think there is going to be a second referendum and i don't think was going to call it would the tories labourd farage then distanced himself from it. he is very good at getting himself off the front page. this just shows really, getting himself off the front page. thisjust shows really, and i'm surprised it's even on the front page now, toonie owes to henry bolton is really? —— who knows who the real is. financial times bolton is really? —— who knows who the real is. financialtimes and times covering the story about carillion, the engineering giant with £900 million worth of debt from various banks. they were in trouble and issued a profits warning last year, but still awarded this government contract. the issue here is it's a massive company that, until recently, most people had never heard of, they are running all sorts of public sector maintenance and construction contracts across a huge range of areas, and they have a massive debt pile. the question in today's story in the ft and the times is the allegation that the government awarded them, they had issued profit warnings last year and th

within tories, labour and tories and labour. let's go back to the tories.y your election predictions. iain. the tories have held it together in the last year, will they get through 2018 together as a party? theresa may's objective was to make it to christmas and quite unbelievably. the chance to get rid of her was onjune the 9th and they didn't get rid of her. there hasn't been a king or queen over the water, no wonder they can unite around and replace theresa may with. that's still the case now. that will probably be the case this time next year. we will still be in that position. she is an ever stronger a position than people think. strong enough to carry out quite a wide—ranging reshuffle. she will say, i dare you to get rid of me. including boris? including boris and the chancellor. she can certainly move one of them. i might regret saying this but the big battles over brexit have already been had in 2017. the big battle this year will be in the house of lords. that could be trickier for theresa may than anybody realises. we have a two—year parliament,

somehow a lot seemed to change in 2017 for both the tory and labour parties. political rules apply, which is why the pundits got so much wrong. so tonight we give the pundits another chance to work out where we're going. join me now, on bbc two. here on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. hello and welcome to sportsday, i'm holly hamilton. coming up on tonight's programme... watford fail to rain on manchester city's parade as the premier league leaders record their 20th win of the season... andy murray reveals his despair as he pulls out of the brisbane international admitting he may need surgery on a long term hip injury. and england prepares for the final test of the ashes series — but can they secure success at last in sydney? good evening — plenty to come in the programme, but we'll start with tonight's premier league action where even in pretty challenging weather conditions leaders manchester city rained down on watford at the etihad. a win that puts pep guardiola's side 15 points clear at the top of the table with just 16 matches remaining. i

labour party. would you be happy with tory members picking a prime minister. a prime minister, what about tory members. that is democracy. i mean, it's like saying, yeah, i would like to choose, you know, that we weren't going out of europe. but i can't. why on earth not? when blair resigned as leader, the labour members had the opportunity to elect a new leader. as it turned out, it was the same kind of one member election that we had in the conservative party. but it is no different if it is the conservative party or the labour party. but the members, the mp5, are accountable to their voters. and so you used to be, until recently that the mps chose the leader a the prime minister and now the mps might be foisted upon them somebody they don't want as leader. that is always a danger. we saw that with the conservative party when iain duncan smith was elected. so sometimes you can make unpredictable decisions, but what you have to remember is the parties have to give members something to keep them involved. i mean, cherry and chloe here do all the wonderful thin

tories fell back at the general election. anxious that millions of younger voters turned to labour then, the tories have tried to detox their imagels, banning microbeads, plans to end the sale of ivory. what does labour make of the plastics plan? 25 years is far too long. the plastics culture has to be challenged. the throwaway society culture has to be challenged and the pollution of our rivers and seas by plastic waste is absolutely dreadful. the prime minister believes her promise is the right one to make. her hope — to create a habitat more friendly to her political breed. laura kuenssberg, bbc news. dominic chappell, who was in charge of bhs when it went bust in 2016, has been found guilty on three charges of failing to provide information demanded by the pensions regulator. the scheme had 19,000 members and a shortfall of 571 million pounds when bhs collapsed. he'll be sentenced at a later date. our business correspondent, simon gompertz, explains what followed the firm's collapse. in that time since then, mps, the insolvency service have been investigating but also the pension regulator because the company had a huge defic

