from expect to be productive from flooding, agency warrants. this is quite interesting. we saw from the new environment to repair this morning he was saying we are doing the best we can but we simply cannot protect every household in this report and the telegraph talks about reflecting on that kind of thing that the government is putting a lot of money and has already put 2.6 billion going into flood defences between now and 2021 and this is a 4 billion going in over the next parliament as well. and i think the environment agency is saying they will try their best but we cannot possibly do everything and to have the point about the kinds of impact about climate change, look at australia and for them it is all about bushfires and for the uk it is going to be a ball about flooding. in these questions are going to keep coming up about how much can be done even though a lot of money is a defences but there are those bigger questions about carbon emissions as well. some of the people are going to wa nt well. some of the people are going to want to some issuances about how far government to protect people because we did not know at the moment. not least because it's kind

of advice from the environment agency will dramatically affect insurance premiums and if they can get insurance and potentially taint house prices in those places where flooding is what is most severe. so it is quite remarkable the environment agency has come out and said this. i mean clearly if you're going to have the level of protection needed to prevent some of the scenes with the up in the country over the weekend it would cost billions of pounds in the environment agency does not think that money is going to be forthcoming so it is relatively political intervention if you dig down below the surface and it is interesting that they had decided to do this. we have seen a conservative mac mp in the story saying it's a complete copout to blame it all on climate change which i think speaks to the slight differing views in the party about whether or not you can perhaps not whether or not climate change is happening, there is consensus change is happening, there is consensus that is not true but the

extent to which it can be blamed for human activity and the extent to which it can be prevented by changes to the economy and the extent to which government should play a role in that. it is still a bit of a political issue. they are suggesting that instead of trying to put up flood defences and prevention the government will help people rebuild water damage to homes or move away from flood risk areas soaked a com plete from flood risk areas soaked a complete change of strategy. in some ways this is kind of stating a bit of the obvious because the fact is we can do a lot to tackle climate change but you cannot simply protect everything and protect every household. the environment agency has known this for a long time and of course they classic example is building houses on flood plains which has happened because we have a big housing shortage and it is cheap land and amped you can get insurance for that but that will happen in the future. so i think people might get worried about this but it is fact, it is happening and you have to be aware of it. listen on to the front page of the guardian and grace you

alluded to problems in the conservative party so there is a top story about this adviser andrew sabisky. what are they saying? so he has decided a huge amount of conversing with his comments about race and intelligence but there are andl race and intelligence but there are and i think a lot of stuff is going to be unearthed over the coming hours about other remarks he is made in the past online. i think this has to be viewed in light of the ongoing tensions between dominic cummings and the conservative party establishment. because dominic cummings hasa establishment. because dominic cummings has a broad and it is maverick force who is going to upset the conservativism of the conservative party and try and deliver a more moderate stance on the economy with a very authoritarian stance on certain cultural issues and that has always been his strategy in the way he thinks the party can become the dominant force in british politics. but in doing so he is going to come up but in doing so he is going to come up againsta but in doing so he is going to come up against a lot of resistance and

firstly because the people whom he will bring in misfits and weirdos as he calls them and they will start with the culture of the party and kind of parts of the air surrogacy that are still very vocal in that party but also because of his approach. which as we saw with the resignation of the chancellor of the weekend is going to contradict the approach particularly on the economy of many of the more free—market members of the conservative party which are really still a fairly dominant force. you were at the lobby briefing today and among questions were asked of dentistry about andrew sabisky and that was interesting. this person, first of all we still don't know who hired him or whatjob he was hired for or what his salary was or who is boss was 01’ what his salary was or who is boss was or what he was doing in dentistry in the civil newspaper by the taxpayer and these are important questions especially for someone who

has very controversial views like this and lots of stuff has a mind from his past about twitter comments to my blog comments and things he has written that most would say make him has written that most would say make hi m totally has written that most would say make him totally unfit to serve in public office. but at the briefing with the prime minister's posters in this morning, they refuse to discuss any of this it would not confirm or deny whether the prime minister agree to disagree with these views and it really was extraordinary way of operating and going back to your point about this culture dominic cummings wants to bring in, he wants to move fast and break things. that is what he is doing and they if majority and as you know it is the elected dictatorship you get in britain if you get a big majority and you can do whatever you want to essentially an dominic cummings seems to be coming —— testing that to its destruction here. what it does show is despite having been majority, and a much opposition because they are in leadership contest because they are in leadership co ntest a nd because they are in leadership contest and labour, there are still some boundaries and norms having met. and because andrew sabisky

resigned, he had the feeling he was resigning before he was pushed out because all the stuff admin building up today but also the conservative mpc were starting to say, caroline notes said today that this is an excitable and people were getting very nervous and just thinking what is going on here and why are we doing this because the fact is the johnson government does have a big majority in parliament. they have got lots of things they want to do and lots of things they can do so why bring in this guy who has got this very controversial pastor we have now had two days of arguing about whether or not boris johnson does or does not support an adviser who believes that black people have lower iqs who believes that black people have lower 105 and what people and who is promoting eugenics in various ways and you could talk about all the policy thinks the government wants to do. so on the power of dominic cummings, obviously he is not getting as well everything but we should contrast it with a reshuffle last week where the ousting of the chancellor and the rise of that was all about dominic cummings and whitehall is littered with people who've underestimated his power and

