he says he would like to thank jo stevens jeremy corbyn. culties that he understands the difficulties that she and others have when facing article 50. those with large remain constituencies are torn. however it is right that the labour party respects the outcome of the referendum and we have said all along that we will not straight the triggering of article 50 and we are asking all mps to vote for the bill in its second reading next week. he wishes that might well for the future. reaction from jeremy corbyn. more coming up in the next half an hour, including keeping an eye on what is happening in washington. but 110w what is happening in washington. but now google find out what is happening with the weather. it is all change for the weekend. it has been cold injuly for so long, but that is slowly changing. it is a slow process we do still have some cold and foggy weather in the north—east of england and eastern parts of scotland, but generally speaking the next couple of days will be milder and largely free from frost, with only a few except

the shadow secretary for wales, jo stevens, has resigned from the shadow cabinet over a disagreementexit bill, imposed by the party's leader, jeremy corbyn. in her resignation letter, the mp for cardiff central says that she is a passionate european and that triggering article 50 and leaving the eu would be a terrible mistake. our political correspondent, leila nathoo, is in westminster with the latest. we know there is disquiet within the party about this three line whip. give us a sense of what the snp going actually means. jo steve ns going actually means. jo stevens is the first shadow cabinet member to resign over the three line whip is shutting labour members to vote in support of triggering article 50. this will be upload forjeremy corbyn trying to enforce the vote on mps who have very different views. jo stevens said she was a passionate european and she thought leaving the year was and she thought leaving the year was a terrible mistake and she said she had not seen enough guarantees that triggering article 50 will protect employment rights and so on. she says that she does

jo steve ns jo stevens has become the second labour shadow cabinet member to resign in protest atjeremyis buying the food wholesaler, booker. in the business news: tesco, the uk's biggest supermarket, has negotiated a £3.7 billion deal to buy booker group, the uk's biggest food wholesaler. they supply everything from baked beans to teabags to 700,000 convenience stores, grocers, pubs and restaurants throughout the uk. more on this injust a moment. german prosecutors have said they believe the former volkswagen chief executive, martin winterkorn, knew of emissions cheating software earlier than he claims. prosecutors near vw‘s wolfsburg base said 28 homes and offices were also searched this week in connection with an investigation into the car—maker. quarterly profits at bt have dived 37% after the firm reported an accounting scandal in its italian division that cost it more than £500 million. it has now confirmed that their head of continental europe will step down over the affair. more on that tesco deal. the supermarket is buying supplier booker in a deal worth £3.7 billion. booker in

earlier i spoke to our political correspondent ellie price, who explained jo stevens had resigned fromarticle 50. she said brexit was a terrible mistake, and "i cannot reconcile my overwhelming view "that to endorse the bill "trigger article 50 would make that inevitable". the other interesting thing that happened yesterday is that two of the party's whips said they would also denyeremy corbyn and not vote to invoke article 50. interesting, of course, because party whips have that littlejob of endorsing and enforcing party discipline. mr corbyn himself has been known to rebel many times. yes, a serial rebel when he was on the backbenches. but crucially, he is now the leader. and as the leader, the sentiment is that he needs a coherent position from labour on what brexit should be. and he has made it clear that he believes the outcome of the referendum needs to be respected and accepted. that is why he has introduced this three line whip on his party to vote in favour of invoking article 50. of course, that spells plenty of problems for him, because there are plenty of labour mps who do