16/02/2017 Newsnight

Is the President on the verge of a nervous breakdown?

Tomorrow they will say, "Donald Trump rants

I'm not ranting and raving, I'm just telling you you're dishonest people.

I love this, I'm having a good time doing it.

Tomorrow the headlines are going to be, "Donald Trump rants and raves".

There was an extraordinary press conference this evening -

it sounded a bit like ranting and raving, as President Trump tried

to show his administration is on the right track.

Politically, it would be unpopular for a politician to make a deal.

I can't believe I'm saying I'm a politician, but I guess

We'll ask if it was strange as it looked, or if this is just

Then, at the other extreme, there is the Theresa May

approach to communication - not to have any.

We'll ask if that looks business-like, or simply leaves

The acclaimed and Oscar-nominated film Moonlight.

We speak to the man who wrote the story.

We all know that President Trump's way of communicating breaks

80 minutes of press conference that, at times came across as a bit

There were, buried within, some substantive messages.

He said his administration is a fine-tuned machine,

the travel ban was introduced smoothly, he knows of no contact

Also, he's achieved a lot for jobs and security.

But the core was not all that, it was him lashing out at the press,

fake news, the leaks, judges, the Democrats, the state

of the world that he inherited, and the press some more.

I'm not sure how well short sound bites capture it,

Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. I'm here today

to update the American people on the incredible progress that has been

made in the last four weeks, since my inauguration. The press has

become so dishonest that if we don't talk about it, we are doing a

tremendous disservice to the American people. I turn on the TV,

open newspapers and see stories chaos. Chaos. Yet it is the exact

opposite. This administration is running like a fine tuned machine.

President Putin called me up, very nicely, to congratulate me on

winning the election. He then called me up extremely nicely to

congratulate me on the inauguration, which was terrific. And the leaks

are absolutely real. The news is fake, because so much of the news is

fake. But I'm having a good time. Tomorrow they will say, Donald Trump

rants and raves at the press. I'm not ranting and raving, I'm just

telling you, your dishonest people. But I'm not ranting and raving. I'm

having a good time doing it. Tomorrow the headlines are going to

be, Donald Trump rants and raves. I'm not ranting and raving. We had

Hillary Clinton give Russia 20% of the uranium in our country. You know

what uranium is, right? It's a thing called nuclear weapons and other

things, like lots of things are done with uranium, including some bad

things. Politically, it would be unpopular for a politician to make a

deal. I can't believe I'm saying I'm a politician, I guess that's what I

am now. There have been reports that 48 bomb threats have been made

against Jewish centres across the country in the last couple of weeks.

There are people that are committing anti-Semitic acts... He said he was

going to ask a simple, easy question and it's not. Not a simple question,

not a fair question. Sit down, I don't understand the rest of your

question. Here is the story, guys. I am the least anti-Semitic person you

have seen in your entire life. We lived in a divided nation and I am

going to cry, I will do everything within my power to fix that. That I

am going to try. I want to thank everybody very much, it is a great

honour to be with you. Now one thing he did -

a little strange in itself - was hark back to his election

victory, incorrectly saying his electoral college win had

been bigger than his four People came out and voted

like they've never seen before. I guess it was the biggest electoral

college win since Ronald Reagan. And this was how he responded

when challenged. President Obama 322,

George HW Bush 426, I was given that

information, I don't know. I guess my question is,

why should Americans trust you when you accuse the information

they receive of being fake, when you're providing

information that's... I don't know, I was

given that information. Actually, I've seen that

information around. It was strangely ill-disciplined,

with numerous exchanges of insults with journalists,

and the characteristic Icy -- I see the word tone, the

tone, I'm not a bad person, the tone is such hatred. Joining me is a

correspondent with CNN, a news organisation that has been the

target of some of Donald Trump pleb criticism. Brian, thank you for

joining us. What do you think Donald Trump is trying to achieve with

these attacks on CNN and the press? He is playing his heads, going back

to his greatest heads. This is something he did a lot during the

primary campaign. It worked quite well for him. He would be jousting

with journalists, sometimes bullying them in ways we saw again today. We

are going to see him on Saturday trying another one of his greatest

hits, a campaign style rally, going to Florida with thousands of people

around him. He said today the crowd would be massive. He seems to

already expect a big audience. He's going back to what worked for him

when he was campaigning, not necessarily changing to a governing

style. His attempt today was to distract and deflect. He was trying

to say, the story is about how bad you are in the media, it is about

the people leaking, illegally undermining me. I don't think that

worked. There were a number of journalists asking very important

questions about Russia and other subjects. There was a lot of news,

as you are showing, and some commentators in the US are calling

him unhinged. Fox's Shep Smith said it was crazy, CNN saying it was

unhinged. You are not feeling intimidated? Is there anything he

could do to CNN to shut you up or tame what he perceives as the unfair

press he gets? That is an important question. The relationship between

the press corps and the President is governed by norms, not laws.

