Doesnt jeopardise our economy. How are the main parties going to win you over, who are as divided over brexit as politicans on all sides are . And will the parties who want to stop brexit find a way to Work Together . Also. On this programme yesterday, one senior conservative mp didnt hold back when describing the Prime Ministers downing street advisor, Dominic Cummings. An unelected, foul mouthed oaf, throwing his weight around. Its completely unacceptable. Well talk to a man who shared an office with him, and says he thrives on creating enemies and fighting them. Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. From westminster, again. Are you ready for a general election . Will you vote . It would be the third general election in four years. Lets know this morning. Send us a message on twitter. Many guests to talk to this morning and plenty of voters as well, we would love to hear from you wherever you are in the country and we will feed your comments into our conversations. First, Samantha Simmonds has the news. Good morning. Good morning, victoria, thank you. Boris johnson is facing another legal challenge to his decision to suspend parliament for five weeks before britains scheduled brexit departure date. The case brought by the businesswoman gina miller will take place at the high court. A similar challenge in scotland failed yesterday. The United Nations says 70,000 people in the bahamas are in immediate need of food, shelter and medical help following the devastation of hurricane dorian. 20 people are now known to have died in the abaco islands, where Officials Say entire communities were washed away. Dorian has strengthened again to a category 3 hurricane, with wind speeds up to 115 miles an hour, as it bears down on the eastern coast of the united states. People who eat vegan and vegetarian diets have a lower risk of Heart Disease, but a higher risk of having a stroke, a new study suggests. The research, published in the british medicaljournal, looked at a8,000 people for up to 18 years. Participants had ten fewer cases of Heart Disease and three more strokes per 1,000 people compared with the meat eaters. However, the study cannot prove whether the effect is down diet or another aspect of their lifestyle. A team of scientists will reveal today what they describe as the plausible theory they have identified for sightings of the loch ness monster. Researchers from a new Zealand University have been cataloguing all living life in loch ness by analysing dna collected from water samples. Last month, the team said it had a biological explanation for the loch ness monster. This, along with other findings from the study, are to be announced at an event later today. That is it from me for now, lets go back to victoria in westminster. I love that story good morning. This is borisjohnsons 44th day as Prime Minister. Hes lost his first three votes as pm. But the Bigger Picture is this borisjohnson wants an election and he will get one but will it be when he wants it, before october 31st . Labour want an election potentially after october 31st. So, who will win that battle . Norman is here, our assistant political editor. Downing street is treating today as the first day of an election campaign. If labour get their way, november seventh of if labour get their way, november seventh 01 14. You say it is quite a narrow gap, what is the big deal . If it is in october, massively to the advantage of Boris Johnson, it is in october, massively to the advantage of borisjohnson, in november, hugely to labours advantage. Boris johnson once november, hugely to labours advantage. Borisjohnson once an early general election because he cant govern at the moment, he is having endless defeats in parliament and it is all going wrong. He wants to be able to deliver on his pledge to be able to deliver on his pledge to leave the eu come what may on 0ctober to leave the eu come what may on october 31st. So he needs a parliamentary majority to make sure he can do that. So he needs an election before then on october 15th. Labour think, you know what, we dont really trust borisjohnson. We dont believe that if he doesnt getan we dont believe that if he doesnt get an election by then that he will actually leave with the eu. So they are saying, why dont we just push it back to november, then we can be absolutely sure that he wont have taken us absolutely sure that he wont have ta ken us out absolutely sure that he wont have taken us out without an agreement . Because he will have been required by the bill that was passed to get an extension. Exactly, and this is why it is to their advantage, because if borisjohnson has had to go cap in hand and say to the eu, please, please, please can i have an extension . How humbling . From the man who said it was do or die, i will never do it. In other words, he would have had to break his central pledge and they calculate the electorate would say, this man is hopeless. He couldnt survive, could he . He would be finished. 