we nt tories would have a problem if we went for no deal, but i know that the majority of the toriestories that i speakto, and the majority of the tories that i speak to, and i believe the majority of the tory parliamentary party, does want to be more pragmatic, does not want to just crash out with no dealjust to get this over with. you just think for all the businesses out here who actually want a decision, it has got to that point, hasn't it? we have not heard from them, we have not been covering in this in the last few days, people are waiting for something to happen. i want to move on quickly before we totally run out of time, onto the daily express. this is not going to help anybody, if this is true. headline is is this the end of free cashpoint machines. other going to start charging even more? exactly, there are so many that charge already, and i think this is a real problem. we have already seen hundreds of cash machines closing, especially in small towns, where people have the only access to cash, bag wrenches closing across the country —— bank branches. this is a real probl

not many tory votes in the north.g abroad after the baby is born. good luck to them. as long as this does not look like a wonderful colonial couple moving to former colony in africa and setting up house in a big colonial mansion with black or asian servants. i think they have to be really careful... slightly less of a concern because of meghan, her background. possibly. a mention of a governor general title... i think that was rejected. in practical. i think the overall image of this couple going out to africa is great -- it is couple going out to africa is great —— it is impractical. maybe we should find out the view of whichever african country, botswana... a lot of work to do. many countries in africa... it is how it is framed. optics, ithink they say. could just get a job and go and live in africa. that is the weird business of this. first word of the story is the courtiers have drawn up plans. 21st century? sir david manning, lord... drawing up the plans for sending the man out to africa, it has a whiff of coloni

in relying on brexiteers tories and the dup. that strategy is in the band.ot sure that this really changes that calculation. and i think government also is reconciled to asking for a longer extension when theresa may meets the eu leaders next week. which is why some are saying this bill was not actually very necessary today. because ministers have already said it will be going off to ask for more time. what this is his belts and braces come a backstop by the house of commons but it is giving mps a lot of power in the way it came about as extraordinary. legislation is initiated by government. here, you see a backbencher, yvette cooper, and a handful of others who are now de facto quasi—leaders of the country in some way. initiating legislation that has a very big impact. and they have pulled off quite a result this evening. where does that leave the prime minister, her authority, or credibility, her legitimacy, as you say, the kind of parliamentary momentum sees from the governmentcrafts, her red lines now in question, having to deal with the labour leaders,

tory leadership race but the basic thing is our next prime minister will ultimately be decided by torys and it will be tory mps, just over 300 of them, who will thin that down. tory mps, quite a lot of whom are anti—boris, they don't think it was anti—boris, they don't think it was a good foreign secretary, questioned his morals, all sorts of objections, and if boris gets through to the final two, and if boris gets through to the finaltwo, i'm sure he win and if boris gets through to the final two, i'm sure he win the country. there is a very brexit sporting tory grassroots and i think they would have him over anyone else. dangerous to make predictions in politics but that is the one i would make. an organised attempt to stop boris seems to be under way. of course that might improve his credentials in the country amongst tory members. that idea here is the outsider trying to change the system. that sort of fits in with their popular sentiment of our times. we have not mentioned brexit for a few days, do feel free to go back there. it has been such a relief not to be talking about it. t

and they are not going to vote tory and they are going tojoin are not going to vote tory and they are this new are not going to vote tory and they are going to join this new brexit party that nigel farage has set up, all ukip. it is very volatile, it was taken in april, in six months' time it could be different picture again. let us move away from jeremy corbyn. there is a story in the sunday telegraph, the shimmer bacon —— match 0mega she was the enforcer in the morality police guard. —— shamima begum. it says she was carrying a rifle and went around telling women for wearing the wrong colour shoes and was generally... she was not the innocent mother of three that she has portrayed herself as subsequently. i think it is quite interesting because there are longer stories and other papers about this, but what we are hearing really is that there is far more to this story than meets the eye. where has all this come from, do we think as much as they've been briefing? summit the intelligence sources, it is interesting to note that this is coming out at the time, she is being stripped of he

