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cricket, another wicket gone for England, Gary Ballance for five, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
England are 124-3. Now on BBC Sport, it is Gavin with the Papers. | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to the papers. | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
With me are Josie Cox from the Wall Street Journal | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
and the Independent's economics editor, Ben Chu. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
The Observer leads with reaction to the FBI reviewing its investigation | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
into Hillary Clinton's emails, with senior Democrats accusing | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
the bureau's head of compromising its political neutrality. | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
That story's also featured on the front of the Sunday Times, | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
which also claims that Hillary Clinton's lead | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
The Mail on Sunday criticises the BBC for a show | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
which it says is available on the CBBC website. | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
A novel solution for the country's housing crisis | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
is unveiled on the front page of the Sunday Telegraph - | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
it says the Government is to offer help to build | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
While the People carries an interview with the mother | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
of murdered toddler Jamie Bulger, who says she's living in fear | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
Let's begin with what is clearly one of the biggest stories anywhere in | :01:06. | :01:19. | |
the world, Hillary at war with FBI as a lead slumps, that is the Sunday | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
Times' take on that, and the Observer has angry Democrats cry | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
fowl with new probe into Clinton, what you make of this and the timing | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
of it? The timing is very interesting, only ten or 11 days to | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
go until the election, and this is very much in line with what we have | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
seen so far in this campaign, very messy. I cannot run any campaign | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
similar to this one being quite as messy and quite as full of lewd | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
comments and insults being thrown around. This underscores what I have | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
been saying for a while, this will not be about people voting for who | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
they want to be the next president but people voting for who they do | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
not want to be the next president, voting for someone to avoid the | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
other person coming into power. And some people possibly do not want | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
either of them, it has not been, what shall we say, given the | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
standard of American politics over the last 200 years, some of the | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
greatest thinkers, Jefferson and Roosevelt, this has not been a great | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
election. Absolutely, and it hones in on the prospect of this being a | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
lame-duck presidency, because, you know, the polls still predict that | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
Hillary will take the lead on the day. The league is slimming down, | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
but if she does get in, she will no doubt have to battle those trust | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
problems. She has been criticised for being very closed, not very | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
emotional, not being very trustworthy, not being able to be | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
read by the public. That is a very good point, because actually whoever | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
wins is going to face continuing investigations and scandals. We know | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
Donald Trump faces a lawsuit about Trump University, which has | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
allegedly defrauded people, we have heard about allegations of sexual | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
misconduct and other things. And now these e-mails, and we do not even | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
know what is in them. There will be huge damage done by this election, | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
not only the way it has been fought, but the way the whole democratic | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
system has been seen to be much messier and much dirtier than we | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
would like. I think it is really interesting, this latest episode, in | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
the sense that what we have had, the smears based on no evidence at all, | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
the FBI director has not come out with anything that proves | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
anything... Eat hasn't even looked at them. And yet Trump is saying she | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
is corrupt, this is worse than Watergate, and yet somehow it is | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
Hillary who seems to be on the ropes over this episode, when actually the | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
disgrace is that he is trying and finding her guilty based on no | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
evidence whatsoever, which is really in keeping with a lot of the | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
campaign so far. The flavour of both the Observer and the Sunday Times, | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
Hillary at war with the FBI, it does suggest that if she does become | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
president, well, let's put it this way, the head of the FBI might not | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
have a long career in that position, who knows? Because he has done | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
something which is against the advice of the Attorney General, as | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
far as one can establish. Absolutely, and the other thing | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
about this story is that it once again highlights Hillary Clinton's | :04:34. | :04:41. | |
highlights with her close political aide, the separated wife of Anthony | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
Weiner, the disgraced congressman, who was involved in all those | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
horrible sexting scandals. No doubt this is more ambition for Donald | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
Trump's rhetoric. The thing about that, it is not necessarily the fact | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
that matter in politics, it is the fact that, emotionally, there is | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
something funny going on with the Hillary Clinton campaign, that is | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
what many people take out of its - why has she not put all of these | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
allegations to bed? Whether there is any equivalence between what she is | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
accused of and what Donald Trump is accused of is another matter. I | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
think this false equivalence is a very legitimate point, legitimate | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
for the Hillary Clinton campaign and her supporters to bring it up, | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
because as you rightly say, what is the evidence here? It is an FBI | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
director, a former member of the Republican Party, saying, we are | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
investigating, going against all precedent, against the advice of the | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, and then on the Trump side, with the | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
sexual abuse claims, women coming forward to testify, actual evidence | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