0ne labour mp yesterday when they were discussing this said, borisjohnson has said it is do or die, lets leave him to die. So they want to play it long and borisjohnson wants to play it short. Why is there a split in labour, arguments about whether to do it before october 31st 01 whether to do it before october 31st or after october 31st . The way you have described it, it is a no brainerfor have described it, it is a no brainer for labour to go have described it, it is a no brainerfor labour to go in november. Because frankly, mr corbyn pretty much since he became labour leader, the whole time, he has been banging on about lets have a general election, we want a general election. Now Boris Johnson general election, we want a general election. Now borisjohnson said, 0k, election. Now borisjohnson said, ok, here you go, here is the general election, Jeremy Corbyn said, well, we dont know about that. What electorate think . What are you running scared of . What we will hear from borisjohnson running scared of . What we will hear from Boris Johnson and running scared of . What we will hear from borisjohnson and we have heard it from sajid javid, is that he is a coward, he is frightened and doesnt have the guts to put himself forward for election. TheJeremy Corbyn, it isa for election. TheJeremy Corbyn, it is a calculation of how much damage to put himself forward for election. Thejeremy to put himself forward for election. The Jeremy Corbyn, to put himself forward for election. TheJeremy Corbyn, it is a calculation of how much damage does he suffer from being seen to run away against the advantage if Boris Johnson has to bed for a dealfor a moment and reflect on the moments of this week. How astonishing and bizarre and chaotic is what we are witnessing . It is all those things. You almost have to give up guessing what is going to happen next. I say to people in the newsroom, think of the most impossible, implausible, ridiculous, ludicrous thing that will happen and that is what will happen. We are all in a completely different ball game, brexit has changed everything. It has changed how politics is defined, it has reshaped the Political Parties, it has changed the tone of the debate at westminster. And it is all about, it cuts to everyones or really. Everything else doesnt matter almost, until we have got this result, nothing is going to happen. And i think some people are so worn out and tired and frazzled, they just think, lets get this done one way or the other. It is interesting, we are seeing quite a few tory mps, some have been deselected, but quite a few just saying, some have been deselected, but quite a fewjust saying, i am not going to stand at the next election. I think pa rt stand at the next election. I think part of their reasoning is they are physically and mentally broken down, they just havent physically and mentally broken down, theyjust havent got the energy to go on any more. Thank you, norman, for the moment. As always. Lets talk to two conservative rebels, whose involvement in any future general election still isnt clear, despite them being thrown out of the party. They are two of 21 tory mps who have been suspended, after helping to defeat the government. Some have said they wont stand again anyway including Winston Churchills grandson, sir Nicholas Soames, who made a memorable speeech in the commons yesterday. I want to make clear that i have a lwa ys i want to make clear that i have always believed that the referendum result must be honoured and indeed, i voted for the Withdrawal Agreement on every occasion it has been presented to the house, which is more than can be said for my right honourable friend the Prime Minister, the leader of the house and other members of the cabinet his serial disloyalty has been such an inspiration to so many others mr speaker, i am inspiration to so many others mr speaker, iam not inspiration to so many others mr speaker, i am not standing at the next election and i am approaching the end of 37 Years Service to this house, of which i have been proud and honoured beyond words to be a member. I am truly very sad that it should end in this way. And it is my most should end in this way. And it is my m ost fe rve nt should end in this way. And it is my most fervent hope that this house will rediscover the spirit of compromise, humility and understanding that will enable us finally to push ahead with the vital work in the interests of the whole country that has inevitably had to be so sadly neglected whilst we have devoted so much time to wrestling with brexit. I urge the house to support this bill. Another rebel, alistair burt, said he would leave the commons with his head held high. The obsession of my party has developed to devalue my pass defence of the eu, and it may have curtailed my future, but it will not rob me of what i believe. And i will walk out of here. Looking at the sky, not down at my shoes. 0ther rebels insist they would like to stand again at the next election. One of them, former justice secretary david gauke, tweeted this last night just received a text to say that my Association Chairman has been told that i am no longer a member of the conservative party. First id heard of that. Not even a member of the conservative party . i finally have something in common with Dominic Cummings. He is Boris Johnsons he is borisjohnsons top adviser. Mr gauke later tweeted just received an urgent clarification. Membership still valid, but barred from being re selected. I dont have anything in common with Dominic Cummings after all. A happy note on which to end the day. Lets talk to two rebels. Ed vaizey voted against the government to delay no deal. He was a culture minister in David Camerons government. He is considering whether to stand in the next election as an independent. And Caroline Nokes, a former immigration minister, also rebelled. If borisjohnson if Boris Johnson doesnt if borisjohnson doesnt deliver brexit on october 31st, can he survive . I think it will be very difficult for him which is why he is focused on it and why i was sympathetic over the summer for his position. You take a judgment call, if parliament wont vote for a deal, what is the next worst thing . Potentially, it is brexit so you do everything you can it is extending brexit. I change my mind and became a rebel when i felt the Prime Ministers pledge that he was actively seeking a deal was undermined by his actions, which was effectively to shut down parliament and shut down any opportunity for people like me to