money and extra police opposites in money and so extra police opposites in money and so on, but they think is a strategy. idid not so on, but they think is a strategy. i did not know you're going to quiz me on mathematics, but yes this is the election spending spree have not been called yet and we are secretly pretending it's going to happen. but clearly it's what he's gearing up for and he clearly it's what he's gearing up forand he is, clearly it's what he's gearing up for and he is, although it's a talk about a spender and obviously is able to get the funding for additional areas and surprise, surprise, they are areas traditionally better for an election hot topics like the police and nhs, he is not talking about aid or even less topics like infrastructure. it's all kind of more money for education and everything. and it's quite clear that this is part of a strategy, because his team, his downing street team are gearing up foran downing street team are gearing up for an election, and that's kind of their entire focus while parliament is in recess and it's very exciting

to work out when the election will be and what it means. we had been struggling with the dates, having three? yeah i think that's a key question here that they have to answer, over the month of august. and that is, what is more difficult. holding a general election before brexit is sorted out, or sorting out brexit is sorted out, or sorting out brexit without having called and a general election. and i do not think anyone inside or outside downing street knows the answer to that yet. the polls are in favour of him since he became leader. but we did not know if that's fortunes are talking point in august. it'll be interesting to see how that develops. we have another one out today. continued need. but even that lead, if it's delivering a workable majority, you have to say given that potentially because of brexit,

because evidence could lose heavily in london, they could lose those southwest remain marginal constituencies, they could lose the university for peace and in scotland. without those, where does your majority come from, it's very complicated and obviously an enormous risk. it should also be said labour at don't have a written majority either in the moment they are they'll have a brexit policy, they are losing ground to the live bands, that poll you talked about only had them one point behind labour and boris johnson with only had them one point behind labour and borisjohnson with double disappointment at a jeremy corbyn. labour also had problems in scotland, they had that problem that —— check the shadow attempt to talk a second referendum. that's not let scottish labour policy. it's hard to see how anyone could get to them majority, and it's also hard to see the interest and the timing matters. yet none of that stop speculation

and you suggest the kind of confidence in number ten this has to be the focus, i mean, the date mentioned here in the telegraph is the ist of november. friday depressive november. which of course isa depressive november. which of course is a friday but sort of unusual, but not without precedent. it was that they would not be one before it's deliberate and in that sense he could really into porous facts —— fashion. how that would work in terms of the process interesting, minimum of six seats for the campaign, if it's. it is called back for a confidence but. could you lose that it'll be two weeks of shenanigans. exactly, so that means you're looking at eight weeks, but evenif you're looking at eight weeks, but even if something has happened you're looking at a minimum of six weeks. now, but the brexit deadline

looming, do all the weeks. now, but the brexit deadline looming, do allthe parties necessarily believe it that the best way for them to spend their time is campaigning on an election and waited the general public necessarily think about was the best way of approaching this? remember when rda said you have to not wasted, and we went into that tory leadership contest and now we have this, if anti—brexit faction in parliament do want to stop boris being prime minister by 31st of october, they need to call that no vote basically depressed at present and getting back, which started in september. and i worked out if they do on that day, there is enough time for the election tap on the 29th of october. so similarly they do not need to be wasting time, the poem i should be hot between all of them. —— bone mind. —— phone line. and he

entering peeve front bench team, all of this people should be constantly talking right now. that requires them to work together and have a clear idea of what their plan is and who would lead it the prime minister would be in a situation about obviously we have been here before and as another tactic that they had which is led by dominic grieve, which is led by dominic grieve, which is led by dominic grieve, which is looking at parliamentary process and procedure to see if you have to oust borisjohnson and had an election or can you just wrest control from the government and get it to parliament, exactly, and he seems to think he can do that but we are not sure how. precisely how that goes out with the electorate write this up remaining to be seen but my sense is it that among the many people who voted to leave, i don't think they'll be overly excited about some sort of parliamentary mechanism used to seize a way as they would see it, control from the opposition. i said -- i get that

option is if the letter to you —— lose but of confidence or powers we re lose but of confidence or powers were restricted, you get those hands up were restricted, you get those hands up and say parliament is pressing me foran up and say parliament is pressing me for an election, and forcing me to a nswer for an election, and forcing me to answer the brothels to give us extensions because it cannot do this and had an election. i need a mandate, i'm going to people for a mandate, i'm going to people for a mandate and then go back to brussels and negotiate something better. that might be plan b, there may be a sense that boris is making deliberately private — — sense that boris is making deliberately private —— provocative statements about the eu trying to see sense. in order to goad them into hardening their stance. he can play this parliament versus the people and he got to set aside the people. will of course. a protected one side, back for narrative, i think it's probably the plan b at this point. moving on now to the next story, he's wearing a hard hat.

