14/10/2016 The Papers

With me are Oliver Wright, Policy Editor at The Times

and Kevin Schofield, who's Editor of the

For the second day in a row the Times leads

with an investigation into the circumstances

of Dame Lowell Goddard leaving the independent inquiry

Dame Goddard has strenuously denied allegations of misconduct and racism

The Daily Mail devotes its front page to the news that footballer

Ched Evans has been cleared of rape by a jury.

The Guardian goes with the same story, as well as a report

that the NHS will not be receiving any extra funding in next

The Express also features Ched Evans, but focuses

on the issues surrounding Britain leaving the European Union.

The Financial Times also leads with a Brexit story,

reporting that car manufacturer Nissan has received assurances

from the Prime Minister that it's trading status will not be affected.

The Telegraph reports that the metropolitan police

are withholding the full publication of a report into their handling

And the Mirror's front page is dedicated to the actress

Jean Alexander, who has died at the age of 90.

Let's start with the Telegraph. Falling from a comment Mark Carney

has made about the effect of the value of the powerful and will have

on inflation and prices. The Telegraph says don't give me orders

Carney warns Nei. This is the Bank of England reminding the Prime

Minister that they are independent and they don't want to be interfered

with by the government. The independence of the Bank of England

is something Labour brought in after the 1997 election. This is Mark

Carney, the governor, flexing his muscles. He was appointed by George

Osborne and was a close ally of George Osborne and was in favour of

reunion in the EU referendum. He is basically reacting to comments about

the Tory conference speech in which the reason they questioned lower

interest rates and quantitive easing and said we will change that. He is

firing warning shots he sent back off, we are independent and we will

not take any direction from politicians. He set up the system

but you have to let us make it work. It was thought to be a good thing.

It would no longer have to... You can separate out politics and

finance and by giving them. It was a good idea but it didn't go to happen

when things start going wrong. This is interesting because the

relationship between Osborne and Mark Carney was extraordinarily

close, but clearly the relationship between Hammond and Carney and the

relationship between Theresa May and Carney is not the same. He is making

it very clear that I am not going to allow you to push me around.

Circumstances may have changed, Brexit is a huge political issue, I

will deal with this as I want and if not, there is always Canada. He has

quite a bit longer left on his contract. It was shorter than most.

He made it clear it should be shorter than most. He is enormously

respected but just in Canada where this country, but around the world.

He would not have a shortage of job offers and this is a side shot

across the aisle saying either let me do this job properly or find

someone else. He is already a hate figure as far as Eurosceptic Tories

are concerned. They will be worried about this. They will be saying this

is another example of Mark Carney overstepping the mark and he should

mind his neck in. There are things the right can do to help the

economy, there are things the government can do. You have got to

assume that the premised and the governor will both have the best

interests of the country at heart, don't you? They might have different

ideas of how to get those best interests. One topic you is

quantitive easing which is complicated, but the conference

speech they signalled quantitative easing is one of those things that

is hurting people, hurting savers in particular because there are low

interest rates. He would say this medicine is necessary because there

will be problems in the broader economy otherwise. May is saying she

doesn't like that very much. The question is, he has the whip hand in

that relationship? I would love to know what George Osborne thinks.

Glad he isn't having to deal with that. We should keep an eye on his

Twitter account. Let's move on to the Financial Times. Theresa May

assures Nissan its UK plant will be shielded from Brexit followed. This

is going to be music to the ears of Nissan, but other companies will

want this. This is the first big problem and test for the government.

Nissan have an investment decision coming up which they said they will

make this year. It is about whether to produce the new car model and

where to do it. They have factories in France, Spain and they have a

factory in Sunderland. Before Brexit, everyone assumed it would go

to Sunderland. It is the most efficient Nissan factory in Europe.

It was producing the previous model and it was a foregone conclusion.

