02/11/2015 The Papers

will have more on that and reaction to the Premier League action is

like, cricket, tennis, and boxing, that is all coming up after the

papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be With me are Dan Bilefsky from the

New York Times and Tim Montgomerie, The FT leads with reports that

senior European Central Bank officials held meetings with senior

figures from the financial service industry in the run-up to making

important policy decisions like The I says some police and crime

commissioners are threatening to sue the Home Office over planned funding

changes which they claim are "unfair The Metro has more woe for Chelsea

manager Jose Mourinho - he's now being taken to court by the football

club's former head physio Eva Carneiro over the dispute which saw

her banished from the team bench. The Telegraph says some of Baroness

Thatcher's clothes, jewellery and political mementoes are to be

auctioned off after the Victoria and Albert Museum turned down an offer

to put them on display. The Daily Star carries a picture of

London's Docklands enshrouded in fog and warns that it may last for more

than a week. The Guardian says the Prime Minister

has abandoned plans for British airstrikes

on Islamic State targets in Syria. And The Times also leads on that

story - alongside a picture the widow and daughter of PC Phillips,

the police officer killed while trying to stop a truck -

thousands of colleagues attended We will begin with the Times, our

times, can I call it that? You made. It is owned by Rupert Murdoch, I

properly shouldn't... And now to the story, David Cameron backs down over

plan to bomb Syria. The Conservatives and the Lib Dems tried

this in 2013 and they lost the vote. They thought maybe with a change of

government, they might get it through. Absolutely. That is what

the Prime Minister would like to do, he would like to be leading and

helping to lead the international fight against what we are seeing in

Syria, many of the problems of immigration that we have been

worrying about, people feel unrooted in the searing crisis and if we

don't tackle these problems at source, and you can disagree about

the way of tackling it, but the Prime Minister thinks this is the

kind of intervention we need, but he would not bring another vote to the

House of Commons, after losing it once, a couple of years ago. He

would not do that if he could not be sure of getting it through, and he

fears there are so many Tory MPs who have misgivings about getting

involved in another foreign war that he did not get this past the House

of Commons, and because there's a risk that would be defeated, he

cannot be defeated twice. How does this look like the UK -- how does

this make the UK look? Is it a major power? Defensive spending has been

cut, and this is another example, we have France trying to exert itself

in Syria, they have sent some advisers to Syria, but we have got

Britain retrenching, that plays into the notion that Britain is no longer

aspires to be a global player. When they have those allies who think

that David Cameron cannot get the vote through, so he cannot carry on

with the strikes? I'm wondering to the extent that Jeremy Corbyn is

planning a part in this decision. There was hope, that there would be

Labour rebels against Jeremy Corbyn's position, but it does not

seem there will be enough Labour rebels to outweigh the number of

Tory rebels. These are issues which have split the parties within, as

much as between. You have noninterventionist and

interventionists in both parties and you need them to cobble together a

cross-party coalition, to get this through, and David Cameron has

concluded that he cannot get this through the House of Commons. It is

a very complicated picture. And now to another story, police chiefs

threatened to sue the Home Office because of changes to funding. Some

forces will lose out on funding and they are threatening the Home

Secretary with a judicial review. Some forces feel they cannot bear

any more cuts. At the time of austerity we are seeing these cuts

on across-the-board, and in New York in 2011, they tried similar cuts,

with a $400 million deficit, and the murder rate went down, not long

after, and so the histrionic reaction might just be that. And the

other hand, it was an interesting counterpoint with the tragic killing

of this British police officer, that these are cuts which are happening

almost within a 24-hour period. Interesting counterpoint. Some

forces are facing cuts between 25 and 40% and they say they cannot

attend crimes like burglaries. That will alarm the public, the overall

picture is that we are seeing a global reduction in crime, even

though we have seen big cuts already in place budget, crime is continuing

to fall, but the question is, are we going to get to the point where the

public start to see services like proper police attendance at various

forms of crime withdrawn or delayed? The police have a vested interest in

this, they might not be the most independent people to be judging

this, but they now say that the cuts have gone far enough and if they go

any further, core services will be imperilled. The Financial Times.