Journalists are reporting from the West Wing, standing on his lawn,

doing live shots. Not because they are acquired legally, but because

the President allows it. It has been custom for decades. Right now, there

is no indication those norms and customs are changing. The President

did call CNN and other outlets today. He seemed to enjoy the verbal

combat. Maybe we will see him do press conferences more often. There

are concerns about chilling effects from the daily drumbeat, calling the

news media fake, the CNN, the New York Times, he continues, on a daily

basis, to try to destabilise and delegitimise the American media. A

lot of viewers, even some that voted for Trump, that is troubling.

Answering questions, mostly words, not actions. I see journalists

clearly, standing up straight, covering the biggest story in the

world and not being intimidated. How many people out there, in the

public, believe him when he says you and the New York Times are fake

news? That a very interesting question also. If you look at the

polls, we know the trust in media is low. But trust in Trump is also low.

The ratings and traffic to news websites, including the BBC and CNN,

it is sky-high. The public is very interested in knowing the truth

about what Trump was doing, by accessing fact checks for what he is

saying. There are issues with trust. I would go back to the President's

own polls. He tried to cite an outlier poll that is favourable, one

that leans Republican. Most of them, Gallup, from other organisations,

they show the President with a 40% approval rating, very much under

water in a very difficult situation. He has his base with him, there is

no doubt about that. But he's not gaining support from the majority of

the American people. When you hear him lashing out at the media, what

he is really lashing out about is his unpopularity. You will know, as

we know here, the news flow is very fast at the moment and very intense.

I just wonder how far he can keep this up and how far you guys can

keep this up over the next four years. It's a good thing 24 hour

news was invented 35 years ago, between television, radio and the

web, we are seeing constant coverage of the President. I see a very big

appetite on the part of the public for this coverage, including full

very tough coverage that hold him accountable. That is why today was

important, he was answering questions from the BBC, ABC, CNN.

Big news outlets that had not received questions in recent weeks.

That was crucial, we should give the President's credit for doing that,

even though it is a basic part of the job. When he is going to Florida

again, holding that rally, I am sure there will be a lot of news there as

well. He has been taking weekends off, going golfing. They have given

journalists a brief break from the news.

We're joined by Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to President Trump.

Very good evening. Do you think his press conference was a bit unhinged?

I think it is pathetic that the BBC would use words of that nature and

also the objective weird. It is only weird to journalists like yourself

who are biased. Brian is your authority? This is a man who was

called ridiculous for his obsession for attacking President Trump by his

CNN colleague. I would ask you to Google his name, fake news Delta

Airlines. It was a fabulous press conference. Can I just ask a couple

of factual questions? For his initial words, which went on for

quite a few minutes, had he made notes on that and prepared that, or

did he just go in and busk it? He is fabulous on his feet, he doesn't

need to. This is the man who, in any one day, would go to nine different

sites, sometimes in four different states. He doesn't need an autocue.

