Some rain and drizzle. The second weather front producing heavier rain in scotland and Northern Ireland, perhaps later into the northwest of england. Winds will be stronger, temperatures will be higher to south to south westerly winds, so 12 13 degrees. Looking at the outlook, that milder air doesnt last too much longer. Swept away by cooler showers on sunday. We have the jet stream on there. Again, it is a bit stronger, but it is undulating, so we will see very variable weather, changeable weather, and probably the next area of low pressure bringing some wet and windy conditions early next week. Once that rain moves through, then low pressure sits closer to the uk for a couple of days and will keep the showers going. So probably with a strongerjet next week, there may well be more rain. It certainly looks unsettled. Well have showers or longer spells of rain, but still not that warm for the time of year. Hello, this is bbc news with geeta guru murthy. Well be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. First, the headlines. The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the uk rises to 39, and Boris Johnson says further transmission is clearly on the cards. The most important thing now is that we prepare against a possible, very significant expansion of coronavirus in the uk population. A sharp rise in calls to 111, as the nhs struggles to cope with the volume of queries, asking for advice. And this evening, some of the british tourists held in a hotel in tenerife have returned home. The bbc has seen details of another complaint of bullying against the home secretary priti patel, this time dating back at least four years. Members of the greek coastguard have been seen shooting near migrants in the sea to stop them reaching greece from turkey. In east yorkshire, many homes are still under water after the river aire overflowed its banks, following unprecedented rainfall in recent weeks. Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are kate andrews, economics correspondent at the spectator, and jack blanchard, editor of politicos london playbook. Great to have you both with us. Lets look at the front pages. The coronavirus is dominated everything again. It could cut Global Growth in half, according to tomorrow because my Financial Times. The papers as the chancellors preparing measures to help businesses cope. Tomorrows metro leads on allegations of bullying by the home secretary, priti patel, made by a former member of her staff. The guardian also reports on what it calls the pressure of patel with a photo of the minister leaving work today. On coronavirus, the paper says supermarkets are drawing contingency plans to cope with panic buying. Tomorrows daily express leads on the Prime Ministers warning that the Prime Ministers warning that the virus could spread within days. The daily mirror focuses on Boris Johnsons private life, the paper says mrjohnson broke the news that he is expecting a baby with his partner Carrie Simons just days after the death of his estranged wifes mother in law. The daily mail leads on the coronavirus. The paper says the nhs army has been put on standby to says the nhs army has been put on sta nd by to ca ptu re says the nhs army has been put on standby to capture a potential mass epidemic. The minister is planning to give himself sweeping powers in an attempt to stem the spread of the disease. Lets have a closer look with the times. The idea of the Prime Minister give himself extra powers . Yes, things are getting real now. Tomorrow the promise or will hold this press conference showing all the extra stuff to the government may have to take. As we see this virus is now is operably spreading across the country, and newspapers are picking up on some of the most extreme measures just because we havent seen this sort of thing in the country for such a long time. But the times picks up on the possibility of banning public gatherings, creating no go zones and parts of the country where coronavirus suddenly erupts in a particularly bad situation. It is important to say we dont know where oi important to say we dont know where or what if that will happen. But these are the sorts of things the government is now looking at. They will need emergency laws, powers the government doesnt normally have, but they will pass some legislation over the next few weeks to make sure they have all the different levers at their control to try to slow this thing down. The theory is that if we can at least stop it spreading quickly, then theres a chance it happens later into the summer when normally viruses dont spread, they arent so serious and theres less pressure on the nhs. Boris johnson says the numbers could go up in days, we just dont know clearly. It is the first time the government has come out to talk about this properly, its this week. Yet this has been building for several weeks . Around the world it has been building, but here in the uk there are only a few cases so far, and of the 39 cases they can trace from other people coming in from other parts of the world where there has been more infection. In the uk, arguably it is still relatively small. I think the big step tomorrow is that we may be moving from the government saying theyre trying to contain this to the government saying they are in their next phase of trying to delay this. I think thats why you are getting some of these really intense headline saying that there could be no go zones, things about travel, sweeping powers of the government can bring in that people will not have experienced before. But we arent there yet, a lot of this will be worse case scenario. And actually it has also been briefed that tomorrow, the government plans to continue to say operate as normal, go about your business. We are not at the doomsday scenario yet. The times talk about a bill to be published later. But if that takes weeks to go through, is that takes weeks to go through, is that fast enough . I think so. This isnt something that will happen overnight. What is unusual