North east scotland. It has been a bright start, low 2a high teens. There will be an area of cloud running down to eastern england, may be some toward South West England and increasing in Northern Ireland. For many it will be clear. Where you are, especially in the countryside, single figures and may be close to freezing in part of eastern scotland. Turning wetter in Northern Ireland through the day, increasing cloud in the west and isolated showers possible elsewhere. Despite increasing cloud, it will stay fine and temperatures in the high teens oi and temperatures in the high teens or low 20s. That is pretty much where they will be through much of this week. But it is going to be a decidedly mixed week. Some rain at times, occasionalsunshine, decidedly mixed week. Some rain at times, occasional sunshine, too. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines. Leaked emails from the British Ambassador to washington have described president Trumps Administration as inept, insecure and incompetent. Iran says it has breached yet another condition of its 2015 International Nuclear agreement. Protesters in hong kong have held another big demonstration demonstration against chinas increasing control over the territory, greeks are going to the polls to elect a new parliament, with opinion polls suggesting defeat for the left wing government. The Jodrell Bank Observatory in cheshire which has been at the forefront of Astronomical Research has been declared a unesco World Heritage site. Now on bbc news its time for the week in parliament. Hello and welcome to the week in parliament. And it was a week that was remarkably brexit heavy, and we havent had one of those for ages. The chancellor started it. Preparing for no deal is not the same as avoiding the effects of no deal. Jeremy corbyn and theresa may picked up the baton. The best thing to do would be to go back to the people, and let them decide which way we go labour wants to block brexit, and that would be a betrayal of the many by the few also on the programme. The go to guide for parliament goes online, forfree. But first, it wasnt so long ago that you couldnt get through a single parliamentary debate without brexit coming up. Little else was talked about in westminster. But since the deadline was extended until the end of october, its gone a bit quiet. But all that changed this week. The two conservative leadership candidates were responsible by both saying they were willing to allow the uk to leave without a deal. With renewed no deal talk, the chancellor Philip Hammond set out his stall. It would be wrong for a British Government to seek to pursue no deal as a policy, and i believe that it will be for the house of commons, of which i will continue proudly to be a member, to ensure that that doesnt happen. A labour mp just wanted to get it clear. Does he agree with me that both of the conservative leadership candidates supporting a no deal brexit should stop selling the country out, in order to serve their own political ambitions, and will he commit tojoining us to vote against no deal, when he joins, if he joins the back benches . And if necessary, voting with us on a no confidence motion, if it comes to that, to stop no deal. I think at this stage in my career, mr speaker, i wont speculate on my future actions. What i would say is that a no deal, the governments Analysis Shows that a no deal exit would mean that all the regions, nations, and sectors of the uks economy would have lower economic output compared to todays arrangements, and compared to the white paper scenario that the government set out, and it is important that we all understand that preparing for no deal, which is a perfectly sensible thing to do, because it might happen to us without our volition. Preparing for no deal is not the same as avoiding the effects of no deal. Philip hammonds remarks were seized on the next day by the labour leader at Prime Ministers questions. The chancellor says that a no deal brexit would cause a £90 billion hit to the public finances. The former foreign secretary says concerns about no deal are confected hysteria. Who does the Prime Minister think is right . The figure that was quoted was actually publicly available at the time. It was a figure that appeared in the governments Economic Analysis in relation to these matters. But can i also say to the right honourable gentlemen, that if he, if he is worried about no deal, i have done everything i can to ensure we leave the eu with a deal. I can look workers in the eye and tell them i voted to leave with a deal that protectsjobs. The right honourable gentlemen cant do that, because hes voted three times for no deal. As i recall it, mr speaker, it was this party that puts a motion forward to take no deal off the table. Theresa may mocked him. It was the labour party that put a motion to abandon no deal, to take it off the table, through, into this house, the trouble is, when it came to the votes that mattered, when it came to the votes that would actually have an impact on stopping no deal, the labour party whipped against them. Absolutely typical of the right honourable gentlemen, all mouth and trousers this government, mr speaker, is now an irrelevance. The two candidates to succeed, the two candidates to succeed her have only got fantasy plans. Since she and her successors have no answers, doesnt the Prime Minister accept the best thing to do would be to go back to the people, and let them decide which way we go . Theresa may responded with a question of her own. Where does the labour party stand on brexit . The shadow brexit secretary doesnt support brexit. The shadow foreign secretary doesnt support brexit. The shadow chancellor doesnt support brexit. The labour deputy leader doesnt support brexit. Labour want to block brexit. And that would be a betrayal of the many by the few