frankly, i would imagine — you are still a member of the labour party. the party, jerry corbyn, but you still vote labour. some of colleagues didn't. i did, so i'm not here to... so would you say that labour, your party, has a clear, coherent position on brexit? no. i mean, that's one of the major problems and one of the reasons we did so lamentably in those european elections of which you have just spoken. for us, we got 9% of the popular vote in scotland. we used to dominate them. we lost seats to all the other parties. it was awful, and why did we do that? because we're standing in the middle of the road. and i'm afraid jeremy corbyn, who represents a very strong remain constituency, islington north, to my experience, is a brexiteer. what prime ministerjohnson said about it happens to be true. if he has meant what he said over years and years and years, his whole instinct is to see the european union as a capitalist club, and he wants out of that. so is your position that labour needs right now, as people like tom watson and emily thornbury have said,

because i'm still a member of the blackburn labour party.tum—free zone. it continues to attract support. and for me to leave the labour party would be for me to betray people who'd worked for me over a 30—year period. so you're burying into a little hole, and you can't see the big picture? no, i can see the big picture, and there may come a moment where i take a different view. if you ask me why, i'm giving you an explanation. i could, but it's about my personal loyalty to people who've been loyal to me, and to a town and to a cause in blackburn which remains on the same cause. i'm as distressed as anybody about the wayjeremy corbyn has brought down, and more to the point the people he's allowed to have around him, like len mccluskey, who bears greatest responsibility, for bringing down this great party and corrupting its values. allowing us to, on good reason, to be called racist is just extraordinary. jack straw, we have got to the end. i thank you very much for being on hardtalk. thank you very much. hello. the good news is it's fairly qu

let me ask you about a story of the labour party has put out today, researchers conducted which havee prospects of a us trade deal are pretty remote at the moment whatever president trump passe, congress has indicated that it would be a long time before any such deal could be made. at best, this is speculative, isn't it, at worst it's to suggest to people they may end up being charged with a trade deal for the us? it's based on fact, liz truss was writing in the telegraph that she wants to quickly develop a trade deal with the united states but a trade deal with the united states will depend on us pharmaceutical companies getting access to art markets here and forcing the nhs to pay more for drugs, forcing the nhs to buy more expensive drugs for diabetes, asthma, cancer. that's what the health secretary in the us has said. and it's why it's so important, so important that we roll out a trade deal with the us put the future of the nhs at risk. that's why we've been raising these concerns today, it's not scaremongering, it's pointing out the facts. jonathan ashworth, shadow health secr

think that is the message that is going out to the liberal democrats, to the s&p peas, to the labour partyp, you're seeing the advice being used and there being very tribal and particularly the labour party, very aggressive when she became the leader of the liberal democrats saying that she was a traitor to the country because she went to the coalition of the conservatives but now it feels like the country is in peril and the parties are coming together in singh look, i know we've got our differences, but let's put country above party and come together —— saying. i could hear a snort. peril. the country is in peril stop. of the approach, the very moment her brexit which is been forced on boris johnson to prorogue parliament so they can do it, they're trying to get our cross for their base. absolutely. it is about the constitution, democracy, and boris johnson is acting like an autocrat. this was about taking back no, he is acting like a political vandal. justo word from the others, to stop the suspension of parliament. what you see emerging from this tomorrow, do not forget that it is a co

labour party and fnp hinting at a it's in a few papers.d fnp hinting ata kind it's in a few papers. labour party and fnp hinting at a kind of pact to get rid of borisjohnson, explain what it's about. so one of the effects of this is to put a red light on the dashboard of the union like the danger is for northern ireland and the danger of scotland voting 62% to remain in the eeo of breaking off from the united kingdom again. if there was a second referendum. the sequence of events this week as there was a push at the beginning of the week showing that that ship has shifted the dial, 52% we re that ship has shifted the dial, 52% were for independence, 48 against in a few years. as a switch. then nicola sturgeon gets in the guardian saying and repeats she could be part of this alliance with jeremy corbyn even though she doesn't like him but she would do it if it stops brexit and stop boris alliance. but how? been the place is to be for politics a seat because lots of stories are coming out of there, and mcdonald says deploy that inflammatory

the principle is that the labour party is the main opposition party, we have an aspiration to go intoy by over 300,000 members and supporters, we are ready to serve. so you couldn't give you back into harriet harman or ken clarke? we are forbidden -- putting forward the labour party position to dojust forward the labour party position to do just that. what if nobody compromises you will get the breaks that you don't want? i suspect all those people who are now making lots of noises in the media will realise that the option that will be put to parliament of supporting a motion of no confidence against the government in order to prevent a no—deal brexit is the most important vote they will ever do in parliament, because it will prevent this country being brought to a great problem by a no—deal exit and i suggest they think about that and support the motion i will put forward. jeremy corbyn talking this morning. just to bring you an update about another story you may be aware of here today. the very difficult story of the man who died in newcastle on wednesday evening. this is the case o