for people to base their judgment on. I think Josie is right, a lot of | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
people are weighing it up on emotion, but if they looked at the | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
facts, it is pretty clear which way the balance would come out. A former | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
director, Rudi Giuliani, a very prominent Trump supporter. Now this | :06:10. | :06:19. | |
is interesting, Putin's trueblue Tory friends, it talks of various | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
people, Russia's state funded apparatus of soft power is targeting | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
British politics, it names the director of the Bruges Group group, | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
whose first president was Margaret Thatcher. It talks quite a bit about | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
the Bruges Group, what do you make of that? If you were an MP, or if | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
you were in politics, you would be expected to engage with Putin, | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
wouldn't you? Absolutely, but I cannot think we can denied that it | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
makes for a good story, the way that it is presented, Putin has all these | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
political connotations, he is a very controversial figure, so the | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
headline is how Putin pulls the strings. So that is once again | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
portraying him as this kind of puppet character, which makes for a | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
good image. I think it is hard to make... It is hard to understand how | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
influential this story is actually going to be, how much it really | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
matters. I am not particularly familiar with these figures who are | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
being discussed. Not exactly household names. Exactly, and it is | :07:29. | :07:36. | |
not really clear how these groups would be in general relations | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
between the UK and Russia going forward. I think what is | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
interesting, the background to all this is we have got Nato reinforcing | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, extremely worried about the | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
rumblings in Russia, the big aircraft carrier going through the | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
Straits of Dover, we know what is going on in Syria, Ukraine remains a | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
running sore that will not go away, Russia very sensitive about it. So | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
that seems to be the big picture, that somehow we have got to engage | :08:04. | :08:11. | |
with Russia, but at what level and how? I think that is right, the | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
context is quite interesting, because the Bruges Group, one of | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
these think tanks which is accused of getting too close to the Kremlin, | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
was founded on the back of Margaret Thatcher's very anti-European Bruges | :08:20. | :08:29. | |
speech, and the indication is that this has led them into the arms of | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
the Kremlin, their Euro scepticism. They are so anti-Europe that they | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
Russian allegation that Ukraine started the Rodeo by getting too | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
close to Europe, that forced Russia to get involved, they want to see | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
Europe in the worst possible light. Although Thatcher was this great | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
anti-Communist Prime Minister, they were founded on the back of her | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
hard-line views, they have been led into this... It is difficult to | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
imagine that Margaret Thatcher would approve of going into occupied | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
eastern Ukraine, that would be rather controversial, one would have | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
thought, with anybody, which is the other part of the story. Absolutely, | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
and the nature of the trips that are being funded by Russian officials is | :09:19. | :09:29. | |
also very questionable. There is an extra added dimensions of political | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
controversy in terms of Russian anti-gay policies. I think we're | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
reading that Putin plays a weak hand extremely well! The Sunday | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
Telegraph, hard Brexit will pave the way to trading riches, this is, | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
again, we're about to go into the sunlit uplands of a great trade | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
deal, or alternatively it is all going to be a disaster. What do you | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
think of these stories? They are in every paper all the time. I think it | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
is an interesting time, because clearly there are lots of factors | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
which have provided momentum to the Brexit campaign recently. We had GDP | :10:06. | :10:13. | |
figures out, stronger than expected, and we have had other reports coming | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
out saying that the City of London, the UK is going to thrive under | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
Brexit. And of course we had the Nissan story earlier this week, | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
which was that Nissan had committed to build these two models in its | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
Sunderland plant, securing 7000 jobs, so an endorsement of | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
post-Brexit Britain, I suppose. So this, I think, is playing off that | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
momentum and just creating a sort of prospect of what could be to come. | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
That could be right, or it could be wrong. What basically this is is | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
saying we need to get out of the customs union, this is a pressure | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
group of the hardline Brexit crew, and they want to ginger the | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
Government up to get out of the customs union. They say, if we | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
don't, we can't make these free-trade deals with the rest of | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
the world, like China, South America et cetera, because in the customs | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
union you have to leave that to the EU. They have to get out to do those | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
deals, they have to get out if they want Liam Fox, the international | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
Trade Secretary, to have a meaningful role. This is saying, | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
look at what we can get, but a question over whether they could do | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
those amazing deals. I talked to Vince Cable this week, the former | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
Business Secretary, now he said his assessment of the deal to do with | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
Nissan, the reason they are there is that it implies we will stay within | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
the customs union, because if no money has changed hands, what could | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
be offered to a company like that? Yeah. We don't know, but it is clear | :11:49. | :11:58. | |
that is the way he is thinking. The logic is impeccable, apart from the | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
fact that he me has made it very clear that are red line is | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
preventing free movement, and you will not get that if you leave the | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
customs union, if you leave the single market. So I think his logic | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
is right, but the politics may it unlikely that will happen. The | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
