reaction to theresa may's deal with the dup from the former conservative deputy prime minister, lord heseltine the weather change of direction this week, rainy desperately needed rain for gardeners and gross out there in the next 2a hours. gardeners and gross out there in the next 24 hours. that will come as welcome news for some but not for all. some quite heavy rain pushing into northern ireland, north—west england and southern scotland overnight, right and patchy through much of wales and the extreme south—east is quite an muggy three—day. clear skies to the north and east but rain moving across the far north of scotland and to the northern isles and becoming a late and patchy by the middle of the afternoon but still there at the same time that regime and morning we run the risk of some sharp thundery downpours. top temperatures 11 to 15, highs of 22 in the south—east. surrounded by a low pressure during tuesday into wednesday that stays wet across england and wales, said the driver for the north. hello and welcome to one hundred days plus. it took two and a half weeks and finally the conse

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we heard from lord heseltine this morning who suggested brexit was a cancer that needed to be cut outty. there was a sense from a pro—remain mps that theresa may's plans for brexit may go awry, that her plan for a hard brexit, ruling out membership of the single market, may be up for question. the key brexiteers are in key positions now who remaining cabinet and they would have something to say about that. but there is a sense that if she needs to get other parties onside to get anything done, and don't forget parliament will have a vote on the deal at the end of the negotiations, that actually maybe something softer could be mooted. it certainly wasn't her plan, the election was called in the first place in her own words to help steady her mandate and give her the strong and stable leaderships she said she needed to negotiate brexit. there is a sense that could be up in the air, although the key members of the brexit team would say otherwise. still more news to come in terms of the reshuffle but thank you, any price. —— ellie price. well as we've been hearing — many westminster voice

i have lord heseltine covering the same area from a different perspective.ent on the basis of what they see emerging from all this in london. and, finally, helping me to review the papers, and newspaperman called george osborne. quite a busy programme at nine o'clock. go and prepare, andrew, you have much to get through. the headlines are up next to your brea kfast. headlines are up next to your breakfast. —— here on bbc breakfast. hello. this is breakfast, with rachel burden and ben thompson. coming up before 8am, john has a round—up of the sports news and phil will be here with the weather. but first, a summary of this morning's main news. the dup says it has had "positive talks" over a possible deal to support a conservative minority government, but that no final agreement has yet been reached. discussions are set to continue later this week. our correspondent, john campbell, is in belfast. can you bring us any kind of update at all about where we are with these negotiations with the dup, and also a sense of how it is going down in northern ireland ? a se

with me now is lord heseltine, the former conservative deputy prime minister.as asked in what is at stake. what is your answer?” i was asked in what is at stake. what is your answer? i do not think there's anything at stake. the government will win it does not suit the opposition to bring the government down. they will give them about 18 months and then exploit the difficult circumstances that will face them. earlier there were the usual shouts from journalists about quality and hanging on. what is your assessment of the prime minister's authority now that we have these formal votes? the formal vote does not make a difference. the government does not have a majority and everything is going to be overshadowed by the brexit negotiations. inflation is increasing because of the pound. talk of tax increases, interest rate increases, and there's bound to be continuing austerity because the country is living beyond its means. the government has a very difficult situation but the overarching problem is the brexit issue. even with the support of the dup after the deal s

with me is former deputy prime minister lord michael heseltine.t if you single out one part of the united kingdom, the voices from the other parts of the voices from the other parts of the united kingdom are perfectly capable of multiplying up the relative figures. i don‘t know for ta ke two relative figures. i don‘t know for take two but it will be a great deal of money. there is an old saying that once you have bought off, the damon gold, you never get rid of the dane. two years from now they will be back what are the scottish conservative screen to see? what are the welsh conservative screen to see? what are the conservatives are presenting a marginal seat in the west cou ntry presenting a marginal seat in the west country went to see? and the good to sit back and say we‘re going to have this increased public expenditure which taxes have to finance in order to help a particular part of the united kingdom question mark i think that‘s difficult to believe. there is the second point which i think we will see more often people calculate what it wou