:00:00. > :00:00.Iraqis continue to build on today's progress to form a conclusive
:00:00. > :00:23.government. Hello and welcome to our look
:00:24. > :00:26.ahead to what the the papers With me are the FT's Deputy
:00:27. > :00:30.Political Editor Beth Rigby and John Kampfner who's Director of
:00:31. > :00:41.the Creative Industries Federation. Let's take a look at what we have so
:00:42. > :00:46.far. Trials are underway on a new drug that can allow damaged hearts
:00:47. > :00:50.to recover without the need to major surgery in the Daily Telegraph. A
:00:51. > :00:55.migration warning that claims thousands are massing to cross the
:00:56. > :00:58.Channel, in the Daily Express. Iraq's Prime Minister appears to
:00:59. > :01:03.have lost his job in the wake of jihadists sweeping across the north
:01:04. > :01:08.of the country, in the Guardian. The woman whose baby buggy was swept
:01:09. > :01:12.onto the tube lines, this will be dominating the front of the Metro
:01:13. > :01:16.when commuters pick it up tomorrow. That same images on the front of the
:01:17. > :01:19.Daily Mail, the paper also claims that the human rights act allows
:01:20. > :01:25.judges to, they say, make up the law. The crisis in Iraq dominates
:01:26. > :01:29.the front of the times. And Darius aircraft will be assisting the US in
:01:30. > :01:41.the operations in the north of the country. `` armed RAAF aircraft. ``
:01:42. > :01:46.RAF. We will talk about Iraq in just a moment. Let's begin with a story
:01:47. > :01:50.that is on the Telegraph. That is the surprise was a nation of yet
:01:51. > :01:56.another minister from the Foreign Office. They seemed to be dropping
:01:57. > :02:01.like flies. This is Mark Simmons. According to the Daily Telegraph,
:02:02. > :02:08.?120,000 will not buy family life. Is this what it is really about?
:02:09. > :02:13.He has resigned today. Apparently it was agreed three weeks ago, but
:02:14. > :02:17.there was a big summit in Africa. As the African minister he wanted to
:02:18. > :02:22.leave that summit. It looks fishy because of the timing of Baroness
:02:23. > :02:26.Warsi stepping down, but I have spoken to other former ministers
:02:27. > :02:29.today and they say that was the reason and his replacement new about
:02:30. > :02:35.this three weeks ago when there was the reshuffle. He's had some time to
:02:36. > :02:41.read up then. The way the Daily Telegraph have done this is to take
:02:42. > :02:47.a swipe at him. It's all linked expenses and the expenses scandal
:02:48. > :02:55.and campaign they ran. The rules changed in 2009. Mark Simmons is
:02:56. > :03:00.saying he is resigning because of family reasons. Stepping down as an
:03:01. > :03:03.MP, as well. He makes the point it is difficult to have a family life
:03:04. > :03:07.when you are living in a constituency hundreds of miles away
:03:08. > :03:12.from Westminster, and then you are commuting down in the week to be in
:03:13. > :03:17.Parliament. Although I know the headline of ?120,000, it looks
:03:18. > :03:21.ridiculous and ludicrous, actually the issue of MPs expenses is
:03:22. > :03:28.something that has been raised by all Parliamentary groups on how to
:03:29. > :03:31.get more women into Westminster. Under the current system it is
:03:32. > :03:37.actually very hard to have a flat in London that you can claim on
:03:38. > :03:43.expenses big enough to have your family fare. Especially if you have
:03:44. > :03:48.young kids. Do you think this is in sync with the readers and the
:03:49. > :03:53.general public opinion towards this? `` family there. It hasn't
:03:54. > :03:59.been sympathetically written. It hasn't. It is on two levels. The
:04:00. > :04:05.consequences for our foreign diplomacy are not great. We have the
:04:06. > :04:09.Israeli`Palestinian conflict, everything that is going on in Iraq
:04:10. > :04:15.and slightly relegated but still very, very boiling up at the time is
:04:16. > :04:18.Russia and Ukraine. Lots of things that don't make the headlines that
:04:19. > :04:24.diplomats have to be aware of. We just have this constant churn of
:04:25. > :04:32.ministers. You can talk about somebody reading up on Africa. I was
:04:33. > :04:36.being tongue in cheek. CHUCKLES Quite often they read the briefs on
:04:37. > :04:40.a plane or on the way out, but this is damaging. Is there a sense,
:04:41. > :04:44.because I heard this, and not for the first time, but perhaps now
:04:45. > :04:50.hearing it in the Cameron years, foreign policies driven by Downing
:04:51. > :04:56.Street, and maybe the Foreign Office doesn't feel as important a place as
:04:57. > :05:04.it once did? `` foreign policy is driven. Absolutely. The departure of
:05:05. > :05:06.another foreign policy minister is indicative that it appears in
:05:07. > :05:15.masculine to do, as somebody put it to me. `` emasculated. He seems to
:05:16. > :05:22.becoming more interested in foreign affairs. Baroness Warsi said that.