tory mps want to keep their seats. they will vote for boris if they think he can do that.at and has a 5.5% sta ke seeking a board seat and has a 5.5% stake in berkley 's. it gives him some clout, much to some displeasure of the rest of the board. they are cracking down on bankers pay in a bid to see him off, foreclose some of his demands. i'm encouraged by this because i'm worried about your jeremy corbyn friends changing the country to rally. well, tinkering around the edges isn't going to cut it, is it? we do need a radical economic overhaul is probably many people up and down the country are in agreement of the. capitalism definitely needs to be fixed. whether your solution is the right one, i don't know. capitalism might yet reform itself from within. incapable, yet reform itself from within. inca pable, but anyway. yet reform itself from within. incapable, but anyway. it is said to be most tightly tied to performance. this is the sort of conversation we have been having since over ten yea rs have been having since over ten years ago and people have been saying we need

tory party had problems with euro scepticism for ever and a daym tory party had problems with euro scepticism ever and a day. it is to stop them gaining seats so shouldn't the labour party be careful? camera and decided to call the referendum as a ploy to knock down his right wing in the party and stop nigel faraj. he had no intention of losing this thing. and he did lose it. now he had to go and this thing is sitting in the national consciousness. farage sta rts national consciousness. farage starts the praxis party which is sucking the life out of the conservative party and may be hitting labour as well —— brexit party. maybe it is a good thing for labour and they will decide where they will stand. talking about who does what, the mail on sunday has all that because it has 40% of tory councillors backing fa rage. all that because it has 40% of tory councillors backing farage. they are saying three quarters want theresa may to resign. because she had the vote of no confidence, maybe if we overturn the rules we could have a new leader in and change things and then they have this poll and they

it has been tumultuous at every point, be it a labour government or a tory government.ble. when david cameron held the referendum, europe as an issue for voters was way down the list, he called it for other reasons. so no, i don't think it was inevitable. that's it for dateline london for this week. we're back next week at the same time, same place. goodbye for now. hello again. we're going to see some big changes in our weather over the next few days of this week. as we go the monday evening and overnight, our wet weather will push its way northwards, eventually reaching parts of england and wales through the night. ahead of the fund,it through the night. ahead of the fund, it is not desperately cold. to the north—west, the cold air is flowing across scotland and northern ireland with some wintry showers tucking in. that is a sign of things to come as low pressure slide southwards on tuesday, again the wind is coming down from the deck. really cold blast on the way, we will have falling temperatures, rain and even hill snow around, return of some sharp overnight frost

the erg, the tories are gathered together to watch the statement. —— they all gather together.jeremy corbyn is slain duncan smith said come he is not fit enough though well a... will alienate people more. jacob rees—mogg, who did record the last week said i stand by that and i will back your deal again it shows that not backing her deal leads to a softer brexit. there will be a lot of anger tonight, when erg member said they are considering resigning the web, they felt so angry. in the cold light of day, tomorrow or after, if the vote comes down to it in parliament, either mrs may deal or jeremy corbyn deal which could be customs union and therefore a lot of the success of brexit as they will say not being delivered, they may have to finally hold their nose and back the may deal. i hasten to think that the idea thatjeremy corbyn is a marxist—leninist or whatever, or jacob rees—mogg worries. not mine. by jacob rees—mogg worries. not mine. by the other you they are feeling you need to get onto twitter now. —— jacob rees—mogg's word. isn't there an irony here that in fact, the dup

(ani)but it won't be easy for her — the daily telegraph reports that tories plan to move against ther the local elections . funking cabinet ministers and senior tory eurosceptics have warned that she must quit next month to give her successor a fresh start. ani)and the metro brings together the top two stories of the day — brexit and the first ever image of a black hole — with ‘what brexit looks like from space‘..and ‘deal appears as far, far away as this black hole‘. a deal, brexit deal appears as far far away as the black hole. yet, obvious comparisons between black holes in the problems of her brexit. katie, we will start with the independent, going nowhere, pm could stay on until 2020 as she tries to force her brexit. she didn‘t give in and date rather as to when she was going to leave, she just said she was going to leave right? she could go on for a while. she was a little bit clearer, she said she would leave when she passed her brexit deal, so when the first stage of brexit happened. what mac winds that katie? al mike looking at the picture of the black hole, you get the impr

