15/10/2016 The Papers

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

With me are Tony Evans, sports columnist for

the London Evening Standard and Caroline Wheeler,

political editor of the Sunday Express.

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with

The Sunday Telegraph leads on disquiet among military chiefs

at a secret criminal investigation into British troops accused

of mistreating two Iraqis - themselves believed to be

responsible for murdering two British soldiers 13 years ago.

The Sunday Times publishes a hitherto unseen article written

by Boris Johnson on why the UK should remain in the EU -

the paper says it was written two days before the now

Foreign Secretary came out in favour of Brexit.

The Observer splashes on criticism of the prime minister's so-called

obsession with grammars by the head OFSTED.

The Express warns that thousands of chemists will close if spending

cuts due to be announced this week go ahead.

The Mail on Sunday gives its front page over to the SAS soldier who's

facing murder charges after admitting shooting dead two

or three fatally wounded Iraqis during combat.

We must not confuse Sunday versions and weekday versions. They are very

different. We will start with the Sunday Times. Boris and his case for

the UK to stay in Europe. What is going on? He wrote two versions of

the peace. Obviously. He decided at the last moment which when he uses.

According to this what he did was he wrote the remaining piece to clear

his mind and put the counterarguments and make sure that

he was on the right path. We believe him, millions would not. It is a

friend of ours, a friend of the programme, Tim Shipman, it is his

new book called all-out war. He must be so happy you have plugged it. It

is his new book which is out just in time for Christmas. He should pay me

for this. Embarrassingly for Boris Johnson the book says that the

unpublished argument rehearsed warnings that Brexit could lead to

an economic shock, Russian aggression and Scottish

independence. That was written to make days before he came out in

support of Brexit on February 19. This piece seems very kind to Boris.

It also mentions further on that he did not do it, back Brexit, because

he wanted to be Prime Minister. He was warned by his campaign manager

that if it did come out for Brexit then he would be put in with the

cast of clowns, people like George Galloway and Nigel Farage. He

thought it would damage his chance of becoming Prime Minister. I have

no extra sympathy for Boris Johnson except for one lion where he says he

wanted to punch Michael Gove. We do not condone that sort of behaviour

here. Prescription for disaster says the Sunday express. This is

Caroline's pet is. Next week we understand there is going to be an

announcement by the government that they will unveil spending cuts for

chemists which could result in up to a quarter of them closing. As

parents, for example, a chemist on your high street is an extremely

valuable asset. There has been research done to suggest that people

think a chemist is one of the most valuable assets on the high street.

I think we have all been in that situation where we have an ill child

who has a developing cloth or a temperature and we need to get

advice. There are suggestions that the community run ones on the high

street are going to come a cropper and are going to close down. We have

been running a campaign saying that this is not on. It is not a great

deal of money and government turns and they should reverse it. People

do value services like this. We do but not the Conservative Party

because it is part of an ideological attack on the health service. Cuts

have to come from somewhere? There are lots of places where you can

trim budgets without affecting the health service. They would like to

push us towards an eye direction of an insurance based healthcare

system. I get that from their thoughts and actions. They don't

make us do that. They will. A big argument is that many of us use our

pharmacies instead of our GPs and that keeping pharmacies open is

cheaper than hiring more GPs. There is a lot to get through today. The

Sunday Telegraph. Are we outraged at the betrayal of up Iraq war troops.

This goes back 13 years. Two British soldiers were murdered, the two men

suspected of that have complained of ill treatment at the hands of

British soldiers. The only possible betrayal in this has taken 13 years

because these two Iraqis were accused of murdering British troops.

But the full force of the law. But British soldiers were accused of

maltreatment. And if they did they also deserve the full weight of the

law because it's not mistreat prisoners or suspects. One of the

taken so long? It has been a secret investigation? This is being

investigated thousands, thousands of these caves there are so many that

it has taken this long to get through. That is a scandal. But the

scandal is also about the large amounts of money the lawyers have

been earning pursuing these cases against people doing their work in

the line of duty. He sang back, however, I am not saying that they

should not be investigated because if there are allegations were cannot

call for a moratorium on it. The other military story. The despicable

betrayal of an SAS hero. He has been facing eight murder charge for

possibly shooting three Iraqis who were mortally wounded. Again, a

similar article to the Sunday Telegraph except this time it is an

SAS this is a hero. What they are describing is that this officer was

involved in mercy killings, the suggestion being that the Iraqis

were mortally wounded. I think it is an alarming allegation at any case.

