W e w brief ridge of High Pressure builds but again not for long. Another area of low pressure sent to moving as you go through the day on friday. Starting off dry and bright and at the south east should stay quiet for the south east should stay quiet for the end of the working week but there is more wet and windy weather to come and this sets us up as we head into the weekend. I wish i could tell you there is a change on the way but as you can see, one area of low pressure brings in more wind and rain across the country to be replaced by yet another pushing it from the atlantic. As we had was a weekend, unfortunately, it could be the third wet and windy weekend in a rope with a further spells of heavy rain and gales certainly an issue. It looks at the moment as if the heaviest could be the further north and west. So it stays pretty u nsettled. And west. So it stays pretty unsettled. What about further head . U nfortu nately, we unsettled. What about further head . Unfortunately, we are really stuck ina unfortunately, we are really stuck in a repeat mode. Another area of low pressure missing, a brief ridge
of High Pressure builds but not for very long as the next load continues to move into the atlantic. The story remains the same and that means we can get cooler spells replaced by milder at, than cooler air, then milder at, than cooler air, then milderairagain. A milder at, than cooler air, then milder air again. A real rollercoaster. Wet and windy weather set to return. Take care. Hello. This is bbc news with reeta chakra barti. Well be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment first the headlines. In the wake of storm dennis, floods have hit towns and villages, and residents have been advised to leave their homes, in parts of worcestershire, shropshire and herefordshire. And in parts of south wales theyre dealing with the aftermath of some of the highest water levels for over a0 years. Im in total shock, disbelief. Ijust cant believe how my home, my home has been ravaged in the last couple of hours. Two days after the death of caroline flack, itvs love island was back on air tonight, with a special tribute. Like many of you, right now were alljust trying to come to terms
with what has happened. I only hope that we can all try and be kinder, always show love and listen to one another. Downing street adviser Andrew Sabisky has announced his resignation amid criticism over controversial comments he made in the past. The bbc sees evidence of what appears to be mass state monitoring by the Chinese Government of the persecuted uighur muslim community. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are Sebastian Payne the whitehall correspondent for the ft and the economist and member of labours policy forum, grace blakeley. Many of tomorrows front pages are already in. The metro goes with the story that a newly appointed downing street adviser has quit over a row about his past comments including claims that black people are less intelligent than white people. The guardian says the resignation of Andrew Sabisky represents a defeat for Dominic Cummings, the Prime Ministers most powerful aide, whose approach to government is causing concern among some tories. The Financial Times goes with a speech by britains top trade negotiator insisiting the uk would never agree to eu regulatory demands in order to get a trade deal. The telegraph also picks up on that speech from the uks brexit negotiator, david frost, highlighting what he called the opportunity for economic competition presented by brexit. The times says the Prime Minister, borisjohnson, is at odds with his senior downing street advisers over plans to scrap the tv licence fee and replace it with a voluntary subscription system. The daily mail asks what is the point in saving as National Savings and investments slashes its rates and cut its
premium bonds prizes. And the mirror says flooding hell spreads citing a warning from from a top expert that britain could face a National Emergency as flooding worsens. Lets stay with the mirror there in that story about flooding that web been reporting on all weekend. A National Emergency, in some sense that were not really prepared for dealing with this and having to appreciate the gravity of the situation. This comes on the back of severe flooding that happens recently in the election and also last year. And it does seem as though the correct preparations havent been put in place. The Environment Agency, weve now seen, has suggested to some homeowners that they should not expect to have their homes protected by the Environment Agency which suggests that the investment you would need to properly deal with the impacts of
these, what it will be, increasing these, what it will be, increasing the likelihood of it stream weather events as we see Global Temperatures arise will not be forthcoming. We have obviously had an issue here in that Boris Johnson have obviously had an issue here in that borisjohnson has not yet travelled to some of the places that have been worst hit and is facing some pressure over that as well. Johnson will be obviously under some pressure to acknowledge those National Emergencies and visit the places worst hit and to promise enough investments to be able to deal with what will likely be a common event over the next several decades in this country. Sebastian, youre saying earlier, it matters if the Prime Minister or doesnt go. think it does because in this situation, people looking for leadership and reassurance the Environment Agency will be working incredibly hard behind the scenes to make sure that Everything Possible is being done to alleviate the possibility of more flooding and to help those families there. And we