i think the labour party should have taken more care about the selection of jared as a candidate. ng 0'mara, and continue to support him. it is understood the party rejects the idea that background social media checks would have revealed concerns about him. do you feel like you and otehr constituents have any form of recourse? it is fairly touch and go whether he would resign in the end. he has clung on for two years. it has early been capitulated by the behaviour of his chief of staff. that chief of staff is of course... gareth arnold. serious questions remain about the offers he is now running, and in whose interests he is working. earlier this year, 0'mara's well thought of and experience staff left where sack, leaving arnold and his young team running the constituency office, like his boss, arnold says he is still getting paid while he works out his notice period, leaving a list of questions his constituents and taxpayers will want answering. that's it for this week. you can always set as your ideas at... we are back on monday morning at ten o'clock on bbc two and bbc news chan

i think the labour party should have taken more care about the selection of jared as a candidate. res in selecting 0'mara and continue to support him. it's understood the party rejects the idea that background social media checks would have revealed concerns about him. do you feel like yourself and other constituents have any form of recourse? it was fairly touch and go whether he would actually resign in the end and he has clung on for two years now. it's only really been capitulated by the behaviours of his chief of staff on twitter. that chief of staff is, of course, gareth arnold. serious questions remain about the office he is now running and in whose interests he is working. earlier this year, 0'mara's well thought of and experienced staff left or were sacked, leaving arnold and his young team running the constituency office. like his boss, arnold says he's still getting paid while he works out his notice period, leaving a list of questions his constituents and taxpayers will want answering. well, you can find out more about this story and the implications for our political s

on the labour party... people will be too quick to vote for labour again in this constituency. at whetherjared o'mara has been used by those who were supposed to be helping. people have joked to me that i was basically the mp for sheffield hallam. because he was so not here basically. jared o'mara was born with cerebral palsy, at last year he told the media she had been diagnosed with autism. he has spoken openly about the difficulties of being a disabled mp and his mental health problems. when allegedly sexist, homophobic and misogynistic, is he had made before he entered politics surfaced, he was first suspended and then quit the party. but he didn't say that he would step down as an mp until his friend and recently appointed chief of staff used o'mara's twitter account to publicly destroy the mp's character. gareth arnold took to twitter to resign and denounce his boss as a degenerate who had let his constituents down. it was, it seems, the final straw. this is arnold. he initially agreed to be interview

party. it is interesting, i suppose it might worry some labour people. ent? probably not. jeremy corbyn cannot command the support of zone party. let alone anyone else. interesting examples from history. we haven't had one for a long time, but perhaps this is the moment. we will see in about a month or so. moment. we will see in about a month or so. also on the front of the observer, a photograph which presumably, it looks like a photo from after he was arrested or convicted, jeffrey epstein, who has a p pa re ntly convicted, jeffrey epstein, who has apparently killed himself in his prison cell. i think the important line is towards the end of the front which is that victims of epstein's alleged six trafficking operation we re alleged six trafficking operation were expressing their frustration because of the slave they would have liked has seen justice because of the slave they would have liked has seenjustice be done, are they understandably think it has not been done. actually, the sunday telegraph has a line from the us attorney general saying, clearly

it speaks to this position when the labour party, the opposition, is still hugely divided and of coursejohn o'donnell ‘s colours, his radical, isa o'donnell ‘s colours, his radical, is a communist, his not changing his colours and his speaking here on his own but it's rattled feathers and also, at a time where we are seeing more and more extreme rhetoric. this is one of his theories, on what could happen if there is a vote of no confidence in borisjohnson. but he refuses as prime minister to quit. he suggesting there could be a sort of labour takeover in westminster and they would put him ina cab westminster and they would put him in a cab and rush him to buckingham palace was not that is kind of the theory, isn't it? but is talking about the conversation going on within westminster, of course, we are on the summer within westminster, of course, we are on the summer recess within westminster, of course, we are on the summer recess right now, but when they return to work, is the big question of how do we tackle annual deal on the 31st of october? if that is what we are facing, and what p