the tory party and the labour party now has this dramatic difference in age group and demographic andl about. she will not pursue the vote on fox hunting, very unpopular with younger voters, she is doing £50 million for this northern forest, which michael gove has been talking about planting 50 million trees between manchester and bradford. these policies will take an awful long time. there won't be any obvious results for a long time but it is all to do with demographics. trees instead of a rail line. onto the mirror. daisy, hospital departments heaving with patients who have been in a&e 13 hours, this testimony from one doctor, i think. hours, this testimony from one doctor, ithink. but hours, this testimony from one doctor, i think. but the service that gives so much to all of a sudden i've is on force of goodwill alone. don't forget us, defend us please. a very powerful front page, of course it is the daily mirror, obviously a very strong story. we saw obviously a very strong story. we saneremy corbyn going on the nhs for obvious reasons at prime minister's questions. people are v

the tories, it's well known that labour, 0k they didn't win the last election but arguably they won the were very successful and the tories want to try and match them. labour did do well in the digital area and the conservatives recognise they've got some catching up to do. there have been some funny examples recently how badly the conservatives have done their social media so they are trying to improve on it. the sunday telegraph has eight interview with brandon lewis and he says he wants to get shy tories out there in the digital world and wants to give them a toolkit of gifs and videos and graphics and all the rest of it. this recognition of a way of engaging with younger voters and moving away from things like newspapers, sadly and more into social media. it's an interesting story about what the plans are for the new conservative chairman and how he wants to reinvigorate their base among young voters. no one knows this better than brandon lewis because the tory party managed to announce someone else had hisjob during the reshuffle. their communications operation put the wrong name i

it was widely acknowledged that the tories came second to labour when it came to online campaigning.r had a very savvy social media approach. they had lots of videos going viral and activists tweeting organically, and that is something that the tories have identified that they need to get better on to have any chance next time around. brandon lewis has been tasked with this in his role as the chair of the conservative party, he has been writing this morning, giving an interview this morning talking about how he intends to do that to try and encourage shy tories, people who might not be willing to declare that they are conservative supporters, he wants to encourage them to post their support and spread their messages of support online. he was talking about his plans to try and reinvigorate the tory grassroots. what matters to me is that we have got a huge number of people, notjust members but volunteers and activists around the country, at their day in and day out knocking on doors, delivering leaflets and getting involved in social media, to spread the positive things about what we'r

tories fell back at the general election. anxious that millions of younger voters turned to labour then, the tories have tried to detox their imageg microbeads, plans to end the sale of ivory. what does labour make of the plastics plan? 25 years is far too long. the plastic culture has to be challenged. the throw—away society culture has to be challenged and the pollution of our rivers and our seas by plastic waste is absolutely dreadful. the prime minister believes her promise is the right one to make. her hope — to create a habitat more friendly to her political breed. laura kuenssberg, bbc news. 0ur environment analyst roger harrabinjoins me now. plastics and dealing with them is what has grabbed the headlines, but what has grabbed the headlines, but what the prime minister announced today was much broader and ambitious plans to improve our environment. its ironic she focused on plastics because that's one of the weakest areas of the document she produced today. if she wants to be a world leader in plastics, which she says she does, maybe someone should have told her that bangladesh banned plastic bags back in 2002. we are lag

tories fell back at the election. anxious that millions of younger voters turn to labour then, the tories have tried to green their credentials the sale of ivory. 25 years is far too long. the plastic culture has to be challenged. the pollution of our rivers and seas by plastic waste is absolutely dreadful. the prime minister believes her promise is the right one to make. her hope, to create a habitat more friendly to her political breeze. with tackling plastic pollution a major part of the government's strategy, just how practical is it to live without the stuff? well, they've been trying to do just that in penzance in cornwall, asjon kay has been finding out. we can remove it, we can recycle it. a rubbish day at st hilary's school. who has straws in their drinks? a lesson in pollution and waste. we pick up, again, hundreds of toothbrushes from beaches. if theresa may wants to reach out to the young with her green strategy, well, these kids will be 30 at the end of her 25—year plan. what would you say to those politicians in london? stop using plastic, and stop making it. if a turtle is swimming and it sees a plastic bottle,

