a year ago today the pri5on5 minister, rory stewart, told this programme he would resign if he didn'te post, but we'll be looking at what's happened since we spoke to him. first, a summary of this morning's main news. detectives investigating the killing of a police officer in berkshire have sealed off a nearby caravan site. pc andrew harper, who only got married four weeks ago, died after he was dragged along by a vehicle as he was attending reports of a burglary. earlier, we spoke to matthew barber, deputy police and crime commissioner for thames valley, who paid tribute to the officer. talking to people who knew him well in the force, he was a very popular officer. i've had comments from members of the public who andy had helped in his time as a police constable. one woman in particular i spoke to who sticks in my mind said that he was the one who gave her the courage to come forward and press charges in a case of domestic abuse. he's clearly a man who, in a short period of time, has touched many lives and has been an exemplary police officer and i think it's a fitting memory for h

not philip hammond and rory stewart. but there could be some people.es probably and so she is a billing to people like him, david gauke and rory stewart and also trying to get people in government and in cabinet who don't have a like of no deal and nikki morgan. let's go on to the observer. and there is another story they are on brexit. kind ofa another story they are on brexit. kind of a way from the politics. this is a reality. but is it? schools could close and food shortages. i live in kent and i can tell you the operation brings the whole county to a standstill. i sat on this programme not many months ago it was somebody going it is only kent, actually it is the main route for all freight coming in from dover and everything else. you cannot move, you cannot get to school, cannot get to work or hospital appointments or airports or you anything, you are stuck. what talking about is a secret department for education analysis but it is talking about the obvious, which is if you are going to manage stuff, hospitals, schools and other institutions are g

rory stewart, for example, had said that he would be prepared to convene a parliament there if it wasit's was provoked, jab at borisjohnson. it‘s very interesting that come together for this. obviously the same deity day that nigel farage is banging the drum for the brexit party, and i‘m sure he had a field day with this, the establishment stitched up. what does it mean? they‘ve agreed firstly that they will not have first order of their plans to try and shovejeremy corbyn in as an alternative prime minister. joe swenson said that is the last order of the issue. instead they will go for a legislative route in order to try and pass some legislation that they can all agree on. this has echoes of back in march when yvette cooper and nick bowles teamed up to get through and basically a day a bill ordering the government to delay brexit. of course there is so much for dhs, what all can they do? four dimensional chess. back in march when that bill was passed, theresa may was ordered to request a delay, but she didn‘t have to accept it from the eu. it is clear that if such a bill was put the

this is launched a year ago by rory stewart who was then the prisons minister.esigned when boris johnson became prime cabinet and then he resigned when borisjohnson became prime minister, but it appears his scheme has been working. it ploughed money into ten of the most troubled jails by investing in body scanners to detect drugs and mobile phones, to recruit extra staff and bring in some experience prison officers as well. we can see that the rate of assaults has fallen by 16% over 12 months. that is the number of assaults as a proportion of the population of each present. and in terms of drug taking the percentage of prisoners who tested positive for drugs following random tests has fallen by 50%. that is quite an impressive reduction. random tests has fallen by 50%. that is quite an impressive reductionm is quite an impressive reductionm is not rory stewart any more about what has the government been saying? the government is pleased with these results but they didn't work everywhere in all ten of the prisons and in three violence actually went up and in thre

certainly move ourselves on to an elected dictatorship they wouldn't maximize that mean remember rory stewart through your famously and conserve the leadership campaign said that he'd be marching of parliament with the speaker in the veyron given the speaker burkas views can you just maximise the opposition by undertaking a maneuver such as that i like to think the owner of ball is such as mr stewart the s. and a i think it's been excellent on this show has jeremy colbert who's been absolutely clear about that and joe swinson who seems to be waking up after a long period of negligence are concerned about that kind of issue but if things stay virtuous i mean this thing pass straight us. maneuver a bit of a cunning trick doesn't mean he mustn't i really we mustn't think how clever they are we mustn't go into that song. because we can only guess at those we could look at the actual. decency and of the honor of the way people are behaving well as let's take it this way when we had the opposition last week facing a very difficult to even who might be a caretaker prime minister for a fuller period

one leadership contender who is likely to rebel against the government on brexit is rory stewart, whon the backbenches. he previously said parliament could ignore an order to close, and meet in spite of the government in an ‘extraordinary session‘. today the bbc asked him whether this was still an option. it is always an option but that does not need to happen unless it‘s to prevent them from discussing brexit, then yes of course. they‘ll have to find some way of discussing brexit by do not think we have got there yet. i think we can return on tuesday and use that to stop the deal. what about a vote of confidence because that is made that more likely a tactic to do the shortage of time? no, i think that would play into his hands and we should be focusing on brexit. in other conservative party news, scottish conservative leader and ardent opponent of ‘no deal‘ ruth davidson is believed to be considering stepping down. the bbc‘s politcal editor laura kuennsberg says the resignation is not connected to today‘s events — and has been done for a mix of personal and politcal reasons. here‘s