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:00:00. > :00:00.for action for the Commonwealth Games. Will Bristol play in rugby

:00:00. > :00:17.union 's premiership next year? All that after the papers.

:00:18. > :00:23.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:24. > :00:25.bringing us tomorrow. With me are the Political Commentator Lance

:00:26. > :00:31.Price and Tony Grew who's Parliamentary Editor at Politics

:00:32. > :00:34.Home.. The FT's top story is on Tesco's

:00:35. > :00:38.dismal trading results. The Chief Executive of the company said they

:00:39. > :00:41.were the worst he'd seen in his 40 year career.The Express claims that

:00:42. > :00:45.a healthy lifestyle is the key to beating dementia. The Independent's

:00:46. > :00:47.main picture is of Hong Kong's defiant stance against China's

:00:48. > :00:50.Tiananmen Square blackout with crowds holding a candle lit vigil.

:00:51. > :00:52.The Telegraph leads with the death of a baby, reportedly from a

:00:53. > :00:55.contaminated batch of intravenous medication. The picture story is of

:00:56. > :01:06.the Queen's page boy who collapsed during her speech.That's also the

:01:07. > :01:09.picture story in the Guardian. The top headline is about protests over

:01:10. > :01:11.a secret terror trail which the paper says would threaten open

:01:12. > :01:16.justice. picture story in the Guardian. The

:01:17. > :01:19.top headline is about protests And that's also the top story in the

:01:20. > :01:22.Mail which says that its the first time in British history that a trial

:01:23. > :01:26.has been held entirely in secret.And the Mirror has a picture of the UKIP

:01:27. > :01:29.leader, Nigel Farage with a female companion in Malta. The Times says

:01:30. > :01:32.that the PM is struggling to contain the fallout from a row between two

:01:33. > :01:34.of his cabinet ministers, Michael Gove and Theresa May over Islamic

:01:35. > :01:50.extremism in schools. So let's begin. The Guardian covers

:01:51. > :01:54.the Queen's Speech with more of a photograph and detailed coverage of

:01:55. > :02:04.the contents. There is a reference to the bully on the right. That is

:02:05. > :02:07.the headline. Hadn't it been for the lad who collapsed, a pageboy,

:02:08. > :02:11.perhaps the speech wouldn't have made it on the front pages because

:02:12. > :02:18.there wasn't a great deal of news in it. We knew all of the details of

:02:19. > :02:23.the bills that were there. We saw this unfortunate situation, where

:02:24. > :02:28.Her Majesty remained remarkably calm when there was a little bit of a

:02:29. > :02:35.scene going on to the site. You were there. He hit the ground and it made

:02:36. > :02:40.a significant noise. Everyone was trying to work out what was going

:02:41. > :02:46.on. The Queen didn't miss a beat. When you look at this picture, it

:02:47. > :02:52.leads you to ask questions about this. As the Queen is on the throne,

:02:53. > :02:58.things remain as they are. You have to ask yourself why it is the pages

:02:59. > :03:02.of honour to the Queen are members of the aristocracy and why we have a

:03:03. > :03:07.12`year`old discount doing this when it could be just as easy for the

:03:08. > :03:11.Royal family to encourage local children to take on this honour of

:03:12. > :03:19.carrying the monarch's parliamentary road as they process through

:03:20. > :03:24.Parliament ``viscount. I speak as a traditionalist, as someone who loves

:03:25. > :03:28.the pomp and ceremony. Prince Charles attended today as you can

:03:29. > :03:35.see from the photo. Camilla attended for the second time. In some senses,

:03:36. > :03:38.the Royal family is preparing the next generation to take over, not

:03:39. > :03:42.that Her Majesty is planning to abdicate as far as we can tell.

:03:43. > :03:49.There are interesting changes put to be made. During the Second World

:03:50. > :03:53.War, The King open parliament in military uniform. In 1974, without

:03:54. > :03:58.time to organise the state parliament, the Queen turned up in a

:03:59. > :04:05.car and in a normal dress without this. There are questions to be

:04:06. > :04:11.asked. I would miss the pomp and circumflex starts. People like it,

:04:12. > :04:15.don't they? It is a reminder. I don't know what these people do for

:04:16. > :04:20.the rest of the year. They come and dress up nicely for the cameras. It

:04:21. > :04:26.is a weird mixture of modern politics and old tradition. It is

:04:27. > :04:30.the Queen who is stuck in the middle. She has to read a speech

:04:31. > :04:33.written by politicians full of slogans about working hard for

:04:34. > :04:40.hard`working people and the rest of it. It doesn't fit the image. Some

:04:41. > :04:48.of the contents of the speech. The Daily Mail, MPs are weakened. This

:04:49. > :04:53.is in theory giving people the chance to get rid of someone who has

:04:54. > :04:59.misbehaves. Those who want their say it does not go far enough. Obviously

:05:00. > :05:03.the Daily Mail is upset. Let's look at the detail. The government have

:05:04. > :05:09.had this well. It is something the coalition pledged. In the

:05:10. > :05:13.circumstances of which an MP is convicted of any offence, not an