about this virus as it seems to have a few weeks gestation period without showing any symptoms at all. We dont actually know how many people might be carrying it at any one time. But from speaking to people inside the government, they are expecting this thing to spread now, but they expect that to happen over a course of weeks. We arent expecting. White nectar they have any idea as to when he could peak . Theyre admitting this is not something you can model perfectly. But the expectation is that middle of april into may is when we will see this thing becoming much more widespread than it is at the moment. Asi widespread than it is at the moment. As i say, it is very difficult to know, you cant know if you cant test how many people are sick. The warmer weather in the summer will help curtail the spread. The daily mail is talking about a volunteer nhs army to tackle this mass epidemic. So there have been problems with resources, particularly staff in the nhs for a long time. A lot of the general election last year was about increasing those resources, whether that be nurses and doctors and the rest. But at the moment you can volunteer for the nhs but it is a six month process to be qualified. The daily mail is reporting they may try to speed up that process so that civilians can come and help to a range of things. They could be asked to feed patients, ferried them around wards or even deliver medicines. So that would be really incredible duty on the part of people who are healthy to come in and help those who arent. But it also speaks to the fact that the Health Care Service will be burdened. It already is in the winter months, but particularly around the coronavirus. That is a necessarily unique to the nhs, no government around the world was preparing for Something Like this to break out. But if it spreads, they will need more bodies to help. Weve had ten years of conservative led government austerity, people have complained about under sourcing the nhs for years. Now that there is potentially a crisis, our public volu nteers potentially a crisis, our public volunteers really going to cut it . They will help because there are lots of jobs theyve they will help because there are lots ofjobs theyve been doing in the hospital beyond the clinical staff. But the best way wouldve been investing in the nhs the last ten years, and not at a point where every winter we have a crisis. Without a big virus outbreak, that is the reality of the health care system. In a sense that argument has moved on, the government is already now investing or planning to invest a huge amount of money into the nhs. But the worry will be obviously that money is not coming through soon enough to help us over the next few weeks. But volunteers are talking about here, even if they do the busy jobs, you have to find some who are willing to take the risk to go in the hospital and do that. And theyve got to not make it difficult situation worse because they need to be able to behave in a way that is helpful. If you are a medical professional and right now youd be concerned about whats coming over the next few weeks. Do we have enough staff and ventilators . Are the staff well equipped to deal with whats happening . Im sure all the nhs staff are looking at this and thinking. If public transport is affected, if schools are closed, that affects peoples ability to go to work. If they are a health care official, its all linked, isnt it . Absolutely. The strain the nhs normally feels would be intensified. I dont think anyone doubts that, but it is important to remember with coronavirus, unfortunately it is not as simple as administering medicine and you are cured. There is not currently vaccine or medical cure in that sense. So just currently vaccine or medical cure in that sense. Sojust having bodies, be kind to others, offer food, Pay Attention and lookout for people i think that could be quite meaningful, especially if health ca re meaningful, especially if Health Care Officials cant get to work. Because lots of times it will come down to monitoring people. The other important thing that we need to keep saying is that most people who get this virus will not be that ill and will not need to go to hospital, theyll need to stay at home for a bit then theyll feel better. Thats been the case is right across the world. The problem is that people area bit world. The problem is that people are a bit more vulnerable, more elderly people might be affected a lot more seriously, and will be have the nhs capacity to help those people when they really need it . We hope there is no dire of the mutation of the virus. The guardian is focusing on food, supermarkets plan to feed the nations that the virus spreads. They say supermarkets would work to scale back the variety of foods available and focus on what we really need. Tomorrow we will find out what the governments plans are in the case of the coronavirus spreading, but there also some questions about what the supermarkets will do. Super markets are already speaking to suppliers about how they might change what they offer in order to supply the markets with populace with what they need. They would move away from offering the myriad of products that one could usually buy to moving towards stable products. It doesnt list what they are but we can suspect theyll be bread, pasta, rice, things that can sting you for a longer period of time. Sustain you. They dont really feel you up, do they, jack . Sadly not. Its not just about what government can do, but businesses and Civil Society can do. British supermarkets are already preparing. In terms of the budget, the guardian is saying the budget will be redrawn to focus on focusing on the impact of the coronavirus. That is something the Financial Times talks about. They are also talking about Global Growth. But again, because everything is so linked, wider Economic Growth is also day to day, how people will manage their paycheques. Often when we talk about gdp, Global Growth, supply chains, we tune in and out. It doesnt seem to be something that affects us. It makes sense that now people are concerned about their health and the Public Health warnings, as they should be. But actually the way the economy goes, ina moment actually the way the economy goes, in a moment like this, if you potential habitat that a pandemic like this, eventually those supply chains have and it is notjust economic jargon, chains have and it is notjust economicjargon, its how people get their medicine, how people get machines that make our lives go around. If the economy were to take around. If the economy were to take a downward turn and the supply chain we re a downward turn and the supply chain were to be cut off, there be acute been a human cost as well. When you hear them lowering their hmmfi you hear them lowering their forecast from 2. 