the artist dame paula rego, now in her 80s and weakened by a stroke, still goes to her studio almosttly political. she used her pictures as a way of undermining and criticising the portuguese fascist resume. my mother was very outrageous and took huge risks with her pictures and went crazy in her studio, but at home she was quite a straightforward woman. i think that if you do pictures, they are about what's inside you as much as what's outside you, but that you've got secrets and stories that you want to put out there in the pictures. in 1998, paula rego produced a set of large pastel pictures in response to a recent referendum held in portugal to bring an end to illegal abortions — an extremely dangerous practice of which she had personal experience. and my mother, who had suffered so much in her life from backstreet abortions, was so incensed that the portuguese public and particularly women in public hadn't bothered to go out and said, "oh, we're too embarrassed to vote," so she decided to lay it all out there and make a series of pictures of young girls, some of them schoolgirls

and a major new exhibit and from one of europe's greatest living artists, dame paula rego. coming up in sportsday, a nightmare crash focused room. he is out of this year's tour de france after suffering multiple fractions —— a nightmare crash for chris froome. good evening. the last two conservative candidates have launched their campaigns to replace theresa may as party leader and become the next prime minister. borisjohson, currently the front runner in the race, said he was determined to take britain out of the eu by the end of october. he said he wasn't aiming to leave without a deal but he would prepare for that outcome. meanwhile, the home secretary — sajid javid — said he was different from westminster elites and the country needed a new kind of leader. he and borisjohnson are the last of the ten candidates to launch their campaigns. tomorrow, conservative mps begin the first round of voting to decide who will move into downing street in six weeks' time. here's our political editor, laura kuenssberg. ah, here he is! will boris johnson be the prime minister? boris! hi