the ft has a story about a row between sajid javid and the cabinet secretary mark sedwill, after the chancellor was barred from releasing analysis showing the pricing of labour pledges. the prime minister launches the conservative party's general election campaign — on the front page of the telegraph. the mirror leads with the pilot of a new dna test for serious health conditions which it's hoped could save the lives of thousands of children. the guardian headlines the backlash overjacob rees mogg's comments — despite the cabinet minister issuing a ‘profound apology‘. the mail leads with the rmt strike which will affect trains across the south western rail network throughout december. and according to the times the chinese government has put pressure on uk universites to curb criticism of its regime.

let's plunge into this, this must be of interest, the kind of election policies which the conservatives are hoping to deal with of labour, but they stepped in and said no. obviously huge sensitivity about something like that in just when parliament is dealing with the civil service appearing to have said, we have to remain neutral and seeing, not seem to be promoting this. but they would be looking at because the ma nifestos they would be looking at because the manifestos are not there and policies throughout. with the big attempt to actually be central to the conservative parties election campaign and now they don't have that information to go to the public with. is this a routine thing when elections are coming up? you are in

downing street also when they pass the direct policy. did you find your direct communication, did you find yourself seeking this information saying that we better get this costed and see? it has happened consistently down the years but it is normally done a little bit further away from the election which is how the civil service in the past has been able to justify the exercise and that they are asked to cost, which happens to be based on the political pronouncements of an opposition party. but it is an unreal exercise because we haven't gotten the manifestos and the people of said speeches are written in an article or answered and interview, and we have all of those work out what it might cost and we come up with some ludicrous figure. goes over the head of most people. in doing this against labour party.

traditionally it is labour that wants to spend more and the tories and when we are and government, we looked at what they were going to cut as opposed to what they're going to do to increase public services. one of the examples that is come up tonight is this figure that the liberal democrats came up with, it is actually based on an assessment of how much more the economy would grow it is predicted to grow if he did not have brexit, it is a notionalfigure which is did not have brexit, it is a notional figure which is turned into ha rd notional figure which is turned into hard money which the reality is no one can really say with any confidence that that is actually what is going to cost. all of the parties are under pressure to say what are you going to do, and then they're under what are you going to do, and then they‘ re under pressure what are you going to do, and then they're under pressure as to how you're going to find it. hence, you come up with, the question of how you're going to funded, both of the main parties, labourand you're going to funded, both of the main parties, labour and the conservatives they are the two main

parties that are throwing money around ona parties that are throwing money around on a scale that i do not know in terms of the funding. being called into this, they're trying to bring some kind of physical disk —— fiscal discipline. on this. on the telegraph, this is interesting. the telegraph, this is interesting. the telegraph says that borisjohnson is launching his campaign in the paper, slightly over blowing it. but it bears, tells you nothing about the conservative campaign. it is a political attack on jeremy corbyn it is very curious headline on newspaper layout terms. very hard to get the hang of. but you are right, it has nothing to do with the contents of the tory manifesto although it does tell you something about the nature of the tory

campaign and in a way it is typical borisjohnson in the telegraph, the stuff i used to get paid to write and more further down about the government being trapped by ten tourism. so you have this. the wealthier person farmers. and the election being wealthy was not... but interestingly the prime minister in paragraph two says that it demonises billionaires for the nonsense due to being persecuted known as the kulaks, being on the side of people with aspirations and hard—working families and people aspire to be a higher tax on her,

but it does not necessarily aspire to bea but it does not necessarily aspire to be a billionaire, you have the conservative government coming to the defence of billionaires this is so the defence of billionaires this is so weird would launch a campaign. going like this and saying that as a conservative policy for the selection? its entrepreneurs, will we do not sneer at the wealth creators. this is the prime minister saying... certainly in here, the message is we support wealthy creators so if you're a billionaire, we are on that seems to be the message. let us move on to a less helpful piece of headlining for the conservatives. this is coming as a result of jacob reese mogg's saying that common sense should have helped them to ignore the advice of the professionals and leave the burning building and he said i would've done that. he now says that he read the

