for the start an unsettled picture for the start of march but probably not so intense. the wind notices strong, the rain not so heavy. monday morning, a cold day again. temperatures barely reaching double figures so colder than it should be for this time of year. shari as well. not chilly by day but also by night so we keep the risk of frost and temperatures probably where they should be forjanuary and february. hello. this is bbc news with me, lukwesa burak. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. first the headlines. tensions at the top of the home office burst into the open, with the dramatic resignation of its most senior civil servant, who quit after what he called a vicious and coordinated campaign against him.

there've been persistent reports of a rift between him and the home secretary, priti patel. i have received allegations that her conduct has included shouting and swearing, belittling people, making unreasonable and repeated demands. behaviour that created fear and needed some bravery to call out. as worldwide efforts continue to contain the coronavirus, 3 more people test positive in the uk. a moment of history — the united states and the taliban sign a deal that it's hoped will end 18 years of war in afghanistan. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow.

with me are nigel nelson, the political editor for the sunday mirror and the sunday people, and the political commentator, jo phillips. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the times leads on the prime minister and his girlfriend announcing they are having a baby, alongside reports of the priti patel being called a lying bully by the former home office chief sir philip rutnam. that same photo of the husband and wife to be on the front page of the telegraph — taken from a post on ms symonds‘ instagram. she says she feels ‘incredibly blessed' after announcing her pregnancy and engagement to the prime minister. first number 10 wedding for 250 years, reports the independent. an exclusive on the front page of the mail on sunday, which reports on leaked emails from one of the government's most senior advisers, suggesting that britain doesn't need its own farmers,

as the food sector is apparently not ‘critically important‘ to the economy. and the observer says that former health professionals could be brought out of retirement to form a dad's army as part of emergency plans being considered by the government to combat the spread of coronavirus. 0k, ok, so those are the front pages. let's start off with the sunday times this time, same story though. it is the row taking place at the home office. what a row indeed. it is unprecedented stop sir philip rutnam who is the most senior civil servant at the civil service has come out and made that statement, as it says here, basically calling priti patel, the home secretary, a lying bully, accusing her of appalling behaviour to not just lying bully, accusing her of appalling behaviour to notjust him but other members of his staff. he

makes the point that he is responsible for 35,000 people who work within the home office. but, amen, there is more to it in the story than when we looked at this an hour ago story than when we looked at this an hourago —— hi mean. there story than when we looked at this an hour ago —— hi mean. there is real concern that the chaos at the home office might derail some of the government's he plans, most notably immigration. immigration is the key one. with freedom of movement being turned off, it is one of the biggest jobs the home office faces. what i think is interesting about the sunday times piece is they speculate on dhru patel's future and there are suggestions from sources saying she might be out of the job by the end of the year. there is allegedly a complaint being made against her that she has broken the ministerial code, according to the paper, which obviously would be serious if that was proved. think the biggest thing is going to be is if sir philip

carries out his threat to go to an employment tribunal, the kind of things he might say there would be absolute dynamite, given what he has actually said today. would that complaint to be linked to the tribunal, the formal complaint that has been lodged. the formal complaint seems to be to do with what sir philip is claiming, not directly linked to the employment tribunal. ok. the other thing is, if there are other people within the department who have also felt bullied or uncomfortable by having somebody at this level come out and say it, it will enable other people. it may give them close to do the same thing. on the other side of that, people are saying we could see more people, more departures from the home office before this is over as borisjohnson really want the home office before this is over as boris johnson really want to shake things up. all prime ministers, all governments want to shake things up. and they all want to shake up the civil service. but, in the end, however flawed it is,

the civil service runs the country. ministers come and go, prime ministers come and go, even special advisor ‘s come and go. the civil serva nts advisor ‘s come and go. the civil servants keep this country ticking along. the home office is a particularly complex government department. and the magnitude of summary department. and the magnitude of summary like a permanent secretary coming out and saying the things he does. the headline itself will make dhru patel wins by tomorrow morning. "home office calls chief a lying bully". he must been put so far to make these kinds of allegations. he has been there for 30 odd years. he has been there for 30 odd years. he has turned down a pay of a settlement, apparently, because he did not want to sign a nondisclosure agreement to get a gagging order. a summary agreement to get a gagging order. a summary like that who has been a public servant all their working life to come out... it is not in their dna to do something like this. absolutely. there is another -- another element of the story that i'm anything now, late today, on the front page of the sunday telegraph,

it is mentioned on a few of them, thatis it is mentioned on a few of them, that is that so mark sedwill is now attracting attention. this is interesting. this servants turning on the cabinet secretary. what they are saying, broadly, is the accusation the telegraph mention is they think he has gone native in numberio. and they think he has gone native in number 10. and what he should be doing, which is perfectly true, he should be doing it, is defending his civil servants against the kind of attacks they have been facing. so the feeling according to the telegraph is the civil service is fiow telegraph is the civil service is now feeling let down by the head civil servant. and certainly it is hisjob to try civil servant. and certainly it is his job to try to protect people who work for him. and i think it goes back to this whole sense that, you know, this has been a storm that has been brewing for some time. we have heard and seen reports of people being shouted out and sworn at and forced to work into the night and do