but it seems 49 minutes of parliamentary scrutiny at pmqs werent enough for theresa may and so she embarked on a statement to the commons about her recent travels including the summit shed been to in brussels, where the top eu jobs were being divided up. A conservative quoted a former British Ambassador, who thought one particular country was getting too big a slice of the action. Nine of the 28 european commissioners have german leaders in their cabinets, there are six german director generals, he says it is germanys view, that is sought by the commission before it acts, and by other Member States before they decide in the council of ministers by majority vote behind closed doors. That didnt go down well with another tory who wanted to thank the uks eu allies. They should ignore the sometimes childish and unfortunate anti german rhetoric that occasionally comes from our benches. And may i take the opportunity to congratulate the chancellor sitting next to her on the clear statements hes been making in recent days about the obvious danger to our economy from a no deal brexit. After having to negotiate with these people for so many dreary months, the Prime Minister must be mightily relieved she will no longer have to go to brussels. But what advice would she give to her successor in dealing with these people . The advice i would give to my successor is to act at all times in the best interest of this country, i believe its in our best interest to be able to leave the European Union with a good deal, and but it is up to my successor to find a majority in this house, to enable us to leave the European Union. Well, shell be able to see whether her successor gets that majority because shes going to have a ring side seat on the backbench. Theresa may reaffirmed that would be her new home in response to a question from the lib dem leader. I read from the maidenhead advertiser that he thinks im about to step down from parliament, lam not. I asked the historian, dr catherine haddon, from the institute for government whether it was unusual for an ex pm to hang around in the commons once the removal lorry had left downing street . It is these days, its getting more and more so, David Cameron certainly lasted about three months or so, gordon brown stayed for a few years, but he wasnt very active on the back benches. If you go back much further, its much more common, ted heath stayed for 25 years, was father of the house, was very critical of. What did they call it . The incredible sulk. Exactly. Others though, in and around that time, they went off to the house of lords, but increasingly, Prime Ministers are doing that. They are going off either to private sector, to the lecture circuit, working with charities, things like that. So it is a bit unusual. Is that what you would see her doing if she wasnt going to stay . It seems so. I mean, we dont really know what her interests would be. Beyond all of that. You know, some Prime Ministers come out with a sort of clear agenda, things that they want to do, obviously tony blair with his work in africa. His institutes, you know, these were obvious, sort of extensions of the kinds of things he had shown an interest in in government. Shes talked about a range of things that shes interested in, you know, education, all sorts of various sort of charity areas that you can see her getting involved with, but again, we just dont know at this stage. Do you think its a bit of a humiliation for someone who has been Prime Minister, had the top job, to then go back and be just a normal backbencher . It seems so to us, but in a way, it used to be normal practice. You go back to the early 20th century, you would find former Prime Ministers would end up in cabinets of their successor. Alec douglas home, he was the last to do that, when he served as foreign secretary to ted heath in the 1970s. These days though, yeah, the politics of it, it does seem like you should sort of vacate the arena, get off the stage, and, you know, leave it for the sort of new people coming through, and certainly thats whatjohn major wanted to make sure that he did, and sort of, thats why he didnt want to go to the house of lords, he thought that there should be a sort of barrier between him and politics from then on. I cant see the new Prime Minister giving theresa may a job in his cabinet. Talking of the new Prime Minister, what will it be like for them, for him, to have theresa may on the back benches . Will it be quite a distraction . I dont think massively, i mean again, it depends whether she turns up or not. You know, she might not be in the chamber that frequently. I think it will be more so for the media, looking for whether or not shes going to say anything, whether, you know, she will comment on whatever his policy is, whether he comes back with the deal, whether he ends up going up towards no deal. I mean we dont know quite, you know, what her lines will be on, for example, no deal policy. It might be very interesting, actually, how she ends up voting in the autumn. Will she be a back seat driver, do you think . I suspect not too vocally, but whether or not she decides for some key interventions, because this is still about her legacy, whether or not her deal was the right deal, she just couldnt get it over the line, and she may be keen for that to be sort of shown to be the case. Catherine, thank you. Now, if you find yourself drifting in the seas off sheerness in kent, you may see a mast sticking out of the water. It belongs to an American Ship which foundered in 1944. But, worryingly, aboard the ss Richard Montgomery there are still unexploded Second World War munitions. And more worryingly theyre only a few miles from giant gas storage tanks on the isle of grain. The government has set up an Expert Advisory Group to monitor the wreck. But labours lord harris told us more needs