thank you tim montgomerie and polly mackenzie. goodbye. hello.ing levels in some spots. tuesday saw a newjuly record injersey at maison st louis, 35.7 celsius. but before this hot spell is out, we'll see records falling elsewhere across the uk. thursday is set to be the peak of the heat. we will start off on a warm and sticky note on wednesday with the widespread thunderstorms across the northern half of the uk. some frequent lightning, hail stones and some pretty strong gusty winds. they will start to lose their intensity as they search further north across scotland, clearing all but the northern isles by the afternoon. then we are left with lots of sunshine, bit more a south—westerly breeze for this afternoon, so temperatures are a couple of degrees down in the west, but in the east we are still looking at hotspots preaching up to 32 or 33 degrees. but thursday, as we pick up the southerly flow, we could be talking about hitting that record. this is bbc news. i'm reeta chakrabarti. the headlines at 11:00: borisjohnson is to become the next uk p

at 11:30 we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers conservative writer tim montgomerie the chief executive of think tank demos polly mackenzie. good evening. by this time tomorrow borisjohnson will be our new prime minister, realising a decades—long ambition. he's won the race to become conservative party leader, beating his rivaljeremy hunt by a margin of almost two to one. in a short acceptance speech this afternoon mrjohnson declared that his mission was to take britain out of the eu by the 31st of october and re—unite the country. but the challenges are formidable — opposition from some of his party's most senior mps and little sign that the eu is about to change its negotiating position. here's our political editor laura kuenssberg on the election of the man who tomorrow will become britain's 77th prime minister. 0n the way to meet his fate. the position he had so long dreamed of. boris! 0n the way to hear whether he had overturned what felt inevitable. how are you feeling about the result? zen—like calm. boris johnson's supporters knew after a bumpy start they had

with me are the conservative commentator tim montgomerie and chief executive of the cross—party thinkk demos, polly mackenzie. welcome back. thank you both. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in — and they are dominated by borisjohnson‘s win in the conservative leadership contest. the i says borisjohnson will be appointed as the uk's 77th prime minister tomorrow afternoon with a promise to deliver brexit and unify the nation. the metro carries a picture of mrjohnson saluting the party faithful outside conservative hq - and it references the ‘dude‘ acronym which the new prime minister referred to in his acceptance speech. the express says borisjohnson will unleash ‘the spirit of can—do‘ as he aims to deliver on his campaign promise of taking the uk out of the eu by the end of october. the telegraph looks ahead to boris johnson's first day in number 10, with the new prime minister set to appoint the most ethnically diverse cabinet ever — and more women in senior positions. the guardian says mrjohnson has fulfilled a life—long ambition in becoming prime minister. the mail asks fo

30 this evening in the papers our guests joining me tonight are the conservative commentator, tim montgomeries party think tank demos, polly mackenzie. including those words of congratulations from president donald trump. jeremy corbyn said boris did not have the support of the country and the lib dems new leader said he is not fit to be prime minister. but about the reaction across the country? will be hearing from our correspondence in wales and scotland, but first, emma is in belfast. there is a lot of apprehension as to how borisjohnson is going to avoid the needs for checks on the irish border. ill effectively ripped up imports johnson is starting fresh. he wants to abandon the irish backstop, bows the arrangement that could keep northern ireland with the rules, he is taking us towards a catastrophic no—deal brexit and the democratic unionist party have welcomed boris johnson saying that they will review the agreement to provide him with the agreement to provide him with the votes in parliament in the coming weeks. what is clear after he was facing the same set of problems as theresa may

whilst conservative commentator tim montgomerie says different angles on this, needless to say it andill be back tomorrow at the same time. thank you for watching. goodbye. i have to admit. i prefer nature to ta ke i have to admit. i prefer nature to take over for me and some of you got some natural help in the past 24 hours but across southern areas, the weather systems have been pushing to the northern half of the uk. coming around the city of low pressure on the atlantic, that is the case but the atlantic, that is the case but the pressure lowers a little bit in creating a chance of one or two showers and more will be missed and hit and brighter day in england, but a lot of cloud for scotland and northern ireland and that we have a few more glimpses of sunshine but that shall remain which later in the day will be humidity that comes into the country and thunderstorms and eastern parts of scotland in particular, 25 degrees as the high in the southeast corner and it will bea in the southeast corner and it will be a muddy night to take us through thursday but there a greater chance of

with me now is tim montgomerie, conservative writer and founder of website conservative home.ocial media, the sense of exclusion. a lot of people have that from politics. but it was as if she hadn't been by minister for the last three years. this is the sort of speech i could have expected from her three years ago. in fact we heard that speech on the steps of downing street at that time. what i thought was missing was a sense of self reflection, a sense of having been at the heart of power, at the heart of the government machine. what she had wrestled with, what she couldn't overcome, how she would have done things differently, it was just something of a nonevent, i thought, for me, and i thought it was a missed opportunity. you made very clear that her biggest regret was not being able to deliver brexit. surely talking about the merits of compromise, that's what she meant, she meant she couldn't deliver brexit, or she meant that because people wouldn't compromise. a lot of people wouldn't compromise. a lot of people wouldn't compromise. a lot of people would say they did comp