that was actually, i think all about this tory party machinations, they know how to do it. was a monarchy punctuated by regicide, and they are clearly trying to show that basically after this easter weekend, we will all be having fun, eating eggs, spending money in the shops, may be enjoying the weather. these tory mps will be skipping back and deciding to meet with their collea g u es deciding to meet with their colleagues about changing the rules of the party in which, as we know, eve ryo ne of the party in which, as we know, everyone should know, we cannot have a leadership contest until december... they want to say that they now certainly can. is there a loophole somewhere, or do they... basically backbench mps have to agree to change. you may obviously say, the media will go, —— they will immediately go, right, we want another go at the contest. given that they did not win in december, will this be a shift in the numbers? at least the tory party, unless something will change then, because eve ryo ne something will change then, because everyone in westminster accepts th

to find a compromise with the labor party has been also a motion and parliament drawn up by angry tory m.p.'s asking to cuts to rescind my salary and hard because she has not been bringing forward the bricks talk so a lot of angry tory m.p.'s the rhetoric really heating up within the party saying it's a it was a punch in the face that she talked to jeremy called and comparing him to chamberlayne who gave to the nazis so rhetoric really heating up and she is theresa may is risking to split her tory party with this move to find a compromise with jeremy cotton i what about. labor party how do they feel there are term proselytising with the enemy. well a lot of them are on board and they want the deal. some have been wanting to leave the european union all along and stay happy that finally two recently is reaching out across the party and trying to find a new way forward saying that he's caving in and that the promises that theresa may is making might not be held up by a future prime minister when the talks are happening with the european union and future relationships that there might be

jeremy hunt sasj on the radio if you have a customs arrangement, you'll lose my tories and labour ated and is labour really going to want to facilitate and is labour really going to want to facilitate advantaging the tory brexit? it's hard to sell it, he says it's a job for us brexit he keeps on framing it that way it would be about framing the size is how they can see who winds a spin working trees and they say actually this is dishonest which i'll agreement and that the customs union that she could spend and say it's not one at all, and i think it's you know everyone is waiting for the local elections on thursday, because they've got to be party political, they're trying to keep. viable. that's a truth that they, and the outcome is... quite that both sides need to be seen to be doing something. what we know as both parties want brexit. like the leaders want but want it, even though the country spit but the two leaders, actually do want to deliver brexit, it's a question of whether they canjoin brexit, it's a question of whether they can join together and keep enough people and thei

the tory party we are a real party this is the right decision these are. different social classes this country will see. well the e.u. won't exactly be thrilled to have their parliament packed with the euro skeptics we heard earlier this week from the european union warning that britain could poison the union because of important votes they could be vetoed an important discussions could be bogged down by euro skeptic m e p's and as i say in the first place they don't even want to remain within the union but as i say the dramatic changes to the polling results day by day make it really hard to predict what is to come in the european elections. well with the you're opinion haven't approved a further extension to break that the u.k. now has until october twentieth thirty first halloween to decide on its next step apartments in deadlock successive votes of fail to find a majority in a number of alternatives including let's just go through the second referendum a customs union even revoking regs it all together now former british m.p. george galloway say suppor

an upset if labour was see was as did the tories, and thirdm was as did the tories, and thirdm was successfuler of second places and it would not be wholly surprising if they could pull off some kind of regeneration of the management in richmond. they do it if they have ukip one and ukip two. he has this veneer of respectability andl he has this veneer of respectability and i have ukip read by otherfar right... that is kind of a meme is an eight? eight meme of anti-semitic nature and far right circles. we know ukip had a very strong quasi—respectable brand and they are doing quite a good job of dragging that brand through the mud. 0ne interesting test case here is if they have enough loyalty to the old ukip and nigel farage and they noticed something very different about you can't know and they turned out it has not noticed and it will notjust the out it has not noticed and it will not just the conservatives out it has not noticed and it will notjust the conservatives but particularly through the conservative party. a lot of tories, your own people think that what theresa may has agreed is no