to improveve to try the tory standing against labour .y think they will hear the message around brexit, concern for theresa may's government is form theuld fall -- next government itself. they bring in new blood, a more diverse cabinet, a young cabinet that could potentially bring forward a new david cameron for the tory party before she leaves. i think that is part of the game plan. this is being forced on her by damien green's resignation. david: -- broaden the base among the constituency so she can gain more popularity. it's also worth noting don't wantu. 27 anyone else as prime minister of the u.k. at the moment. they will be very half the -- happy. depending on who she brings income of the argument is for every eurosceptic or person who wanted the u.k. to leave the e.u. who is leaving the cabinet will have to be replaced by someone with the same views. the market will focus on that. at the end of the day, think it's about succession planning and trying to strengthen the tory's position against labour. if labour has a consistent messa

tories fell back at the general election. anxious that millions of younger voters turned to labour then, the tories have tried to detox their imagetheir credentials, banning microbeads, plans to end the sale of ivory. what does labour make of the plastics plan? 25 years is far too long. the plastics culture has to be challenged. the throwaway society culture has to be challenged and the pollution of our rivers and seas by plastic waste is absolutely dreadful. the prime minister believes her promise is the right one to make. her hope — to create a habitat more friendly to her political breed. laura kuenssberg, bbc news. our political correspondent, alex forsyth is in westminster. is this partly as laura was just suggesting an attempt to woo younger voters or is this truly may going green? the criticism of this is twofold. on one front, there are people who say this is political opportunism, that the conservatives have realised they have a problem with younger voters, they recognise that environmental issues matter a lot to the younger generation and so they are trying to capitalise on that by showing off their green credentials an

for tories that is a big challenge. where labourctivists engaged and mobilised and energised to pump out the message. you need a conservative version of momentum? yes, a third party that can go a bit further... they have been criticised yellow sometimes they go one step too far, yes, there is always a line, but you need other people pushing your message, giving you greater credibility. how much of this goes down to the fact that the demographic of the conservative party membership and their voters tends to be older. that is an issue, yes, it is over 50. what you see is that more young people not only engaged but are coming out to vote, traditionally young people might engage but they did not vote, in 2017 the trend was reversed, the conservatives recognise that. ageing demographic voting for them, the tories must think, how will they get young people on board, because that is the future. how much of this is down to policies rather than meanmemes and retweets. down to policies rather than meanmemes and retweetsm down to policies rath

and for the tories that's big challenge. where labourp who get the activists engaged and mobilised and energised to pump out the message. you need a conservative version of momentum, do you? i think you do. do you? i think you? i think you do. do you? i think you need something to go further. they have been criticisedlj you need something to go further. they have been criticised i think theissue they have been criticised i think the issue with them is sometimes they go one step too far and there is always that line. but you need other people pushing your message to give you greater credibility. how much of it comes down to the membership of the tory party, the demographic, tends to be older? membership of the tory party, the demographic, tends to be older7m is an issue for the conservatives. it is over—50. you have seen more young people, not only engaged but coming out to vote. traditionally with young people they wouldn't vote. they might be engaged but at the 2017 election it was reversed inthe conservatives recognise that. because th

electoral appeal once again, to appeal to younger voters who really deserted the tory party at last year's election and flocked to labour minority ethnic voters and really start a new generation and a new phase in the tory party with new ideas, new thinking and a new approach fit for the digital age. thank you. and we'll find out how this story — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages. at 10:40 this evening in the papers. my guests joining me tonight are the times columnist jenni russell and martin lipton, deputy head of sport at the sun. a couple who met on an internet dating website have been convicted of planning a devastating christmas terror attack inspired by the islamic state group. munir mohammed, an asylum seeker from sudan who was living in derby, had stored up bomb—making components with the help of a his girlfriend, a pharmacist. the court heard the pair were also researching how to make the deadly poison, ricin in the foiled attack a year ago. this is a story which stretches to the streets of sudan. the couple now convicted both had roots here, but they linked up thousands of miles away in

