the telegraph refers to sajid javid, saying he might withdraw today from the race and choose to back boris, and they say one of the reasons why might be he has his eye on thejob of chancellor in the future, of course, some are talking about

positioning now. if there is a boris wind. well, i couldn't possibly comment on what sajid javid might do. but you can comment on what the telegraph is saying. what the telegraph is saying. what the telegraph is saying is that the difference here is between boris and rory and the others are in the middle of the pack, withjeremy hunt and michael gove vying for second place at the moment, and sajid and rory just sneaking in place at the moment, and sajid and roryjust sneaking in in the last round. they must be considering their position, and with rory setting out a very alternative agenda to the others, rory feels he has a voice, so if sajid feels he could fall in behind one of the other candidates, that might be a few he takes, but i think at the moment the question is what are people feeling? what are the conservative party politicians, the mps who have to vote in the next round, thinking about who might make the next prime minister? they are looking for somebody, it feels like, who would be a unifying candidate. we have had matt hancock, a very liberal conservative, come out and

support boris. you have the erg supporting boris johnson, and support boris. you have the erg supporting borisjohnson, and i think the key is who will bring the conservative party together over brexit, which i think is what the conservative party wa nts. i think is what the conservative party wants. we will move on, because there is so much more to discuss. the tampa bay times is digesting the launch of donald trump's re— election campaign, in front of an audience of 20,000 people, his supporters, really, in orlando, florida. what do you make of what they are saying about his launch? well, somebody set it to me earlier, it felt like you go and see your favourite performer and you wa nt to your favourite performer and you want to see the greatest hits, and he brought out all the old songs, fa ke he brought out all the old songs, fake news, although a slight variation. lock her up. lock her up, yes, i'm not sure if he mentioned draining the swamp but he is in the

process of doing that, building a wall, donald trump is a phenomenon in politics. he is a businessman who has clearly ta ken a in politics. he is a businessman who has clearly taken a business approach to politics. he said when he won the presidency that he wasn't going to stop campaigning, so whether this is a launch orjust another milestone in his need to succeed, to win, to become president for a second term, whatever that means to him. he is playing the tunes that have got traction with the american people, in terms of who support him. and the question is what is the alternative? i think the biggest challenges for the democrats to actually coalesce now, when they have a very crowded field of some very interesting candidates, and obviouslyjoe biden in there as well, but who will they coalesce around to challenge these tunes that are around to challenge these tunes that a re really around to challenge these tunes that are really finding the right notes. that are on the playlist. exactly. in the financial times, we are looking at this launch of libra, and the g7 setting up a panel to assess the g7 setting up a panel to assess the risks of this. it has been

described as something which will transform financial services globally, provided acts —— providing access for nearly 2 million people who don't have bank accounts. —— 2 billion. these crypto currencies tend to be based on a technology called lock chain, a very interesting technology, but we are seeing the convergence between banking and technology coming together, and facebook is the first together, and facebook is the first to break cover and say we are going to break cover and say we are going to do this —— blockchain. this is a seminal moment for all of us, because this is the future of how potentially money transaction and value is going to be used, and it is quite right that we will look at the risks. we need to understand what the opportunities are. it is a nice line to say it will open up money to

people who don't have bank accounts, but there will be a lot more to it than that. it will be about safety, security, trust, banking systems, how they work, mortgages. the whole structure of financial institutions could change around this technology. we are nearly out of time and i want you to respond to the twitter comments we have had so far this morning, because you will get to vote on who the leader will be of the conservative party, and most of oui’ the conservative party, and most of our leaders of the briefing have said watching this debate last night iam no said watching this debate last night i am no clearer, they didn't really say anything. they were talking over each other, some have called it drivel. what is your response to that? two things. for one, i don't think the format works, i think it was challenging for them. two, this was challenging for them. two, this was a debate amongst conservative politicians, so for those people who are not close to it, which is pretty much anyone else, it is hard to see the differentiation. the clear line was that rory stewart were on one side and four of the others were on the other side, saying what they wa nt to the other side, saying what they want to do around brexit, and everything else is between them. thank you for being with us on the briefing, and thank you for your comments and your company. i will tweet about the other stories that we didn't touch on. i will see you

soon. hello there, good morning. by thursday, the weather should be much more straightforward, but we've still got cloud around at the moment, bringing some outbreaks of rain, and there are some storms around, too, as this warm and humid air pushes its way northwards. that cloud bringing the rain, this cloud bringing the storms as well, and they're tending to track their way across the south—east of england and east anglia, and this is the main area at risk of further thunderstorms as we head well into wednesday. there could be some really gusty winds, some hail and some thunder too. this is the story as we head towards the end of the night. we've got a lot of cloud for england and wales. outbreaks of rain, the storms moving away from the south—east of england, pushing across east anglia and into the north sea. things are more straightforward for scotland and northern ireland, where we've got sunshine and showers arriving from the north—west. but, by late morning and into the afternoon, we could see a fresh crop of thundery downpours arriving in the south—east and east anglia, even a few patchy bursts of rain across the midlands and lincolnshire. much brighter further west, across england and wales, and those temperatures very similar to what we had on tuesday. so some rain, unfortunately, again for the tennis at queen's, and some rain for race—goers at royal ascot. thursday probably

dry for ladies day. certainly drier, i think, on friday by then. but it will be feeling a little bit fresher. the humid air ahead of that weather front is going to push into the near continent, the storms heading away, as well, and this fresher air will pull in from the atlantic around that area of low pressure. closer to that area of low pressure in the north—west of the uk, this is where we keep showers going overnight into thursday. clearer skies, a cooler, fresher feel for england and wales, but the promise of some early sunshine. now, some places may stay dry, but there are some showers heading eastwards from wales and the south—west of england. probably the driest weather and sunniest weather across northern england. but a scattering of showers for northern ireland, and some frequent, heavy showers across scotland, and again those temperatures 16—20 degrees. as we head towards the end of the week, we're starting to see high pressure building up from the south. but across the northern half of the uk, particularly northern scotland, we're closer to that low pressure. that means some showers will keep going in northern scotland, and it will be quite blustery as well. after a sunny start for many other

areas, we're going to find cloud building up, but there's a good chance you'll stay dry, with some spells of sunshine into the afternoon. and those temperatures really aren't changing very much at all over the next few days —16—20 degrees. however, over the weekend, it looks like all of us will get warmer. saturday looks mostly dry, with some sunshine. things start to change on sunday, as we see some rain beginning to arrive in from the west. that's it from me, goodbye.

good morning — welcome to breakfast, with dan walker and louise minchin. our headlines: the race to be prime minister — the remaining five candidates clash during a live tv debate over how to deliver brexit. none us wants a no deal outcome. we've made a mistake. the duke and duchess of cambridge's police convoy is involved in an accident that's left a woman in her