some of them have children who've got a cold and they can't see them. and they're working really hard in a cause which they really believe in. because i know it's unpopular to say that, because we're meant to believe that they're all the same, so, you know, i don't. sorry, you know, write on twitter that i'm awful. but actually, these are people with a conscience who want to do well by our country, and they're working in a cause which they are completely and utterly believing in and feeling knackered. but their leaders have just told them is a waste of time. well, i mean... yeah, i mean, that's the thing i wonder about, actually, if you were a tory candidate and you've heard that from mel stride and you've read that from suella braverman this morning, you are going to feel a bit hacked off. and it's something we often say at the weekends. we often say on weekend newscasts because we're nice, right, they're actually politicians and political activists and those people who give up their time or sometimes choose less lucrative, easier careers to go into politics, which is a tough old game. and everybody i'd be talking to in the last few days have one thing in common — they're all absolutely shattered. whether they think that they're about to walk

into government, or whether they think they're packing up their boxes and getting their p45, they are all knackered. there is a kind of little subplot, though, if you think about how conservative cabinet ministers — and they're still ministers, even though they're not mps at the moment — there is a real level of being hacked off among some of the ministers who've carried on doing media interviews, who've carried on turning up, compared to some of their colleagues who have, shall we say, been less willing to rush towards the microphone. now, there's a combination of things there. i think there's an unwillingness, a genuine unwillingness for people to come forward. and i think that the communications operation has had difficulty in finding people who would go and front up through some of the mishaps, moments of this campaign. there is also the fact that some cabinet ministers, who you might normally expect to see on the telly or on the wireless or on a podcast, have been fighting for their seats and fighting to hang on to theirjob. but it's one of these little things.

you just go, "ooh, there's a little pebble in the pond," that something's going to be cross and frustrated about after the election, when this postmortem, if it lands that way, really comes. there has been, yeah, quite a lot of well—known conservatives turning up and doing just enough to say that they turned up. think about boris, think about borisjohnson appearing. oh well, he won... ..the night before the last night to do a speech where he then doesn't even share the stage with rishi sunak. he doesn't even say rishi sunak�*s name in his rally. it was interesting that because having not worked on that yesterday, sort of during the day, ijust saw it on the news like you know most heard it on the radio or saw the images on the news. and then when it was pointed out, as you know, you did very clearly and very well on the ten last night, chris, that yes, they didn't appear on the stage and it had come about because there was a text message saying, "please come and help." i think a lot of people just watching or reading about that online this morning just thought, "you know what? this is like a pair of six—year—olds who have sort of been made to shake hands, and they wouldn't even do that. "but it's ok. you can both have the sand pit, but you have a turn first,

and then the other little johnny will have a go." but what's weird is that obviously that was designed as like a last minute surprise that it's going to shake up and put some adrenaline in the conservative campaign in the last 48 hours, but it sort of hasn't really landed like that. it was, it sort of exploded a bit on social media last night. yeah, chris, you had to break the news live on the 10 o'clock news. "oh, look who's back." but it hasn't dominated the conversation today in a way that they presumably hoped or thought it might do. so i wonder, chris, then — do the tory hq, do they think that would actually make a difference? because we can pontificate — surely we would never pontificate — about what might have happened if he'd been very present during the campaign. but at this last minute moment, did they reckon it would make any difference? i think it was sort - of a bit more prosaic. he was up for doing it, so why not? and there he was really, i to be honest, um, and... i mean, for me, kind of watching it, you know, there it was, _ it's kind of 9:45, the sort of night before the last day, you know, i and there he suddenly was, and as you say, with that i slightly odd choreography that he comes _ on and does his thing and then disappears out of fire escape. i

and then the prime ministerturns up. i and of course, before - that was michael gove, who's, who's not running. so, you know, it's a slightly kind of odd choreography. _ and for me, just seeing borisjohnson doing - a very boris johnson—esque type - stump speech with lots of gags and, you know, the activists in the room loved it and were whooping - and cheering and all the rest of it. to make the obvious point, i but it's worth making, you're reminded about how politics has changed in 2019. - i here is the guy making his firstl appearance on the campaign trail the day before the final day, - five years on from being the guy who won this whopping majority for the conservatives— and thenjust, and again, - it is a statement of the obvious. but it was very striking last night, the, uh, oceans of difference, - to put it, to understate it - in character and campaigning style between borisjohnson and rishi sunak. - you know, all of the kind - of exuberance that personified, well, borisjohnson full stop, but particularly. boris johnson back in 2019 on the campaign trail — -