and dup deal through on the back of tory and d u p votes deal through on the back of tory and dup votessation that for any deal to get through, it will have to be a softer sort of brexit and that may mean staying in some form of customs union. i think she has also realised she has to take on her party‘s brexiteers, many of whom seem more interested in pursuing no—deal. but the stakes are enormous, it risks splitting her party, it risks bolstering mr corbyn‘s authority and, above all, it might not work, which means mrs may goes back to square which means mrs may goes back to square one, which means mrs may goes back to square one, but facing the undying enmity of her party. norman, thank you very much. let‘s go to brussels. they are watching events here just as closely as we are. the issue of an extension overshadowed by that looming date for euro elections. yes, exactly, simon. we are here at the european parliament in brussels because we expect to hear shortly from jean—claude juncker. there will bea from jean—claude juncker. there will be a debate about brexit and we will hear his opi

but we know some backbench tory mps, jacob rees—mogg among them have said we should be obstructive.it has beena should be obstructive. and... it has been a feature of the last couple years there has been mild bemusement sometimes that things they get said either in the house of parliament and social media in the united kingdom do get read and embassies and official buildings, so it does have an impact and yet they know i backbench mp on its own, perhaps so but i think they all know that backbench mps have their role in the syste m backbench mps have their role in the system but it is a government that counts. the real fear would be this prime minister has made a solemn promise if there where to be end of the prime minister relatively soon, who would perhaps be pushing for a harder pure form by brexit as they we re harder pure form by brexit as they were sick with a play by the same rules? politically, for theresa may. —— would they play by the same rules. a large part of theresa may's pa rtey not happy rules. a large part of theresa may's partey not happy about it. it's october good

i put this to an mp recently, a tory mp, and he said, let them walk.eave it here. jack and anna, thank you so much. come back in half an hour's time. for now, that is it for the papers. good evening for so we got some turbulence guidelines today, hail, showers, thunder and lightning. sleet and snow. significant snow at that. with more showers to come to the rest of the night and we could have some more significant snow over the hills of wales. several centimetres could fall here. we have got more rain and hills snow working its way back into scotland. as well as all that, it is going to be a cold night. there could also be some mist and fog thrown in there for the next tomorrow morning. not great if you out on the roads. fog over the hills as well. the sun will start to break through in the southwest behind this weather system. moving eastwards. it's another day of sunny spells, perhaps fewer showers for northern ireland and southern scotland, northern england compared with today. and to measures just other higher. and higher still again on friday and

it would still be a tory leadership campaign going on.o be a consta nt campaign going on. it seems to be a constant story that's humming underneath the main story. there is always a subtext and it's about the leadership and i'm so tired of it. they should be getting to grips with the crisis this country is in, dealing with exit, not arrogantly promoting themselves as the person to say it when there is a national crisis that needs to be dealt with. this is a whistleblower that's gone out. we will never know what this messages. the police need to go in and get the phones, disclose this, we can get that and it depends, they might bea we can get that and it depends, they might be a problem with apple. there are different layers but this is absolutely, it's ta ken are different layers but this is absolutely, it's taken away from the chinese delegation of what going to do, taking everything away. there's been a criminal act year and we have to get this result quickly. let's move on to the metro. new bomb alert for sri lanka. as of this country

the tory party we are a real party this is the right decision these are. different social classes in this country you'll see. both the e.u. won't exactly be thrilled to have their parliament packed with the euro skeptics we heard earlier this week from the european union warning that britain could poison the union because of important votes they could be vetoed an important discussions could be blocked. and by euro skeptic any piece and as i say in the first place they don't even want to remain within the union but as i say that your matic changes to the polling results day by day make it really hard to predict what is to come in the european elections with the european union having approved further extension the u.k. now then has until the thirty first of october to decide on its next step but parliament still in deadlock successive votes have failed to find a majority on a number of alternatives including a second referendum or a customs union or even revoke it breaks it all together former british m.p. george galloway says support for nigel farage is th

