19/03/2016 The Papers

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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

With me are Tim Shipman, political editor of The Sunday Times and

Caroline Wheeler, political editor of the Sunday Express Tomorrow's

The Observer leads with the fallout from

Iain Duncan Smith's resignation, saying the Tory party is at war.

The Mail on Sunday claims the Prime Minister

unleashed a four letter tirade at Mr Duncan Smith when the Work

and Pensions Secretary made clear he was determined to resign.

the resignation could do to George Osborne's leadership ambitions.

And the Sunday Telegraph says

the knives are out for the Chancellor, as he suffers

what they call an unprecedented backlash from Tory MPs.

The photograph is of the England rugby team, celebrating

their Six Nations Grand Slam victory.

The Sunday Express has a different lead,

reporting that murder trials could be shown live on TV under plans to

And for the last ever print edition

of the Independent on Sunday, the paper has

the simple headline Lights Out and a special report on climate change.

Well, so much to get our teeth into, The Mail on Sunday is where we will

begin with Iain Duncan Smith's all out. Outrage, Cameron's four C at

Iain Duncan Smith, we can't even allude to what those four letters

were. Appalling latter is. David Cameron is not happy to say the

least when he heard Iain Duncan Smith was resigning. Iain Duncan

Smith of course resigned late yesterday. A fairly surprising move,

not something we had necessarily seen coming, although

behind-the-scenes apparently sources close to him said it has been

something he was considering for some time. If you believe the line

from Downing Street they were puzzled by why he had gone

particularly given they had just climbed down on the thing he was

concerned about, of course cuts to the benefits for the disabled.

That's where they are coming from. This is what David Cameron muttered

those words in response to. Puzzled isn't a word the Prime Minister used

when he was exploding with rage. I think he was more than puzzled, he

was furious. You 4G expletive were told. -- four letter. It's a very

serious thing to say. Iain Duncan Smith resigned by letter from his

Bucks home -- we're told. He was surprised when he was phoned up and

roundly abused for failing to turn up in person and for not giving them

to warning. It was all a bit shambolic to be perfectly honest. He

resigned at 8:56pm last night. I know. Not the time of day, his poor

old special adviser was pulling her hair out, if you're going to resign

on Friday night then do it before the first edition of the papers. But

Iain Duncan Smith insisted on hanging around until he had had two

quite difficult conversations with the Prime Minister. You, Tim, in

your newspaper, the Sunday Times, look at what this might mean for

George Osborne. The focus now is really turning to what this means

for the Chancellor. There's a lot of it all over the place this evening.

We're not saying Osborne is unfit, the man has lost 2.5. Stone, on his

way to becoming Prime Minister after David Cameron, but the inevitability

of George Osborne has evaporated. Quite a lot of people have come

pouring out of the woodwork declaring he is unfit for high

office. What is if they are not happy with? A lot of this is quite

personal. -- what is it. Osborn lorded it over these people for

quite some time. -- Osborne. He's quite influential with the Prime

Minister in assigning jobs doles out the cash. If you're someone he wants

to impress them the phones you up and asks if there's anything he can

do for you -- he doles out the cash. When it doesn't look like

you're going to win then you need to fall back on personal charm, and

that's not been a great strength of the Chancellor so far. One rather

sharp tongued minister here is comparing him first to Frank Spencer

and secondly to the Child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which

is about as damning an insult I've heard for some time. It's about

judgement as well. We've had numerous examples where his

judgement has been brought into question. There was the Omnishambles

budget in 2008, and there was the tax credit fiasco, which wasn't that

long ago, only in November. It's whether or not he has understandably

core message of the party and a feeling that because he has

appointed his proteges to those high positions, he's reflecting his ideas

within an echo chamber. Iain Duncan Smith said last night in his

resignation statement that this change to the disability payments

was a step too far, indefensible to hand over tax breaks to higher

earners while taking away benefits from all vulnerable people. Then we

have Baroness Altmann, pensions minister, who has walked alongside

Iain Duncan Smith, really letting loose tonight with this personal

statement saying she is incredulous by the way he has behaved and the

fact Iain Duncan Smith, she says, championed this very package of

reforms that he is now used as a reason for resigning. This is one of

the more astonishing statements any of us have seen for some time. If

one is allowed to inject a note of cynicism, Baroness of modern was

busy rounding on George Osborne not so long ago saying he's getting it

wrong over pensions -- Baroness Altmann. Today he is getting into

Iain Duncan Smith that will make the party leadership more happy with

her. She said she found it hard to work with him and he wants to

further the campaign to leave the EU. If one was being suspicious you

could say large chunks of this statement was written in Downing

Street. I know her well, she's an honourable character, but it's

interesting she is prepared to sling the Khyber in this way. I'm sure

that's not quite the right phrase. There are bits of this reminiscent

of the discussions Number 10 have had with us today. There are quotes

that I can recognise here. She was also saying... Iain Duncan Smith

shut her up. That's another astonishing bit, from a personal

perspective for months I've been silenced by him in what I said has

been strictly controlled. That must be the weeks when she wasn't being

silenced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Prime Minister.