parties standing aside. it was a terrible result for labour, who finished a distant fourth. third, maybe costing the conservatives a win. for him and for his party — defeat will be deeply felt. let's talk to tomos morgan, who's in brecon. neil lib dem is always a campaign very ha rd neil lib dem is always a campaign very hard on the ground but what you think it was that clinched it for them? i think the first factor is them? i think the first factor is the reason why this by—election was called in at the first place, it was called in at the first place, it was called because back in march, chris davies, the incumbent tory mp, was found guilty of submitting false expenses. recall was started at over 10% of the constituency signed it meaning a by—election was called. so 20% of the localjudiciary did sign out so there was a feeling for a by—election, and a need for one. but also, it was also overwhelmingly brexit. when you speak to people here, it is a hugely divisive topic, as it is across the whole of the uk. this was a brexit voting area, this constituency, where the brexit

of course, the labour party likes to think of itself as the party of the nhs, the one that does investt. he is trying to out brexit the brexit party by saying do or die, leaving on the 31st of october, and he is trying to take the fight to the labour party as well. jessica parker, there. iranian state media say iran's revolutionary guards seized a foreign oil tanker in the gulf on wednesday, claiming the ship was smuggling fuel to arab states. this is the third tanker that iran has seized in the past fortnight, this british ship was impounded by iran a few weeks ago. it's not yet clear what flag this latest ship was flying under nor what nationalities the seven crew belong to. more talks are planned today to try to stop a strike at heathrow by engineers, firefighters and security staff. 177 flights have already been cancelled on monday and tuesday. our business correspondent kary austin has more. can a strike by support staff at the country's busiest airport be averted? time is running out, with conciliation talks due to resume this morning. meanwhile, the hundreds of passengers, whose

i would not go on the labour party.ld not go that far but there are concerns about labour's performance is not doing as well as it should, is partly because we have a new prime minister who has a minor honeymoon ina bit minister who has a minor honeymoon in a bit of minister who has a minor honeymoon ina bit ofa minister who has a minor honeymoon in a bit of a bounce from that. there is anxiety within labour about advisement and because of labour's confusing position on brexit. so this is where he is trying to take the initiative on this key issue and this is all going to come down to. nobody quite knows if they have the numbers to win a no—confidence vote. it relies on a lot of different factors. they have the support of the minor parties, the s&p, but not the minor parties, the s&p, but not the lib dems. then it comes down to how many tory mps who are determined to try and stop and no—deal brexit will actually vote with labour on this issue and then to make it even more complicated, there's quite a small number of num

parties standing aside. it was a terrible result for labour, who finished a distant fourth. third, maybe costing the conservatives a win. for him and for his party, defeat will be deeply felt. let's go live to brecon, where the lib dems are holding a celebrate cherry gathering. we expect the lib dems need tojo swinson to arrive there in the next few minutes. a big boost for her, of course, not long after she took over the leadership of the liberal democrats. and a significant setback for boris johnson, one of the swiftest by—election defeat that any prime minister has everfaced. by—election defeat that any prime minister has ever faced. now, clearly the lib dems were helped by the fact that other parties, plaid, the fact that other parties, plaid, the greens and so on, who support remain, had decided not to put up their own candidates. in this seat they rallied around the liberal democrat candidate, jane dodds. we can see similar dem staff giving a few instructions to the team on the ground to make sure they give a big cheer when the new liberal democrat mpfor cheer when the

the chancellor is to earmark an extra £2 billion for a possible no—deal brexit — something the labour partys an "appalling waste of taxpayers‘ money". flood warnings are still in place across yorkshire and the north west of england, after heavy rain caused damage to buildings, roads and rail lines. research finds the number of teenagers in care is rising — and the system in england is struggling to cope. the bank of england is to announce its latest interest rate decision, which looks set to remain the same. and in sport, the wait is finally over — day one of the ashes begins this morning at edgbaston. having been on both sides of it, lifting it before under cooky, and seeing what it's like to be on the wrong end of it as a captain makes me very hungry to be on the podium at the oval as captain hopefully with a massive smile on my face. good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. the government has announced additionalfunding to prepare the uk in the event of a no—deal brexit. the chancellor, sajid javid, says the extra two point one billion pounds was necessary to ensure the uk is pr

it was with the labour party mp who walked out of the labour party, not jewish, walked out of the labourparty because she said i will not sit at the same table as anti-semites. i met with her and she said to me this disaster that we have in england all started on the campuses, and we did nothing because they were only students. and then him up into the labour party and we did nothing because it was just the far left fringe. and today they have one and we have lost. and i no longer have a party anymore. my friends, the warning to our country could that be any clearer, and the urgency of this type in which we meet could that be anymore apparent. now is the time, not tomorrow, not next week, now is the time to save our future from what is impinging on the horizon. and that's why this is so important. i'll leave you with good news. one of the great assets we have in this fight is the u.s. administration committed in unprecedented fashion to this fight. think about it. state, justice, treasury and education. every player that can apply real force to this problem is here today, and it didn't j

