06/10/2016 The Papers

Rowena Mason, Deputy political editor of the Guardian. Thank you

for coming in. The front pages: Most of them have this lead story about

Steven Woolfe. Images released by ITV News, which show the Ukip

leadership collapsed after an altercation with another MEP. That

is featured on the Metro. The i Also has this as their top story.

Scotland Yard has been caught up in a corruption scandal, according to

the Daily Telegraph. Cliff Richard is leading legal action against the

BBC and the police after being named in a child sex enquiry, in the Daily

Mirror. The Daily Express looks ahead to the Autumn Statement which

he says will contain measures to help struggling families. The Times

says gambling companies face a crackdown on TV advertising during

the daytime. Let's begin... That story about Steven Woolfe, one of

the Ukip leadership contenders, and how it has featured on the times.

This is the photo from ITV News. A lot of papers have it on their front

page. A dramatic blow to the Ukip reputation. There is a certain

unease about whether this picture should be used at all, but the

papers have gone with it. We had some discussion, as well, to a

certain extent all of us have been desensitised to some of these

images. What is and isn't in good taste. This is probably veering

towards not in good taste coming yet we have it over all of the front

pages. That happens in a public space, so it is up for grabs. Yes. I

feel slightly sorry for Steven Woolfe who has had this terrible

health scare. He seems to be OK now. He is sitting up and smiling. But he

is now pictured spread-eagled on the floor. Bit rough on him. It is. But

the headliners dramatic blow to Ukip's reputation, do you think that

is true? -- the headline is. They will now have an enquiry into

exactly what happened in this altercation. It has taken place

between Steven Woolfe and another MEP. Mike Hookem's spokesperson said

he did not touch Steven Woolfe. There are different versions on what

has happened. Ukip will look into what happened, according to Nigel

Farage, who was once again Ukip leader, and there is the possibility

there could be some kind of disciplinary action, or suspension

against one or both of them. And we have a leadership competition coming

up for Ukip again because Diane James stood down after just 18 days

in the job. This is one of those things where, you know, if Ukip was

a conventional political party, some have suggested that it is a

different kind of political party where the one-time leader steps down

after 18 days, the long-time leader steps back in, the favourite to

replace her has now been caught up in some kind of altercation. How do

you predict what will happen next? I have no idea. There are also reports

that Steven Woolfe was thinking about leaving Ukip. That's correct.

We ran a story yesterday saying that Steven Woolfe had been in talks with

the Conservative Party until quite recently about defecting. He then

admitted he had been seriously thinking about it. He claims this

happened before he learned that Diane James was going to stand down

as Ukip leader. Very conveniently for him it meant that having decided

Ukip was his future he was then able to announce he was going to run for

the leadership again. But it's caused a lot of tension within Ukip.

He has a lot of support from the grassroots activists and from people

like the major donor for Ukip, Aaron Banks, but other people within the

party think it is unacceptable that he was on the verge of jumping ship

to another political party. Some senior Tory figures did believe he

was going to come over to their side. We will find more about that

when the enquiry is over. Now, the Labour Party reshuffle. Why do you

having stayed on as leader of the having stayed on as leader of the

Labour Party? -- Jeremy Corbyn. I think he wants to make sure the team

around him will be loyal to him. That looks like what this reshuffle

is aiming to achieve. There is an appointment of some key allies to

senior posts. Diane Abbott becoming the Shadow Home Secretary. Keeping

Emily Thornberry in her job as Shadow Foreign Secretary. The other

interesting one is Chakrabarti, who led the enquiry into anti-Semitism

within the Labour Party. He is surrounded himself with people who

are of the same politics. And another interesting move which I

think as just come in quite recently in the last 30 minutes is that he

has moved Clive Lewis from the role of Shadow Defence Secretary into a

new role as Shadow Business Secretary and replaced him with a

pro-trident MP. That is another move to shift the Shadow Cabinet so it

aligns more closely with his views. Jeremy Corbyn is anti-Trident. Clive

Lewis, while being sceptical of Trident, he said he thought Labour

should park the issue. At the conference all of the talk was about

we need to have unity. This reshuffle will give us an indication

the Parliamentary Labour Party, or the Parliamentary Labour Party, or

the grassroots, won't it? Those are some excellent points. The

difficulty now is how does Labour battle between unity and loyalty.