know that the environment secretary has been out and about making visits and talking about more funding for the future, promising £4 million for flood defences. I do think the Prime Minister eventually will have to go and we have this last year when there was flooding in yorkshire. Again, he didnt go and there was huge pressure to go and talk to residents and see those experiences firsthand. Im not quite sure why he hasnt gone already because this is some of the worst flooding weve ever seen some of the worst flooding weve everseen in britain some of the worst flooding weve ever seen in britain and over the weekend, there were over 600 flood lights and some of them were absolutely critical. Hundreds of those still in place. The worst may not yet be over. Those circumstances, the Prime Minister might want to leave its environment secretary but ultimately, people are going to want to hear from him so i think the pressure will build and it keeps on going, then he will have to go. It does feel as though there has been a change of strategy from moving and protecting people from flooding to trying to help them after flooding. This is what theEnvironment Agency is implying that theyre not going to have the resources to protect peoples homes outright and theyve actually said now that homeowners shouldnt expect their houses will be protected by flood defences because of course, as these floods become more severe, it is going to become more and more difficult to actively defend various parts of the country. What minister has said that the government is going to have to move towards an approach of perhaps relocating people or helping them once the floods have hit. Of course, this does apply potentially quite severe hardship for those peoples homes who are here and insurance premiums, perhaps people whose houses are in the most affected zones will see their house prices fall. The potential onset of this as an annual event could have some quite severe economic implications, as well as obviously the horrific scenes that we have been seeing affecting people up we have been seeing affecting people up and down the country. It is all
very sobering visitor. Lets go to the front page of the Financial Times. Sebastian, your paper and your story about brexit. This is david frost, borisjohnsons chief negotiator who has given a speech which is a rare thing for a special advisor. The government is trying to get on the front foot here to its vision of what it wants from the next stage of brexit to secure a trade deal by the end of the year. With only really got between march and october once the negotiations begin to get things done. Michelle barney, who is going to be the eus negotiator, they set up their vision. Mr frost has done it this evening in brussels. Whats interesting is it is more a broad vision than a detailed plan. He talks about the whole point of exit and the fundamental things an independent country will want to have. This is because the first days of talks is going to be all about the so called level playing field. The eu wants to lock the uk into its rules and recreation two regulations to ensure it doesnt undermine it
with unfair competition. There is a debate within the eu about how they should work. There are some countries like france who wants to have what is called a dynamic alignment which means when the eu changes its rules, written must changes its rules, written must change its rules and if it doesnt, then we lose access to the market. For a lot of brexiters, including mr frost, they dont want that because it means you cant do anything differently and then what is the point of leaving stop they want to have a nonaggression clause, saying 0k, have a nonaggression clause, saying ok, whatever go below this level but we may go higher or different or what have you. That is the debate. It is going to dominate obligated next stage of talks. The fact that mr frost is going out there explaining this is trying to get around some of the problems in the first stage when he was very and clear and putting up policy papers are what it wants from brexit whether uk government operated in secrecy. Mr frost on behalf of mr johnson is trying to the opposite here. Interesting thing about this story is the emphasis on france trying to toughen at the demands
imposed on the uk. Exodus of level of already between eu Member States as to the future direction in regards to negotiations within the uk. France is honestly going to be relatively concerned about the impacts that the uk perhaps, cutting regulations in financial and professional services, might have on its own domestic industry. If we do see. Theres obviously been a lots of, well, some progress within the eu about combating things like tax voice in and evasion. If we start to see the uk slipping away from those rules and potentially attract some of the business that perhaps the eu has wanted to curb than that could bea has wanted to curb than that could be a real issue for economies that are more dependent or at least, could be more dependent on those industries if they were to exploit the same loopholes of which france would be one. Perhaps thats like germany which are much more dependent on exports of manufactured goods might be less worried about thoseissues
goods might be less worried about those issues around regulatory alignment. It will be very interesting to see the potential splits that emerge between the major power players within the eu over the course of these negotiations. During the first state of the talks, everyone was united on what they wanted and the point is, now they are not. The question for the eu s gonna hold the line . I fully think they wealth because they were so united in the first stage and it works from the eus perspective very well because they got the money. They got Everything Else they wanted from the uk out of that withdrawal agreements. On this, it is really just sort of tweaking about how tough you want to be. Of course, it isa tough you want to be. Of course, it is a negotiation and the mandate for the eu, is how much room for manoeuvring they have here. Also on the uk side, the fact that Boris Johnson has this 80 seat majority means that they think they can be much tougher with the eu. They dont have to fold in accept demand in a way they had to in the past. Those are to mark quite firm positions. When they both clash, i think there is the potential that the talks could collapse quite quickly if both