He revels in this. What we saw today was the old Donald Trump from the

campaign trail. It was fabulous. Did he game some questions with his

team, did he think, what questions are we going to get, what is the

answer? Or he just said, I'm going to go out there, confront these guys

and give them hell? The President doesn't need to. He has a whole

press team. We have amazing people that write talking points. I had

talking points for this interview, don't need to use them but the team

writes them. He made this claim, completely false claim, about his

electoral college win being the biggest since Ronald Reagan. It

turned out Clinton, George Bush and Barack Obama had bigger wins. I'm

interested in how some mistake like that creeps in. This is a man that

looks carefully at these things. What was going on? I think you're

getting a little bit obsessed, yourself. If you listen to the tape

you just played, he said I guess I have the largest. It wasn't an

unequivocal statement of fact. The bottom line is that he trounced

Hillary Clinton. It was organisations like CNN, the New York

Times and even the BBC said Clinton is a shoo-in. The Huffington Post

said she had a 92% chance of winning. That is fake news and the

BBC should not be a hostage to it. What is really striking is, and it

was striking in the press conference as well, there is a sort of tendency

to leap back to the election campaign, to bang on about Hillary

Clinton and her weaknesses, the way that you have just gone on about the

way pundits got the election wrong. Does Mr Trump, does President Trump

realise that he won the election, he got fewer votes, he won the

election, he is the President now, for goodness sake. He doesn't have

to keep banging on about Hillary Clinton. He's the President. It

looks almost narcissistic, almost a bit childish to be talking the way

that he does in campaign mode, when he is the leader of the free world.

Only to journalist who don't like him and have an agenda. Is he

looking back? My gosh I have been in this position for less than a month,

we have done more work in one month than the prior administration did in

six. The number of things we have achieved, whether with the coal

miners, pushing back on the anti-coal mining policies of

administration and the immigration reform and the modernisation of

infrastructure planning. It is incredible the amount of work we

have done and to say that we are basking in a former glory, please be

a bit more factual or you will be accused of fake news. So you agree

with President Trump that his White House is a fine-tuned machine and

operating well? I have never worked at this rarified strategic level

before, I'm a political appointment. It is incredible I come into work

every morning at 7 o'clock, open the newspapers and when I read a story

that bares no resemblance to the issue I was involved in, I was in

the room the day before when it was being settled, eight out of nine

times it is fabricated. I'm sad to say that you and your colleagues

have fallen into this trap of fake news. It is not fake news, we are

trying to understand what is going on, we are not making factual claims

a lot of time, we are asking questions that you don't like. No

not at all, ask away. Well why did Donald Trump say he knew nothing

about Michael Flynn having spoken to the Russian about sanctions and then

on Monday we learn that President Trump had known about it for a

couple of, more than a couple of weeks? You're obsessing on issues

that are not point. I'm asking a perfectly simple question, I have

asked it once, why did he say I know nothing about that and then on

Monday we hear he had known about it it for two weeks. Why did he say

that. It is a fine-tuned machine you said. I said the White House is

working as a fine tuned machine. Your question was about the

representation of it being a maelstrom in the White House and I

answered it factually based on my experience. There isn't any disorder

or chaos. Some people in the media would like there to be. But there

isn't, I'm in the building. What the president knew when, please ask him

when you have an opportunity. I sure you have a BBC correspondent, I

wasn't in that meeting with general Flynn. Let me ask you about foreign

policy, this is a fine-tuned machine, the president said

yesterday he was opened minded on solutions to the issue of Israel and

Palestine. Today your ambassador at the UN clarified to colleagues and

others there that the two state policy remained the US objective,

why is there this constant confusion between the president speaks,

someone has to go around with a bucket and a shovel picking up the

pieces to clarify to the allies what is going on? Your representation is

just wishful thinking. If you zint didn't have an agenda-driven

question list, well, read the transcript of what the president

said after the meeting with the Prime Minister. It was unequivocal.

We remain committed to our ally Israel and any solution will have to

be a solution that both sides come to. We are not going to intervene.

You need to stick to the facts. The fact is other people, not just me,

other people, were confused and reported, not because they have an

agenda, that there was a change in US policy. Nicky Hailey felt it

necessary to clarify. Why are these kind of mistakes being made. Before

you answer that, another one today, Rex Tillerson was in a meeting with

the French and they said they thought your policy was to tear up

the Tehran deal. Rex Tillerson said I didn't say that. It gives a

picture of shambles in which people are having to correct or

mis-statements or things that have been misunderstood. Is it everybody

else's fault and not your own No there is an agenda driven

distortion. The media accused us of being anti-Semitic and white sue

preppist and we have an orthodox Jew key to the decision making process

and you talk about anti-Semitism. We are not going to stand for it. Where

does the BBC or the New York times said it is an anti-Semitic regime.

Look at the... That is quite different to say. Tlanchts. That was

the response, that we didn't use the world Jewish holocaust. It is

absurd. When I... When the president says he hates the press... It is

true. I never said anything on those terms, I don't want to get drawn

into a Tex eventual argument. Gods forbid you would agree. When he says

the press is out of control and you stand there and for most of your

answers just say we have an agenda and we are fake news. Prove it.