These are two different concepts now. Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party

now, given the people who have been sacked, what is the party going to

look like? How do you unify what was previously a disparate group of MPs,

most of whom did not want him as leader. What does he do now? How

does he unify the party? I suppose a lot of MPs were waiting to see

whether there would be the whether there would be the

opportunity to vote on who sat in the Cabinet. Some of these posts

have already been handed out. Is that a possibility for some of the

other Shadow Cabinet? There was as recently as a few days ago a plan to

actually talk about this idea of Shadow Cabinet elections. I think

allies of Jeremy Corbyn say that there could be this opportunity for

Shadow Cabinet elections down the line. But when it gets to that point

it'll be difficult to remove some of those people from their current

posts who have been loyal to the needy, and who Jeremy Corbyn likes,

and had not given him a hard time in those roles. There are other

questions about which roles in the Shadow Cabinet would you make an

elected, and how many would you make elected, and the Worcester shadow

ministers believe that you suddenly told, you out of a job. -- and most

of the shadow ministers who you suddenly told you are out of a job.

Theresa May had to have a hard line on immigration for her party but it

hasn't gone down well among other European leaders. Angela Merkel was

also speaking to a domestic constituency. We will get to the

point soon by these national leaders will be talking to each other. And

these negotiations are not going to be easy by all indications are two

years in which the first few months years in which the first few months

where there will be a French national election campaign, a German

national election campaign. The idea this will be two years and we are

done, I think a lot of these countries have particular things

they want out of these negotiations. And we are talking about 28

countries. This will not be easy. Domestically, conservative

politicians can talk about anything they like, say what they want, but

it is all to be played for in negotiations, isn't it? That's

right. Often politicians are talking right. Often politicians are talking

in a domestic context and they might forget how their comments will be

received overseas. It looks like the French Housing Minister has had a

pop about the Home Secretary's proposal to ask companies to say how

much their workforce were international workers. It seems

like... There is a lot of leaders playing to their own audiences at

home. Theresa May is going to come home. Theresa May is going to come

up against this in her negotiations in the months to come. One other

interesting thing to note is that it seems to be... Angela Merkel's tone

seems to have shifted since Theresa May one became leader. That press

conference they gave jointly in Berlin, Angela Merkel was saying I

am in listening mode, come to us with a proposal, we will see what

happens, but as it has become clearer that Theresa May is moving

towards the rhetoric of hard Brexit, that seems to have annoyed people

over the continent. The Daily Express, savers to get boost at

last. Tory plan will help millions of hard-working families. We know

the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has said it is up to

the government, but how does the government do that when the Bank of

England is in charge of interest rates? It is a difficult thing.

There are some things the government can do by making saving more

attractive. Savers have lost out big time in the last few years. There is

no prospect of interest rates rising. Anything the government can

do to make saving more tax efficient. In the mould of the ice,

when it was created, when it was that idea of encouraging people to

save. -- in the mould of the ISA. The government can still do things

to incentivise regular people to put money in their saving accounts. The

pensions expert now sit in the House of Lords and she is suggesting

something which would be appealing, but how do you do it? A 4% national

savings bond. People would jump at the chance to get 4% in returns at

the moment. It seems like a natural thing for Theresa May to do given

the kind of politics she's been talking about in her party

conference speech. Wanting to help savers. Many of those people will be

traditional Tory voters, maybe older who have seen the value of their

savings and their pensions decline. The other side of that is that their

out of people in the UK just managing, struggling people, who

don't even have the money to put into savings, and it won't do much

for them. The Daily Telegraph, going walkies since before Stonehenge.

Tell us more. This is an intriguing and charming story about prehistoric

travellers who seem to have taken an Alsatian with them on a 215 mile

journey from York to the site of Stonehenge. -- 250 mile. How do they

know? What have they found? They have found a tooth from one of the

earliest domesticated dogs. I have earliest domesticated dogs. I have

never been to Stonehenge. You must. It isn't clear that this journey

happened at one time. I think the dog might have been quite tired at

the end of it. All in one stretch. Perhaps he has spent many years of

his life walking across many parts of the UK. Nice to know Alsatian 's

have been around for such a long time. That is it. Some light relief

amongst some of the political stories we have to deal with. You

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