:05:14. > :05:17.offence that... The law says if you are an MP and you are convicted of

:05:18. > :05:21.an offence for which the sentence is more than 12 months, you lose your

:05:22. > :05:26.seat automatically. This says that if you are convicted of any offence

:05:27. > :05:31.there is a recall mechanism where 7000 people signed a petition which

:05:32. > :05:36.can trigger a by`election. The other circumstance in which they can

:05:37. > :05:39.happen is if the House of Commons set up a standards committee and

:05:40. > :05:44.they can decide that if someone who has behaved in a way that is a way

:05:45. > :05:55.that isn't criminal... (CROSSTALK) a committee of those inside the system

:05:56. > :05:59.will make that the `` decision. They will automatically be a recall and

:06:00. > :06:04.by`election. If you think about that, you will see how widely open

:06:05. > :06:09.to abuse that is. If you are an MP and you win an election with a small

:06:10. > :06:13.majority. All your opponent needs to do is get 7000 signatures and they

:06:14. > :06:18.can trigger a by`election. It leaves MPs vulnerable. In Northern

:06:19. > :06:20.Ireland, the idea is farcical that you could bring something like that

:06:21. > :06:28.in with divided politics. The balance the government has struck I

:06:29. > :06:36.am impressed with. I think it is problematic. MPs are judge and jury

:06:37. > :06:42.in their own trials. We have seen MPs, including Maria Miller, Culture

:06:43. > :06:45.Secretary pictured, appears to have been left off the hook by the

:06:46. > :06:52.standards committee and by fellow MPs. That has generated anger in the

:06:53. > :06:57.public and has led to this disconnect between the majority of

:06:58. > :06:59.voters and their traditions of Parliament and the way in which

:07:00. > :07:04.parliamentary democracy is exercised. The truth is that these

:07:05. > :07:09.plans aren't ever to be put into practice. It will never happen. It

:07:10. > :07:13.won't happen because in the majority of cases the MPs will ensure it

:07:14. > :07:17.doesn't get to that. If it did get to that point, where anger was

:07:18. > :07:20.building up, the MP would resign anyway so it would not be a question

:07:21. > :07:24.it would be a case of them being forced out through these press

:07:25. > :07:30.reaches. `` besiegers. `` procedures. It doesn't do what the

:07:31. > :07:34.reformers would like it to do and nor does it achieve anything

:07:35. > :07:47.significant the Coalition would like them to achieve angry Cameron

:07:48. > :07:55.rebukes. They are not seeing eye to eye. It is a rift that is

:07:56. > :07:57.extraordinary. They should be briefing against one another in

:07:58. > :08:05.private. They should be working together. A claim they are. Yet,

:08:06. > :08:10.advisers are of the dart briefing one another at a remarkable level.

:08:11. > :08:15.They are using extraordinary language against one another. From

:08:16. > :08:21.the outside, it seems that Michael Gove is the fly in the ointment. He

:08:22. > :08:27.is very ambitious. He thinks you have to upset people to make change

:08:28. > :08:31.in society. He is frustrated the Home Office have not done enough to

:08:32. > :08:36.tackle the problem. Theresa May, don't pick a fight with her, she

:08:37. > :08:42.comes back fighting. Away from the soap opera discussions about this,

:08:43. > :08:46.there are really important issues. That is to do with the way schools

:08:47. > :08:51.were set up under the labour government academies and free

:08:52. > :08:53.schools being controlled now. This is about extremism in school

:08:54. > :08:59.environments that are concerning. There are answers for Michael Gove

:09:00. > :09:05.to AMSA. And, questions about how schools are managed and controlled.

:09:06. > :09:09.`` for Michael Gove to AMSA. They are given autonomy in the way they

:09:10. > :09:12.run themselves. My gut feeling is that Mr Gove will come out worst.

:09:13. > :09:19.Not because of his tussle with Theresa May. You can see why the PM

:09:20. > :09:24.was furious to see the story. Completely unnecessary. Especially

:09:25. > :09:32.when you want the Queen's Speech to be covered positively. We are

:09:33. > :09:38.talking about the secret trial in the Daily Mail. Britain's first

:09:39. > :09:44.secret trial behind closed doors. It is only thanks to a free press that

:09:45. > :09:48.you know it is happening at all. It is the media fighting the battle

:09:49. > :09:52.over regulation. If you don't have a free press who can do this, all

:09:53. > :09:58.democratic traditions will be put under threat. It isn't just secret,

:09:59. > :10:04.it is a secret trial that is secret. The fact that it was secret until

:10:05. > :10:10.this media organisation took their own legal action to force it into

:10:11. > :10:16.the open that it is happening. There are a lot of unanswered questions

:10:17. > :10:20.about how the trial will take place. We don't know who the defendants are

:10:21. > :10:25.or what the case against them is an nor do we know who was in the

:10:26. > :10:32.authority to decide it was kept from the public ``and. Eye see the word

:10:33. > :10:44.president, if that where you stand? No. We spoke earlier about this ``I