and the labour party has announced plans to overhaul the university admissions process. ren't made by universities to students until after they've received their grades. labour's shadow education secretary angela rayner explains why she thinks a new system would be fairer. we want to see a system that's actually based more on what you actually are able to achieve rather than what people believe you may be able to achieve through some predicted grade system. so it's a much fairer system — it's based on your actual results rather than what people feel you are able to achieve. and it is the problem with predictions, when it comes to high attaining students from disadvantaged backgrounds, that they are disadvantaged backgrounds, that they a re often disadvantaged backgrounds, that they are often under predicted and that teachers often underestimate what they will get? yes, they are the groups that are under predicted. they are the ones who are most disadvantaged by that process. but also, it is fairerfor all disadvantaged by that process. but also, it is fairer for all studen

they spent a long time building up that credential of being able to attack the labour party as wasteful you could be out in two months? they're going to be borrowing this money, let's be clear. children being poisoned as uk recycling burns we are trying to increase the amount that we recycle but does not appear to be recycled in some instances. huge quantities. and if you speak local councils who know the decisions, really worried about this. there just are not the recycling facilities in this country to go anywhere near the amount of waste that we produce. once he gets exported but increasingly the places with really high quality, are rejecting our waste because we have too much non— recyclable rejecting our waste because we have too much non—recyclable material in it because we do not wash out all the parts remix of the different plastics together and all sorts of contaminants of the are going to places where our waste poisons kids in this area. it is a sad state of affairs. recycling bags from colchester, things may vectored here, we deal with their own ways but we do not exported. y

absolutely and there will be big tactical voting and if labour were sensible they would make a pact so that it worked in both partiesthink they will have a cascade of votes to the liberal democrats because so many labour voters know ca re democrats because so many labour voters know care more about brexit. i think the way brexit has been this great scrambler of party loyalties amongst regular voters, not amongst mps has been underestimated. we see how polls often actually do not truly measure what is going to happen in the electorate because this issue has become such a shibboleth that this issue has become such a shibboleth that it is hard to predict what will happen. people say politics is downstream of culture but the brexit we are now heading for as so clearly destructive, not including for lead voters in traditional labour constituencies, and yet this thing still holds and where is the person who is going to come out and say, look this is what you are going to get, this is what you are going to get, this is what you are going to get, this is what you are in fact voting for, think. you are not getting it. explai

the labour party were beaten into fourth place by the brexit party.dds, the liberal democrat had this message for boris johnson. people are desperately crying out for a different kind of politics. there is no time for tribalism. when our country is faced with a borisjohnson government and a threat of a no deal except. so my very first act as your mp, when i arrive in westminster, will be to find mr boris johnson, arrive in westminster, will be to find mr borisjohnson, wherever he is hiding, and tell him loud and clear, stop playing with the future of our communities and rule out a no deal brexit now! our political correspondentjoins us now live from brecon. this is quite bad news for the prime minister, isn't it? it certainly is. not the result he wa nted certainly is. not the result he wanted and not the result conservative party, as a whole wanted. it was always going to be close here in brecon between the conservatives and the main challenges, the liberal democrats. it really was a straight fight between the two of them. tories trying to hang onto

longest serving female mp, harriet harman, who is a labour mp and has been acting leader of the labour party swinson what is interesting this morning is that jo swinson says she has spoken to both and both, in principle, are up to both and both, in principle, are up for it. what we need to do... you have suggested somebody else ought to take leadership of this government, somebody, you suggested, like ken clarke or harriet harman. have you actually asked either of them if they would be prepared to do it? i have been in touch with them because, obviously, you don'tjust mention people's names without checking that they are ok with that. i mean, both of those are long serving member of parliament, the most experienced mps in the house, the father and mother of the house, as they are called in the house of commons. and did they actually say to you that they were prepared to lead a government of national unity? they... they put public duty first and they don't want to see a no—deal brexit and if the house of commons asks them to an emergency government, to get our country out of this brexit mess

lots of people will look at the labour party and say you are just upset that boris johnson the labour the time of debate now. look, sorry we have had a parliamentary recess, and therefore... you have had three yea rs. therefore... you have had three years. no, the government had three yea rs years. no, the government had three years to negotiate a deal. that was what the referendum mandated them to do. to negotiate an agreement, with the european union. they are the ones who failed, they are the ones who failed three times to get it through the house of commons, we in the labour party actually said to the labour party actually said to the government, look, please, change your red lines. if you change your red lines we believe there is a deal that can, yes, respect the result of the referendum, and leave the european union, but do so in a way that doesn't damage the economy, and that doesn't damage the economy, and that can get through parliament. the suspension of parliament is the number one story on the most read section. if you scroll on down there are links to various pieces of an

