the former conservative party director of communications there. now the weather with phil. hello. les, the forthcoming week promises to be a good deal colder than anything we have seen for a good wee while. there will be snow in the forecast. it'll be much windier than the week gone bi. the transition comes behind this band of weather, which has already made an impact across northern and western parts of the british isles. through the rest of the night. so it'll continue its journey ever—further towards the south and east. around about that weather front we could easily see gusts of winds around 60 to 70 miles per hour in exposed locations, not a particularly cold night. the breeze may drop out. such a frost here perhaps but that's not really the main story. here we g in imtoo for the school run and morning commute and a wet and windy one all over east anglia. the south—east, south and east midlands, central and southern england, parts of the west country, too. following on behind, no real relief. this is a lot of shower activity. some really heavy, right from the word go. maybe a

i'm joined now by giles kenningham, former conservative party director of communications. t, reset the conversation, recast, too much boil and vitriol pumped out online for people across the political spectrum, it is poisoning the well of political debate and acting as a barrierfor of political debate and acting as a barrier for people who want to get into front line politics. good thing but not the smoking gun. what is? a series of measures, if we are to get any further forward with this we need some form of ross party consensus. they do have said they are not willing to sign up, really, the most progressive and grown—up thing is to come together as parties and say, how can we stop this? switching people of politics at a time when politicians are regularly talking about how we get more young people engaged. how clear is the line between free speech and what some people might think is abusive? quite clear, nothing wrong with this agreeing with people on a point of fa ct agreeing with people on a point of fact or principle but when you get into the realm of public insult, yo