Northern ireland needs to stay in some sort of customs agreement. Its a mess. And as weve already seen, Opposition Mps suggesting this calls into question Boris Johnsons position. Well, i just into question Boris Johnsons position. Well, ijust dont quite see where hes coming from on this. Is it see where hes coming from on this. Isita see where hes coming from on this. Is it a game of bluff . Weve got to talk tough and we got to be tough with the eu and ultimately well see how far we can push them. I dont know. All i can think is that either he doesnt understand how the border really works and how the good friday agreement has been operating so that you have this frictionless, seamless interaction between north and south, oi interaction between north and south, or there is Something Else that he might have in his mind but nobody else has quite figured it out. There is no technological solution, and certainly. Thats what the brexiteers say, you can have a electronic methods of making sure that goods are entitled to go across, we have trusted trade status. Even if you could have Something Like that, and there is nothing like it anywhere in the world that would work across that whole long border, it would take a long time to set anything like that up. And you still may be regulatory alignment to know that whatever is shipped has come in in the right way and can then pass on safely. We have lots of brexit stories, as ever. This issue of whether or not britain could stay in the Customs Union also featuring on this story on the front page of of the i. This has been supported by a number of labour mps. The labour party shifted the position, finally everyone was writing it was going to happen and did. They are saying that they never officially support a Customs Union after brexit. There are a number of tory who feel very strongly and ive spoken to a number of them this week to save the country comes first, its not about working with labour, they are doing their own thing. There has been talk of, will the issue turn into a no confidence vote . And the rebels in the tory side are clear, its up to the government whether or not they want to make it an issue of no confidence. We have the big speech from the Prime Minister on friday, she will probably fudge it somehow with the wedding, there will be some kind of customs arrangement, or maybe not even the word customs, as it seems to be so controversial. She will have to find some language that both appeases the rebels, who ultimately look like they would defeat the government, but also appeasing the brexiteers. At all is that like it is important to bear in mind that also having a Customs Union isnt enough to prevent a hard border in Northern Ireland. You also need at least some elements of the Single Market, if not the e a tub of arrangements. So this only gets you a certain way. And labours position has shifted but not to the place where it needs to be if we are going to honour the good friday agreement. So there race still further to go. There is a huge chasm between the real world and the world that the brexiteers and those who are looking at how on earth we can manage this process a re at how on earth we can manage this process are living in. And if we look at the times, which is picking up look at the times, which is picking up on this similar theme, again, looking at that document due to come out from the eu side tomorrow, dont break up britain. Battles with her cabinet, her backbenchers, and it looks like she is going to have to have a battle with the eu too. And across the eu is on the side of ireland, which they made in december. The dup on this irish border issue, its stalled talks, it was a crazy 24 hours for political journalists. I think on the boris point, perhaps no one really seems to have a solution on this question. If there isnt a solution, maybe this idea of having a hard border thatis this idea of having a hard border that is being put at there by the foreign secretary, if this is not going to work, that mans the demands the eu will make tomorrow, the Prime Minister will say no. If shes going to say no, its not good to happen, the eu are not going to be happy. Its not going to happen. Theresa may is a unionist, there is no way in which she will see Northern Ireland leaving the eu oii see Northern Ireland leaving the eu on different terms as the rest of the uk. Which is why i feel its hypocritical for her to talk about the eu breaking up the uk. It is our so called red lines that are imposing the requirement for this ha rd imposing the requirement for this hard border. If we didnt rule out staying in the Single MarketCustoms Union or eea, we wouldnt even need to be talking about breaking up the uk. I know a lot of my colleagues on the tory benches will be very angry with me, but i dont sign up to this idea that somehow its fine if you leave our major free trading partners and our closest neighbours, but actually, i have to say what i think and i think a lot of the tory rebels have just genuinely been saying what they believe is essential for the interests of this country. We are a United Kingdom and Northern Ireland is an essential pa rt Northern Ireland is an essential part of the United Kingdom. We should not bejeopardising it. Part of the United Kingdom. We should not be jeopardising it. Lets just take a quick look at the financial times. Narrated by michel barnier. Berated. What do you make of this . Yes, i mean, its a really big point, david davies is the head of the uk negotiating team and the head of the eu negotiating team has not seen him in a really crucial time. He is team has not seen him in a really crucialtime. He is busy team has not seen him in a really crucial time. He is busy touring the nordic countries. He would argue he is going out and reaching out to leaders in europe. Which he is. Which he is, im sure that would be his response. Also in the story are some comments this mine from martin donnelly, who used to work as the permanent secretary in liam foxs department, which livened up the debate. It brought it