it now and do it yesterday and that sort of thing. it is the sort of behaviour that nigel and they are very used to in newsrooms and some of us go back to the days of vibrators being thrown at you. of us go back to the days of vibrators being thrown at youm modern newsrooms it doesn't... no comment is not what you expect. you expect a degree of healthy tension —— typewriters being thrown at you. how can the government carry on if it hasn't of the goodwill of the civil service? amber rudd, actually did, when she stood down said i didn't have support. it is interesting to think about what is going on. back in the days ofjohn reid, home secretary 20 years ago, he said it is not fit for purpose stop the front page of the telegraph, the other big news today is, a wedding, maybe, we don't know. maybe a very modern baby. as there may not be a wedding, but definitely a baby on the way. he has to get divorced first. he is divorced. they came through last week. either the financial settlement came through

la st financial settlement came through last week —— i thought. his previous wife, his wife, marina wheeler, was cleared to go for divorce proceedings because a financial settlement had been done. they have reached a settlement. there are a few loose ends to clear up. at the moment, we know is, is when the wedding is going to be. we do know is, because carrie symons is actually saying it, is that we will have a summer baby, and early summer baby, and that she has been pregnant for five months. what else can you say? i don't know. they will give you a gap to say it. i really don't know what to say. unusual. i think it is the timing of the announcement is significant, is it not make what a good day to announce a number 10 baby? this broken about 5:30pm.

obviously number 10 had a pretty ha rd obviously number 10 had a pretty hard time today dealing with the sir philip rutnam case. there is a suspicion that if you drop a story like thatjust suspicion that if you drop a story like that just before the suspicion that if you drop a story like thatjust before the six o'clock news all over the place that it might be a good way of burying bad news. it won't, though, will it? this is something on, the story. fortunately we started with the main story of the day, not the baby. we turned back to the times. preparations, we are hearing plans about what the government is suggesting when it comes to coping with the coronavirus. yes. i think this is a very interesting take on the whole coronavirus thing and i think it raises a lot of questions. and again it puts government's feature the fire, because some of the questions this raises only government intervention can deal with. so millions of workers could be told to work from home, they are drawing upa be told to work from home, they are drawing up a battle plan. there are some rather shocking figures in here that, worst case scenario, 80% of the population might get the virus,

with up to half a million deaths. this talk about cemeteries and crematoriums... this talk about cemeteries and crematoriums. .. it is the this talk about cemeteries and crematoriums... it is the most depressing coronavirus report.|j think on looking at the practicalities of it, not the worst case scenario. what happens to sickbay? what happens to people on zero hours? what happens to all those people who can't work from home? transport workers, nurses, doctors, paramedics, those sort of people. and what is going to happen to the people who just can't afford to the people who just can't afford to not go to work? that's the sort of thing that the government could intervene on, for instance, with something like a 14 basic note so you don't have to keep going back to the doctor. —— you don't have to keep going back to the doctor. "14 day signet. the government could put pressure on insurance companies to step up to the plate, let people cancel their holidays, give their money back. they are being terribly vague about this. the problem has been they talk

about people might have to stay at home, they are talking about transport restrictions... shall become as you say, talk about this. it is the next paper, it is linked, the observer. it is labelled as the dad's army. the dad's army bit of it is to bring retired nurses and doctors back into the fold. what they will need is to be reregistered, that will be an emergency thing. and the observer is predicting that they are needed because up to 2.3 million people could end up with the disease. that is sort of a reasonable worst case scenario. what they are doing at the moment is there will be a meeting of the cabinet office to co—ordinate style. the bit eye quite liked is that every department will have a junior minister responsible for coronavirus who will be known as the virus lead, which is perhaps something you don't want on your passport. but at last the government

is taking action. whereas before they did seem to drag their feet. we have now got it here. try to keep it out, which is what they did, but now it is here we have got to plan. do you think they could have started talking about this earlier? absolutely. as soon as they started talking about this, why did anybody think it would stay in china? if you have something like this it is going to move, because we move, people move around the world, with remarkable speed and frequency. let us remarkable speed and frequency. let us and on the front page of the mail on sunday. it is leaked e—mails. britain doesn't need farmers. this is not going to cheer up any farmers reading the daily mail over their brea kfast reading the daily mail over their breakfast tomorrow morning. this is a friend of dominic cummings. he does pop up an awful lot, doesn't it? a treasury advisor, tim learn egg, he is in at the damikfrom the london school of economics who was from a two—year attachment to

government. he has apparently written in an e—mail saying that the food sector is not critical to britain's economy, we don't need farmers. but, actually, to go back to the previous story, yes, we do, we need to be growing our own stuff, we need to be growing our own stuff, we need to be growing our own stuff, we need not to be flying in beans and strawberries out of season, we need to be supporting farmers... this would not go along with the government's climate change policy. exactly. and we have farmers in wales and the north—west underwater who have not been able to plant anything and those who did it is rotting. farming is absolutely critical to this country. rotting. farming is absolutely critical to this countrylj rotting. farming is absolutely critical to this country. i think it willjust disappear. let us hope the person who wrote it does. it is interesting. when he talks about fishery production i think the fishing industry will start saying, hang on, our fishing fishing industry will start saying, hang on, ourfishing waters, they are very key to brexit. and michael gove spent a long time trying to defend them. and we know the government is already on the brink of selling them literally down the

river. ok, we will end there. nigel andjo, thank river. ok, we will end there. nigel and jo, thank you very much indeed and jo, thank you very much indeed and thank you forjoining us on the bbc news channel. 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.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. nigel i think you are right about the divorce status. i mean, you are a lwa ys the divorce status. i mean, you are always right. —— nigel, ithink. a big thank you again to nigel and jo for joining big thank you again to nigel and jo forjoining me, big thank you again to nigel and jo for joining me, and big thank you again to nigel and jo forjoining me, and yourselves. next on bbc news it's the film review. good night.