Maybe she's being silenced by all of them, if she's trying to get a

message out that nobody likes. Quite. Don't forget, Ros Ball G-Man

is one of Britain's leading pensions experts -- Ros Ball Jo Oldman. She's

coming from the outside and often what goes on in Whitehall is pretty

baffling to people who not spend a lot of time there. This may be her

natural reaction to being cooped up and told to be quiet. She has

certainly told us how she feels. Let's move on and away from what's

happening with Iain Duncan Smith, but staying with what is happening

with the Conservatives. The Sunday Telegraph, Brexit campaign is built

on fantasy claims Sir John Major, former Prime Minister, who wasn't

always exactly keen on what was going on with the European Union in

his own day, was he? He had a tough time from his own people and in the

finest traditions of what we've seen from the Prime Minister, he had his

own words for the Euro sceptics in those days. You have to feel a bit

for Sir John, he's made it on the front of the Telegraph this evening,

but he's been bumped from Andrew Marr tomorrow and been replaced by

Iain Duncan Smith. Good to see him getting an outing here. He's seen as

an elder statesman and Downing Street lakes to wheel him out and

use him because he's popular with the waverers in the middle that

think... My mum thinks he's a nice chap and might listen to what he

says about Europe. Why is he saying it's a fantasy to think of Brexit?

He's giving a scene Jo similar warning to one we have seen before,

saying there would be economic disaster ahead and the breakup of

the UK if Britain votes to leave the EU. He said the outcome would

trigger a second referendum on Scottish independence, which is

another one of those arguments we have seen made before which has

struck a fear chord in everybody's hearts, because everyone knows

Scotland has a different perception of Europe to the rest of the UK.

It's an interesting intervention, you can see why he's done it,

perhaps that's why he did it, because they knew he was going to be

on Marr. I don't see a definitive new argument from those wanting us

to remain. It's up to the Leave campaign... This is the tragedy with

this debate, we've heard every argument that's likely to be made

and we are still 95 days from the key moment. We will be back again.

Who knows what could happen within the Conservative party within that

time. That's the problem, this story could become the Conservative party

in all out civil war. There's probably more days of that to come.

And for the government, the risk is they can put up their grid and

advance these arguments and put up what they want, but events can

intervene. Migration crisis, if there's a terrorist attack, these

things could affect the outcome of this in a way they can't control.

Sunday express, a different story, Old Bailey live on TV. Which bits of

a case would be shown? This is going to be a pilot scheme. The government

has a clear intention, this is the lower action of travel they want to

go in, the Ministry of Justice will lay a proposal on Monday to make

this pilot scheme a reality. They will film the sentencing statement

the judges make. They're doing it in eight courts across the country and

the Old Bailey is one of them, which is significant, because the Old

Bailey normally gets the most prolific offenders and high profile

murder cases we ever see. I must stress it's a pilot, although there

is Presidents, because they've started to film in the court of

appeal. Britain is usually a way behind other countries. We've seen

other trials across other countries before with Oscar Pistorius in South

Africa and OJ Simpson in America, Amanda Knox. How much appetite is

there for this? I wonder how much appetite there is for looking at the

sentencing. The danger is unless you get the Monty Python singing judge

or something like that it could be rather jump. Most broadcasters for

big murder trials would carry that footage. The interesting thing is to

see if it expands further and we could get into celebrity barristers

strutting their stuff. Anyone who has watched Making A Murderer has

seen there's an appetite for true crime on the television, let's see

if it takes off. We shall. Finally, lights for the Independent on

Sunday. Here's the last print edition it says of this newspaper,

but the news never stops, we've got used to these very striking front

pages the Independent on Sunday. This is the picture here because it

is Earth hour across the world. Very sad. Those of us who work in print

don't like to see any publication close, especially not one which is

as interesting and different as the Independent on Sunday, which has a

lot of fine journalists working with it. I'm baffled by the picture to be

honest, it doesn't immediately scream Independent. That is their

offices. Especially when they've got an interview with the Prime

Minister, which I'm quite jealous of. They are talking about optimism

for climate change and lights out. A sad day but we will still feature

them on the BBC. We will let you go home and go to sleep before you

become completely catatonic. Thanks for joining us, it's been a very

interesting evening. Coming up next it's time for The Film