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Simon Danczuk accuses the party leadership | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
With me are Caroline Wheeler, political editor of the Sunday | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
Express, and Tom McTague, political editor of the Independent on Sunday. | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
The Sunday Express leads with Storm Desmond and reports it has claimed | :00:29. | :00:37. | |
its first victim in London, a 90-year-old pensioner who reportedly | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
died after the gale force winds blew him into the side of a moving bus. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
The Observer says the shadow cabinet is bracing itself for what MPs are | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
calling a "revenge reshuffle", following Labour's victory in the | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
The Independent on Sunday also carries the claims, | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
adding plans are afoot to sack the chief whip. | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
The Sunday Telegraph reports senior members of | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
the Conservatives are threatening to resign IF plans to build a third | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
The Mail on Sunday carries allegations that NHS chiefs tried to | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
destroy evidence, which reportedly proves that hospital staff failed to | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
spot and treat an infection that resulted in the | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
Let's begin. The Sunday express. Killer storm. It has unfortunately | :01:21. | :01:34. | |
taken on life. This has been developing story over the days. It | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
didn't even feature on our news list this morning. And yet by this | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
afternoon we see that one pensioner, who was sadly blown into the course | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
of a bus, has been killed. There are thousands of people without power. | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
85 mph winds battering Britain. You can see, in that dramatic picture, | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
several areas of the north-west are underwater. Pictures of Appleby. We | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
know places like Cockermouth and Carlisle were expecting flood levels | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
to rise. We haven't seen this kind of devastation for a while. It is | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
reminiscent of what happened before Christmas, in 2013, when the West | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
Country was badly hit. It will be interesting to see how this develops | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
over the coming hours. Mentioning earlier storms, memories of that go | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
back to a specially to bowser nine, when it was really serious. -- 2009. | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
This could be worse? Yes, this can rush to the top of the news list | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
within hours. We won't talking about this yesterday, and now, rightfully, | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
it is at the top of the news list. Indeed. Your newspaper, the | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
independent on Sunday, has a great picture. I wouldn't want to be there | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
at the time. Where is that? That's in South Wales. But this has | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
affected everywhere. I think it is mostly in the north, the north-west | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
and north-east, but it has hit South Wales, the south-west, London. And | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
it is coming this way. One of the problems is that the ground has | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
already been quite saturated, which has meant the floodwaters have risen | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
very quickly. So obviously it's a wait and see situation. But 44 of | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
the highest flood risk alerts being given and more than 200 in total. So | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
it gives the scale of the widespread potential for devastation here. | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
Indeed. People are always interested in these weather stories. Moving on. | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
Your name appears on the front page of your newspaper, which is nice, | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
because you've got a special report a couple of pages inside. But the | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
front page says it well. Hitting back at Jeremy Corbyn smears. What | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
is this about? This is Jeremy Corbyn on the front foot for the first time | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
in a few weeks, following the by-election in Oldham, which was a | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
surprise win for the Labour leader. It has allowed him to start to fight | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
back against Labour moderates, who have been really giving him a hard | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
time, ever since he was elected, really. We've been hearing in | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
Westminster at out rumours about his health. Rumours that leader passed | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
out dismissed as categorically untrue. Who is spreading that kind | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
of rumour? According to the Labour leader, this is just be the MPs who | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
don't want to see him succeed and he says it is absolutely untrue and if | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
you're going to fight him, fight him on the issues that he won the | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
leadership for. But, as you say, fighting back, possible plans to | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
sack the chief whip and reshuffle the cabinet. You set the chief whip | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
is one of his allies and got things sorted out for him in the early | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
stages. Why now turned his sacking? Jeremy Corbyn's allies see the chief | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
whip, Rosie Winterton, as a figure to stabilise things at the start of | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
Jeremy Corbyn's leadership. Now she is seen as somebody who is an old | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
guard, someone who is out to represent other moderate MPs and not | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
the leader. This is going to rattle along. It looks as though they would | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
like to see, I say they, the top of the leadership, especially Mr Corbyn | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
and his deputy or the Shadow Chancellor, would like to see some | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
of these moderates pushed out. What if they push them out, are there | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
others around of sufficient calibre to take their place? That's the | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
question. At the time, some of us were surprised as there were many | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
rumours about the types of people who could have formed part of his | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
shadow cabinet and actually he didn't make extensive changes and | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
still included some of those, what would be regarded as the old guard. | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
Now if he is going to push some of those out of the cabinet you have to | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
wonder who will be brought in. And does he have enough allies? With all | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
