25/10/2016 The Papers

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it Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be With me are Ben Riley-Smith,

assistant political editor of the Daily Telegraph

and Kate Devlin, Westminster Thank you for joining us. Let us

look at the front-pages first. The I's front page is dominated

by the Conservative cabinet ministers and MPs criticising

the government's decision to make Heathrow its preferred

choice for a new runway. The Metro also leads

with that story, under The Telegraph says Zac Goldsmith's

resignation from the Commons, sparked by the Heathrow decision,

has caused what it calls a "Brexit by-election" with the Liberal

democrats likely to fight it The Express carries a claim

by International Development Secretary Priti Patel that UK

money is being wasted on what the paper calls undeserving

foreign aid projects. The Guardian's obtained what it

claims is a leaked recording of remarks Theresa May made

in a meeting with investment bankers, when she apparently

expressed worries about the economic Don't have your baby out of hours

is the stark warning from the Mail, which says three out of four NHS

labour wards have no consultant The Times leads with Heathrow,

but it also reports that drugs companies that hike

up their prices excessively face huge fines after the UK's

competition watchdog opened up The Sun say Sir Cliff Richard's

lawyers have evidence of texts sent prior to a raid on his home two

years ago, he is suing the force and the BBC.

Well, let us begin, shall we talk about an airport? We better had. It

is the only story round. It S let us start with the front-page of the i,

the big headline Tory rebels let fly on Heathrow, with pictures of Boris

Johnson, Zac Goldsmith and the Education Secretary. I suppose given

that Theresa May has allowed this period of openness, it was entirely

predictable they would come out in opposition, but they have pulled no

punches. They haven't. Downing Street was very keen to emphasise

that you know, there has been 40 years of dithering and it has only

taken them four months to take this decision it has only taken them four

Mondays of Government to rewrite the rules, and give this, you know

extraordinary dispensation to the Foreign Secretary, to the Education

Secretary, to come out and criticise their own Government. It is very

interesting what they have said as well. Boris, being Boris has said a

lot of things about it today, including predicting that London

would be awash with planes. But I am not surprised the i has pulled out

this word. He said it is undeliverable. So we from Foreign

Secretary predicting his own Prime Minister's ?17 billion project is

going to fail. It is like the Brexit campaign all over again. It is. I

was just about to say. One wonders how this genie can be put back in

the bottle eventually, buzz they have this period of Purdah or what

you want to call it, how can they forget these things have been said.

What they will hope is people like Boris and Justine took today to get

their statement out today, whenever they are asked in the future, they

can say I have made my feelings clear, they are there on the record

and point back to them. That is an optimistic view, especially from

Zac, who has resigned, Zac Goldsmith resigned. He is running as an

independent in a by-election. He will hammer the Government on

Heathrow, if he wins, and that will be seen as a victory for the

anti-Heathrow campaign, so that will be another blow. Like you say, we

don't know how long it will be caught up in the court, how long the

consultation period will be, whether it will disappear as a Tory split

issue. There is this strange thing, that the opponent, the political

opponents can make their opposition plain in TV studios but not in the

House of Commons? Yes yes, that was a very key demand that Theresa May

made, she made them request permission from her, to be able to

say these thing, but she told them point blank they wouldn't be able to

say them in the House of Commons. But of course, Zac Goldsmith is not

a member of the Cabinet. He is not being held by these rules, and he,

you know, he gave it both barrels in the House of Commons today. They

managed to kind of get both of these, they also announced they

would give this special dispensation a week ago, presumably in a bid to

head it off, headlines like this, and it doesn't appear to have

worked. Indeed. Let us move on to the telegraph now, with the story

you alluded to, Ben. Your own newspaper of course. Heathrow forces

May into a Brexit Bentaleb shirntion triggered by the resignation of Zac

Goldsmith. What is interesting is that Zac Goldsmith said he wanted

this to be a referendum this by-election to be a referendum on

Heathrow, but how can it be, because the Conservatives won't put a

candidate up against him. And the Lib Dem a candidate is likely to be

anti-Heathrow as well. It turns it into what will become a Brexit

by-election, Because? 71% of people in Zac Goldsmith's constituency

voted to remain, he was a very ardent Brexiteer, the Lib Dems are

the party who have gone out of their way to be as pro-EU as possible,

openly pushing for a second referendum, being accused of not

listening to the British people, but they see an opportunity to represent

the 48%, and pick up key by-elections like this one, you have

Lib Dems and a badly pro-EU party fighting against a former Tory

candidate who was a big Brexiteer, so it is going to be about the EU.

That versus probably Zac's charisma so it will be a fascinating battle.

Is this something the Prime Minister should have for seen or could have

for seen? Zac has never been that quiet in coming forward and

suggesting he might do this. But the fact it might become an anti-Brexit

campaign? I see. I think that is probably something they should have

thought avenlt it is quite difficult -- about. It is quite difficult.

They are stwung way or another. This is smart politics so the

Conservatives cannot lose this by-election, so they can't lose on

Heathrow. And in a loft ways that was probably the most sensible thing

they could do, is just to withdraw themselves from the race.