the scottish labour party has been saying for months, if the party got into power at westminster, it saying the exact opposite, that he doesn't think it's for westminster to dictate to the scottish parliament so, if he was in power, he wouldn't block another independence referendum. that's caused fury in the scottish party, and the scottish labour leader, richard leonard, has made it clear he doesn't think there is an appetite for another independence vote, despite polls suggesting support for independence has gone up in recent weeks. labour mps are furious, accusing mr mcdonnell of making up policy on the hoof. the big question here is, is it part of a wider policy to allow labour some ground to potentially stay in power with snp support if they were in a hung parliament? both parties insist, no, but with this move mr mcdonnell has opened a door. residents of whaley bridge in derbyshire are hoping to hear shortly whether they will be allowed back into their homes a week after they were told to leave because of the risk of flooding from a nearby damaged dam. fiona trott is in whaley

the scottish labour leader, richard leonard, has previously said the party would not grant permission in scotland, what is going on? well, first of all, he said we would not block or something like a scottish independence referendum. he says, we would let the scottish people decide, because that is democracy. as you say, the problem is it seems to contradict what the labour pa rty‘s to contradict what the labour party's leader in scotland, richard leonard, has said in the past. he told bbc scotland in march this year that the party would refuse to grant holyrood the power to hold another vote. it is within the westminster government's gift to grant the right to hold a referendum. you might remember back in the 2014th scottish referendum that the then prime minister david cameron signed up prime minister david cameron signed up to prime minister david cameron signed uptoa prime minister david cameron signed up to a request from the scottish parliament to hold that referendum. here we are, in the position now, where if there were a future labour government or coalition government, we ha

i mean, i think difference between your party and labour? u are right we need to be clear about what we can do, if the, if borisjohnson refuses to, to listen to what parliament says, and, you know, one way is, as i say, to be prepared to revoke article 50, in those circumstances, but it may well be that there would need to be a vote of no confidence, and an emergency government installed, so that is one of the, if you like, insurance policies or backstop perhaps we could call it, that we would need to have, and look, it is clear to me that what is important in that scenario, is that we have something that will command support right across the house of commons, and thatis across the house of commons, and that is mostly likely to be somebody who is is a long—standing parliamentarian who is is a bit above the party political fray and who doesn't have any long—term an big of being prime minister. i have put forward harriet harman or ken clark as the longest serving man or woman mps or there may be somebody they would like to suggest. as you say y

by the labour party, and eventuallyjared 0'mara stood down from labour and is now in an independentf staff resigning online. i produce a podcast called the next episode, which is available on bbc sounds, and we did an investigation into what was actually going on in his constituency office here. we found that mr arnold quite brazenly admitted to working in the office here without the right parliamentary security clearance. so obviously then, parliament kind of launched an official investigation. then we started hearing a few more things about what was going on here in halim. we heard rumours that mr 0'mara and his chief of staff had been arrested. i've been here the last few days standing that one up, and we will release another episode of our podcast this evening. but the point of the matter is that there is no functioning mp here. if you are a constituent here, this afternoon, i was meeting a woman named claire who was meeting a woman named claire who was trying to get a school place for her autistic child. she needs the signature of an mp to do that, but because there is no activ

i am steve, a labour party voter, never been a member of any political party but i do normally vote laboury were appalling and he's obviously extending it to keep as little time as possible for brexit to be debated. and i want us to remain. joshua carpenter? i'm a conservative party member and i think it needed to be done. the process has been frustrated for three years and the biggest threat to our democracy is not to have that vote and this will just get it through. i agree with josh, i'm a conservative party memberandl josh, i'm a conservative party member and i wasn't old enough to vote at the referendum but i would have voted remain then, and i would vote leave now. i completely agree it's the prime minister is parotid to do so and he's taken the right decision. i am drusilla summers and a conservative activist and i campaigned with vote leave and i am proroguing parliament. we are well overdue a queen's speech, so if brexit wasn't happening this wouldn't be an issue. it's only because some people don't like brexit that they are using this as an excuse brexit that they are using this