:05:23. > :05:29.She said George should have used is in the woods more. He might want to
:05:30. > :05:32.be Foreign Secretary in 2015. All Prime Minister since Margaret
:05:33. > :05:36.Thatcher, and possibly before her, distrusted the Foreign Office. You
:05:37. > :05:41.can argue the rights and wrongs, but the idea that anybody who spends,
:05:42. > :05:45.whether it is an ambassador, or a civil servant, or least of all a
:05:46. > :05:50.minister who spends too long, which is normally more than a year or two
:05:51. > :05:54.in a particular specialism, is regarded as going native. But what a
:05:55. > :05:58.lot of countries have is people who know the subtleties. One of the
:05:59. > :06:03.reasons the Iraqi war went so badly is because we didn't understand the
:06:04. > :06:08.subtleties of the region. `` Iraq war. Ministers have been at pains to
:06:09. > :06:13.say over the last few days, we are not going to rerun the Iraq war, no
:06:14. > :06:20.boots on the ground. Over the weekend there were comments that we
:06:21. > :06:27.should be considering at the very least civil forces. Now Britain is
:06:28. > :06:32.considering a combat role in Iraq. This situation is really fluid. What
:06:33. > :06:36.Downing Street was saying 72 hours ago is slightly different to the
:06:37. > :06:42.language 48 hours later, and then into today. Actually, when you look
:06:43. > :06:46.at what Philip Hammond says, the new Foreign Secretary, he says he
:06:47. > :06:50.doesn't envision a combat role at the present time. And there is the
:06:51. > :06:54.wriggle room. I think what has happened is they are keeping
:06:55. > :06:58.watching brief on this. Thinking if this escalate and President Obama
:06:59. > :07:03.asks us for support, we have to take a decision. And that could be the
:07:04. > :07:07.key point, if that were to happen. You were there for the Iraq war, you
:07:08. > :07:13.watched all of the permutations in the run`up in 2003. If Barack Obama
:07:14. > :07:16.says we are going to do something, is it inevitable that Britain are
:07:17. > :07:23.going to have two as well? Will we have a repeat of what happened in
:07:24. > :07:28.Syria. He is distinct from previous US presidents. He is much more
:07:29. > :07:31.reluctant to commit. He is a great admirer of the drone, and he thinks
:07:32. > :07:39.the drone controls all military problems. A base in Nevada, or
:07:40. > :07:44.wherever else it is, you know, Star Wars style, you can send these
:07:45. > :07:48.drones into the sky and zap your enemy. Obviously the great advantage
:07:49. > :07:54.of that is it does not bring back your own body bags, so it in Nice
:07:55. > :08:01.that is is the population. But in many ways it doesn't solve the
:08:02. > :08:06.problem. `` anaesthetise it is the problem.
:08:07. > :08:14.In some ways, I think this is a classic in search of a story story.