EPA, the Environment Protection Agency in the United States, alleges

that VW cheated on prestige Porsche and Audi models. It is not just the

cars that I like driving, but something that you might, as well.

The New York Times type of car. We would aspire to drive Porsches.

Course. It goes further than those top-level cars which until now we

were not aware they might have the software, as well. Volkswagen were

reeling from the initial allegations, and now the more

prestige cars are recused of potentially having these cheating

devices in them and that is another blow to the prestige of this

company, but also to Germany. -- are recused. Germany's reputation is

built on its manufacturing. -- are accused. I cannot help asking, are

people going to buy less Porsches and Mercedes, because of the

emissions rating? You buy these cars because you trust them for a

liability, and if you pay extra for these cars, will you pay extra if

they are damaged in this way? You won't buy any more Porsches Quest

For More they will have to pay big fines -- you won't buy any more

Porsches? We have a statement from VW, they say that they wish to

emphasise that no software has been installed in the three litre diesel

power units to alter emission characteristics in a forbidden

manner. They said they will cooperate in this matter. Forbidden

manner, what does that mean? That is the worst kind of corporate tour,

maybe it was better in German. Yes, something lost in translation. This

is Liz Truss saying that she cuts the bad bits off food which is

passed the best before date. I'm squeamish North American, we just

had a story about mouldy bread, and Americans, we have a perception of

being very healthy and very squeamish, when it comes to mould

them but you Brits are made of tougher things. We are, it's the

climate. Maybe so, it is foggy and rainy and may be you like mouldy

bread. I'm not sure I would want to eat mouldy bread. I'm with Liz

Truss, she says that she is of the school, if the cheese has got mould

on it, just cut the end off and eat the rest. I was in France, and all

of my French colleagues would begrudge me if I did not eat mouldy

cheese. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has been looking at the War of

waste, third food in this country does not get eaten, so maybe this

trust will have a look at that. The fee and a Thamesdown be Margaret

Thatcher collection. -- Victoria and Albert Museum turns down the

Margaret Thatcher collection. This is outrageous. Something we agree

on. We are agreed, Margaret Thatcher is a global I come, she changed 21st

century history, and it's hard to imagine that they would not attract

people, she was a political Queen. -- global icon. She did not wear a

high-end fashion, she was no Princess Diana. She did where

produce brands, especially in her more majestic years. -- she did

where close I do not think she would approve of

your colours tonight. I doubt she would, but maybe that is all to the

good. If it is going to be auctioned, you can buy yourself and

so. Moving swiftly on. -- buy yourself a memento. And now, the

former Chelsea doctor, Eva Carneiro, who rather ceremoniously was ousted

from Chelsea. You know a bit about this? Such a sad story, to see

Chelsea's fall and fall, it gets worse, they had a terrible result at

the weekend, losing against Liverpool, Jose Mourinho behaving

like a child in his press conferences and now one of the

instances which was the early warning that the season was growing

bullseye going wrong, -- that the season was going wrong, when Jose

Mourinho had the falling out with Eva Carneiro, and he is being sued

personally. This is endlessly fascinating. Nothing to do with the

fact that she looks very sexy and attractive. You support Manchester

United? Yes. Would you turn down Jose Mourinho? Not a couple of years

ago, but now I think he has really damaged himself, not just the

performance, which is a great collapse, but how he has behaved

afterwards, trying to blame everyone else but himself for what is a

terrible but formance. He called her naive, is that terrible? That is a

bit rude, when she is an expert physio. It is soccer, you have got

to choose a team. Right, I can't possibly, I need to retain my

objectivity. I would try to persuade him, but it does not seem like it is

likely. Maybe not. That is it for the first review, but my guests will

be back at 1130. Stay with us, at 11 we have more on the possible causes

of the Russian jet crash in the Sinai Peninsula at the weekend. The

airline has ruled out pilot error, but the Egyptian authorities have

said it is too early to say.