other mps and other parties have a different idea. the problem with labour is they have been buzzy. don't know where they stand, i am a labour motor, i don't know where they stand. now suddenly —— labour motor. they have suddenly decided they are going to be the leaders of a government of reconciliation —— voter. with is absurd on its face. the train has left the station for labour, and that's it, the toot toot is out in the distance. it has been a journey from the labor party to go from jeremy corbyn who has historically been extremely eurosceptic, to say they could implement a second referendum. they could have been, but now it's too late. that's turn oui’ but now it's too late. that's turn our attention to the times, a different legal story entirely. sellers to pay stamp duty under a tax sha keup by sellers to pay stamp duty under a tax shakeup by the chancellor.m a lwa ys tax shakeup by the chancellor.m always amazes me about the conservatives, i don't know what kind of country ac, but somehow everybody has a home. you have a big home or a little home, whatever, and so home or a

john mcdonnell‘s appearances at the edinburgh fringe have set off a bitter fight within the labour partyid is that a labour government would not enter any kind of pact with the snp, because, he said, they are not socialists. in fact, he compared them to tories. hard hat on to deflect thatjibe, nicola sturgeon is both delighted by scottish labour's disarray and prepared to support a minority labour government. i would want, if the circumstances lent themselves to this, the snp to be part of a progressive alliance to keep the tories out of office, and particularly now to avert brexit. festival fever grips edinburgh every august. the scottish political scene is now equally engaging, especially as one poll this week suggested more scottish voters would now say yes to independence than stick with the united kingdom. sarah smith, bbc news, edinburgh. around 1,500 people who had to leave their homes in derbyshire last thursday because of fears a dam would collapse have finally been allowed to return home. emergency services say the dam wall at the toddbrook reservoir is now stable, after it was

in the past minute, we have had a joint statement from those opposition parties sent out by the labour party to act together to find practical ways to prevent no deal including the possibility of passing legislation, and a vote of no—confidence. but many of opposition leaders were saying the emphasis on that meeting was on the first option, trying to pass legislation that would in effect ask foran legislation that would in effect ask for an extension to the brexit process and send borisjohnson back to brussels to say he wanted to get a deal after all. how do they do that in practical terms? the first barrier is they will need to get some conservative rebels on board because some in the labour party simply would not back this. they need some conservative rebels. if borisjohnson is need some conservative rebels. if boris johnson is if need some conservative rebels. if borisjohnson is if he can still get a deal and sends his envoy to brussels tomorrow for talks, it could be the case some conservative rebels not happy with the prospect of no deal would be equally unhappy to rush into anything wh

john mcdonnell‘s appearances at the edinburgh fringe have set off a bitter fight within the labour partyas just said is that a labour government would not enter any kind of pact with the snp, because, he said, they are not socialists. in fact, he compared them to tories. hard hat on to deflect thatjibe, nicola sturgeon is both delighted by scottish labour's disarray and prepared to support a minority labour government. i would want, if the circumstances lent themselves to this, the snp to be part of a progressive alliance to keep the tories out of office, and particularly now to avert brexit. festival fever grips edinburgh every august. the scottish political scene is now equally engaging, especially as one poll this week suggested more scottish voters would now say yes to independence than stick with the united kingdom. sarah smith, bbc news, edinburgh. pakistan has announced its expelling india's high commissioner and suspending all trade with its neighbour, after india stripped its part of the contested state of kashmir of its autonomy earlier this week. some protests have broken out

mcdonnell has suggested he would send jeremy corbyn to buckingham palace to tell the queen the labour partyeady to assume power in an attempt to stop a no—deal brexit, says the telegraph. the guardian reports that rebel mps are working on a new plan to stop borisjohnson pursuing a no—deal brexit on 31 october that involves forcing parliament to sit through the autumn recess. "wish you weren't here." the mail reports on a summer of hell for holidaymakers with passengers facing airport misery amid today's it failures and the threat of upcoming strikes. the i leads with the same story, suggesting that tens of thousands of passengers across the uk are likely to be affected by industrial action, with ryanair pilots looking to hold two strikes at the end of august. 0ns figures show that a million more young adults are living with their parents than 15 years ago, says the times. the metro leads with the story of the disappearance of a british woman in greece, and the news that a body has been found at the bottom of a deep ravine. the express reports on a study which says that keeping the heart hea

the british opposition labour party leader, jeremy corbyn, has outlined plans to stop britain leavingober. mr corbyn wants to head what he calls a time—limited caretaker government by winning a vote of no confidence in the conservative government led by boris johnson. he would then aim to delay brexit and call a general election. alpesh patel is the ceo of praefinium partners. good morning outpatient. good morning —— good morning, alpesh. good morning outpatient. good morning -- good morning, alpesh. who has he put this letter to? members of the opposition parties and conservative government mps against a no—deal exit. conservative government mps against a no-deal exit. a bit like philip hammond, for example? exactly, and he's saying to join forces because they would have a majority in parliament, form a national unity government and go to the eu and say, "can we delay? " and that would give them time for a general election. he believes, and there are more people... and we know this because of the indicative votes parliament undertook earlier in the year that there are more people tha