in february, the tories won the copeland by—election — the first such win by a government party over its opposition in 35 years, and in a place that had been labourn the same night, labour held onto their stoke—on—trent seat... you going to resign, paul? ..seeing off a challenge from ukip. it was a message that hope triumphs over fear! there were elections, too, for the northern ireland assembly. sinn fein came within one seat of drawing level with the dup after a bitterly divisive campaign. applause. just a few weeks later, the death of sinn fein‘s martin mcguinness, northern ireland's former deputy first minister. martin mcguinness was a freedom fighter! even now, there's still no sign of a breakthrough so that power—sharing can be restored at stormont. saving for a rainy day, chancellor? back in london, philip hammond gave the first of his two budgets this year. theresa may was really looking forward to it, as the chancellor said it would prepare britain for brexit. it provides a strong and stable platform for those negotiations. "strong and stable" — a phrase we'd all get bored of. on 22nd march, a terrorist ploughed through pedestrians on we

i think it is about two thirds of labour supporters are willing to share political messages but less than half of toryy, is probably the age factor. younger people are more likely to use social media, particularly twitter. facebook is a little bit more of a mix, in terms of ages. i think they do have a natural kind of disadvantage there. what they are trying to do is... it isa what they are trying to do is... it is a slightly top—down way of organising things. where labour maybe have the advantage is in that kind of more organic, viral content. they also have another advantage, which is that they have this third—party organisation, momentum, which is producing its own staff out outside the scope of labour hq. some of their content was among the most shared stuff. although that, of course, is harder to control. i wa nted course, is harder to control. i wanted to ask, how much is this about the medium and how much is it about the medium and how much is it about the medium and how much is it about the message? about the medium and how much is it about the message ?|j about the medium and how much is it a

other labour mps take the opposite view when it comes to brexit because labour, rather like the tory,ve frozen because of the severe conditions. the state of florida, which has seen its first snowfall for almost 30 years, has declared a state of emergency. similar measures are also in place in georgia, virginia and north carolina. the governor of new york has also declared an emergency in parts of the state. this is what he had to say in the last few minutes. as everybody knows, we have a snow storm. but it's a snow storm plus, let's call it. we are going to be declaring a state of emergency because the situation has continued to deteriorate. we are going to have a state of emergency for the entire down state region, starting west chester south and long island. in terms of the snowfall, the predictions have increased, where we believe there will be more snow, up to six to ten inches in new york city, nine to 12 inches on long island, four to eight in west chester. in the last few hours snow has been falling heavily in new york city. our north america reporter joins us from there now.

he thinks that labour ought to ensure that brexit is a tory brexit, make them own it 100%, showed whyvery prime minister's questions, jeremy corbyn should nail each myth of the brexit campaign, challenge the whole farce head off of a prime minister leading oui’ head off of a prime minister leading our nation in the direction she cannot bring herself to say she would vote for. labour and downing street have decided they will not offer any response to what tony blair has had to say. some brexit campaigners saying this is typical of tony blair and that he and his elite gang are still very determined to stop brexit and hold the uk to a very bad deal which we had in the single market and in the customs union. it is interesting that he has given that response, because very often when people have been talking about their beliefs as remainers that there should be a second referendum, this atsu —— accusation of elitism is put out there. no one wa nts to of elitism is put out there. no one wants to be accused of being elitist but some of the views being expressed are not coming from that positi

it is going to be extremely difficult in my view for labour to deliver on its promise, if it puts itself in the same position as the torye it will find that it has less money to deal with the country's problem, that it's distracted by dealing with brexit, rather than dealing with the health service and jobs, and living standard and so on, and therefore, in my view if you end up and i have said this before, if you end up in a situation where you do brexit and have a corbyn government, this country is going to face a challenging situation. quick response from one shadow labour minister, saying mr blair's intervention was one helpful, lots of labour voters voted for brexit, and will regard this as the melt poll tan elite ignoring them. a reminder it is notjust the conservatives who have divisions over brexit, labour does too. technology firms are rushing to fix two security flaws in computer chips made by a number of leading manufacturers. the defects could allow hackers to steal personal data from nearly every modern computing device and smart—phone which have the chips fitted. our technology correspondent rory cellanjone