as you well know, laura, _ from following him and jeremy corbyn and others around then day by day — with the rishi sunak style, - which isjust completely and utterly different. i now, different people will have - different views as to which of those two things they prefer. but my goodness, the i difference was so stark. and to see it one after another| at 9:50 last night kind of ram it home, you know, that yes, - obvious point, but nonetheless a striking one. i think you've just put into one sort of thought bubble the whole problem for voters. we've had multiple prime ministers without a general election. most voters — i was saying that the candidates are knackered, most voters are knackered. brenda in bristol, i mean, she's never been heard from again, has she, after, you know... she does say when you phone her up, "can you please leave me alone?" yeah. so the thing is, the system works... she says, "not another one," she meets anotherjournalist. yes, not anotherjournalist, not another bbcjournalist. but the thing is, the system works. it's a parliamentary system. we can change the prime minister, get over it, that's the system we were bequeathed. but it's happened so many times that the voter wasn't used to it.

so it already feels like we've been through a general election. borisjohnson, of course, did go through it in 2019, labour spanked, taken to places they'd never been taken to in their nightmare moments, simply in 2019. and now we've got to go all out and go through this all over again. and i think, chris, if i canjust say we're listening to you, there, saying the contrast of boris and rishi. guess what? that's his whole message — change. he said to us, "i'm the change guy." and that's really difficult for voters to understand. when you're in the same pod, you are two peas in a pod and rishi sunak's trying to say, "they're all chaotic. i'm the change guy." that's absolutely right. and it's one of the things, if you look back at 2019, somebody in the tory circles said to me it was a heist. and the great heist that they pulled off was to give the public the impression that they were a new bunch of people. so it was a new leader, and it was a particular wing of the tory party that was to the fore, but it was the conservative party. and at that point it was going to be the third

conservative prime minister. and what they managed to do was create a sense that it was going to be a change and that they were a different outfit, and that borisjohnson was, at the very least, a different kind of conservative. and to lots of people, he was just actually "that guy with the one name" and not necessarily connected to normal traditional party loyalties. but rishi sunak tried to sort of carry out that heist, if you want to use that phrase again, back in the autumn and say, "hey, i'm the change guy." but actually, it appears that the weight of the record of 14 years has not been possible for him to get out under. that kind of diminishing . returns of, of reinvention. and then also boris johnson had built, hadn't he, - very successfully in 2019, - an improbably broad coalition of conservative mps, _ notjust in number and that sizeable i majority, but in instinct as well, i you know, those who were quite keen l on an interventionist, quite big i state, levelling up, pouring money into communities that perhaps have felt left behind _ and all of that, and then others, perhaps more on the whole, uh, southern english — i as they would see it —

traditional conservatives _ who are sceptical about a big state. and then that single mission - of delivering brexit and whatever you make of the brexit project, or borisjohnson, he did deliver that thing that the previous - parliaments have been unable to, which was to get it over the line, - get the uk out of the european union and set up a settlement- with our nearest neighbours. and then the whole thing started crumbling, didn't it? _ i mean, not least because of boris. johnson and partygate and everything that came. and then paddy, as you say, - of course, those that extraordinary period of weeks in the autumn of 2022 with three prime - ministers in, in a handful of, a handful of months. - and of course labour loves the return of borisjohnson. and they werejoking, "oh, what are we going to have at lunchtime? liz truss doing a press conference about economic stability. ho, ho, ho, ho, ho." then another thing labour loved happened just after 3:00 when the sun basically endorsed labour, but in the weirdest way possible, and they published a dummy front page on social media, which was a football themed front page with a football stadium

and a footballjumping out. and then the big, big headline saying, "it's time to change the manager", brackets, "we don't mean gareth southgate", but not actually saying what the other person they were actually thinking about and even what subject, area of national life they were thinking about. and you have to turn to page ten to get to the bit where they say, "oh, we mean that, we mean the general election, and we think the tories should be booted out and replaced by labour." but even then, once you read the editorial where they explain this, you have to get halfway down the column to actually pass the bit where they complain about the tories and they complain about the lib dems, and they talk up nigel farage to actually get to the bit where they say, "oh, we're endorsing labour." so weird. well, i don't think it's... i think it's exactly what we might have expected because actually... ok, it's weird in terms of what you think for a classic newspaper endorsement. sure. although i think the thing about if you put something that doesn't look like politics, it looks like football, people are more likely to click on it, right? also disguises what you're... sorry, i don't mean... well, itjust, it does. but it also, it keys into a... i mean that i think it's also, it's the absolute metaphor for