the sunday express is the politics, tories to lose over a thousand seats in the local elections, notit happens. the headline says the party i’u ns happens. the headline says the party runs out of cash. they haven't literally run out of cash but they are in danger of it. because people are in danger of it. because people are not contributing because they feel the tory party made such a mess of brexit with both leave and remain no longer willing to contribute to party funds according to this piece. ican quite party funds according to this piece. i can quite well imagine they will lose a lot of seats in the local elections, whether it is a thousand oi’ elections, whether it is a thousand or not i'm not sure. people take out their national frustrations in local elections. they do and it looks like this is what is going to happen. it is on the 2nd of may and what's interesting here in the sunday express is the party's chief executive and treasurer is understood and quoted as being in despair because remain and leave donors are refusing to fund party operations and the tories are out of mo

the angriest tories wants her gone quickly, so a new leader can rewrite whatever‘s agreed.some believe his true wish was to keep his hands clean of brexit, let the tories get the blame for whatever goes wrong. so what next? agreement means a deal might start to take shape. if talks finally break down, mrs may said it's up to mp5. then, more voting on brexit options — staying close to the eu, a referendum, or — what many tories would prefer — leaving with no deal. and of course, mrs may's deal, which would be back in the mix. next wednesday, it is back to brussels. the pm once in eu deal before april 12. that's the deadline before april 12. that's the deadline before taking part in european elections. that you may insist on the longer day and britain taking part. very interesting today that the early reporting was thatjeremy corbyn had not brought up the issue ofa corbyn had not brought up the issue of a confirmation we referendum on a permanent deal, and then later in the date you got a letter from emily thornberry to all the labour mp saying that it should be there attache

if he can split the tories down the middle, that might bea tories down the middle, that might be a pricethat can actually —— could have a pill that she could swallow? we know that the only think that he comes to an agreement with is the customs union. she would have to be forced to do it, but she is trying to say to do it, but she is trying to say to her backbenchers, unless you back my dell, i am going to do this. perhaps she will never go down that road, see how far she can get. the language, it is all about the language, it is all about the language in the political declaration about the future relationship. that is quite a lot of similarities in their positions. but she is trying to do is try to find language that makes the that they can both live with. jeremy corbyn would ever want to sign up to brexit because the money he does that, he splits his party. that is what she is trying to do. she would not go as far to agree to a customs union. she wa nts far to agree to a customs union. she wants language to makejeremy corbyn think that it will not be a bit customs union, and arrangemen

and thanks to demolition may have london is in charge of the police let's move on here, the tories losinggel brexit priority, it's a kind of thinking this on the shoulder of the conservative party that was supposed to be banished and david cameron agreed to hold referendums and it did not turn out that way and nigel farage it seems to be back with a vengeance. farage it seems to be back with a vengeance. said to me, this new party was only launched in january. they might find he's overtaken all the other parties. i mean, we have to also, it's one pole so we don't really know. why not the only one that matters is the election. yeah. had and we all been burned. from a standing start it's remarkable. he has no recognition, —— i think, it's nigel farage and brexit. in a way that the breakaway group doesn't have a leader to recognise, and it extraordinary that you keep dale right in the by election, and you see that disappearing i think because brexit party went riding... like they did no way to go, and now he is publicly coming out in such a way people are starting to recognise that they are

frustration with brexit won't help the tories. gained ground in some polls and the lib dems results may look rather more encouraging than some of the polls suggest. remember, the european elections are just three weeks away. this time, with the brexit party and the new change uk party both taking part. fed up with elections and politics? who isn't? that doesn't mean these elections don't, in many ways, matter to every one of us. we might be heading for a change in the weather. here is susan powell for the latest. bank holiday, it won't be a disaster but it is going to turn somewhat colder. in the west we have this big stripe of cloud, which is a weather front running from north to south and there's more rain to come out of that this evening for scotland and the north west of england, for wales and the south—west of england. northern ireland getting drier as the night goes on. a lot of the rain fizzles out as we move into the small hours but we will be left with extensive cloud by the time we get to wednesday. clearer skies to the

the observer had a similarfront page, tory backlash, furious tories, quote, will oust theresa may ifto be a red line for a lot of grassroots tories, the idea that we could be fighting european elections three years after voting to leave. exactly. ithink the question is around relevant and what impact that will actually have. the fear that the observer outlines, a lot of conservatives could be driven to boycott the elections altogether, which could feed into right—wing support etc, so it could be shooting ourselves in the foot a little bit. you are right, and i keep having to look at this from a european perspective, european headlines, and if you are an outsider looking in to britain at the moment, it is cartoonish, satirical what is going on. the fact that britain could be part of these european elections, essentially three years, as you say, after we have said, no thanks, we are out. three years, as you say, after we have said, no thanks, we are outm there is no deal betweenjeremy corbyn and theresa may and it goes back to parliament, can you see parliament coming up with a consens

