04/10/2016 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

With me are the former Labour political advisor,

Ayesha Hazarika, and Neil Midgley, media commentator at

We are going to be gained with a reminder of the breaking news which

makes it onto the front of one of the pages tomorrow morning, the

resignation of Diane James, the MEP elected 18 days ago to lead the

party, Ukip. That is the head in the Times. Ukip leader quitting after

three weeks. Full marks for getting it on this quickly. Great scoop by

Lucy Fisher in terms of getting the scoop. This story is extraordinary

and I don't think we'll get to the bottom of it for some time. A report

said she felt shaken after being spat on on a train on the way to

Cardiff but I think there is more to it. The key line in the resignation

is that she does not have the sufficient authority nor support of

her colleagues and party, indicating that there were rules she wanted to

change, questions she was asking about finances so I think it allude

to something much murkier going on. And rats fighting in a very small

sac. There is a question about whether Ukip still has a role in the

post-referendum Britain, what do they stand for, what do they want,

what is their pitch to the electorate? Nigel Farage has been

the leader at least twice. They want him to come back! Technically he may

still be the leader because she has said she has not formally become the

leader. For ever Farage! Steven Woolfe, who was the Ukip the hope

against the Labour Party in the North, there is some weirdness about

him not getting his papers in on time. I don't think it was 18

minutes. It is like Stranger Things, these strange things happening in

Ukip. One difficulty happening with Ukip, the Times has done it and now

the Daily Telegraph. Presume the others will be dependent.

Interesting that Diane James Haskell in her statement to the Times -- has

given her statement. And it is on the day of Theresa May's big speech

at the Tory party conference. Getting the news before 9pm, when

the paper goes to bed. It sets the agenda. The Daily Mail is doing its

bit tomorrow, Ayesha, with its very bold image, Theresa May savaging

leave the liberal -- savaging the liberal elite. We are all liberal!

What is really interesting is that I think that Theresa May's speech is

not going to have many nuggets of policy, it looks like they have

briefed out the interesting policy things, the timing of Article 50,

the thing about overseas doctors and immigration. The key message they

want to get to the country is a big patriotic message, a big appeal.

Ironically I think it is to the Ukip voters and those who voted for

Brexit, saying that we've heard you, we get what you are saying and we

are on your side. It is more about tone. We have Eneko on the front of

the Daily Express, the message that they won't grovel to Brussels. -- we

have an echo. According to the press Association, Liam Fox this evening

was casting doubt on the quality of the CVs of the trade negotiators who

may be a part of the British team. It would be a strange interview

where the interviewer says, would you grovel to Brussels and Theresa

May would say, just a bit. Of course she has to talk tough and Theresa

May personally has played a very strong tactical game, staying

relatively neutral during the referendum campaign itself so now

she can pretend to be all things to all men and women. Particularly to

disenfranchised Labour voters. The stark thing that stood out to meet

at the Labour conference was that the Labour Party has no answer to

the many millions of natural Labour supporters who want curbs on

immigration. The Labour Party just isn't speaking to that and Theresa

May comes from relatively modest background herself, she is able to

say once again, as Margaret Thatcher did in the 80s: we are the parties

of the aspirational working-class -- the party. Picking up on what Niall

said, looking at the front of the Guardian, Theresa May calling on the

Tories to seize the centre ground. Papers will take the editorial line.

You briefed the papers to things that may appeal to their readers.

People will feel that her initial big picture on the steps of Downing

Street was very much that they are going to rules from the centre,

almost like an Ed Miliband speech, like one government, but I think the

reality will be different. I think Neill is right, they need a

political and strategic decision to go after the northern heartlands

where they will try to settle. They know that Labour is soft in those

areas because of the Brexit vote and immigration issues. Difficult for

Labour to navigate through the Freedom of movement stuff. Diane

James and Ukip couldn't come at a better time for Theresa May. Her

policies, grammar schools, immigration, that is catnip to that

kind of right wing, people who are interested. She's saying to Ukip

voters, come back to the Conservative Party. This talk of the

centre ground is for the birds. Right! Fact! Not closing the deficit

by the end of the Parliament, the people who care about that.

Extraordinary because for years the Labour Party have been said that

their policy of borrowing more to invest was irresponsible but now

that rule has been ripped up. There is that think that in government you

can fairly shamelessly pick from what the other parties have and you

don't get access match -- you don't get too much flak. This fund from

and am -- announced from Amber Rudd today. The living wage. Diane James

said in her first conference speech, she called Theresa May magpie May

because she was collecting policies and the grammar school policy was a

Ukip policy. One thing in the Guardian piece, Theresa May

attacking the Labour Party saying that they have not just been divided

as a party, they have divided the country. I have issue with that,

Labour is very divided. At least Ukip have made us look better but I

don't think anybody would say that the Labour Party policies are

defined in the country. Grammar schools are very divisive. Hardline

talk on immigration, doctors going back, that is pretty divisive stuff

and she will have a big row with Scotland over Brexit. The big idea

that... I think she will be far more divisive. If Jeremy Corbyn and the

Labour Party had done the right kind of job with their supporters in the

referendum vote, we would have had a Remain vote and the country would

now be united in membership of the European Union, that is the

divisiveness of the Labour Party, internal fighting, not doing what it

needs to do with the big issues in the country. The Labour Party is

definitely divided. Nothing was more divisive than the referendum result

and it is your guide's fault. -- your guy. The Guardian look like

they have some fashion advice for if the Prime Minister gets into tough

negotiations with the EU. And some advice from Kim Kardashian and Kanye

West, apparently hiring doubles. Going to the Metro, bumpy Brexit

ahead, a slightly different take on her words. Yes and in particular on

Philip Hammond's words. Good cop bad cop I think, Philip Hammond is

saying as Chancellor, you know, it is looking bleak and it will be a

roller-coaster and it may look all right at the moment but choppy

economic waters ahead and then Boadicea Theresa comes along in her

chariot and says we are patriotic, tough, the party of the working

classes the same as everybody else. Clearly it is going to be bumpy

ahead. There's one sentence that sooner or later must come out of a

Conservative's mouth, either we want to stay in the single market or we

don't. That will be the decisive point that will decide how bumpy it

gets stuck last word. The Chancellor Philip Hammond summed it up when he

said that nobody voted to get poorer when they made the decision, time

will tell. The IMF have said that they were possibly overly

pessimistic but they are still worried about the future. Ending on

a download! Thank you for joining us. -- down note. A reminder of the

breaking news about Diane James's decision to quit as Ukip leader

after 18 days because she says she does not have the authority to make

the changes she needs. Still a relatively quiet and

tranquil scene over the UK over the next few days in stark contrast to

the devastation brought by