the tories were shaken by the way in which voters from their mid—40s downwards preferred labour in theh concerns over housing a key grievance amongst younger voters, there is a renewed focus on this in a newly rebranded department. all age groups in that election will also alarmed by the confusion over social care, so jeremy hunt takes overall control of that policy. the challenge will be to show that these changes amount to more than shiny new departmental nameplates. while the prime minister has been panned for tinkering with her cabinet, in this reshuffle she has gone further than the limited changes she made in the summer. so, progress since her midsummer nightmare when her first priority was survival. but this is still not theresa may's ideal reshuffle. had she done better in the general election there would have been changes at the most senior level of the cabinet. the prime minister tied up the loose ends of her reshuffle this evening. the troubled cabinet changes show theresa may cannot altogether escape the shadow of the election but atjunior levels there was a more decisive p

tory supporters. now normally if there‘s a vote on an opposition day motion the result isn‘t binding on the government, but laboure minister made it clear he would release the papers labour was asking for to the public accounts committee. i want to make it clear that if the motion passes that the government will of course comply. the committee does already possess powers to require the government to supply it with papers. and whether or not this motion passes this evening, it is my intention to share with the committee of public accounts as i reasonably can. that will help them with their inquiries. and he defended the use of outsourcing. he resorted to ideology, instead of looking at the people, our constituents actually use the services. and who benefit from the better value for money, the —— and who benefit from the better value for money, the innovative quality, that private—sector contractors are able to bring and have brought successfully to that work. well when it came to the end of the debate the motion did pass, and afterwards, mps wanted to know what would happen now. ijust wanted to confirm that the mo

labour mps. the telegraph leads with comments from the foreign secretary boris johnson, arguing the uk should welcome a visit from donald trump. the sunday express says more than a 100 tory will demand the prime minister ends free movement and leaves the single market as soon as the uk exits the eu in march next year. the new look observer leads with a pledge from the prime minister to punish bosses who fail to protect their workers pension schemes. and the mail on sunday leads with an investigation carried out by channel four into three former conservative cabinet ministers, in what the paper calls a ‘cash for brexit‘ controversy. well, as usual a mixed bag of stories in tomorrow morning's papers — politics, celebrity weddings and donald trump so let's take a closer look with my guests. starting with the b new look observer. what we think of that? kate? it is quite smart. it does look very tidy and clean. the prime minister has written in the observer tomorrow morning and in the wake of the carillion problems, she is calling for a crackdown on bosses who failed to protect pension schemes. if you want evidence that jeremy corbyn and his movement are gaining traction, loo

labour describes it. it is because of seven, well eight years now of tory under—funding cuts.14,000 beds in the nhs. we've got vacancies for 100,000 staff and of course, we have seen very severe cuts to social care. so elderly people don't get the support in the community that they should be getting. during this time, hospitals will not be penalised if they put patients on mixed—sex wards. but operations for cancer and other time—sensitive conditions will still go ahead. we know the system is going to get difficult. so rather than cancelling patients at the very last minute and having patients queueing, we want to do is free up the bed capacity that would normally be used for those planned care patients and make that available for our sick patients that are in the a&e departments. anna does feel frustrated, but thinks things could be worse for her. i'm not really in much pain, and i can carry on with life quite well. but i do feel very sorry for people who are waiting for hip operations or knee joints, because they are dealing with quite a lot of pain. authorities in scotland,

tory ranks host theresa- to may? the math doesn't work in our favor. david: they are worried about election because they are neck and that the labour party at the moment.here's a magic number, 48, the number of backbench lawmakers that have to send a letter to the chairman of what is called the 1922 committee, the committee in parliament that runs the conservative party and if the chairman of that , amittee receives 48 letters percentage of all of their members of parliament, that would trigger a no-confidence vote in misses may. she may win that, but it will trigger a leadership contest and the end of her reign as the prime minister. we are in close contact with the chairman of that committee, and various reports say that number is inching up at 40 or more. it doesn't sound like many more to go, eight more mps, they are staring down the battle -- the barrel of an election they might lose, they think twice about sending those. mark: how safe is philip hammond's position? he felt so much more confident in his position. he made a joke at the prime ministers expense. he's not known for his humor mode -- normally. him tot premature of show relaxed nature?

