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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
With me are Isabel Hardman, Assistant Editor at the Spectator | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
and James Lyons, Deputy Political Editor at the Sunday Times. | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
One story dominating, let's talk you through the front pages, as we have | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
them. The Telegraph is reporting on the British tourists minutes away | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
from take-off and who now find themselves stranded in Sharm | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
el-Sheikh in Egypt after the British Government suspended all flights in | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
and out of the resort. The Guardian says the Government was acting on | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
specific intelligence relating to the crash, which it received in the | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
last 24 hours. The Mirror has the stark headline, it's not safe to fly | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
home. The Times reports and comments from American intelligence sources | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
that Islamic State was responsible for blowing up the plane. The Metro | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
says Government concerns stem from its own intelligence sources rather | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
than anything coming out of the crash investigation in Egypt. And, | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
the only paper not to feature the plane crash, leads instead on pleas | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
from the National Grid for heavy users of | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
Let's start off with the Guardian, consumption after an unexpected | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
Let's start off with the Guardian, this is a huge story which broke in | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
good time for all the papers. All papers able to get together some | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
pretty comprehensive analysis. The question is why have the | :01:50. | :01:59. | |
government decided to suspend flights now when the plane came down | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
over the weekend? The answer is they have had intelligence not part of | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
the flight investigation that led them to believe they had to, as a | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
precautionary measure, to suspend the flights. This is uneven of the | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
visit of President Sisi. The Egyptian president here for a | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
visit, embarrassing timing? The Egyptians are already up in arms | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
about the decision so it will be an uncomfortable meeting tomorrow. It | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
will be a body blow for tourism in Egypt's, which is already reeling? | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
20,000 people stuck out there now and the Foreign Office has changed | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
its advice this evening, which has said Sharm el Sheikh, no longer | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
consider it safe. As far as I can can see from reports around, the | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
bars are open restaurants are open and there doesn't seem to be any | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
heightened security. You have been there several times? I have been | :02:58. | :03:07. | |
through Sharm several times. I wasn't too concerned. There is a | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
history of these problems in the region. Sharm has been targeted, a | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
resort of the coast, there were suicide attacks there in 2006 which | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
killed 23 people. It will not come as a surprise there are risks in | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
this area. I was reading this morning, Gove's wife had been | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
planning a winter break and cancelled on the last-minute on a | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
gut instinct, so there you go. Isabel, the Metro, bomb alert, | :03:40. | :03:48. | |
grounds Sharm flights. What they were saying is, the statement from | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
Downing Street we had, it may well have been brought down by an | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
explosive device. What an unusual statement by Number Ten? Yes, given | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
the Egyptians and the Russians at the weekend said they didn't think | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
it was the results of a terrorist package. The plane itself | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
disintegrated in the air, I suppose the airline company are relieved at | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
least one country is starting to raise again, the possibility of | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
terrorist activities. It is saying in the Metro, it is understood the | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
concerns are from Britain's own intelligence sources but I | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
understand it could be some satellite imagery the US got hold of | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
which they may have shared with us, which showed a flash in the sky. The | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
Egyptians saying this is an overreaction by the British | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
government, but if you are a Prime Minister or a Foreign Secretary, it | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
is hard to take any risk when you think perhaps the airport security | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
there at Sharm el Sheikh is not up to scratch? This is why politicians | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
have such a difficult job. If they hadn't suspended flights and | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
something happens, you can imagine the reaction when the press here | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
find out there had been intelligence that had been passed to the British, | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
suggesting it might have been something to do with terrorism. You | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
can totally understand why they have taken that decision. It is awkward | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
in terms of relations with Egypt. You have seen the impact on other | :05:21. | :05:30. | |
countries that have had terrorist action, Tunisia for example. It | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
comes after they put a security team on the ground to check out the | :05:36. | :05:43. | |
airport. This comes as news from the Home Secretary's wanting new | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
surveillance powers for the intelligence agencies. In some ways | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
she might think this backs up her case the security services do need | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
modernised, up today intelligence gathering techniques, in order to | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
combat terrorism? In Westminster this afternoon when news of this | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
filtered out before flights were suspended, Downing Street were | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
suggesting terrorism was involved, some of my more cynical colleagues | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
thought it might have been a coincidence, but I think we can | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
discount that. The Guardian are reporting tonight, although Labour | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
have given a warm welcome to the package they think is a lot more | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
moderate than what they were expecting, there is some judicial | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
oversight, the extent of the information retained isn't as fast | :06:35. | :06:42. | |
as was feared by many. Let's rattle through the others. The Financial | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
Times, pretty close to power cuts, if you believe this. National Grid | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
in an emergency plea that the heavy users, industry, to power-down? Yes, | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
asking heavy industry to switch to rack up generators to ensure supply. | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
If you go further down in this story, I assume this is because we | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
didn't have enough power stations and needed to build more, but there | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
is another angle to this. The problem with the energy supply has | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
been caused in part because electricity prices are too low to | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
get supplies incentive to use capacity at short notice. The | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
Telegraph, James, they have speeding fines. The police will use speeding | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
fines to raise money? This is a more honest approach many forces have | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
used in the past. Beds police talking about zero tolerance | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
approach. Anyone going over 75 Leader of the House 70 miles an hour | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
will get a fine. It comes in the midst of a cash crisis. Even if you | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
are doing 71, low margin for error. Talking about slippers, they are | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
back? It is on the front page of the Telegraph, they are still in fashion | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
despite underfloor heating and lovely carpets. I am sure James has | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
a pipe and slippers waiting at home for him after this. Not quite. Do | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
you wear slippers, ever, Isabel, do you wear slippers? I am a fan of | :08:15. | :08:24. | |
big, sparkly bed socks. The perfect Christmas present, a pair of | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
slippers? I am at this stage in my life where all I want is a bottle of | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
scotch and some socks. Good to talk to, we will be back in an hour to | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
review the papers. James and Isabel, many thanks. Coming up next, it is | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
time for sports | :08:44. | :08:44. |