to be done. What i would like to see is a proper risk assessment, any we ask about the risk, what the government talks about is a survey, an external survey of the state of the physical state of the wreck. That doesnt tell you anything about the contents of the wreck, and what condition they are in. The minister last night seemed rather vague, as to how dangerous some of the shells were, whether they were, had got the triggers associated with them, or what would happen. The answer is, we do need to know that, i do appreciate it would be dangerous to find out, but actually, it might be even more dangerous not to find out. Right now, lets take a look at some news in brief. The department for work and pensions has been accused of potential cover up, or incompetence, over documents relating to the deaths of disability benefit claimants. A labour mp was concerned that crucial evidence about deaths linked to the Work Capability assessment was not sent to the independent expert who was reviewing how the tests were working. A governments first duty is to protect its people, all its people, but they are failing the sick and disabled, and this reveals the enormity of this failure. The Department Takes the death of any claimant extremely seriously, and always conducts an investigation into the circumstances. The department is continually working to improve it safeguarding practices, working with partner agencies, and local government, and the department is presently undertaking a review of the departmental safeguarding policy and guidance available to staff, and will report in the autumn of 2019. Mps wanted to know if the outsourcing firm serco would continue to be given government contracts despite a £19 million fine for fraud and false accounting over electronic tagging carried out for ministry ofjustice. Following the successful conclusion of this process, we see no reason why serco should not continue to be a strategic supplier to government and compete for government contracts. This was probably the most memorable image of the Prime Ministers trip to the g20 summit injapan, the frosty handshake with the russias president putin. When she reported back on the visit, there was some admiration in the commons. I congratulate the Prime Minister on the wonderfulface that she adopted when she was Holding President putins hand. It had more ice in it then the polar ice cap. Unlike the polar ice cap, on this issue, im not melting. The government has insisted its up to the bbc to provide free tv licences for the over 75s. The corporation announced that only people on pension credit benefit will still be eligible for a free licence. Many mps directed their fury at the government. There are 6,500 over 75s in my constituency, so will he come and visit and tell them why hes planning to cut their tv license . The fact of the matter is that legislation has now provided that this decision should be one for the bbc to take, and indeed, if you listen to what the bbc says, that is exactly the message they give too. Peers questioned the government over what it was doing to improve access to medical services in rural areas. Very few nhs plans consider rurality, with its high levels of deprivation and loneliness, and their associated diseases. And perhaps that might be one of the reasons that gps choose not to work there, or do not stay long. And squirrels one mps quest to protect the red from its nasty grey cousin. It is widely agreed by scientists, government departments, wildlife trusts, and conservationists, that grey squirrels and Red Squirrels cannot cohabitate. Without exception, where there are live greys there will be dead reds. Now, on the anniversary of his fathers suicide, an mp made an emotional plea for the laws on assisted dying to be changed. It was eight years ago that labours Paul Blomfield received a phonecall at westminster to say that his father had been found dead. And im sure that he made up his mind to take his life soon after receiving a terminal diagnosis of inoperable lung cancer. But he still died prematurely, im sure that what drove him to end his life at that point, was the fear that if he didnt act when he could, and was still able to do so, then he would lose the opportunity to act at all. The mp whod opened the debate had his own very personal story to tell. Six years ago this week, on a sunnyjuly day like today, my father made a decision. At home in devon, in the bed he shared with my stepmother for over 30 years, with his family around him, he took communion for the last time, said a few words of goodbye to each of us, and asked the district nurses to switch off the oxygen, and make him comfortable. He died a few hours later in what nick boles called the best of deaths. A few months ago, jeff whaley made a similar decision. Cut from the same cloth as my dad, he was a gentleman of the old school. Butjeff had motor neurone disease, and recognized that he was likely to suffer horribly in the final days and weeks of his life. He knew that his only chance of a good death was to arrange to go to dignitas in switzerland. Thanks to the support of his wife and daugher he said jeff had died on his own terms. But several months earlier than he wouldve needed to, if the same procedure had been available here in the uk. A conservative mp claimed the public didnt support changing the law. The more aware people are of the implications of change, the more concerned people become. And i can quote from another poll from february of this year, indicating that over half the public say that people would feel pressurized into accepting help to take their own life, so as not to be a burden on others if assisted suicide were legal. Only 25 disagreed. An emotional debate on assisted dying. The appliance manufacturer whirlpool has admitted there could be as many as 800,000 faulty tumble dryers in homes ac