. —— tory wrath. is perhaps hoping that the spectre of her and corbyn sitting down together to construct corbyn sitting down together to co nstru ct a corbyn sitting down together to construct a brexit deal to go through parliament may prompt some people on her own side who have been holding out to finally get behind her. she is offering to sit down with corbyn, she has offered that before. she is offering indicative votes, they are already going on, but it is clear this is different. when she meets corbyn this time, this will be seriously talking, not going through the pretense of your redlines on my redlines, but what can we actually do here? the indicative votes which would come about if she and corbyn can't agree ona about if she and corbyn can't agree on a way forward, she has said the government would be bound by them, she has not said that before. initially, nothing has changed, it is brad hogg day, but i think this is brad hogg day, but i think this isa is brad hogg day, but i think this is a

a real split in the tory party?nd over backwards to try and help the prime minister to get an arrangement through, that gives us an opportunity to, at least, finally completely. i have to say that anything that goes on behind these closed doors, indicative votes are any additions to this, make it absolutely clear that this is no longer what i would call conservative government policy. this becomes policy dictated by what i think is a marxist and rather nasty labour party, out there. and i say that makes all of our lives are intolerable, out on the ground. people standing in mae... but what do you do about it? we have a vote here, and if that is what's on the table i don't see how the conservative party can possibly bring themselves to support a deal which has so reneged on what was originally in our manifesto, what we voted for when we overwhelmingly voted for when we overwhelmingly voted for when we overwhelmingly voted for the article 50 letter, and keep what theresa may has said endlessly, sherwood not accept. th

the tory party we are a real party this is the right decision these are. different social classes for this country. well the e.u. won't exactly be thrilled to have their parliament packed with you are skeptics we heard earlier this week from the european union warning that britain could poison the union because of important votes they could be vetoed an important discussions could be blocked. and by euro skeptic any piece and as i say in the fast pace they don't even want to remain at within the union but as i say the term matic changes to the polling results day by day make it really hard to project what is to come in the european elections bridge dashti there will form a british m.p. george galloway says support for major forages the voters way of demanding breaks it i predict to you know the knowledge of for odgers bricks that party is going to win the european elections hands down sweep the boards crush ukip wrote of the room in our parties the working class are going to vote for nigel farage you can mark your card on that that's why our party that's o

and some tory backbenchers clearly hate the idea of another delay. we chose to leave, we voted to leave, so for god's sake, let'sjust leave! voted to leave, so for god's sake, let's just leave! in voted to leave, so for god's sake, let'sjust leave! in recent days, government ministers have been holding talks with labour, looking for a compromise that might secure a majority in the commons. labour is arguing fora majority in the commons. labour is arguing for a customs union with the eu, but trade secretary liam fox has written a letter to a senior tory mp saying a customs union would be a betrayal of brexit. it is not only tory brexiteers who are despairing about the prime minister's strategy. some conservative mps have come round to the idea of another referendum to solve the crisis. round to the idea of another referendum to solve the crisislj wa nt referendum to solve the crisis.” wa nt to referendum to solve the crisis.” want to leave, i voted for the prime minister's deal three times, to keep no—deal on the table and against an extension of arti

cove, whichever one >> yes. >> i have tori cove here. this is just capital calls. >> yes, in the last page. yeah,. >> this is the last page. >> yeah, there we are. this is showing, this is only for the private markets, this is not including -- combined. >> what about contributions? >> that was in my previous page. >> which we know our 500 million today, we will reach 700 million in five years, it gets a little cloudy after five years, you can't predict exactly when people will retire, but our estimate, do not of numbers that she gave us that are in ten years would be a billion. >> okay. i will try to figure out how to put the two numbers together. >> they offset each other. we have a net outflow for benefits payments in ten years over a billion, and we have net inflow from net cash inflows from private markets of $1.1 billion here in eight or nine years, and about 1.44 billion cambridge and about the same time period. >> the footnote explains it differently to those two numbers it is just a question of how much, how much cash we have to