labour mps. the telegraph leads with comments from the foreign secretary boris johnson, arguing the uk should welcome a visit from donald trump. the sunday express says more than a 100 toryas soon as the uk exits the eu in march next year. the observer says the prime minister is to tackle pension abuse from greedy bosses who attempt to "line their own pockets" while failing to look after worker's pension schemes. and the mail on sunday leads with an investigation carried out by channel 4 into three former conservative cabinet ministers, in what the paper calls a "cash for brexit" controversy. that is the papers in brief but let's talk about them in a lot more detail. lainy, let's start with the sunday telegraph. they have boris johnson saying, stop moaning about donald trump coming to britain on a visit, let's get him over here, we should welcome a visit from donald trump. i'm under the impression, u nless trump. i'm under the impression, unless i'm wrong, i thought there was a planned visit happening and then donald trump then said, i don't wa nt to then donald trump then said, i don't want to come. so it's not as the cancelled? yes, i think that's the case. the us emba

labour claim the proposals are "cynical attempt at rebranding the tories‘ image" in order to woo youngtments on the environment. david cameron promised his government would be the "greenest ever". but despite despite this famous "hug a husky" moment, he faced criticism for not doing enough. let's talk to laura round from the conservative think tank, bright blue. dustin benton from the green alliance, which campaigns on environmental policy, and has been critical of previous government's achievements in the area. and the chair of the parliamentary environmental audit committee, the labour mp mary creagh. welcome all of you. why is mrs may talking about the environment for the first time? i think the election last year showed the conservatives have lost a lot of support from younger voters, especially voters based in metropolitan areas who are more socially liberal, and which polling shows, really care about environmental issues. when we asked under a0 voters what issues they would like politicians to speak more about, the environment was second, well ahead of housing. for under 28 euros

tory government. you are seeing that on the front line. funding of the fundamental issue, the labourll. we've got 100,000 vacancies across the nhs, and breaks it means we are seeing a drop in a number of nurses coming here from the eu, and many hospital trusts are extremely worried about their ability to recruit from europe and beyond in the future. we must leave it there. thank you very much. more now on the carillion collapse, and the news that documents seen by the bbc show the company, was left with just £29 million in cash, but owed more than £1.3 billion to its banks. we can now cross to our north of england correspondentjudith moritz, who is at the royal liverpool hospital which is currently under construction and was one of carillion's largest projects. what is the situation there are? is work continuing or not? what i understand, you can see the lights are on inside this new building, but there is very little meaningful work going on inside is the way it has been poked. the situation is, you have just heard about the pressures on the nhs. this is a very much—needed hospital

labour position is pro brexit we cannot attack its vast distracktive impact, he suggestions the government is dominated by brexit negotiations, he says make brexit negotiations, he says make brexit a torywhy brexit isn't and never was the answer, at i’)’ isn't and never was the answer, at ry prime minister's questions nail the myth, challenge the farce ahead ofa the myth, challenge the farce ahead of a prime minister leading our nation in a direction which today she can't bring herself to say she would vote for. the labour leadership and downing street deciding saying nothing is saying something, in response to all of this, they are not commenting. i was chatting to a shadow labour minister in the last hour or so ho was saying this kind of interven —— intervention was deeply unhelpful, suggesting a minority of labour voters, a substantial chunk, this would seem like the elite in the shadow minister's words trying to say we are ignoring you. and when tony blair says in this statement, make the conservatives own brexit 100%, is really what he is doing looking ahead to you know, post—brexit, another election where he thinks labour might be able to fight on a distinctive position on brexit