them, right? is it how english fans look at southgate and england fans, they're so mean. terribly mean. english fans like your team doesn't do well and they'd be mean about them. instead of saying, "come on, you can do better, chaps"... but anyway, really nobody�*s interested in what i think about football. well, i was quite enjoying that. why can't they just play with more passion? but it's just this hedging though, isn't it? yeah. it's like saying because newspaper endorsements are still important, they're not nearly as important as they were a couple of decades ago. but are they using bellingham and kane in the right way, laura? well, i would suggest that because young jude scored, i'm very worried about his gesture, though. that gesture was not... can we just stick to the point, please? sorry, yeah, we are live. take this offline, this football chat. but i think it's sort of what we would have expected. and i think in a way the sun has, they've taken on what appears to be a common narrative that you hear actually from, you know, focus groups and pollsters. and actually, the sun would always pride themselves on being very connected with their readers, as well as saying, actually, the sentiment

is that it is time for a different group of people to be in charge, but that is not because of a kind of swooning for the labour outfit. so they've kind of put them on notice, haven't they in a way, that editorial? and then, chris, let's talk about some of the other parties who basically are sort of competing, according to the polls, with the conservatives, for a second and third place in the house of commons chamber. yes, so you've got the liberal democrats and ed davey - completing this sort of, - um, tour of kind of zany capers. so there was a load of ticker tape exploding on a bit of grass - in harpenden in hertfordshire. it's like a one man pgl camp. yeah, yeah. as he rolls in, in the bigi yellow bus and then left. i don't quite know why, actually, but left in a pink... _ in a pink car with daisy cooper. pink cadillac. yeah. the deputy, the deputy leader. and i mean, the lib dems are pretty chipper. - i spent a day following ed davey round the other day. _ they feel, i mean, to sort of cut to the chase of it, i they feel that they can tap -

into what they think is a desire for change in places where there might be a desire to change - from the conservatives. but there isn't huge support for labour. | and, you know, primarily, _ as we've talked about our newscasts, that's in the south east i of england and the south west of england. and there's a couple of pockets . elsewhere in the north of england and in, in scotland. but the main areas that they hope to gain are in the sort of south east - and the south west. they're pretty keen and prettyi confident, i think, of becoming the third biggest party— in westminster again, you know, which gives them that sort of slot at prime minister's questions - and additional funding and that kind of stuff. | if, as anticipated, the scottish national party slide back - and therefore the lib dems - and the scottish national party kind of swap places or cross over in terms of the number- of the number of mps. and chris, there was a classic line in your piece on the 6:00 news wherejohn swinney, the snp leader and first minister of scotland, and your script line was, "and john swinney

swept a pavement next to a plastic frog with a big mouth." it was... i thought, that is a script line for, that's like the gettysburg one. for the ages. it was, it was real poetry, wasn't it? i mean, they say that in television |you've got to write to the picture. j and if you've gotjohn swinney. crouched down — he was toasting a marshmallow, actually... oh, yes, toasting a... sorry. ..next to what looked - like a shipping container, but i wasn't certain it was that, and right in front of— the shipping container. and impossible not to mention because ijust thought anyone i watching would just see this giant plastic frog. _ i think it was a bin, - but i couldn't be certain it was a bin, so i didn't. describe it as a bin in case i was mislabelling said plastic amphibian. - is it amphibian or a reptile? amphibian. well, obviously it reflects their fears that the lib dems will leapfrog them in to be the third... i was going to make that gag, but you got there first. sorry. i was thinking of ben campbell pointing into a toilet, which is the number one worst photo op i've ever seen. what was he, what was he highlighting? we were at a villa, a visit, um, to an eco house.