Brexit changes the game on that. Nissan very specifically went to the

government and said if you want is to build this in Sunderland, we need

guarantees. If you are Theresa May and you have Nissan coming to you,

thousands of jobs in Sunderland am a huge symbol that Brexit is going

wrong, you will take them seriously. The Chief Executive of Nissan had a

meeting in Downing Street and Theresa May has pretty explicitly

said we will guarantee that nothing goes wrong. That could bring

government subsidies. The subheading is that the rules will not change.

How can she get that assurance when we don't know what the terms of

Brexit will be? She is airing on the side of caution. For optimism. They

are terrified at the first big economic reaction to the Brexit food

will be the closure of a plan with the decision not to invest further

in a planned, lots of jobs at stake here and if there are massive job

losses as a direct result of Brexit. It is all well think that

Conservative conference, talking about hard Brexit, but when it comes

down to brass tacks like this, she might be a little bit softer than

she would like to make out. If one business seems to get an

advantageous deal out of this, other companies will want the same. It is

an acknowledgement from the government that Brexit will cause

significant wobbles in the economy. I feel like I say this every time

when something about Brexit comes up, how can anyone say what the

shape of it is going to be one we are only at the beginning? It is not

just up to what Britain wants. The point about this deal is the

government is saying on the quiet, even if Brexit goes wrong, we will

subsidise you. Even if Europe puts on tariffs on Nissan cars, we will

make sure that you don't lose out as a result. The form of words is we

will make sure you are protected, but they are not saying we know what

the outcome of the deal is, they are sent if you put in the investment,

we will make sure you don't lose out. That is extraordinarily

significant and other manufacturers will want similar guarantees. There

will be other industries that are affected that will want similar

protection. Of course there will. This is a big precedent being set by

the government and there is no reason why other industries will not

set hang on, if Nissan kept this, we should get something. Someone said

the other day that we haven't had so much access to government for a very

long time, people wanting to be nice to us, wanting to reassure us. That

is one consequence of Brexit. The government is far more aware of the

whip and that business has because what might have been on the business

pages is going to the front of the paper I went as political

ramifications which they wouldn't have had in the past. We will move

on to the times. Here we have another story about the Lowell

Goddard who was the former chair of the sex abuse enquiry. The Home

Office knew about fears over abuse judge. She did quit over

allegations. I will, to what she has said in her defence in a moment but

tell us what this is about. This is a significant clinical story because

you have the Home Secretary and the permanent Secretary, the most senior

civil servant, going before the House of Commons and speaking to the

Home Affairs Select Committee about why the Lowell Goddard quit and they

said she quit because she was homesick and she wanted to go back

to New Zealand. We ran a story yesterday with allegations about

what her behaviour had been like. Now we have the statement from the

Home Office saying they were aware of these concerns at the time at

which Amber Rudd and the permanent secretary gives evidence. Why didn't

they tell the committee then? There is a paragraph here about what the

Home Office has actually said about what he knew. They said on July 29,

did it is important, the Home Office was made aware of concerns about the

professionalism and competence of Justice Gothard. They basically said

that the decision was taken not to inform the Home Secretary. It was an

enquiry matter as opposed to a government matter. This raises

different questions. The previous secretary was Theresa May who is now

promised. What did she know? The spokesperson for the Prime Minister

was asked this this morning. She just would not be drawn on it at

all. She wanted to shut it down. There is a possibility the pro

Minister may have known about this. He just wonder, when you give

evidence to Parliamentary committees, you cannot mislead

Parliamentary committees, especially not if you are a cabinet minister.

For Amber Road to say this was categorically the reason, that she

was homesick, now we know that wasn't the case. We had heard

things. The other thing is that Theresa May had this reputation of

being all over every bit of detail. I spoke to a former minister who

said it was inconceivable that if there were rumours going around the

committee that Theresa May didn't know about them. Over the coming

days there will be more pressure to find out what Theresa May knew and

when she and why people want more open and honest about it. That is

reiterate what the Lowell Goddard has said. She has strongly denied

all the albums of the story run by the Times today, that is Friday and

that includes any allegations about her conduct. That is the Lowell

Goddard APPLAUSE Statement.