tory party leadership. you're right, people are making the argument to put the money in an following labour's lead, and thaton's motives, to be frank. and where will the money come from? that's a good question for boris johnson. both. well, it would be interesting to see where boris johnson wants the money to come from, but the labour party has been clear, we would actually put up tax for the very wealthiest people in society. we would ask them to pay a little bit extra and we would make different decisions about corporation tax which had billions of pounds of tax cuts. so i would be interested to see where boris johnson think he will get the money from if he is prepared tojoin with us in saying that the wealthiest in society and the big corporation should pay a little bit extra tax so we don't have elderly people on trolleys in corridors like we saw on the news last night. heartbreaking stuff on the bbc news last night we saw. i would be interested to find out if the money did materialise how you would spend it, what you would prioritise because this comes on a day when we are hearing that child poverty in

tories again. you might expect in the current scenario that leadership would be doing a lot better. if jeremy corbyn is going to win , and the labour is exciting to make the noises they expect, you should see those pulls a little bit firmer at this point in the parliament. 018 will be giving a little bit more of suffer ching. -- of suffrage. francine: we talk tot he ecb. calls for the central bank's bond buying program. at next.s th this is bloomberg. ♪ francine: economics, finance and politics. this is "bloomberg surveillance ," and i'm francine lacqua in london. reporter: ubs is in discussions to acquire a majority stake in the chinese joint securities merger. the ceo says the zurich-based bank is ahead of its double headcount in the country over a five-year period. an comments were made in exclusive interview with bloomberg in shanghai. >> we start the discussions with our partners a to 49%ths ago, going up and we made plans for the future to go up to 51%. reporter: the belgian rival has rejected the takeover advances. the danish pharmaceutical company is now pressuring the board to open talks on the bid for the 2.6 billion euro

labour. what was interesting yesterday after the boris johnson intervention, i detected from some tory mps thano timid. people feel downing street has been on the back foot basically since midway through the election campaign. she does not seem like she has denied to step up. they also know this is not a great time to have a leadership election but the difficulty is, because the government has no real agenda other than that, we are all desperate for something to write about. it feels like these mumbles were in forest fire conditions, it is so dry that any spark could burn the whole edifice down. that is a problem, brexit dominate so much, fold theresa may talking about the social mobility agenda, it‘s not really happening? i think there's a problem but at present on her big problem is that the brexit negotiations are at a pause which means everyone has more time to look at the fact that nothing is happening domestically. we saw tweets on friday, the government one of timidity, echoed this week is quite critical editorials from the right wing press but also from other backbenchers such as nichol

presage a shake—up in the tory party election machine, a sense that it was found wanting at the last election againstjeremy corbyn and a desire to try and match mr corbyn's labours the man to oversee a shake—up at central office, there were suggestions a lot office, there were suggestions a lot of new people will be brought in to hazard were give conservative party hqa hazard were give conservative party hq a kick up the backside to make it a more effective campaigning machine. norman, i given much. -- thank you very much. in, the news, but first, the weather. it has been a cold day today. there have been some big, big brother contrasts north and south. northern areas seeing barely a cloud in the sky and plenty of sunshine. a thick layer of low cloud in southern england. the weather courtesy of this area of high pressure, we have a sinking down towards the surface of the earth, and when that happens, the air tends to become more dry. when it reaches the ground, we will have clear blue skies like we have seen have clear blue skies like we have seen today across the northern half of the uk. this is from scotland earlier. across the south of the uk, the air has no

it, notjust from labour but some brexiteers and tory remainers.teers and tory remainers. union, he said that he could think about a second brexit referendum. about a second brexit referendum. why does that matter? interested but len mccluskey says, maybe. a lot going on. into going for a softer brexit keeping us closer to the eu. keeping us closer to the eu. tory leader iain duncan smith. tory leader iain duncan smithlj don't believe a word of it, really. don't believe a word of it, really. economy has been wrong, as far back as i can remember. as i can remember. 500,000 job losses, but the economy has grown since then. has grown since then. 2 millionjobs have been created. have been created. that means that therefore their model does not work. therefore their model does not work. it is yet again another dance around a failed model. a failed model. theresa may goes to china today. china today. was quoted as saying that the window was closing on her leadership. was closing on her leadership. programme, he was insisting he had been misunderstood...