sides are quite inflexible. There is a danger that we do leave with no deal at the end of this year. We would be trading on basic wto rules which would in tariffs, cheques, and disruption to supply chains. Ultimately, i think they will get you a deal because it is in both sides interest but as ever, it is the political shadowboxing that has already begun. It will be playing in the next few months wont. To the front page of the guardian. Grace, a story we were running prominently stop the new advisor resigning, a fairly short lived role he had a numberio, fairly short lived role he had a number 10, Andrew Sabisky. Fairly short lived role he had a number10, Andrew Sabisky. Hes been forced out, resigned presumably under a large amount of pressure given what has come to light around his comments and views on the apparent correlation between race and intelligence which, you know, has created a huge problem for the Prime Minister who has been asked whether he supports these comments which could link him to basically,
eugenics and eugenicists. Also, other comments that have been on earth that sabisky has made on various social media websites on reddit and twitter and various other things. I suppose you might have expected this given a Dominic Cummings long log post about trying to attract misfits and widows into the ranks of the staid conservative party in order to mix things up and ca ta lys e party in order to mix things up and catalyse on a bit more of a transformation in the party. It does. This is another setback for cummings really because when a sajid javid resigned in the reshuffle citing concerns over cummingss overbearing influence stop this is potentially another issue where the forces of conservatism with a small see in the conservative party are pushing back against cummingss more radical agenda. There are so many
questions we still dont know which makes this story so curious because normally special advisers who are brought into government have to go through a vetting progress and are eventually released along with their salaries in the interest they have. With mr sabisky, we dont know when he was hired, who he was working for, whatjob he was doing. Weve had it whispers on background that he was working on forecasting, working on the defence review, working on the defence review, working for mr cummings or maybe he wasnt. Itjust do not know and press briefing with journalists today, the spokesman was asked i think 32 times whether the pm agrees with his view on the topics and absolutely denied to engage on any questions about mr sabisky. He left briefing as a journalist not actually know whether this person worked in downing street when he was actually doing there. He was a contractor, again, we dont know under what basis on who he was contracted on and what for. To go to the broader point about what this means. Dominic cummings came in and
as you said grace, he is not a conservative, big or small see at all. He likes to move fast smash things and break things and believes in Creative Destruction we that work during the Vote Leave Campaign during the Vote Leave Campaign during the Vote Leave Campaign during the campaign in 2016 and in the election as well. There are limits to how much that works there andl limits to how much that works there and i think you have seen that with these comments that we have had two days of bad press and more stuff in the papers overnight about things he said in the past. Some of it would automatically disqualify anyone from any position in public life and i think its interesting that they decided he has to go now. He has resigned but it may have been he was resigned but it may have been he was resigned before he was pushed in that way. People are saying this is the end of a Dominic Cummingss power. The Prime Ministers doing his own thing. I would say on that i handed as well, you look back at the reshuffle last week and sajid javid had to resign because of a plan by mrcummings javid had to resign because of a plan by mr cummings to merge the special advisor units. Power waxes and wanes within downing street
incredibly quickly and factions moved one day and one day out. He still very important, still the Prime Ministers most influential advisor but it doesnt look like he can win every battle. Hold that thought. In the times, and the bbc . It does seem as if cummings has a strategy of throwing molotov cocktails and seeing what lands in public discourse. This is probably something he has demonstrated a willingness to say at least very radical things. This refers to the sunday times story. For licensing to be scrapped. Yes, the license fees. Whether or not he was doing that with a serious intent, which the article here implies he could not have been because you cannot technically be possible to remove
the license fee without taking bbc offa the license fee without taking bbc off a particular platform. 0r whether it was to shock the conservative establishment into adopting a more radical line on the bbc. If this is the end of the 0verton window, political acceptability of what we think about the bbc, you can and up with a position by the government much maligned to what could be more political intervention into what the bbc does. It does not look like cummings is going to get his way over the bbc license fees but he has caused a storm and doe