coming up, as brexit turmoil continues, we will take a look at the steps british labour party leadery corbyn is taking to topple boris johnson. this is bloomberg. ♪ romaine: let's recap a few earnings we did get over the past few minutes. company, the videogame maker of grand theft auto. it is raising its revenue outlook for the year as well as eps outlook, giving a range that is the top end of the range of what analysts were expecting. shake shack is beating estimates. versus an 3.6% estimate of 2.6%. caesar's up fractionally. it met the estimates on net revenue. shares up about 0.4%. scarlet: take two takes it back to the same level it was out -- it was at before the selloff six days ago. we have bitcoin surgeon past $11,000 for the first time since july, now closing in on $12,000. it rose as much as 14% for friday's close. it comes after a selloff in july but it is unclear what exactly is behind it. the federal reserve will create a real-time payment system to compete with wall street. it will allow money to be moved almost instantly at the -- at any time of the day. big banks hav

very expensive legal advice and the labour party pointing to gina miller's famous victory in the courtst set a precedent that courts can tell parliament what to in certain cases. may be in this case if parliament was prorogued. he's talking about parading parliament and shutting down parliament and shutting down parliament but only because he would be bringing in a new queen's speech, which we know is rubbish, that's not the real reason he wants to tie their hands and stop them doing this possible vote of no confidence and this idea that jeremy corbyn, possible vote of no confidence and this idea thatjeremy corbyn, as kevin was saying, could be a caretaker prime minister and then call a general election. as you were saying, they got this big meeting tomorrow with the opposition leaders but they are slagging each other off. the least cohesive group. there is no unity. jeremy corbyn says as the leader of the opposition position, if the government falls he should become prime minister and it's incumbent on the other opposition parties to support him but that won't go down well with jo swin

the labour party has moved a lot from where originally mps were whipped into voting to trigger article position. it was a sequential thing, a set of stages and a phased process, and we tried to go for a single market deal with a customs union and we tried for the cross—party talks and i even had half an hour with theresa may in april but we always said all options should be on the table and there are no sensible options left. our current policy is to have a peoples vote in event of any deal and nobody voted for this, they are economic reasons as christine pointed out, that a no—deal brexit is a act of self—harm but they also reasons democratic reasons and for anyone who is interested in democracy, this despotic dictate it like —— dictator like prime minister with a majority of one who is behaving like a medieval monarch must be stopped at all medieval monarch must be stopped at a ll costs. medieval monarch must be stopped at all costs. there are constitutional problems and we laid them out earlier, very difficult for any group outside of the government to bring legislation but there is

the biggest problem for the labour party as we nearly lost deposit, i am glad did not. y the brexit party? i get that, some others have said for quite some time that one of the problem is about trying to be all things to all men and women is nobody ends up liking what you are offering. do you think it was the ambiguity?” what you are offering. do you think it was the ambiguity? i think of a constructive ambiguity has not helped us over the last two years, we have tried to say we are in favour of brexit to brexit micro vote rs favour of brexit to brexit micro voters but that we are in favour of remain to remain supporters. i am fundamentally a remainer and believe it to be in the interest of wales and our country that at the very least we should try and achieve a soft as brexiters possible to continue trading with europe. soft as brexiters possible to continue trading with europelj soft as brexiters possible to continue trading with europe. ijust wa nt to continue trading with europe. ijust want to go back to christine, we talked about a remain alliance model, could that

his nationalist policies, he blames john mcdonnell interestingly, the shadow chancellor in the labour partyendence poll held in scotland. a lot of labour people would not be at least for the electoral risk that they might never again be able to form a majority government. these scottish labour party was incandescent with rage. they were furious with him saying that. the prime minister would defend himself and say that one of the first things he did was visit scotland, wales, northern ireland to show his commitment and he is the minister of the union. white marquee is, so that must tell us something. thank you very much. the fbi is to investigate the death of the multi—millionaire businessman and convicted sex offender, jeffrey epstein, who was found dead in his cell, in a new yorkjail. the 66—year—old is believed to have taken his own life, while awaiting trial on new charges, of trafficking dozens of underage girls for sex. 0ur north america correspondent ned—a tow—feek reports. —— 0ur north america correspondent neda tawfiq reports. the body ofjeffrey epstein is taken away from a new york