You're using Brian setter. Is it the case you plan no action against the

press, the press will carry on and do its job and be allowed to do its

job, are there measures your intending to take. This is fake

news. You have committed fake news. You're implying that there is some

dread intent. It is absurd. What are you positing? I'm asking if the

president has actions in mind, he said it is out of control, we need

to talk about this and he hinted that he he wasn't going to put up.

That might mean I will communicate with everybody by Twitter or I will

think of things. Is it the latter or the former. I means we are going to

continue to do what we did so very successfully and the thing that put

the former real estate billionaire into and to break your monopoly and

the mainstream media does not monopolise news and we will go

straight to the audience. We are not going to put up with distortion and

people who believe they have a monopoly on the truth because they

have 60 years of a letterhead. We will communicate with our audience.

Thank you for talking to you. We don't like be so much the centre of

attention. Thank very much indeed. A week and a half to the Oscars

and the film that everyone has But let me tell about

a better one than that - not that I've seen La La Land

to make a comparison. It has eight nominations,

including best film, and it In a way it is Boyz in the Hood

meets Brokeback Mountain, but that doesn't begin

to do it justice. It's a three-act film set mainly

in a black neighbourhood of Miami, chronicling the life of Chiron,

from being a gentle child bullied at school to a young adult coming

to terms with his sexuality. It mixes macho brutality,

with genuine tenderness. The film's directed by Barry Jenkins

and is based on a story by Tarrell Alvin McCraney called

'In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue'. They are both up for an Oscar