report and said he would have done it with hindsight, he doesn't mean he would have died at the time it is very sorry that he gave the impression that he did not think there is sensible people. he did give that impression it was shocking, insensitive and the apologies being made of the damage has been done and certainly the family's safari made statements showing how the stress —— families have made statements. and the tone initially when trees may had a very u nfortu nate initially when trees may had a very unfortunate encounter into her credit, she worked quite hard to rebuild some of that relationship listening to the appointment of the chairman and things like that. jacob reese mogg has put some of that work backwards somewhat for the conservatives. a long way and given

the impression that the conservatives are out of touch with ordinary people and think that they know better, which of course is bad. stormzy has given his characteristic style calling on him to resign. i think our audience is mature enough to handle... he will not quit but it is curious to see what role he will play in the campaign ifany. what role he will play in the campaign if any. they do need to have them in the background because he is toxic to a lot of people. but he is toxic to a lot of people. but he could not be made to resign because he said something, he gets it wrong in an interview, if he was meant to resign for that. people would draw a whole list that boris johnson had said in interviews and articles that she, she should've resigned —— he should've resigned multiple times. when he misspoke

over the financial plans the conservatives to hide, and away... we add people into thousand one, we had people dressed up as sherlock holmes running around the countryside searching for all of her to flush them out. what a lovely pa rt to flush them out. what a lovely part of the country. did you ever find him? we flush them out in the end, yes. this is talking about flushing people out. becoming as elusive as jacob reese mogg, it is a farewell to hammond. someone who is so at the heart of the conservative party. only four months ago. and has lost it. almost being forced out and away because the wip was not restored to him as opposed to other mps. how do you rate him as a chancellor? he did care about fiscal

responsibilities. not the most stimulating, but rigorous, and rigour is not a bad thing. these core individuals in the conservative party... people that believed in good government, you could see that they had the interest of the country at heart and were not going to play politics with you. and they have lost not only philip hammond, and without the wip, he is no longer a conservative mp. so many others who have come a working—class girl from sheffield, good for the idea of the broader conservative party and as a political strategy, borisjohnson

has chosen to surround himself by people who are light years away from the individuals that we have just been discussing. and he may pay a heavy price for that. on the telegraph, a lovely story, bottom left in the news in brief as they used to be known. about queen and for. phil if she buys a new fur coat in the future, it would not be real for. the standard is being made for fur codes. it is the end of an era in the house of lords and if you wa nt in the house of lords and if you want to see the queen wearing real fur, it will have to be at home. want to see the queen wearing real fur, it will have to be at homem is back on your screens later this month. thank you both very much and i know you will be back on our screens bit sooner than that in about a0 minutes' time and notice

time. that's it for the papers this hour. helen brand and lance price will be back at half past eleven 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 — 7 days a week at bbc dot co uk forward slash papers — and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you and goodbye. hello, good evening. dry and bright as the fog clears the way, a few showers peppering on the east coast as we extend to the sunshine across eastern areas, a line of showers in the sea with one of rain as we continue to push northwards and eastwards on the high ground, a dryer slot in the next band of rain which will be in western areas later on and it is

going to be a chilly day. rain band pushes further north and merges with the one you have it, so could be quite wet on thursday across central and northern and eastern areas and blustery showers in the south and over the high ground. thursday though, this area of low pressure parked on top of the uk which is associated with the front which can be very wet across central and eastern portions of the uk throughout thursday which can lead to some travel disruption, friday is looking much better. drier, brighter, corporate with some sunshine.

this is bbc news. the headlines at 11pm: the welsh secretary, alun cairns, is accused of a cover up after denying that he knew about the role of one of his staff in the collapse of a rape trial. the lib dems launch their election campiagn, claiming the uk would get a "remain bonus" of £50 billion over five years if brexit was stopped. when i look at borisjohnson and jeremy corbyn, i am absolutely certain i could do a betterjob than either of them. cabinet ministerjacob rees—mogg apologises for suggesting that residents of grenfell tower should have used "common sense" and left the building, instead of listening to fire brigade. and at 11:30pm we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers —

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