:10:45. > :10:48.see. It was about football is trying to stop people finding out they were

:10:49. > :10:52.having an affair. If security services thought it was obvious

:10:53. > :11:00.level of importance they are aware of the extraordinary idea of asking

:11:01. > :11:03.for a trial. I think that British have an idea of a justice system

:11:04. > :11:09.that doesn't match up to what other people have. I remember when Diplock

:11:10. > :11:12.was introduced in Northern Ireland and the security situation has

:11:13. > :11:17.caused the legal system to be closed. I don't agree with that. I

:11:18. > :11:20.don't have enough detail to know what the security services are

:11:21. > :11:26.concerned about and that is why I can serve my judgement. Staying with

:11:27. > :11:31.you and the Independent. It is revealed how private firms make

:11:32. > :11:36.quick killing from PFI, the Private Finance initiative. This is a

:11:37. > :11:44.hangover from the new Labour Party government. They saw the hospitals

:11:45. > :11:49.were in a state and they had a dilemma about social services. What

:11:50. > :11:53.they decided to do was get into bed with private companies and get them

:11:54. > :12:01.to build the hospitals and lease them back from them. What we don't

:12:02. > :12:06.see is smart multinational companies having negotiations. These companies

:12:07. > :12:10.didn't build the schools or hospitals from altruism. They did it

:12:11. > :12:14.because they thought they could make money. They have found another way

:12:15. > :12:19.to make money. That is what companies do. I don't know why

:12:20. > :12:23.people are surprised by this. PFI has been disastrous. As a taxpayer,

:12:24. > :12:27.I would rather we build these hospitals and schools ourselves.

:12:28. > :12:32.They have been doubling their money by flipping or selling on. They have

:12:33. > :12:35.contracts that last 25 years for maintaining hospitals in schools

:12:36. > :12:42.that they have built. Then they can sell them on. I was working for the

:12:43. > :12:45.Labour Party, and Margaret Hodge, the chair of the Public Accounts

:12:46. > :12:51.Committee who is complaining about it, admits it was a mistake.

:12:52. > :12:54.Clearly, there was a mistake. The controversy about it at the time. No

:12:55. > :12:58.one pointed out the company could then cash in, cash in the profits if

:12:59. > :13:05.you like and sell it to another company. Margaret Hodge is right to

:13:06. > :13:10.describe it as a scandal. Staying a thought from you, lamps.

:13:11. > :13:15.Extraordinary photographs they carrying of those in Hong Kong. They

:13:16. > :13:21.are marking the 25th anniversary of Tiananmen Square, where people could

:13:22. > :13:24.not do that ``Lance. Three cheers for the people of Hong Kong for

:13:25. > :13:29.coming out in large numbers and it shows what a special place Hong Kong

:13:30. > :13:33.is. The specialness of it has been retained since he became part of

:13:34. > :13:36.China. Compare that with the coverage of the news channel and

:13:37. > :13:40.elsewhere during the day of those people seeking, on mainland China,

:13:41. > :13:44.to remember their loved ones or family members who were killed, it

:13:45. > :13:48.is an extraordinary demonstration with so many people coming out of

:13:49. > :13:53.the 25th anniversary. Amazing photograph, isn't it? It is a

:13:54. > :13:59.striking image. I was a boy when the event happened but I can even recall

:14:00. > :14:03.vividly those images. You talked about China and about how the

:14:04. > :14:07.Chinese didn't want this to be commemorated in the way we want this

:14:08. > :14:12.to be commemorated in a Western sense. However, China has changed so

:14:13. > :14:17.much and open so much over the last 25 years, which is something that

:14:18. > :14:19.gives me hope. For the hundreds of millions of Chinese people who see

:14:20. > :14:24.small incremental changes in their country. We will end with the times.

:14:25. > :14:29.You have the advantage of having this in front of you `` caddie

:14:30. > :14:41.times. Office life loses appeal for highflyers.

:14:42. > :14:46.office for a long time, and the appeal of office life... Are used to

:14:47. > :14:51.work at the BBC, that was office life of a sort. We won't go into

:14:52. > :14:57.details of that, but it seems that more and more people, senior

:14:58. > :15:01.executives, are now working at home and finding it a much more

:15:02. > :15:04.productive way in which to work. This theory idea that somehow if you

:15:05. > :15:11.are working at home you are just skiving and taking the day off seems

:15:12. > :15:15.to be disappearing a bit. It is a bit confused, because it says that

:15:16. > :15:18.working from home has become the new business status symbol. Then it says

:15:19. > :15:23.that one in seven people operate from home. Having the option to work

:15:24. > :15:27.from home and operating from home are entirely different things, and

:15:28. > :15:30.I'm not entirely sure which side is coming from. Operating from home is

:15:31. > :15:35.very different from having the odd day where you say I am working from

:15:36. > :15:42.home. We will leave it there. That is it for the Papers. Stay with us

:15:43. > :15:46.on BBC News. The coalition's final agenda at midnight, the Queen sets

:15:47. > :15:51.out new bills to sack misbehaving MPs, and an overhaul of pensions.

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