in up in scotland. amounts of cloud. in up in scotland. my amounts of cloud. in up in scotland. my this area of low pressure just lumbers on top of the british isles, further showers or longer spells of rain at times. we will still be pulling in some relatively chilly airfrom the north. temperatures during thursday, seven degrees during thursday, seven degrees during glasgow, 10 degrees in london and of the highest hills, don't be surprised if you see some sleet. on friday, the area of low pressure will pull away. some spells of sunshine, but it's still going to feel rather chilly and friday night looks like being another cold one. temporarily, this little bump of high pressure which will settle things down however here comes another frontal system for the start of the weekend. we can expect more

outbreaks of rain from the west on saturday and with that cold air in place of the highest ground, there could be a bit of snow mixing in on those temperatures in single digits. what about the weather picture? it looks like the jetstream is going to remain quite close and be, just to the south of the british isles. that means all is the potential for some cold airand means all is the potential for some cold air and always the likelihood of low pressure in charge. it may be for a of low pressure in charge. it may be fora time, we of low pressure in charge. it may be for a time, we bring brisk easterly winds across the country and could be quite a lot of rain. certainly more rain at times into next week. breezy, with some dry interludes but it's likely to stay chilly.

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hello. this is bbc news with rebecca jones. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines. mps have voted labour's sir lindsay hoyle as the new speaker. he replaces john bercow, who's stood down after 10 years in the role. health bosses have warned parties not to use the nhs as "a political weapon" in the election campaign. the baby goods retailer mothercare has said it plans to call in administrators, putting 2,500 jobs at risk. the uk's terror threat level is downgraded from severe to substantial, but it still means an attack could happen "without further warning." the chief executive of mcdonald's, steve easterbrook, has been sacked

for having a relationship with one of his employees. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are sebastian payne, the whitehall correspondent of the financial times, and polly mackenzie, the director of the cross—party think tank demos. welcome to you both. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. leading with the guardian, the prime minister is accused of a cover—up over alleged russian meddling in uk politics, after claims the government blocked the release of a damning report. in the mail, is this the end of smear tests? the new urine test that can be done at home could end the need for women to go to the doctors for the cervical cancer check. in the telegraph, postal unions

accused of threatening to ruin the election, with a "politically calculated" strike, which may mean ballots aren't delivered in time. leading the times, £17 billion — the cost ofjeremy corbyn‘s pledge to introduce a four—day week, due to its huge impact on the public sector wage bill. and in the express, "come clean on brexit" is the message from the prime minister tojeremy corbyn. he says voters deserve a clearer picture of labour's policy on leaving the european union. so, why don't we start with that story, polly. telling the pm to come clea n story, polly. telling the pm to come clean on brexit, i assume he didn't pick up the phone and tell him this. what is the intel on this one? it's a funny, political tradition. what is the intel on this one? it's a funny, politicaltradition. for politicians to write letters to each other which are released to make a

political point. and a lot of the stories we have here tonight are the campaign machine starting to crank up campaign machine starting to crank up with their big attack lines. and from borisjohnson, up with their big attack lines. and from boris johnson, the up with their big attack lines. and from borisjohnson, the conservative party, focusing the selection on brexit is sorted strategically quite important. the labour party is trying to get us onto questions of public services and austerity, boris johnson wants to make it all about brexit, which he thinks the labour party has blocked. so saying come clea n party has blocked. so saying come clean over the brexit position, can you please tell us what your policy is? we know what its policy is, it's not very good in my opinion, which is that they would renegotiate a different deal that would keep britain in the single market and customs unit does not union. —— union. so this is grandstanding by borisjohnson. union. so this is grandstanding by boris johnson. is it grandstanding?

labour is about to have another roundabout on its brexit policy. jeremy corbyn wants to get brexit resolved, and it's interesting the opposition are going to adopt the government's line on this. get brexit done is obviously something mrjohnson has brexit done is obviously something mr johnson has been brexit done is obviously something mrjohnson has been testing in focus groups to high heaven. and then jeremy corbyn saying we will negotiate a new deal if we get into power within me months, that could be plausible, then in six months to have the referendum, but is a short period of time to get such a list of things done. it took a long time to adjust all the questions and put everything into place the first time. you would need votes for eu nationals, votes for 16 —year—olds,

that could make things take a lot longer. but as polly said, this is just a way of mrjohnson just trying to expose the opposition's position, which is all over the place. they would have to reproduce this deal and they have no idea who would advocate for this deal. prominent people in the shadow cabinet are former remainers, they want to stay in the eu. but what mr corbin once is very much unknown. all of these convulsions will be pulled apart tomorrow, this is obviously the prime minister trying to set the agenda. jeremy corbyn wants to make it about anything but brexit. a lot to unpick there, but we're going to move on to the telegraph. polly, this picks up on what you were saying. they have started