written stories to suggest there are only 16, 17, 18 members of the | :06:31. | :06:38. | |
Labour Party who are Jeremy Corbyn supporters and that's not enough to | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
fill a shadow cabinet. The Observer talks about a revenge reshuffle. I | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
don't wear that comes from. And the Shadow Chancellor says back the new | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
politics or get out of the way. -- where that comes from. This will be | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
a heck of a story for quite a time to come. Definitely. He's got a bit | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
of a problem because there are two stories that will rumble. The | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
moderates will continue to brief against him and we have seen more | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
revelations about this bullying that's been going on with Simon | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
Danczuk coming out and saying he has been targeted on Twitter and | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
threatened with death threats. And there will be a public meeting | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
tomorrow, where they will have to face critics. You've got that story | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
from that side of the party. The other side is that after the Oldham | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
by-election, which was a staggering victory in some senses for Jeremy | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
Corbyn, because UKIP have very much suggested they could cut the | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
majority in half, or even win it, which was unbelievable. You've now | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
got a Jeremy Corbyn who is thinking that he could start to stamp his | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
authority on the party. But it will be interesting to see how he does | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
that. If he then tries to purge the moderates, he will face the same | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
accusations, that he is trying to purge his critics from the party. It | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
will be interesting. Moving on. Still on the front page of the | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
Observer. Fresh bombing raids hit Syrian oilfields. Tell us what this | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
says. This is an interesting take from the Observer, who report on the | :08:14. | :08:22. | |
second RAF sortie over Syria in I think three or four days, since the | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
vote. They also mentioned that the RAF could be dragged into Libya, | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
where ISIS fighters are now said to be in control of large parts of the | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
country. That raises the prospect that they could even be dragged into | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
Afghanistan, where we saw this week that they are now trying to take | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
over... That was in the Times, yesterday, I think it was. We have | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
the Defence Secretary over there in Cyprus talking to the RAF crews and | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
so on, saying it won't be short or simple, what they're doing. That's | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
one of the understatement of the week. Yes and part of this is about | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
managing expectations and making it very clear to the general public | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
that this isn't going to be a short war, this will be long. It will be | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
messy. There is a suggestion that we could be dragged into Libya. They | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
say there have already been reconnaissance missions by the | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
French, looking into this issue. But I think Michael Fallon, he is just | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
the signalling and warning that we shouldn't expect results | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
immediately. But one of the other things we understand, we've got one | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
of our report is out there at the moment, our defence editor. In | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
Cyprus. Yes. They say that even though they have been targeting | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
oilfields, there's now a sense that they will target some the leaders of | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
Daesh and Islamic State. -- or Islamic State. So, this could be | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
another step in a campaign. The front page of the Sunday Telegraph. | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
Tories at war over Heathrow expansion. Now, here we go. It is | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
either Heathrow or Gatwick or maybe some else. Many people threatening | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
to resign on the conservative side. That's right. We've seen the crisis | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
in the Labour Party to what we see as a crisis over Heathrow in the | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
Conservative party. This has been coming for a while, we anticipated | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
it would be made last week... It is now up to the government to say | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
whether it is Heathrow or not. That's right. We were briefed | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
earlier that we thought the decision would be made this coming week, | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
although now they say it could be delayed further. Interestingly, | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
there are some influential politicians who live under the | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
flight path who are not especially happy about it. The likes of Boris | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
Johnson, the development secretary and others. So, what this story | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
seems to be saying is they suggest that if this does go ahead they will | :10:53. | :11:00. | |
resign. They've been put into a difficult position, because Cameron | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
said before there would be no Heathrow expansion. Obviously be | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
independent report coming out and suggesting expansion is the best | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
thing to do has put them in a tricky position. Where do we go from here? | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
We keep being told they will have to be a decision. Presumably it could | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
be put off as long as politicians want it to be? I think it could be a | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
complete fudge. How do you fudge it? You put in place legal barriers, or | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
a tight restrictions that Heathrow would have to pass, to be granted | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
the third runway. So you set impossible targets? That will be | :11:37. | :11:44. | |
pushed into the long grass until George Osborne comes along and | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
decide he will stamp the authority. They could already seek judicial | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
review. Some suggest it will be delayed any way for a couple of | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
years, some say decades before we get a decision on this. So, | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
nobody's career will be imminently over. David Cameron will be long | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
gone, I think. Still with us, I'm sure, just as Prime Minister. Well, | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
thank you very much. Very nice to see you both. | :12:15. | :12:17. |