The other The other thing this does, is it takes what was a very slim

majority for Theresa May this morning, a majority of 12, instantly

makes it a majority of 11, that is very serious problem for her as

well. So what you saw in the Conservative statement, saying they

were going to stand against him was a lot of praise for Zac, so clearly

the hope is when he comes back, that he might, you know, vote with the

Conservatives. That might just be optimistic. You can imagine them...

Theresa May needs every boat she can get. She only has a working vote of

11. A A bad case of flu running rampant and she is stuffed. Let us

look at one more Heathrow story, on the front-page of the Metro, the

headline is air rage, it is about Theresa May's problems in her own

backyard, in her own constituency, and the paper says that she is

potentially guilty of having committed something of a U-turn over

Heathrow. Heathrow. David Cameron got hammer with this, no ifs, no

buts then began to turn round and have this independent commission and

prepare the ground for a U turn on Heathrow. He left office before it

got to that point, but Theresa May backed all similar sentiments, there

were leaflets that have had her saying I will fight to stop the

Heathrow runway. It is perfectly acceptable. But Maidenhead, her own

council is one of four Tory councils that will sue her own Government

over the Heathrow third runway. It is remarkable, that will play out

again, over years, so that is not go to go away. Can I draw your

attention, Kate, to another headline in the Guardian, moving on the a

different story but more problems for Theresa May. This is what the

Guardian claims is an exclusive. A leaked recording revealing what

Theresa May thinks about Brexit. This is from a recording to a speech

she gave to a group of economists at Goldman Sachs in which she was quite

warm about the EU. She was, she was one about what might happen to the

banking industry if we voted for Brexit. What she suggested was that

lots of banks may need to go abroad, and I think this is really

interesting story, because it is interesting to think where these

stories have come from, you are right, it is a taped record, it was

made in May, but at the weekend, we had the shop steward for the bankers

suggest that maybe banks might go abroad after Brexit. And the

industry has been hammered for that for a couple of days. Suddenly, we

find a tape recording suggesting that the Prime Minister is very

sympathetic to their cause and indeed suggested before the vote

that I may need to do this. I think it is an interesting story. You

smell a bit of a set up there, do you sno? Well... Somebody has leaked

it. Somebody has leaked it. It certainly puts bankers in a better

light. The one thing you would say adds secret recordings go that get

leaked, there is no smoking gun in here that will be used to undermine

Theresa May, she is saying there is a good economic argument for staying

in the EU and there is a chance some firms might think again if it is

Brexit. That that was close to her public position. Should we be that

surprised. She was a remainor, perhaps some see over the financial

sector, that this isn't going to damage her massively in the long

run. Let us go back to the Metro, and to the big photograph of, they

have at the top. Jungle ablaze, this is a reference to the fact that the

Jungle camp at Calais is starting to be demolished. With people still

living there. Which ever way you look at it, this particular story in

the demolition of the Jungle, it is not a solution to any sort of

problem, is it? No, and you feel it is only just beginning, because they

are about seven, eight nine thousand refugees at the beginning of the

week, they begun clearing them out. The problem is all those who wanted

to go and were happy to go have left, there is a nub of people,

saying I don't want to go, I want to get to Britain this is the best

place for me to be, that throughout the rest of the week is when it is

going to get trickier, when they will need to foribly remove some of

these people and that is when some of the scenes that have only been on

the periphery could get worse, all the people have been moved, those

asylum claims haven't disappeared, they are in different parts of

France, will they return and try to get into Britain. The refugee crisis

is nowhere near finished by demolishing one camp. Do you think

that in the days to come, we are going to see some difficult scenes

with people who are determined to get to the UK or determined not the

leave, that in a sense, you know, it has been fairly peaceful to now, it

is going to get harder. It has and the approach the French authorities

are taking is, is as Ben says an attempt to try and persuade people,

they are doing it gradually, they are trying to take down buildings,

you know, building by building, bit by bit, rather than going for a kind

of enforced confrontation, the problem they will face is that the

expectation is that hundreds of people will still try to stay by the

end of the week, and then what are they going to do? I am going to

return boat of you to what may feel like ancient history, we have had so

much politics but cast your minds back to the general election

campaign of last year, and the Ed stone which the i is going to have

some fun with. Photo at the bottom. How Ed stone returns to haunt

Labour. How can a disaster happen twice? You thought the Ed stone can

do no more damaged. It has got them a ?20,000 fine from the Electoral

Commission, and I think it cost about seven-and-a-half grand the Ed

stone, that was part of more than ?100,000 that the Labour Party

failed to register properly with the Commission, and today it has been

announced they have been fined 20,00 pounds, they blamed on an admin

error, but it is a second bout of embarrassment. It has been very

expensive. Was so much money ever so ill spent? The problem is Labour

were warned this would be a problem, this isn't actually the first Ed

Stone they tried to do. They tried to do one during the Scottish

independence referendum, it was killed off by a kind of Labour

politicians in Scotland, insisting it would look ridiculous, doing a

mock-up to show how badly it would go down, they managed to kill off

the idea. Nine months before it was resurrected for the Ed Stone. On the

grounds it would look like a tombstone. Which is what it came to

be named after all. There must be some red faces Echeverria more so

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