It is insidious and the fact is to call him a hero, what gives him the

right on the battlefield to make decisions that these people were

mortally wounded. It is a confusing place. It may be confusing and

morality might go out the window if he has done this it is wrong and it

is against the Geneva Convention and it needs to be investigated. And if

he has killed people... Again, it has taken 13 years and that is what

it comes back to over and over again. The length of time it has

taken. The new do something atrocious not it is not fun for

anybody. Especially this case which is about telling people it should

have come to a head much earlier. The Observer. The chief of OFSTED

same zip session of Theresa May with grammar schools. In a Michael thinks

they are divisive and the focus should be on other types of

education. All the research, everyone in education suggests that

grammar schools are actually, they do not help social mobility. They

don't improve education. It seems a throwback to the days of the 1950s

and the image of Britain as a grammar school, cricket and you stop

what he is saying that it should not be about grammar schools and whether

you think they are good or bad. We are meant to be focusing on our

vocational education. But from having spoken to just been grinning

recently, that is exactly what she's doing. She is not saying grammar at

the expense of anything else she sang a grammar for some children who

are progressing in an academic level but for other children who want a

vocational qualification they will focus on those in terms of growing

homegrown skills. It is decisive, however because you end up with two

levels and grammar schools will always be seen as the better of the

two. That is exactly why we should not return to that. We have come

from technical schools, grammars and secondary modern. Your focus on

vocational skills, but it wasn't. You are here, you got here. From

very different ways no doubt. Corbyn accused of creating a safe space for

anti-Semites. Across group have looked at what is going on inside

the Labour Party. The Select Committee has been looking into this

issue of anti-Semitism and they have singled out the Labour Party for

serious criticism, suggesting they have become not only a safe space

but also institutionally anti-Semitic. Two important points

here. One is that this is cross-party. It had three Labour MPs

on it. The claim that Corbyn is making that it is politicising the

issue and is anti- labour falls down in the face of the fact that Labour

MPs backed the findings and have served on the committee. The other

thing that clearly comes out of this is that the Labour Party had its own

enquiry into anti-Semitism led by a member and this report went further

than that review. This suggestion is that the leadership is inconsistent.

One of the things we have seen through Jeremy Corbyn's hole period

as leader is that there has not been enough strong leadership and has not

been enough direction for the Labour Party. If things are allowed to

drift they will get worse and the comeback to say it is... We should

leave it, given that it is a cross-party committee it does seem a

bit weak. We still have the Independent. A picture of the women

of Donald Trump supporting him as he goes onstage at another campaign

rally. Standing by their man. After all he has said about women. Facets

of Dolly Parton! There is a whole section of disenfranchised American

society who will support Donald Trump. That was Tammy Wynette. Stand

by your man. It was, it was. There is a whole section and some of them,

there is a whole section of American society that no matter what Donald

Trump does they will vote for him. They are so out of sync with

mainstream American politics. It is also to do with the fact that there

are two generally quite unpopular candidates here. The very strange

thing is that he is standing against a female who could be the first

female President of America and the sisterhood has not got back behind

her whatsoever. And, actually, they run the risk of not knowing what is

going to happen in a couple weeks time because ultimately it could be

elected. Sometimes it is hard to be a woman. In the Observer, Nicola

Sturgeon... At least, I find it is. Nicholas Sturgeon, starting pledges

for a new independence vote to save Scotland from high Brexit. She has

been saying the same thing consistently now ever since the

referendum on June 20 three. Basically she is trained to make

overtures all the time to suggest that Scotland, who voted 66% to

remain should be given a vote in terms of independence so we can then

go it alone to make its own deal with the European Union. The problem

is that the European Union has consistently said that they don't

think so. Donald has refused to meet her. France and Germany has said

that they will deal with the UK only. I don't know what she will get

out of this ultimately. After all, she is talking to an audience that

very much wanted to stay in the EU. If we are in for? Given that the

commitments and the level of the referendum was that unless this

situation changed materially, I think there is a lot of to-ing and

fro-ing in horse trading. I think it would be one of the great ironies of

history if the Brexit broke up the union. That would be very funny.

Northern Ireland will not want waters with the South. Other people

may not share your sense of humour, Tony. That is it for the papers.

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