back to less complicated language. He said going into brexit was like giving up a three course meal for a packet of crisps. Its a wonderful quote, very strong line. It sums it up. Lots of other stories to get through. Back on the telegraph, the story here about gps paid to cut hospital referrals. I think a lot of people are quite worried that if gps are incentivised not to send you to hospital and even if you might actually need to go, they might decide not to send you. I suspect that actually, gps are a lot more ethical if they genuinely believe than you do need to put a hospital, they will send you there. But there isa they will send you there. But there is a social Attitudes Survey allied to this story which suggests that confidence and satisfaction with doctors is at a pretty much all time low, the lowest in 35 years. So something is happening and people are something is happening and people a re less something is happening and people are less and less satisfied with the health service. And we need to be concerned, i think, health service. And we need to be concerned, ithink, but health service. And we need to be concerned, i think, but overall, health service. And we need to be concerned, ithink, but overall, we see too many negative headlines, and you dont want that because actually, the nhs is a wonderful service. Although very briefly, it is obviously a sign of how much, how great the pressures are on the nhs. Again which is not good news for theresa may because this is a massive issue that the public are concerned about and again, this story as to this Public Perception that the nhs is in crisis and it cant cope with demand. I think you are right to say that gps probably would send you to hospital if it was that serious. There is an issue about people going to the doctor when maybe they dont need to, going to the nhs when they dont need to. So there is a balance to be struck there. We should move on, because of course, many of the papers, including the metro, have got photographs of the weather. The beast it has been known as the beast it has been known as the beast from the east. An extraordinary photo. Just brilliant. I think one of the Police Helicopters has captured this storm sweeping in and dumping snow all over london. Basically its all over the country and i think there is more to come. This is most unusual, its almost march and we got this major cold snap, its perishing the cold, not the normal kind of temperatures that you would expect. And some saying that, some say us brits are we talking about the weather but this has caused a huge amount of disruption and some people have lost their lives. And road accidents, thats inevitable i suppose, and there are statistics on elderly people who have unfortunately passed away because of the call, it will again bring up the issue to the Prime Minister of homelessness, that might come up again in pmqs byjeremy corbyn if he was again in pmqs byjeremy corbyn if he wa s cove re d again in pmqs byjeremy corbyn if he was covered because the two things do link of course, the rise in homelessness and this weather, pretty bad news for them. Whenever this happens, we all go, why arent we prepared . In other countries they haveis we prepared . In other countries they have is whether all the time, but in england and london, we go, we cant go to work today weve completely run out of time, lots more coming up on the weather, but thats it tonight. Dont forget, you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. Its all there for you, seven days a week at bbc. Co. Uk papers, and if you missed the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. Well, i thank you to baroness ros altmann and laura hughes. For now, the by. Goodbye. First came the cold, then the snow, more of us have had snow doing today and little staying with us for the next few days with more snow on the horizon. Kent particularly badly hit today. On the menu for the next few days, further heavy snow showers in places. That will bring more travel disruption. As the wind picks up, the chill becomes more of an issue. In the short term, an end to this flow of coal there but you can see the extent of the cold across europe. Anything falling from the sky is snow, any snow showers will produce accumulations in places as they run from east to west overnight. More of us turning drier and cleaver across western powers. You can see the focus of the snow showers there. Some spots dipped as low as 7, 8, as they did last night. But we are concerned about the snow piling up wednesday to thursday, the Amber Met Office warning meaning be prepared. Some particularly nasty and travelling conditions in parts of the central belt and those major routes in scotland, as we go from wednesday into thursday. Due to the frequency and intensity of these snow showers coming in. Some spotty willjust get one heavy snow shower after another. Elsewhere on wednesday, scattered snow showers around, some sunny spells. These are the top temperatures, a chilly night at this time of year. By day, these of the temperatures and this is what it feels like in the wind for some spots were feeling like minus double figures with the easterly wind picking up. It will strengthen further as the week goes on due to this area of low pressure coming from the south. Feeding moisture into the very cold air across the uk while the snow showers continue on thursday across northern parts of the uk, we will see a spell of snow and potentially blizzards. Icy conditions building up on thursday into friday across some southern and south western parts. Into wales too. So showers in Northern Ireland, still in Eastern England and eastern scotla nd still in Eastern England and eastern scotland so we maintain amber warnings into thursday. But this is a new one across south western parts of england and into wales, going into thursday. We are going to see some heavy hand is robbed of snow and another bitterly cold day. Heavy and disruptive snow. This is bbc news. The headlines at 11pm. 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