more sunshine around today, especially for eastern areas. before full weekend forecast is coming up here and breakfast. it s friday 2nd june. our main story. the former this morning presenter phillip schofield says he has lost everything , after admitting to lying about an affair with a young colleague. in his first interview since resigning from itv, mr schofield says he desperately regrets the relationship, but insists it was consensual and he strenuously denies claims that he groomed the man. he s been speaking to our media editor amol rajan. come on in. good to see you. thank you. phillip schofield granted this interview because he wanted to say sorry, he wanted to show contrition, and he wanted to correct some of what he sees as the false narratives in the public domain over the past week. are you feeling 0k to do this? you re feeling strong enough to do this interview? yeah, i have to. schofield described the enormous toll that recent days have taken on him. and it is
an unprecedented a0 degrees. the i newspaper also reports on the heatwaves and the highest warning areas covering london, manchester and york. the ft has borisjohnson reportedly offering pay rises averaging about 5 % to millions of public sector workers next week. the telegraph leads on news that conservative leadership candidate penny mordaunt is hitting back at her rivals after days of alleged targeting by critics. the mail puts a positive spin on liz truss s campaign with her policy liz tax boost for families but in tonight s debate other candidates did question where the money would be coming from and the express has a message from the outgoing prime minister to his successor, that they must finish theirjob on brexit. so let s begin. do you want to kick off this time with this rather startling front page? with this rather startling front -a . e? with this rather startling front .a . e? , ., with this rather startling front nae? , ., ., , page? the burning red that h
All of those stories coming up in a moment. Before we go to ben thompson, i want to show the live pictures from washington because he seemed pretty much set up there, we are expecting about four or five senators in the next few minutes to come to the microphone to condemn those protests we have seen at Different University campuses, certainly of the last few weeks, but more focused on what we saw overnight, both at ucla and at Columbia University in new york. So when that starts we will obviously return to washington. That gives us time to bring in ben thompson. He is herewith todays business needs. Good afternoon, what do you have for us . Lets move these things out of the way, i can actually see you extract thanks very much. Yes, we will start in washington, actually, and we will keep an eye on the stories you are talking about there as well, but we are looking at the worlds most powerful central bank of the big question of whether it will cut the cost of borrowing this year. That ha
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