campaigning? they will have a series of campaign launches and manifesto launches, anything to grab the media attention. there is a serious dispute between the communications workers union and the royal mail, which could affect the practicalities of delivering postal ballots to voters. because they might go on strike? yep. they are threatening to go over pay conditions that they say the royal mail has failed to adhere to a deal on pensions. the royal mail is a massively affected by changes in our economy, lots and lots of rivals who are bound by the same terms and conditions because most deliveries use self—employed, big economy workers to undercut the royal mail. so the tricky area, a tricky dispute. in normal times you would expect them to bring in an honest mediator to defuse this risk to our

democratic processes. basically saying this is a taste of things to come ifjeremy corbyn were to be prime minister. because we would have more strikes? we would react to the 1970s and there would be strikes of the time. i think it's a shame. it's much more important that eve ryo ne it's much more important that everyone works together to resolve this dispute, the election and christmas, really important. if it could be resolved, much betterfor all of us. sebastien, my question is whether the postal votes favour one party or the other, and therefore andrew lindsay is justified in saying if there is a stroke it will wreck the election. —— andrea lindsay, is she right? people of all ages send postal ballots but there isa ages send postal ballots but there is a bias towards older voters who may not be able to get to polling

stations or have restricted mobility. we know they are more likely to vote conservative or the brexit party, but i think andrea leadsom has the conservatives in mind. there will be a huge amount of pressure on the cdbu to resolve this soon, christmas and the election is a huge time for the royal mail here andi a huge time for the royal mail here and i think ultimately there will be some dispute resolution to stop this thing going to a strike because if there was a strike, if postal ballots d id there was a strike, if postal ballots did get caught up, that would leave huge chunks of the election open. if it transpires that a lot of people can get there or couldn't reach it, this isjust sta ble couldn't reach it, this isjust stable rattling. just attacking labour and trying to paint this

picture of the 1970s, trade unions on strike trying to disrupt the country and all this, but i think oui’ country and all this, but i think our heads will probably prevail on this. is there a key date on friday? that is when swords will come to a conclusion, and if they haven't got a deal by friday, then they will announce preliminary dates for going on strike. that would then go off to acas, the dispute resolution service and then they would hopefully come to some conclusion. but i think is the workers in terms of their christmas bonuses and having to go on strike first, disrupting the democratic process and christmas, meaning it is overwhelming and everybody‘s interest do not go on strike and get this sorted. i think it's a high—sta kes strike and get this sorted. i think it's a high—stakes camel that will not come to the crunch —— high—stakes situation. not come to the crunch —— high-stakes situation. we will keep an eye on that. the polly, the times, a four—day week would cost

taxpayers £17 billion. he was saying it would cost this much money? once again, a kind of concerted machine—gun attack on a labour policy, but it is a huge labour policy, but it is a huge labour policy which they announce our conference. and even though they weren't proposing then, we don't know what is going to be in their manifesto, they weren't proposing a law to force everybody to work only four days a week. they were clear as technology changes our labour market, they want to push hard to move to a four day week, and they said if you didn't happen it would just increase substantially statutory holiday entitlements. although, we know of course employment rates can encourage the growth in other forms of employment like the gig economy, self—employment and you could end up with people being worse off. so the

cps, a think tank along with the cbi, are all expressing a correct view, in my opinion, that it would be extremely expensive for us to move to this four day week, especially in the public sector where it is hard to get productivity gains. you can imagine technology making it work more efficient, but a doctor or nurse being on duty in hospital or a teacher in a classroom, it's quite hard to see how you enable somebody to work five days worth of work in four days. sebastien, john mcdonald's call to work to live, not live to work, one that strike a chord with some people? i think the premise is wrong, the idea that most people ta ke wrong, the idea that most people take pride in work and enjoy working and find it a core part of their lives and their being. the idea that we go toa lives and their being. the idea that we go to a three day weekend, it might sound nice and fun to some,

spending time with children and family, but it might not be the same asa family, but it might not be the same as a cost £17 billion. i can see the debate, labour had a similar debate on universal basic income, another radical left wing economic policy. giving everybody a basic income, about £20,000, but it would cost a huge amount of taxpayers' money, and wouldn't bring in the productivity gains people are talking about? ultimately doesn't help the jobs market in the uk. i think the key thing for labour series they have talked about a lot of radical stuff, but in 2017 the manifesto was broadly described as nationally democratic. but they become more radical. they want to nationalise water, energy, rail, mail, and the equity in the top a0 companies

