with me are the political commentator and journalist, daisy mcandrew, and tim stanley, lead writer at the daily telegraph. tomorrow's front pages. of course some of the papers feature tropical storm harvey. the ft reports that the us state of houston has been hit by "catastrophic" flooding as the storm caused torrential rains along much of the texas coast. the express focuses on what it calls labour's u—turn on the single market, saying the party is facing a backlash from mps after announcing a shift in party policy on brexit. the sun suggests scientists in the us have found a breakthrough to prevent the risk of heart attack and cancer. the i also leads with the same story. they say the drug has been welcomed by the british heart foundation. the guardian's headline is backlash over labour's shift to soft brexit. they report that the move risks alienating thousands of voters in traditional seats who support greater controls on immigration. the daily mail, also reports on the new study which claims thousands of lives could be saved thanks to a new heart drug hailed as the biggest breakt

our guests joining me tonight are the political commentator and journalist, daisy mcandrew and tim stanleyf a domestic disturbance have discovered the body of a toddler in a house in manchester. police say a man is now being questioned on suspicion of murder and a woman is being treated in hospital for serious injuries. naomi cornwell reports. it was here the body of a toddler was found alone in an empty house. police were called just after midnight following reports of a domestic incident. when officers arrived, they were told a man and woman had left the house and gone to hospital. but when they went in, they discovered the body of a young boy. it is a harrowing case. there is a clear impact on the local community and sympathies are with the friends and family and the community. we are working hard with the family and the community to provide reassurance and support. neighbours said they are devastated. sick to find out it was a child. i have onlyjust found out through the press on the internet it was a child. it is horrible, horrible feeling. i am sure everybody shares the same views. s

, our guestsjoining me tonight are the political commentator and journalist, daisy mcandrew and tim stanley. in america, more than a thousand people have been rescued from rising floodwaters in houston in texas. the heavy rain has been described as "catastrophic" and a major emergency has been declared, with hundreds still stranded. 0ur correspondentjames cook is in houston. thanks very much. across this city right now, an unprecedented crisis is unfolding. hundreds of rescues are taking place at this very moment. we havejust heard are taking place at this very moment. we have just heard this weather event is on a scale never before recorded in history, with the possibility of rainfall reaching up to 50 inches, the most ever seen in this state. harvey arrived in houston with a vengeance, no longer packing the full force of a hurricane, but still deadly. in 2a hours, more than two feet of rain fell on the fourth largest city in the united states. the results are devastating. it appears to be one of the worst floods houston is ever had. we are measuring it not in inches, but in feet. houston

and rahul raojoins me now, as does the historian tim stanley. good evening.is. he suggested in his piece that it is possible to consider bringing down the statues of thomas jefferson. i admire him for his honesty and logic because a lot of people would say they want to stop at one set of statues but once you approach the subject from the principle of let us eradicate those things from the past that were morally wrong and not acceptable today, you cannot stop at confederate statues, you put everything on the table and the problem with that is you create an artificial sense of the past. we try to cleanse it of all things that make no sense morally today and therefore you rewrite the past and create a past that simply was not real. you are rewriting the past? not at all, i think a lot of these movements objecting to statues are not about rewriting the past. the rash of confederate monuments that scars the american landscape were exercises in revisionist history and built to nurture a view of the civil war as a noble struggle fought against northern aggression an