have a say on whether we really should crash out with the no deal. Whether we really should crash out with the nodeal. But you have had that say despite his actions to suspend parliament. We have had that say, we had one shot in the locker, which is why i decided to rebel. I sat on my i would have sat on my handsif sat on my i would have sat on my hands if he hadnt suspended parliament and it sounds a bit pompous, i think you should have had, there was an argument he had the space to negotiate this deal and to get closer and to be able to brief parliament on how far advanced his negotiations were, but it was his negotiations were, but it was his decision to shut down parliament and that debate and that interaction between parliament and the executive. Caroline nokes, do you think you can survive if he doesnt deliver brexit by october 31st after everything he said about that deadline . Well, he is the one that drew that red line, do or die, to do it by october 315t. Sol drew that red line, do or die, to do it by october 315t. So i think he has made it very difficult for himself. But i want to see a United Conservative Party fighting a general election after it has delivered brexit and with a common sense and purpose. Little chance of that. Well, precisely, but when the tories are united, we cannot be beaten and when they are all over the place like they are at the moment, i think holding a general election now is a very dangerous strategy. Why . The party is divided and even those who didntjoin strategy. Why . The party is divided and even those who didnt join the Rebel Alliance are very uncomfortable. But they signed up to no deal so in that sense, the parties united and it has become the leave party, you could argue. Exactly, i say i was elected as a conservative and not as a Brexit Party Memberand not conservative and not as a Brexit Party Member and not ukip. Conservative and not as a Brexit Party Memberand not ukip. And it feels like the mud at people not welcome any more. How do you feel about the way you have been treated . Lam about the way you have been treated . I am really sad, i about the way you have been treated . Lam really sad, i have been alert an elected conservative for 20 years, the last nine in parliament and all in my home seat, the place where i was brought up and i went to school, so it is cutting and i won the seat from the liberal democrats andl the seat from the liberal democrats and i thought for eight years to win it back for the tories. So it feels like i have been given it a real kick in the teeth. But you knew what was coming, you had been warned. That is quite right, but was this really a confidence matter . There are arguments to say it just wasnt, it was about giving Parliament Time and that is one of the few tools parliament had come a time to scrutinise, to look at the progress of the negotiations, to understand the direction of travel the Prime Minister was taking a zen. Then suddenly, at that time was tucked away. Ed vaizey, have you had a text message from your best friend David Cameron about the way you have been dispatched from the party . He is not my best friend. I have known him for many years and i worked with him. He isa human many years and i worked with him. He is a human being and i am a human being and when i made a decision which may well have ended my political career and i have been active in the conservative party for 35 years, i havent had quite the level of achievement caroline has in winning seats, but he reached out as a human being to recognise that fa ct. A human being to recognise that fact. Does he bear any responsibility for the chain of events . Responsibility for the chain of events . I have always defended him on this because i make the point that given where the conservative party was on europe, if you are ever going to elect a conservative party government, at some point, you would have a referendum. If David Cameron had held back on a referendum, the next leader would have had to have a cast iron pledge to the membership to have a referendum and would have had a referendum in my view. We will never know, not necessarily. From a personal point of view, how does the fa ct personal point of view, how does the fact that you are chucked out of the conservative party affect you and yourfamily life, conservative party affect you and your family life, Caroline Nokes . Conservative party affect you and your family life, caroline noke57m is going to be really difficult and i make no bones about it, i have no outside income, this is my one and onlyjob. And you are a single parent. I onlyjob. And you are a single parent. Lam onlyjob. And you are a single parent. I am a single mother with a mortgage to pay. This is about looking to the future. I desperately wa nt looking to the future. I desperately want to stand as a conservative and i want to be welcomed back into the family i want to be welcomed back into the family i have always been part of. And you have staff as well . |j family i have always been part of. And you have staff as well . I have four members of staff and two of them are single mothers and they have rent to pay and for them to be staring down the barrel of a general election and unemployment in a few weeks time is really tough, so the decision i took on tuesday, i agonised about it long and hard. But in the end, you have to stand up for your own principles and your own integrity and do what you believe in. And integrity and do what you believe in. And i had one member of staff send me a message last night and she said, i would send me a message last night and she said, iwould rather work send me a message last night and she said, i would rather work for somebody with integrity than not. What are you going to do, both