handing over to workers, that would be one of the biggest transfers of wealth ever seen. plus they are talking about the four day week on the potential universal basic income, when you throw all this together it is a very radical platform and the tories are going to be pulling this to pieces and asking doesn't add up, are they going to be gains and he was going to pay for this whole thing? in the last election, labour did get away with its manifesto. there will be more scrutiny here and if there are questions about how they are going to do this, how will it benefit ordinary workers? these are the difficult questionsjeremy corbyn will have to answer. there labour did of course costed spending last time. two sides as a lwa ys spending last time. two sides as always to every story. sebastian, let's stay to you. pm accused a

cover—up over report on rationing meddling in uk politics. what we know about this report. i suppose the ultimate question is, why is it being published. the intelligence and security committee which is quite closed doors, it's produced this 50- quite closed doors, it's produced this 50— page dossier as described in the guardian about potential russian interference into the democratic process in britain and particularly some sort of influence within the conservatives. this report is not going to be published down until way after the election. making sure it's all clever public consumption and there is no unsubstantiated claims but obviously there are big concerns about it, we know that russia does want to influence democratic processes. we sought on the 2016 election, many people involved with the russian

government have close links to the regime, did try and influence the leave campaign saw a lot of people on the remain side are very concerned this might happen again. there might be a pro rush influence to help, and dominate grief. former conservative, of course. standing again, saying there is no reason for this refusal and listing should not be published but the fact is, it's in the government's hands to decide on this because it is a national security issue. the question is, once this thing comes out after the election, what's it going to say? we have no idea on what the allegations are. it might turn out to be a whole lot of nothing but costs serious questions and if that turns out, they didn't put it up before another democratic event. it's going to very bad. it seems a bit odd. there is no

administrative region reason not to publish it. the security services themselves i think it's really troubling that downing street has not made any progress on changes to electoral law is enforced. particularly around on line campaigning which is closely linked to how the russians have engaged in out to how the russians have engaged in our democratic processes and in other countries across the eu. it's something you've studied quite a lot. the ira, the internet research agency, not our ira, the russian one, has sought to intervene and it's not that you would think of it's not that you would think of it's kind of traditional campaign literature. their tactics seem to be both gate baked news and even more troubling, to amplify selectively

things that are actually true but completely unrepresentative, in particular focused around islamic phobia, stoking anti—muslim stories in rhetoric and creating a cycle of fear and disunity and i think we have to take those attempts incredibly seriously and properly regulate the way campaigning and political advertising happens on line. we signed an open letter today calling for a moratorium on all political advertising. calling for a moratorium on all politicaladvertising. i calling for a moratorium on all political advertising. i think it is troubling, given there are links between the vote leave campaign alleged, and the goals of this disinformation campaign. that downing street is so cautious about making progress to bring on line campaigning back within our legal team works. rather a sombre note on which to win but really interesting and unfortunately we've run out of

time but really great to have you both here. that is it. 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 sebastian and polly. and till next time, bye bye. good evening — here's your latest sports news. lewis hamilton won a sixth f1 world title but feels he's not even reached his peak yet. at 3a, hamilton is nowjust one behind michael schumacher on the all—time list. second place at the united states grand prix was enough to secure the drivers championship with most of the damage done earlier on in the season. jolyon palmer spent the best part of two seasons racing with hamilton

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so far has been a pretty unsettled start to november, quite a bit of rain in places and also strong winds. over the next few days, what we will notices things turning colder, winds coming down from the north, from the arctic and they will at times throughout this week the more rain. we start this morning off onafairly more rain. we start this morning off on a fairly chilly note. a lot of cloud across england and wales, clear skies scotland and northern ireland. allowing this ridge of high pressure to move in. that will be feeling the cold as certainly to the northern half of the country to tuesday. we start this morning off ona tuesday. we start this morning off on a largely dry and sunny note. a few showers across the north coast. cloudy skies the sentiments of any eastern part of nguyen were further showers will continue here but even here, showers will start to peter out or become fewer as the day wears

on. chilly in the north, eight or nine celsius and showers wintry of the high ground. starting to peter out as a ridge of high pressure builds in. particularly under increasingly clear skies. mainly dry with some sunshine, mist and fog around as well. on wednesday, we look to the west, to the next frontal system which will be working its way in during the course of wednesday so likely to be a dry and chilly start the central and southern and northern and eastern areas with that mr hogg and frost which will tend to across the west, thickening cloud, outbreaks of rain will moving in the sunshine will become hazy further north and east pretending to stay dry until later on. a chilly day to come on wednesday, 6— 10 degrees in the

south. the thursday and friday, it stays chilly. blue colours envelop the uk and continue to hold on. it will be completely not raining all the time. dry weather on friday with thursday's —looking letter with that low pressure system mightn't. friday, original high pressure will move in but it will stay cold for both days.

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