jeremy corbyn bound for number 10 as the tories face a 60 seat loss.d there be? i hope not. please, no! ithrow water on that. it gave me the heebie—jeebies, that idea. this is a poll of polls, which is basically putting together all the recent polls and coming up with a result. what it actually shows is that although the tories would lose 59 seats, labour would be 37 seats ahead of them, should there be a general election. that means we are still in hung parliament territory. this is the problem about a general election and why i really am against one, because it solves nothing. all you do end up is back in the same situation we are in just a slightly different player is doing it. so if labour had to do some kind of deal with the snp, given the problems they are going through at the moment just doing some kind of brings deal with the government, can you imagine where we would be if we were doing a brexit deal with the snp as well? stop it! there are people at home who may be can't reach the remote control. just stop it! laughter. 0k. control. just stop

support for a tory deal, yes or no?e she cannot fix this mess, stop ignoring the people of scotland. opening up meaningful discussions with civic society. start by listening, prime minister, and please get her head out of the sand. can i say to the right honourable gentleman the government has not offered a second referendum and our biz position, i said to him yesterday and pm cues that that our position had not been changed, of course as legislation, when legislation goes through, once we have agreed a deal and legislation is going through for the bill that puts in place i'm sure there will be mamas of this house, because there are members who supported —— there will be members of this house who support a second referendum. i continue to believe it is important for us to deliver on the first referendum that took place in 2016 on the result of that. can i just say to the right honourable gentleman, if he is so interested in referenda, the question is will he now abide by the decision of the 2014 scottish referendum, yes

let's move on to the the i, this has been widely talked about, tories braced for a drubbing, about, toriesd for a drubbing, a word we don't hear very often outside of news headlines apart from my dad, this week from fed up voters. 1,000 council seats they think they might lose. the local elections are taking place this week in lots of the country and it is basically tory land, give or take a few, where these elections are happening, the places that are the bedrock of the tory coalition so if they are saying they do not like the conservatives, that is not good for the party. slight note of caution is that the way the council elections work is that these seats were last contested four days ago on the last day —— met four years ago on the same day as the 2015 general election and it feels a long time since the conservatives could win a functioning majority and they did then, so they are coming from an historic heartland, so nevertheless, not good news. and when it comes to the european elections, in many cases, the conservative parties would prefer not to fight it at all according to this. ap

deep divisions in the tory party.ng at a further 12 months of brexit uncertainty, where does that leave uk business, international business, investment, all those things we talk about on this programme every day? that is the key question. as much as business hates the idea of no deal, they are not massive fans of a delay either because as we have seen we got figures last week showing that business investment in the uk had hit a ten year low, and if you have a suffocating delay of another 12 months, there arejobs a suffocating delay of another 12 months, there are jobs that don't get filled, businesses don't invest and the investment of today is the productivity and jobs of tomorrow. i think businesses are wringing their hands, they don't want a new deal but they want this sorted as quick as possible so another year's delay i think the scene almost as bad but not quite as bad as no deal. let's talk about the uncomfortable menage a trois going on in the... in the studio! awkward! i'm blushing now! the two big german len

i think brexit is not a tory brexit, i think it should be a cross—party discussion.should all be working together on something like this, when it comes to such a big decision. and there shouldn't be bickering between each other because if they can't agree with each other, then how are they going to agree with anything? it's dreadful now, absolutely dreadful. it's beyond a joke, i think. sorry, go on. it actually puts you off thinking about, why bother voting? because you're not going to get the outcome, are you, so what's the point? i'm not bothered as long as she can do the job. actually, i voted to remain, i think maybe people have changed their mind a little bit who voted as regards leaving, because there'sjust no end of the road here. our chief political correspondent vick young said that discussions between the conservatives and labour are set to continue into next week, with both sides outwardly optimistic about making progress. they are both being very positive about it in public. it's intriguing, really, and very interesting that outside of westminster where