and i could tell what the snappers were doing because he was in trouble. it was a long time ago. he was in trouble as the lib dem leader, and i could tell the snappers were going, "ming, ming, over here, over here, over here!" and he obligingly, he's a very decent chap, universally liked and respected in westminster as a very decent chap. he went over and stood next to the eco toilet. pointed into it. and then pointed into it, and the snappers were like, never underestimate — the snappers are the best journalists around. they're mischievous. they knew exactly what they were doing. and he obliged. and then, of course, forevermore, you can imagine what happened next. it's stuck in my mind, deary me. my version of that, and it's nothing to do with politics, was... john sweeney next to a bin. ..going to an exhibition about an eco house, and there was a toilet where basically... he laughs. oh, look, he's gone. been a long campaign. it's been a long day. and basically incinerated what you put into the toilet. and i wasjust like, what if you... what if you leave the seat up

where you still say... oh, dear. well, anyway. right. i start crying with laughter, tiredness, i. think bloody rescue us. would it help the conversation if ijust said. i hope so? no, it proves what you said in a serious, more serious moment of the conversation, which is quite a long time ago now. yes, uh, that this is a frenetic time of campaigning. we do... where emotions run high. yes, and nerves are ragged. and we do not criticise john swinney for being bioplastic frog. for being by a plastic frog. we do not... he is campaigning. he wants to be spotted by voters saying vote snp. and similarly ed davies out there with his many capers, zany capers that i heard, and he has attracted in equal measure notice and also criticism for so doing. but the alternative is not being noticed as i understand it, which is not a great option at an election. and rule one of politics is name recognition. absolutely. if you look at what's happening in the states at the moment,

just to digress for a second, one of the democrats big problems, they people haven't heard of the other potential candidates name recognition is thatjob one. which leads us to nigel farage. for a politician, which leads us to farage. but also just a side bar on starmer. someone really senior in starmer�*s team said to me yesterday, look, the thing is actually even until this election. so for us boring old political hacks have been watching this for years. we all know about keir starmer, we know that he's a son of a toolmaker and we all know this, that and the other. but someone in his team is saying to me literally yesterday, "look, until a couple of weeks ago, most people might have seen the odd clip of him at prime minister's questions. when it'sjust attack, attack, shout, shout, don't like it, politicians go away". this is the opportunity they've had in the last couple of weeks to introduce him to the country, to use their phrase. so you see them on virgin radio with chris evans with that interview that caused so much controversy. you see all these endless photocalls at every single non—league football team in the country, it appears. but this is the moment that matters, which is why it's so exciting. this is the moment when everyone watching finally has the chance to have their say. and it's not about people like us who have followed it, every tiny bit

of it for years. it's about everybody in the country. not to pat myself on the back again, but the six hour long newscast we had representatives from, from lots of parties on. well, presumably every party that's ever been invented. you've probably had the suffragette party. we actually didn't have to fill that much. there was just so much to talk about. but it's interesting because you then realise when you talk to, um, for example, plaid cymru, you're like, "0k. the influence of plied comrade mps in parliament is very, very limited. the influence of plaid cymru mps in parliament is very, very limited. but then you realise the platform they get at election time to make us all think about, "0h, actually, is it fair how transport funding is shared out between the nations when england gets a big railway and wales doesn't". and actually, if that was debated in parliament, unlikely to get on the news. but at an election, plaid get to raise that quite,

quite niche concept. but they get quite a big platform to do it. they do. and it's also when people have got to show the people who they want to vote for them in their own communities, that they'll fight for them. right? i mean, forget the big picture. it makes a difference who your mp is. it makes a huge difference to many, many millions of people every single year who their mp is, and notjust because of what they do in westminster, but what they can do for you if something awful happens in your life, or something difficult happens and you go and bang on their door on a friday and you say, "i'm being evicted," or "i can't get these services that my kid needs because they've got special needs". or indeed, you want to moan, like many people, quite understandably, about their potholes, who you choose as your representative really, really matters in the big picture and also in the small. and also we had the green zone as well. and as i've said it a few times before in newscast, but like all credit to them forjust being honest about what they're trying to achieve. they're basically fighting for by—elections. they've only targeted four constituencies. and if they get to get some like big messages about the environment and social care and spending bazillions more on the nhs and having a massive, massive carbon