9 growth down to 2. 496, forecast from 2. 9 growth down to 2. 4 , but even potentially 1. 5 , taking a whole percentage off gdp, billions and billions of pounds, very meaningful. Lots of people would be affected by that. Very meaningful. Lots of people would be affected by thatm very meaningful. Lots of people would be affected by that. It can seem would be affected by that. It can seem abstract and it seems almost weird to talk about it when we talk about this virus and how he people might die. But they are talking about this being the worst impact of the Global Economy since the big crash in 2008. We are still living with the consequences of that crash 12 years later. We were talking earlier about how many peoples Life Expectancy has been affected because of the measures that were taken as a result of that. Although it seems a bstra ct result of that. Although it seems abstract at the moment, this could have very long term implications for peoples lives. In practical terms, as well, the whole question is about whether you will be paid if you have to ta ke whether you will be paid if you have to take time off. Youre obvious and caring for somebody, thats quite a big question. It is, and if you are asking people to self isolate at home and not going to work, maybe when theyre not sick so not officially off, do though she will get paid . There are otherjobs that you simply cant, lots of people definitely cant work from home. Theres self employed people, what will happen to them if they are asked to self isolate . Will there be any support for them . Because if there isnt and you dont feel very u nwell there isnt and you dont feel very unwell at all, people will not feel incentivized to stay at home. Thats just going to encourage the spread of the disease. It is something the government is still grappling with and theres no clear answer. Maybe well see something in the budget next week. Is notjust well see something in the budget next week. Is not just the well see something in the budget next week. Is notjust the Emergency Service health care why, but it is things like the police. If children are at home and people cant get to work, all those major functions are at home and people cant get to work, all those majorfunctions that Keep Society Going have to continue, even through peak moments. Yes, they do. Whether the government will announce more detail on that, i dont know if that will happen. The new chancellor was excited to launch his vision of britain, at least five years down the road. Now it looks like it will be more of an emergency budget. There are major questions that you asked around sick pay that theyjust may that you asked around sick pay that they just may not that you asked around sick pay that theyjust may not be able to answer yet because there are so many different factors there, and the weight on government and business, who would pick up that tab . The incentives you create, major questions need to be answered, they may not have time to get to them by next week. But the budget appears to still be going ahead and i think coronavirus will really be at the top of the agenda, whereas a few weeks ago they may not have been considering it in any meaningful way. From a personal point of view, the new chancellor, a few weeks ago, was thejunior the new chancellor, a few weeks ago, was the junior treasury minister. Hes not even a0 years old, he wasnt dreaming hed be delivering this budget. Suddenly he lands this job because ajit javid this budget. Suddenly he lands this job because ajitjavid resigns on especially, now hes got a Global Crisis that he has to build saja javid. Crisis that he has to build saja javid. Goldman sachs used to shop it like that. Lets look at the daily mail. The other really big political story this week on priti patel, a photograph of her with this new allegation. Its really interesting timing, isnt it . The government needs the Civil Service to do everything it can to rally on the coronavirus in every single apartment. Yet it has is very high profile battle. Apartment. Yet it has is very highprofile battle. Nobody can plan the coronavirus, so we are where we are. It is certainly the case of the government will have to work with everyone. But certainly the Civil Service and many of the experienced people there, especially in the department of health but also across the board in the home office where priti patel is and where shes had these accusations of bullying will be crucial when were talking about things like border control. Notjust in terms of people coming in with the illness but also people wanting to leave and being humane and safe in the whole process. It is welcome of the government has launched an internal inquiry. I hope they take it seriously. Previous accusations of bullying have not been taken as seriously. And it is in the home secretarys interest as much as it is in the Civil Service interest that we go through that in and above will above board way. That we go through that in and above will above board way. What did you make of the Statement Given it is the Cabinet Office that will be investigating her . I was surprised to see the head of the Cabinet Office rally such strongly behind priti patel, who of course