looks like it's photoshop here. what neck we did discuss that because at the same picture we are worried that people that we are being disrespectful but that's actually a real picture of him with the hat on. what does that have to do a scientists? oh... yes, so one of the things he suggested he's going to do, this is me on the side of boris johnson, he is scrapping the net migration down debt to 100,000 a year. and particularly, launching a scheme for scientists and their visas because this is the skilled people we want working in the uk, and he's doing something teresa may should have been a long time ago, which is recognising that anxiety about immigration link to control, not numbers public are broadly in

support of broad skill and aggression, everyone wants foreign scientists and stopping talented people for coming to where care is not what people will want. he spoken ofa not what people will want. he spoken of a vivid way this afternoon about turning our immigration policy into a giant magnet that would suck scientists like iron filings from other projects all around the world isa other projects all around the world is a wonderful image. they may be more than a hard hat. but the interesting question is what projects will they work on. 50% of those who work in this country, and crucially, and a lot of the money that finding —— finds them is coming from european wide initiative, across academic research. if we leave with a no—deal brexit, then all of that and. not necessarily permanently, but certainly in the

short term. as a baby saying earlier to us, on the news, she was saying that it might be possible for us to ta ke that it might be possible for us to take associate status because bottom line is they still want skills of the scientists. unless they can persuade them to work. but that's it thing has to be one side of the argument on the other side is that the fact that when you ask the public what you want to for brexit to feel real, you have of the voters saying they want their right of the citizens to be maintained. you have at the rate at the voters saying they think citizens should go back to their home country. how, if you are borisjohnson, do you marry at those two conflicting competing narratives when you're trying to decide on immigration. because you are right that people accept that skilled immigration needs to take place. but it's about the optics and what counts as skilled immigration

and also, this is true and lots of data, what country as people come from, and right or wrong whether we like it or not there is a clear hierarchy in this country on where the general public white and begins to come from and the countries where they don't. and that's a really difficult thing to marry for anyone thinking about any kind immigration policy, either as part of a brexit deal or no deal. back to the telegraph, below the photographs of the princess with her mum sticking her tongue out at the photographers, she's learning young now. we will see her brother later. this is a story about cannabis medicine being blocked. so when sajid javid was home secretary making the decision to decriminalise satan cannabis —based medicines after the horrific story we heard of the child epilepsy and other cases says well, let his

medicines because they are i the only thing that works and parents are barred from getting treatment here, he dinner —— decriminalise them, but now the nice guidelines i saying that doctors are not allowed to prescribe them because there isn't enough evidence. i do sympathise that because it's important we find at the products are safe but there are also extensive research in other countries where we now have a situation where parents are smuggling drugs into the country in order to treat their very, very ill children and we need to get a head start on this and we also had an overarching overhaul of our drugs policy both recreational and the distance tech in the dark ages and anti—science and it really needs to have a rethink. how this will get a look and with brexit and the election, i did not know. two of the new advises come from pro—cannabis think tanks. yes the government was quick to say it was not government policy. they would say that. there

are points that parents were spending £1500 a month on these products coming in for their children with epilepsy. it's a very, very sad story, and is still cliche but something has to be done. what's the public opinion on drug policy? it's very complicated on drug policy, but generally speaking out the top of my head the majority of people... majority think something about it. yellow nike supports medicinal cannabis. yes in terms of that there is a huge support. so there would not be a huge backlash on the use of this if it was liberalised. yes but the same time there are similarly very much opposition to spending money on things for which there is no proof. and into that goes from the opposite of christ with government i think

the tory mp who is been campaigning for about a part of 30 years on the nhs and he's been up against problems at that i think. and then at chrissy as prince charles on his site that i could help them. randy is key to acclimate, i think it means to tackle climate change. i'm not really sure wipes knees, because we know how we use land and resources is part of the environment and combating climate change. this isa and combating climate change. this is a new report urging to eat less meat which is noble and something i think is coming to headlines lately because of extinction, but if says here at the entire world became vegan, greenhouse gas emissions could be cut by the equivalent of the combined yearly carbon of the us and india. obviously that's a huge amount, but it requires the entire