tax that would reengineer the entire economy, then that's a bonus for them. but we'll find out in... when do you reckon, laura, on thursday night, we'll get the first, first result? well, caveat almost every constituency this year has boundary changes and we don't know what turnout will be like. so the normal kind of list of expected declaration times might be a bit more fluid, but i reckon about 11.15pm. wow. that early? yeah. one of the seats up in the north east, we'll see. well it might be blyth in ashington, northumberland this year. but anyway yeah i reckon around about 11.15pm but it will probably be quite slow. a bit of a trickle for that from there on in. and then once you start getting towards 2:00 you just start getting bang, bang, bang, bang. right. let's zoom out. and because i've realised what we've been discussing in the last 20 minutes has been very kind of political and quite tactical. and 0k, laura, you made your very passionate point there about the importance of your local representative. oh, i thank you. but it is the night before an election, and everything we've talked about has seemed a little bit,

almost, almost a bit like spreadsheets or like westminster and like we're about to have like... what? john swinney and a frog bin? point made. um, give me a big thought. and can i start off with david dimbleby�*s big thought on newscast this morning when we're doing the epic, he said, "we're facing a really, really hard time. really, really dark days. don't know what this country's going to do". not holding back. are we going to listen to it? no, we don't have time. we don't have to, i paraphrased it, yeah. right, wo wants to go with a big thought first? the final thought first. uh, i said this at the weekend, so i'm not saying it for the first time. i think there are massive issues that face this country that have not featured in this campaign for more than a nanosecond. so ai, social care, kids and technology, and foreign affairs. and to develop that point further on, whatever the outcome - and however big any majority might be, a lot of those issues, _ massive, massive kind _ of generational challenges are not necessarily more easily resolved, i

dependent on the size of a majority. mhm. uh, so, you know, we move beyond, don't we. uh, so, you know, we. move beyond, don't we. and we've tried to punctuate hopefully in our coverage - over the last six weeks, - that kind of reminder of reality i beyond the noise and the passioni and the argument and the promises and the manifestos and all the rest i of it, that reminder of a backdropi that whoever wins by whatever margin will take on. _ and they are big, colossal challenges that will not i be easily resolved. so the opinion polls didn't really budge. in six weeks, there was too much coverage of the opinion polls. whoever wins taxes are going to go up, whether it's labour or tory, that's going to happen already. we know that from various sources. also, i think that the sanctity of the voting process, a big thing's happening over the channel in france. we should not forget that this is our big moment. we're entitled to, as citizens, to make a historic choice or to make a choice to stay the same. but it should not be underestimated.

we should not be part of the system that says it's all the same. it's less than 100 years ago we had universal suffrage. 1928, women were given the same rights as men. don't allow yourself to be cynical about it. this is a fork in the road moment. and on friday morning we'll know a bit more about who we all are based on how we all acted with our little private cross. it's a humbling moment. yeah. it's amazing. i also just wonder if, like, we sometimes don't have enough imagination about things that happen. and when you look back at the 1906 election and i, i'm always very wary of these historical parallels. it's like, all right, well, they didn't have phones in 1906, did they? it's kind of a different world, but it's things like political parties come and go and things that can seem very stable and very permanent one day actually can disappear. and the thing that makes them disappear, paddy, is people, people, people making decisions and also. people are, voters are volatile now. right? so people will say, you know, 2019

lots of sage people went, aha, well, this means the tories are going to be in powerforever. another term. they've got this huge majority of 80 or 81, depending who you count. and of course, actually the world isn't like that any more. there was a period of real political stability in this country and this sort of mid, you know, the sort of mid—century, i suppose, where, yes, if somebody�*s got a majority of 80, you would have quite understandably assumed that they could have had a two terms and a go at it. if what we expect to happen is even vaguely what does turn out to happen, the notion of that volatility has been completely smashed to bits. but i will give you my pompous line, which i was preparing to use at another point of broadcasting at some point. or if it turns out, as we expect, the volatility of the electorate has absolutely been keir starmer�*s friend. it was why he believed he would be able to turn this around in one term, if indeed that does happen, if he wins and he walks to downing street on friday, july the 5th and forwards, that volatility might well turn out to be his next enemy because voters change all the time. and when people talk about, oh, they're labour voters

or they're tory voters or they're ukip voters or they're no, ukip voters or they're — no, they're not, they're voters and good politicians, i think respect that and understand that and try to meet them where they are rather than thinking, these are people that i own, and i'm going to be terribly surprised when this constituency slips away from me. anyway. that's more than... well, my version of that is. i remember when i was on newsround, being in washington the night obama won the election in 2008, and it taught me the most important lesson about elections. elections just get you into power. that's kind of it. like then staying in power and governing, as you were just saying, is a totally different ball game. and you look at obama and you're like, just think about the hope, thejoy, the expectation, how different he was just embodied in that man. and then after day one in office, like, all that stuff didn't really matter any more because it became about decisions and governing. and you know what? one more little thing. and beyond the politics, the big p politics of tomorrow and friday, l the kind of civic society, the expression of civic society the kind of civic society, - the expression of civic society