one of those pushing the idea is tory mp nigel evans., my own view now is that i believe that we need fresh leadership and i hope that we are able to persuade theresa may that now is the time to go. she is reaching out, i know, to the labour party and to jeremy corbyn when she should have been reaching out to 17.4 million people. and, indeed, even people who voted remain in my own constituency had said to me, nigel, just get on with it. you said we were going to leave, why haven't we left? at the moment there has been no response from the chairman of the 1922, sirgraham response from the chairman of the 1922, sir graham brady, so radio silence from him. but talking to others, i think the chance of any move before the local elections in a fortnight is probably a bit unlikely because of the fear that it would further destabilise the tory campaign in the local elections. more likely, as this goes slightly longer, to the european elections in may the 23rd when there is a widespread view that the tories are facing a disastrous evening and tha

well, frustration with brexit won't help the tories.they've gained ground in some polls, and the lib dem results may look rather more encouraging than some of the polls suggest. remember, the european elections are just three weeks away, this time with the brexit party and the new change uk party both taking part. fed up with elections and politics? who isn't? that doesn't mean that these elections don't in many ways matter to every one of us. it is the end of an era injapan. this morning, emperor akihito formally declared his abdication and delivered his last public address as emperor. the 85—year—old is the first japanese monarch to stand down in more than 200 years. oxford—educated crown prince naruhito will ascend the throne tomorrow. laura bicker reports. japanese emperors are supposed to die on the throne, but this is a man who has redefined what it means to be a monarch. emperor akihito has come to the imperial palace shrine to ask his dead ancestors' permission to abdicate. in truth, he has pleaded with his people and the govern

and secondly, to that potential happen to other tories?onfidence. my office has tabled a vote of confidence in me which did not gaina vote of confidence in me which did not gain a majority. it provided an opportunity which had deliberate intention behind it to enable members of my association to express their views. i delivered a long question and answer session and explain where i was in relation to brexit. my association, like many in the country, is deeply divided on this issue. and those who turned up, the majority, said they did not have confidence in me and were not prepared to express confidence in what i was doing. that is some way from me being deselected as a member of parliament. i am grateful to the people who turned up. i have expressed some anxiety that there was evidence, which undoubtedly was, that some of the evening was orchestrated, particularly the destructive aspects of it, buy it seems to be individuals who do not share conservative values at all. and there is a lot of evidence that mps are being targeted nationally f

the tory backbenchers fought back and defeated the coup.s, but where does it leave us now?m leaves us leaving the european union in ten days because that is the legal default position is not what you said that last time as we approached 29 march and it didn't happen. the difference now is i believe the eu won't extend article 50 any further because they extend beyond 12 april and they have to have european elections in the uk, that would very likely, particularly in the current climate, deliver very large numbers of very eurosceptic mps to the european parliament, which completely ripped up all of their plans. so i believe they won't extend article 50. by the way, importantly, we can stop it anyway. we have a veto. if the prime minister says don't extend it, it isn't extended. we don't need to do that. we are ten days away. let's do what 70 million people wanted and just leave. say that doesn't happen and say the government presents a choice of perhaps bringing fair deal back to parliament, meanwhile other mps are saying if the deal isn't p

party some hardliners of maize tory party have been pushing for that they want the u.k. to leave without a deal on april twelfth and so they are going to discuss this possibility and see if the u.k. is just prepared enough for such a scenario so it's going to be a long morning for theresa may and her cabinet and we'll learn later today what comes out of that the possibility of of a new deal bracks it was taken up in brussels a prominent politician. that said it is almost inevitable is that the sense you're getting today in long. well a majority of parliament really does not want that members of parliament have said they don't want to leave with a deal but we have to remember it's the default option if nothing else happens if ek doesn't find a path forward if there is no alternative then the u.k. will leave without a deal on april twelfth and again some members of parliament over one hundred or so have been pushing for that because they say it's not going to be s. chaotic after all it's going to be fine we can leave without a deal and then we finally have gotten over it.