for Adapted Screenplay. And Tarrell, of course,

is to a large extent that gentle child we meet

in the film. It was based on a lot

of memories, particularly memories of myself and my mother

and my childhood growing There is a lot of me in it,

but I think there is also a lot of When you come to a piece

about self-discovery, it's very difficult

to leave yourself out. So one of the things Barry was very

generous in and very brave in is putting himself

in the film as well. One of the most striking

things about the film is the very tender depiction

of the mentor to the young young Well, one of the things

I like to say he was nurturing and mentoring and he was

a drug dealer, instead of "but", because but tends to dismiss

one part or the other. One of the things I didn't

want to do was portray him as one of the others,

that he was both to me. I think we should

think of all people as And if we want those people

to do more good than bad, then we have to think of them

as human beings, right? My mother's boyfriend,

a man named Blue, was a drug dealer, who was very kind to me

- taught me how to swim, taught me how to ride a bike,

who taught me how to make And you don't think of a drug dealer

being able to do that for a The film of course is,

a lot of it, is dealing And it is very striking,

and it is not just in your film, there are other accounts of young

gay children in underprivileged communities where there

is a particularly strong kind of Well, think about the way

in which the system is And so you say access

to privilege is based on That's the ideal we

share with everybody. Think about the way in which we look

at women in our society. What is the worst

thing I can call you? So that trickles down into all

communities and we think how do we maintain access, how do we get

more privilege, well, the more masculine I am, I mean

I have the means or the money to get

to the privilege of life, but if I'm more

masculine, then I'm closer to the power/access in the way

the society works. So one of the problems is we sort

of keep harping on this idea of masculinity or hyper-masculinity,

or more importantly toxic masculinity, because there

is nothing more wrong with wanting to play sports

or being rough and tumble, but then we honour that

above wanting to be caressed or nurtured or gentle,

then we start creating these So you can have a drug dealer

who drives around in a very macho car, who is also nurturing and also

gentle and also teaches a person So the film didn't, the film wasn't

created to tackle these ideas... It tackles them, because

they are part of life. At some point you have got

to decide for yourself Can't let nobody make

that decision for you. Every interview at

the moment comes back to Trump, is there some

link between that theme that you have explored

in the film and the election

of Donald Trump? Is it that a lot of other low status

people, and you know people who felt basically this man is speaking for

us and he has a kind of masculinity I'm just wondering if there is some

link there between the... The world in which we live

in in terms of misogyny and the oppression of women and the

oppression of feminism, the idea, the xenophobic ideas have been

there for a long time. If anything, this film should

show you that if this stuff was happening to me in my

childhood and I am 36 now, will be 37 this year, that means 20 years

ago we were still wrestling with these same ideas -

that that poverty that existed We talk about films being

a way to escape, to go to another person's

life or experience. And this film allowed

me to do something So we see Trevante Rhodes

as Chiron all grown up and you know he puts on this kind

of masculine facade in order to survive in that world and then

we look in his eyes and we see in that man's eyes that he,

no matter what he does, is always

going to be right there, that vulnerable person

that So no matter how many accolades

that I get, no matter how far I travel from Liberty City,

or if I'm in Stratford-upon-Avon, or in London, or Canada,

no matter where I sort of put myself on a platform or

other people do the same, it doesn't, none of that vulnerability

has left me. Within me and within

the performance of masculinity or femininity that I have

and education I might have, You're up for an Oscar,

I mean the film is up for You have a joint screenplay

one with Barry Jenkins. Are you going to be that vulnerable,

scared child if you win the Oscar? Absolutely, absolutely

and I think that's the thing that is incredible -

I think you're watching two young men from a very difficult part of

world, who are still carrying that world with them and particularly

inside of them go to a place that we never thought

we would get to. We've seen the Donald Trump

communication style this evening. There is something rather intriguing

about how quiet she is. She is the opposite of Donald Trump,

and some of her predecessors, who feel the head of government job

is one that requires you to keep yabbering

on about anything and everything - from policy and politics,

to sport and soap opera. It's not post-truth for Theresa May,

it's post-nothing - stay quiet. We'll reflect on the merits of that

approach, but first here's Chris Cook on the contrast

with the practices of yore. Since July, and the change

of Prime Minister, the Government This week, though, as one Times

reporter put it, they went dark. With Parliament in recess,

the Government went quiet. It really is quite unusual

for a whole government to be And a lot of it is down

to Theresa May's own personal She doesn't regard it as her job

to give people like me things Now, when I put it in those

terms, perhaps you have But here's the big question,

as a political strategy, does it Here is the rationale for feeding

the beast, from a past master. If a story comes out

that says something, and you don't have the capacity

to get on top and say, hang on, the facts are X and Y,

as you have probably discovered, You know, these stories don't take

a life of their own and then start running away into the far distance,

and then the public thinks, my goodness, what are they doing

that for, when you're not doing The current Prime Minister clearly

doesn't feel any great pressure with her current poll lead

to engage very much. She went on the Copeland by-election

trail yesterday in Cumbria, where she spent under three minutes

taking two questions We'll let you get back, thank you

very much. It's a fair bet, then,

that the current PM won't emulate Ted Heath, shown here showing

off his talent as a sailor And here, showing

off his musicianship. Showing hinterland would

mean having cameras in, The May approach, though,

can save you from trivia. Tony Blair, shown here

in opposition, later opined on the jailing of Deirdre Rachid,

a character from Coronation Street. Even David Cameron's tweeting

about British sporting success Maybe this will work,

a low profile may preserve the sheen that attaches

to new prime ministers. But more pressure from other

parties, or events, Right now, the polls

suggest her low-profile We're joined by the broadcaster

and columnist Steve Richards, by Ayesha Hazarika who was a special

advisor to both Ed Miliband and Harriet Harman and by

Matt Chorley from the Times. He was the Times journalists that

used the phrase going dark. Is it a pain that you go and don't get

stories from her? It was recess, journalists were left to their own

devices. It does seem to be working. Every time a journalist says give us

a story, otherwise it is going to be bad for you, this lack of media

coverage, they say, do you want to look at our latest poll ratings?

They think it is working for now. How different is it your days? Very

different. It's interesting seeing Tony Blair popping up. I think New

Labour, in the to 97, when we first got into power, we set the rule book

in terms of professionalised media publications. We set up a grid and

everybody was obsessed. What is this grid? It is the seven days mapped

out and you have to have events in it. We would have grid meetings, a

grid manager. A lot of job creation is generated by the grid. To quote

Tony Blair, I think there is a third way in all of this. You don't want

to become so obsessed with the grid wagging the tail. You need some

thinking time to populate it. Matt, is there no grid? There is, the

rulers don't put anything on it! That is the difference. -- the rule

is. You speak to govern and advisers, they say we would love to

do stuff, we are trying to get stuff on the grid. So Number 10 is saying

not to? They say why rock the boat? The risk, putting a minister on TV,

is that they say something that generates news. Or just to say

something! Steve, you have been around a while and written about

Prime Minister is, is it the right thing to do?

Depends partly on context and partly the personality of the individual.