question is, we have various key part of this economy we don't want | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
to lose - car manufacturing, financial services, all things we | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
want to boost, paving the way for trading riches, as the Telegraph | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
puts it. But you cannot keep making deals with individual sectors of the | :12:27. | :12:35. | |
economy, there comes a point WEC advance cannot keep doing that. And | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
you cannot set precedents and have double standards. That is what is so | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
interesting about the Nissan story, because other companies will want a | :12:44. | :12:45. | |
reassurance that their future will be secured. Another interesting | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
story in the Sunday Telegraph, prefabs to solve the housing crisis | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
- I do not know how many post-war prefab still exist, there must be a | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
few, but there were meant to be a temporary solution, and we are | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
talking about building 100,000. I think this is really interesting, | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
prefabs to solve housing crisis. The number they are talking about is | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
100,000, and we were talking about this before we came on. Is 100,000 | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
going to solve a crisis? It might make a bit of a difference, but | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
surely the crisis is so much more widespread and so much more bigger | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
in magnitude. That is a very fair point, the numbers do not stand up, | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
if you talk about solving - it might help. 100,000 over the parliament | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
they are talking about, and we have a 100,000 shortfall every single | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
year, supply relative to demand, so Josie is right, this is not going to | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
solve the housing crisis. The other point is that this is an old policy, | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
it has been announced by Vince Cable and other ministers. They talked | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
about this elution quite a lot. It is not in the gift of the gunmen off | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
to provide this. They are not going to them themselves. -- they talked | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
about this solution quite a lot. It is not in the gift of the government | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
to provide this. It is a more intensive solution to the crisis, it | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
is about ginger ring up the industry to provide these. Of the Government | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
can grease the wheels. As you say, it may be a drop in the bucket. At | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
the end of the story, it says these houses are designed to last for ten | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
years! As we well no, that is usually beyond the length of the | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
government! The Sunday Times, this is a very interesting political Zou | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
Shiming story, ministers row back on disabled benefits curbs. I think it | :14:48. | :14:58. | |
is in keeping with the tenet of Theresa May's approach since she | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
became Prime Minister, trying to take some of the hard edges of what | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
the coalition did on welfare, working families, those were just | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
managing, as she calls them. The reforms were introduced by Labour, | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
hardened up by the Conservatives, getting people on employment support | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
allowance, getting them into the workplace, and Iain Duncan Smith had | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
a reform where he would try to beef up the incentives by getting into | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
work, but also cutting benefits for those who were deemed able to join | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
the workforce. And essentially what they are going to do is keep | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
encouraging people, remove the sanction of cutting benefits, or | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
cutting them back to jobseeker's allowance levels. So it is not | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
completely rowing back, but it is making them less harsh. Sort of | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
kindly, gentler initiative, I assume that is the theme. I think this is | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
about getting rid of the pigeonholing, it was assumed, if you | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
are not in work, you are on benefits. If you are in work, your | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
benefits will be cut, but we all know it is not like that. Different | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
differs abilities require different support levels, and it sounds to me | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
like this is more about a sliding spectrum than a pigeonhole. -- | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
different disabilities. Many of the papers can be summed up by the Mail | :16:21. | :16:29. | |
on Sunday, UK boss of Typhoo warns of the disaster of leaving, | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
humanising what we have talked about, the opposite of the upside of | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
Brexit, the wholesale cost of tea might go up 50%, he is worried about | :16:41. | :16:48. | |
it. We have had Marmitegate, now it is a storm in a teacup - the | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
economics are simple, if prices go up, the prices in the shops will go | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
up. There will be an effect, so people who import products like tea, | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
they do not grow it on the slopes of North Yorkshire or Wigan! But it is | :17:05. | :17:13. | |
an interesting point, Apple have raised the prices of their | :17:14. | :17:15. | |
computers, saying the same things, so this may be the story of the next | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
year. Economic is indeed very simple, it was Marmite last week, | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
tea this week, it could be chocolate, meet or god knows what | :17:26. | :17:35. | |
next week. Tea is attacking us where it hurts! I am afraid I am a bit of | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
an addict, I suspect much of Britain is the same thing. But the other | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
point is that there will be other economic advantages, things will | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
settle down, who knows what will happen to the euro? It is true, and | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
if the pound does not keep falling forever, this will be a one-off | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
shock, may be very big, but it will not be going on for ever. This will | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
hurt people, and it may make people think about the economic costs and | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
benefits of Brexit, like you say, it brings it down to a household level. | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
Petrol is the other one that is very sensitive, obviously it is to not | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
naked in dollars, and the oil price has gone up as well, so we may be | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
getting sensitive about billing of the car. -- the -- denominated. I | :18:22. | :18:32. | |
believe Opec is still really the big driver there, that will be for the | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
longer term, that will be more relevant than FX. | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
That's it for The Papers, thanks to Josie Cox and Ben Chu. | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
Just a reminder we take a look at tomorrow's front pages every | :18:45. | :18:59. | |
Good morning. Fog has been the main hazards of this morning, and it will | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
be tomorrow morning as well, this was sent in | :19:06. | :19:06. |