that tomorrow itself is all about. i was looking at some of these - numbers 40,000 polling stations open for 15 hours, run by around 150,000 people, and then the tens _ of thousands were involved in the, the sifting - and the, and the counting overnight. you know, just that as a collective enterprise of society _ to do the thing of coming out with the expression l | of what the country collectively| says, which is quite something, really. and again, it's something we take for granted - until you look at the nuts and bolts of it and then remember— around the world where this sort of right does not exist _ and you think, you know, wow, it's quite a thing, isn't it? - and you went from the plastic frog to that. it's like a christmas crackerjoke to the gettysburg address in in the scope of one podcast. that's it for newscasts for this election campaign in 2024, unless we have another election in 2024. who knows? you see, not unprecedented. who knows.

not another one? with sincere apologies to brenda from bristol, i think we should call it a day. to say, though, um, voting on thursday, remember to take your id, because that's the big change. you need to have photo id, but it doesn't have to necessarily be a driving licence or a passport. there's lots of different forms of id you can take. and the other thing is, even if you're still in the queue at 10:00 when the polls closed, they still let you put your vote at 10:00 when the polls close, they still let you put your vote in the ballot box. but you have to have to have to be there at 10:00. you can't turn up at 10:05. they won't let you in. they should be watching the telly by then anyway. and laura, you're on bbc one at 955. yeah. five. and then the exit poll drops at one second past 1010. bang on. and then you turn to chris and go, chris. i'm going to give it away. put the telly on tomorrow and then. you find out ok, tradition. it's tradition. and then you can also listen to the coverage on radio four and five live.

they're doing a joint collab and the newsnight. newsnight, they'll be doing it as well. and the newscast all nighter is happening in the bbc radio theatre with me and 150 other fellow political geeks. i mean that in the nicest way, watching all the results coming in. and then paddy well, you can own the weekend. we'll wrap it up. but i think it does sound like goodbye and i'm pleased. congratulations on your sixth hour. chris and laura. we look forward to that moment at ten when we see you predict our future. bye, everyone. bye bye. hello there. there'll be winners and losers when it comes to the weather forecast on thursday. for the far north and west, we will continue to see a rash of showers. it could be quite windy with it, as well. sunny spells elsewhere. the winds really quite a feature right across the country, but the strongest of the winds closest to this area of low pressure, driving in a rash of showers, maybe longer spells of rain at times. but elsewhere, particularly where we had quite a lot of cloud and it was drizzly from time to time on wednesday, will be a better story. more in the way of sunshine coming through.

so by the afternoon, expect this story. we will see these showers, and, as i say, some of them heavy, the brighter yellows and greens denoting that. and with the strength of the wind as well, well, those temperatures really struggling, 11—15 degrees. a few showers into northern ireland, not quite as many, and a few showers across northern england. but generally across england and wales, there'll be more in the way of sunshine, particularly across south—east england. temperatures peaking at 21 degrees. so that means for wimbledon, it will be a better day. we'll have some sunny spells coming through. by friday, though, once again a change of fortunes, rain could have a part to play for the outer courts as we go through the day. and the reason being this frontal system that's going to slide in through the latter stages of thursday into friday, bringing more in the way of cloud and showery rain across south—west england during the early hours of friday morning, pushing towards sw19 for the early morning rush hour. but, generally speaking, those temperatures will hold up into double digits to start

the day on friday. as we move into friday, then, there will be a good deal of dry, sunny weather really from the m4 corridor south. that's where we'll see the rain. a little more cloud, but generally across england and wales, a good slice of sunshine. a few isolated showers into north—west scotland, but generally those temperatures — not much change — ranging from 14—21 degrees if we're lucky. into the weekend, the unsettled theme is set to continue. very changeable, the weather story, at the moment. a ridge of high pressure to start saturday, but there'll be more wet weather moving in on sunday. so for england and wales, perhaps saturday the best day, but elsewhere, we'll see showers of longer spells of rain set to continue and those temperatures disappointing forjuly.

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