With new Labour, they suffered such a terrible press in the 80s, the

early 1990s, certainly the New Labour generation were totally

obsessed, partly justifiably, partly to the point where it becomes

stifling. What are we going to say about Coronation Street? They were

in a complete... I was once having a cup of tea with Tony Blair, early in

his first term, 40 points ahead in the polls, William Hague already

doomed as Leader of the Opposition. Someone rushed in from the press

team saying William Hague is going to say something about hybridisation

of rural post offices. What are we going to do? What is the message?

Anyone would think they were about to collapse as a government. That

becomes stifling. Here approach is interesting. She is much more shy

than Tony Blair and David Cameron. It is quite interesting, in such a

public position. Her media performances, I think they are

authentically awkward because she is shy. She doesn't enjoy them. Cameron

and Tony Blair, on the whole, enjoy them. It is partly her own

reticence. She can get away with this with opinion poll leads and an

opposition in disarray. But there will be times when it becomes an

issue for her. No doubt. The problem is the vacuum. You've got to write

something. There is an e-mail you send out every morning, you have to

feel that with something. If she is not giving you something, you can be

mischievous? We have seen business rate rises, they have been planned

for some time. This week, it is on the front pages again. Tomorrow as

well, a big rise is coming, it's affecting pubs that people love,

hospitals that people love. That feels like, this week, because it

has been recess, the government hasn't been doing anything, business

rates has taken on a life of its own and it will probably mean that the

Chancellor will have to do something about it. It had a prominence

because there has not been anything else? At the moment, because the

opposition is so weak, also because there is the destruction of Brexit

and also when Trump wakes up in the morning and hits the tweet deck, the

danger for the Government and the press operation, I think they can be

quite complacent about it now, but they shouldn't forget that there is

lots of domestic crises bubbling up. The NHS, business rates, cuts in

school budgets. There are things that the public are getting

exercised about. Just having a press strategy that stonewalled everything

is not going to be sustainable for a long time. In a way, at this point,

it is quite sensible. One Brexit, people were saying, what is her

plan? The Economist at the front page of there being no plan. She did

a speech. I disagreed with some of the content, but it was almost a

work of art that they had worked and sweated over for a long period, but

quite an effective way of doing things. Wait and then deliver. You

can't do it when you are in control of party and government as she is at

the moment, it becomes harder when you lose control, which will happen

to her at some point. I have just been doing some talks for the BBC

about six prime ministers, what I have learned us I ad-libbed my way

through these talks is that the ones that lasted longest work, one way or

another, teachers. They regarded part of their role as to constantly

mimic it. Thatcher was an instinctive teacher, always

communicating simple messages as a matter of human course, almost. Tony

Blair to this as well. Maybe the story of 2016-17 is that

the New Labour spin model was completely bust come on two sides of

the Atlantic you have two contrasting new models. Trump has

broken all of the rules of the old spin model, and Theresa May is

breaking them. If you sat back and asked yourself, which of the new

models do you prefer, which would you say? I think you are right.

Journalists like to be given stories. Some politicians like to be

in newspapers. The danger is that we think a of stories in newspapers

about politicians is what the public want. Actually, I the reaction to

the spin culture, which people got more and more fed up with, is they

quite like not seeing the Prime Minister on the TV every night,

saying what they think about every passing thing going. You slip into a

danger, as a politician, if you think success is measured by how

many splashes you get, having worked for lots of politicians, the biggest

thing is sometimes, why am I not in the newspapers? You need the

balance, a good example was the Brexit speech that she did, doing

less, but doing it better. So, having the time to properly think

through your message, your policy, your strategy and communications,

that should be the icing on the cake. When everything is driven,

when the grid gets out of control and you are just trying to keep up

with the grid, that is very scary. Imagine Trump's spin doctor tonight,

if the focus was on message discipline! I think they have moved

on from that one. That is all we have time for. Kirsty will be back

here tomorrow. Have a good night. Hello. A cold night in Scotland on

the way. There will be a touch of Frost and fog patches around, those

in southern Scotland slow to clear tomorrow morning. A bit of patchy

rain from the Midlands, North West England and western Scotland to

begin with. A lot of that fading into the afternoon as the bulk of

the UK turns dry. Thickening cloud again in Northern Ireland. Still a

bit of light rain for parts of western Scotland. The best of the

sunshine, throughout much of Scotland, will be down the eastern

side. Grey over north-west Scotland, Misty and matey. Richard

Brighton-Knight towards East Anglia. It looks rather