influence celestial think he has still got a lot of influence number ten. 0k still got a lot of influence number ten. ok with little time left in malaise with a couple of stories from your paper and i'll ask grace with the first one, no, you because you have written half of it. indeed i have. your byline is there. what does it say? david frost kim of the cheap rates negotiated for the prime minister has given a speech in brussels tonight and normally they don't get public speeches and he set out in some detail his vision for that trade deal that needs to be struck by the end of this year and in this, he was basically saying the whole fundamental idea behind brexit and that prime minister profit view and that prime minister profit view a brexit is having the ability to do things differently for that beef you don't understand that, there is not going to be a trade deal and this gets to the big issue which is alignment on rules and regulations. because the eu wants to lock the uk into that as part of future trade

deals and david frost says we will not do that so it is a very much kind of vision speech setting out where he thinks brexit should go but ido where he thinks brexit should go but i do think it is him doing this because the eu in the first age of brexit was much clearer and his intentions and the government here was criticised for not being so clear and he has gone out and given a speech about this whole thing about rules and sovereignty is all we are going to hear about when the talks start up again in march. 0k, and grace, the story that caught your eye on the front page of the ft. your eye on the front page of the ft, facebook talks. part of a long—standing face—off if you will between the big tech giants and the eu because referring to these issues around regulation, using a much stronger approach to regulating what it sees is monopolistic companies especially in the tech sector and prosecuting them over issues around data privacy and things and it has created some tension with the us where most of these companies are

headquartered. which is now kind of donald trump taking a bit more of an active stance on pushing back against these regulations which speaks to sebastian's point about how alignment on rules and regulations and nontariff barriers as they are often referred to is the big battle now in international trade and you will see it with the with the eu and the us. so i think the eu kind of going to facebook is saying we are going to regulate you more tightly and going to have lungs into discussions about these companies behaviours on taxes and the eu will be coming for these companies and kind of adopting a more social democratic approach of regulation in the way —— like a brexit is an indication of i think things to come. just a little while left and sebastian came about in the front page of the daily telegraph and really interesting bit of news in brief with the chancellor and his of potential approach to flybe.

in brief with the chancellor and his of potential approach to flybelj knew it chancellor is in place and have to decide we will have a new budget and we expected to be pushed back because the treasury has had some people over the past couple of days with the departure of the previous chancellor but one of the things he did it when he was chancellor was put together a package to save flybe which is the regional airline that does a lot of travel between places and cities across the country in that package was pretty controversial because it basically promised a future tax cut on various levels that would help flybe and apparently the telegraph, the new chancellor is against the and sources same when it comes to the budget and a couple of weeks he might push back. if that is the case, flybe positive future will be in doubt once again and there will bea in doubt once again and there will be a question of can have a sustainable model because without this cot, flybe probably would have gone under people like easyjet and ryanair have gone under people like easyjet and rya nair have complained gone under people like easyjet and ryanair have complained to say why are they getting this unfair advantage before the people who used

flybe were taken from smaller regional airports and have a quiet word with the news and these are the ha rd word with the news and these are the hard choices that the new chancellor has to face when he comes to his first budget. we have to leave it there but we will do it all over again at half past 11 p:m.. thank you both very much. that's it for the papers this hour. sbeastian and grace will be back at 11.30pm 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. thank you, sebastian payne and grace blakeley. goodbye. good evening. it has been a day of blustery showers, particularly the further west you are. and the winds will remain a feature through the night and into tomorrow with plenty of isobars on the pressure chart and a feed of showers waiting out in the atlantic to be driven

in by those westerly winds. some of the showers as we go through the overnight in scotland could turn quite wintry. and as temperatures fall away close to freezing in scotland and northern england, we could have some icy stretches first thing on the roads. fewer showers further south, not quite as cold, but certainly when you're slipping out first thing on tuesday morning, you will notice a chill in the air. showers from the word go on tuesday, particularly further west. some of them heavy with hail and thunder, and again some snow with any elevation. as we go through the afternoon, we will see a line of more organised rain moving its way through the north of england, down through the midlands and south wales, just where we don't need it. and some squally winds to accompany that, as well. ahead of the front, it stays relatively mild with 11 celsius the high, but behind it is noticeably cooler. now as we move out of tuesday, that line of more organised rain will push its way steadily south and east, allowing a brief ridge of high pressure to build, but only very briefly.

it does mean we will see a west—east divide in the weather story as we go through wednesday. eastern areas, perhaps the best day of the week. dry and settled with sunshine coming through. but further west, it may well start off quite dry and bright, it will cloud over quite quickly. and we will see some rain, some of it heavy, and some winds starting to strengthen. now this weather front will stay with us through wednesday night into thursday, taking the bulk of the wet weather into scotland, then linger across western scotland and northern ireland overnight. but with a south—westerly flow, again it will be a little bit milder, overnight lows ranging from 6—9 celsius. so we start off on thursday on a mild note, again on a rather breezy note with winds strengthening but that rain, and that rain could turn quite heavy as it proceeds its way through the southeast. behind it, sunny spells and scattered, squally showers once again, heavy with hail and further spells of thunder. now as we move out of thursday into friday and the weekend, it looks likely to stay pretty u nsettled. plenty of isobars on the charts, windy with gales at times, and one area of low pressure will move through only to be

replaced yet again by another as we push into the weekend.

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