mcdonnell has suggested he would send jeremy corbyn to buckingham palace to tell the queen the labour partyop a no—deal brexit, says the telegraph. the guardian reports that rebel mps are working on a new plan to stop borisjohnson pursuing a no—deal brexit on the 31st of october that involves forcing parliament to sit through the autumn recess. "wish you weren't here!" the mail reports on a summer of hail for holiday—makers with passengers facing airport misery amid today's it failures and the threat of upcoming strikes. the "i" leads with the same story, suggesting that tens of thousands of passengers across the uk are likely to be affected by industrial action, with ryanair pilots set to hold two strikes at the end of august. ons figures show that a million more young adults are living with their parents than 15 years ago, says the times. the metro leads with the story of the disappearance of a british woman in greece, and the news that a body has been found at the bottom of a deep ravine. the express reports on a study which says that keeping the heart healthy can reduce the risk of deme

whereas the labour party also fell to 25% at the end of may but are still at 25% in the polls, with liberals in 2017, bearing in mind that liberal democrats are much stronger than they were in 2017, the snp probably making games north of the border, the concern is probably leaved eight points over labour to have a 50% chance of getting overall majority. —— the conservatives. that is the point we‘re at. so at the moment, forjohnson and l general election looks like a relatively risky prospect. rather than necessity. looks like a relatively risky prospect. ratherthan necessity. but he has told us he does not want to hold an election the site of the 3ist hold an election the site of the 31st of october. i want to hold one after the fish first october, after he has delivered brexit at his calculation would be —— 31st of october. his calculation would be that at that point more of the brexit party voters would switch to the conservatives and that would open up the kind of lead that might give the conservatives a secure position inside house of commons but that means boris johnson position inside

he's now the leader of the british labour party. the conservative party in such disarray over breakfast, it's entirely possible that the labeled party equipment the election and the prime minister. he's taken a lot of these stories, anti-semitism which is only part, the hate is only part of the story. on the anti-semitism, there was a time when it was possible for a fair minded observer to say their anti- israel, anti- playlist but not really anti- jew. there was another and now a third there was an explanation. the one thing was his endorsement showing bankers playing monopoly on the backs of the enslaved, dark skinned, whatever, workers, slaves. although they lived among us a long time, they don't get british and of course is cap next referring to zionists. in this linguistically, it doesn't work. he's talking about jews and then just now, it was just recently someone found he had written an extremely long blurb in materialism which is a jewish conspiracy led by the house. so it's too many instances to just say well, is against zio

even within the labour party itself, never mind of the politicians for example, people have defected times, those people who may vote of no—confidence for borisjohnson's who may vote of no—confidence for boris johnson's government, and who may vote of no—confidence for borisjohnson's government, and also not necessarily going to back sufficient and given majorities to a jeremy corbyn government. so the point there is who would actually lead this government. so everybody knows it is all completely up in the air. and that is a big question in itself. let's turn to the male and itself. let's turn to the male and it is interesting —— mail. itself. let's turn to the male and it is interesting -- mail. this particular aspect of how they may or may not do this is new. it is a form of investigation by the daily mail a ofj nvestigatlonbyhe daily,%' , £100,000

take jeremy corbin, the leader of the labour party in britain. this is a man who is so blinded by dislike of the west that he sees rogue states as morally equivalent to the united states. he cannot bring himself to condemn islamic extremism without identifying western imperialists as the cause, and disgracefully he parroted russian state propaganda when a military grade nerve agent was used on the streets of britain. this is a man who calls western hating hamas and hezbollah his friends. he is anti-american. he is anti-british. and he is anti-freedom. but i don't want people to get the wrong impression. these politics of the left are not what people in britain think. it is not what the british public think. we've got a huge number of people in britain working for american companies or doing business with the u.s. we've got people who enjoy american products and services. we had news today that britain now imports more from the u.s. than any other single country in the world. recently overtaking germany. and many brits visit america and i was plea

whether labour party and leader of the opposition has put this letter out say they want to back to taletter out say they want to back to take off the table and no deal brexit stop is not saying it is not dizzy brexit. this reach a question liberal democrats to sayjoined, it doesn't quite hang because liberal democrats was saying it's not a nodal brexit we don't want, we don't wa nt nodal brexit we don't want, we don't want brexit. there's a big difference. some form of deal at no brexit as opposed to no deal brexit. the thing is, as his words get bandied around, they mean very different things. and that is a challenge because that's where the newly of the leader of liberal democrats was not overly enthusiastic about this offer by the labour leader. she can see the difference between backing and saying there's a nodal brexit and saying there's a nodal brexit and saying we don't want brexit, that's a baltics that is playing out at the moment. what we are looking for is the kind of honesty, politicians says, tell us where you stand on remain and leave. until a switch party wa nt remain a