world to go vegan and it would not even cut holiday, and a sort of feel while it's great for people to eat less meat and i would encourage it and it's great we had beacon products we did not have before, but putting individuals making them responsible when actually what we need a structural and technological solutions is a little bit naive. something i found interesting was the fact that when he came to wasted food which accounts for the contributing factors, so it strikes me that actually it's more important for us to think about the really easiest step if you'd like, ijust buying less and eating what we buy been thinking about specific changes, because i mean, simply not throwing food away could have a huge impact, and that's tonight is for individuals, that for agriculture as well. we throw a huge amounts of food because it slightly odd shaped

or slightly discolored, when is perfectly healthy. you making the borisjohnson perfectly healthy. you making the boris johnson banana perfectly healthy. you making the borisjohnson banana inadvertently comment. finally, the metro. flynnl have been reading on this, so there isa have been reading on this, so there is a woman called the duchess of cambridge and has been confirmed in this picture here that she has above the average number of legs. yes it's around about 1.999 and of yes duchess of cambridge referred to here simply ask captain kate. i don't know if that's an official rank, she has above average number of legs. and she's on a boat apparently. right i guess we are and apparently. right i guess we are and a light —— an island of so. apparently. right i guess we are and a light -- an island of so. it's clearly something that silly. that's a p pa re ntly clearly something that silly. that's apparently not for some people.

that's it for the papers this hour. rachel and joe will be back at 11:30 for another look at the papers, and 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. whether coming up shortly, i'll be back at 11 o'clock. thank for being with us. hello, whether in sales in this been added a lot around, the next few days, we had a reminder that it's actually summer. temperature is 27 degrees and stop back but it is changing. not going to look or feel like summer for the next few days. not only to have rain that'll be happy at times, we got wind that really strengthening as we had to the next few days. not only to have

rain that'll be happy at times, we got wind that really strengthening as we had today we can, that'll bring as this, like a cloud heading oui’ bring as this, like a cloud heading our way, currently a cloud wrapped around in an unusually deep area of low pressure for this time of year and afar low pressure for this time of year and a far south as well. that'll bring as well. that'll bring us unusual weather impact the next three days. lots of rain and the southwest had wales but not so much for england, wet weather pushing north and the next two hours to many areas overnight. quite happy as well. lots of warm tropical air drying and so monday night as well. not so much for northern scotland where it's cool and fresh, i generally try to strike the morning wet weather across central and southern scotland with an outbreak that's handy. rush—hour and northern ireland weather and england and salary —— burst of rain clearing away from eastern england, but essentially be out in the morning for wales and southwest but warm and rather muggy start. rain is going to

work northwards coming to rest across northern scotland and we get sunshine elsewhere but showers develop for western areas and heavy and thunder and dust as well. picking up in the southwest later in the day. many surprises england after some rain in the morning afternoon should be dried with warmth and humidity, temperature is in the mid—20s. area of low pressure continuing north through the evening and overnight. wind continues to strengthen across england and wales. below focuses wet weather across northern parts of the uk for scotla nd northern parts of the uk for scotland and northern ireland. sharon is happy and thunder. wind will be a feature of the weather, blowing showers across and that and wales because they will have 60 miles an hour along the south coast. bringing in fresh air with temperature is about low 20s. second half of the weekend, not reallyjive with we still have showers and rain,

moving down into england and wales can be quite heavy but not as windy as sunday. breezy but not windy and the direction changes going north, dragging down cold airfrom the north. temperature is on sunday are only 16 degrees.

this is bbc news. the headlines at 11:00pm: eating less meat to help save the planet — the un says switching to a plant—based diet could help slow down global warming. the choice between broccoli and ribs on your plate actually has a real link to the level of global warming that we are likely to see. a man's been charged with attempted murder tonight after a police officer was stabbed in a frenzied machete attack in east london. what's machete attack in east london. this thing here? the prime minister promises to fast track visas for top scientists coming to britain as he says he's confident a deal can be done with the eu. there is every possibility that the eu- there is every possibility that the eu — for the eu to show flexibility.

i'm hoping they