We will stick with the enquiry because it is on page four of the

times. The enquiry will be cut back to say that. It will be scaled back

to keep it on track. The leak QC amongst others had said, some time

ago, they were concerned about what the enquiry was trying to achieve in

its scope. Ten years is the estimate of how long this will take. They

have compiled millions of documents, pages of documents and haven't taken

a single piece of evidence from any witnesses. There is a real danger

that it will run out of control and we will be here in a long time and

there will be no outcome and in the meantime millions of pounds of

taxpayer money is being spent. You can understand why the government

will want this to be tightened and made shorter so we can get to the

bottom as quickly as possible. The victims are desperate to know what

has been happening. What is the ultimate aim is what you have to

ask. People say they want closure, they want to understand why it

happened. If you have an enquiry of such scope, the answer is will be

different depending on what you are looking at. If you merge this

something together into a great morass of separate and different

things, there is a dangerous that your ultimate outcome is less

satisfactory than if you looked at specifics. Is it clear what will

have to go? The problem they have is having set up the enquiry, any

attempt to reduce its skill is likely to face huge controversy from

certain interests. Some people will say it is a whitewash. Let's go back

to the Telegraph. Scottish Nationalist MPs to reject the code

requiring an act in UK interests. This might scupper the idea of

another vote on independence. It is Groundhog Day in Scotland. We are

back to talking about the constitution. Now, it is a really

good story, an interesting story. There is a new code of conduct that

MPs have to say they will act, they have a duty to act in the interests

of the United Kingdom as a whole which is a different wording. The

previous wording referred to the nation. The SNP, whose raison d' tre

is to break up the United Kingdom, their MPs will say we are not keen

on standing up for the interests of the United Kingdom because we want

to see the end of the United Kingdom. They are saying it needs to

be changed or they won't sign up to it. What is the sanction if you

don't? I don't know. It will make matters of SNP MPs. Tommy Sheppard

is saying they will try to change it. Tommy Sheppard only joined the

SNP in the days after the referendum. It was a senior official

in the Scottish Labour Party not so long ago. He was assistant general

secretary. He switched sides, became a nationalist, joined the SNP and

ran to be deputy leader. He was defeated by Angus Robertson. He is

one of the new breed of SNP MPs, quite militant. He says up with this

we shall not put. They are a force. They only has a majority of 12, so

the SNP have some clout. Go back to the FT. Defeat to Uzbekistan leaves

Chinese clone of World Cup glory a long shot. The Chinese football team

has not been doing well. They lost to Syria as well. I like the line

that they are saying they will do something we are good at and one of

the Chinese tabloid papers are saying they should abandon the

beautiful game and go back to playing ping-pong. It is a great

story. A surprise and story for the FT to have on their front page.

Because the president is a massive football fan, there is a lot of

money in the Chinese football league. They are bringing in a lot

of foreigners. They are saying the Chinese players, they don't know

what to do almost because they are so used to play with foreigners,

highly paid and talented foreigners. Remind you of anyone? I am not in a

position to comment. Is the argument then to not allow so many foreign

players to play in their teens and bring on the home support? We have

heard that before. When are they supposed to be holding the World

Cup, 2018? That was the hope. They hoped to not only host the World Cup

but to qualify... I don't follow it closely. They hope to qualify and

hope to host the World Cup and eventually win it. As I say, there

is as much chance of Scotland winning it. The president has

decreed China will have 20,000 training centres and 70,000 pages in

place by 2020. That would help. You would imagine Silbert can you buy

your way to success in football? Yes, you can't, can't you? It would

take a long time. If they do that they will enjoy the fruit 20 or 30

years down the line. He instant success because he is spending this

money. There is all this stuff at the Olympics which the Chinese want

happy with. They came third to the UK which didn't go down particularly

well. Shall we just look at this. To make us all feel better, look at

those seven piglets. The web is most domesticated breed in the world.

They are very sweet. I feel better just looking at the picture. I

thought you would as well. That is if The Papers tonight. Don't forget,

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you both very much. Coming up next, the weather.

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