:08:15. > :08:18.But Barack Obama felt the need to be seen to say something, even if he
:08:19. > :08:23.wasn't saying anything new, dare I suggest, in his statement. Is camera
:08:24. > :08:29.now going to feel the pressure to pop up in public to say something
:08:30. > :08:34.about Britain's involvement? `` is David Cameron. I think he's feeling
:08:35. > :08:39.the pressure. The wounds of Syria are still raw. He went to Parliament
:08:40. > :08:44.ask for help for intervention. He was turned down by his colleagues,
:08:45. > :08:50.as well as opposition MPs. And now... Potentially the same
:08:51. > :08:57.situation is coming up again. Now, how does he handle it? But the cause
:08:58. > :09:01.is the same, it was the failure of Iraq in 2003, and Afghanistan. A
:09:02. > :09:05.different lead up, but appeared to be anything but an emphatic success.
:09:06. > :09:09.For all of that you must be seen to be doing something in Cobra meetings
:09:10. > :09:14.and everything else, I would detect a reluctance on both sides. In the
:09:15. > :09:18.Guardian, they are also talking about Iraq. Its main front`page
:09:19. > :09:25.story, this is on the politics in Iraq and Nouri al`Maliki. The
:09:26. > :09:29.pictures are confused. The Guardian seems to think he is out, but
:09:30. > :09:35.judging by what has been happening tonight, he is not going to go
:09:36. > :09:39.quietly. How much further does this complicates the calculation in
:09:40. > :09:52.Washington? Barack Obama said in his press statement, which we just saw,
:09:53. > :09:58.that he and Joe Biden had spoken to the Prime Minister. Interestingly, I
:09:59. > :10:05.thought the most interesting word he used was, we urged him to choose a
:10:06. > :10:11.Cabinet that is inclusive of all Iraqis. Because the consistent
:10:12. > :10:18.accusation against Nouri al`Maliki was that he was sectarian in his
:10:19. > :10:22.thinking. And as a result, cemented and exacerbated some of the divide
:10:23. > :10:28.that already existed. Let's move down on the same paper to A`levels.
:10:29. > :10:32.If anybody has got children of that age they will all know that Thursday
:10:33. > :10:37.is results day for England and Wales. Interesting here, as if we
:10:38. > :10:43.hadn't had enough shake`ups, we are going to get one from Labour if they
:10:44. > :10:49.are elected next year. So, Labour are saying they will overhaul the
:10:50. > :10:57.A`level system of the Michael Poke era. Michael Gove is trying to back
:10:58. > :11:00.load everything. Like I did back in 1885! CHUCKLES
:11:01. > :11:06.You know, when you would take all of the exams at the end. He wants to
:11:07. > :11:10.have an exam `based system. Labour say they are going to rethink it.
:11:11. > :11:21.They said they are not going to scrap AS`level is. `` AS`levels.
:11:22. > :11:26.Michael Gove was keen on that. Michael Gove was the reforming force
:11:27. > :11:32.for the Tories. He moved out from the department, and was effectively
:11:33. > :11:38.demoted in the last reshuffle. Why did that happen? Part of the charter
:11:39. > :11:46.was because he is so politically toxic `` chatter. I think part of
:11:47. > :11:51.this is that Labour feel that education is, you know, education
:11:52. > :11:56.and the NHS, two areas where Labour can make some ground up against the
:11:57. > :12:00.Tories. And I think we are going to see lots more stories about them
:12:01. > :12:04.trying to appeal to what is effectively that crowd when it comes
:12:05. > :12:12.to labour on education policy going into the election. We heard from
:12:13. > :12:17.Barrack,. Let's not dwell on A`levels. `` we heard from President
:12:18. > :12:24.Obama. Let's go to the Daily Mail. These pictures are extraordinary.
:12:25. > :12:28.They make me shiver. We were running them on the channel a short while
:12:29. > :12:33.ago. This is a buggy being blown onto the tracks in an underground
:12:34. > :12:38.station. It's astonishing. It is one of those stories which is much more
:12:39. > :12:47.salient and poignant on television, or by any other such medium. It
:12:48. > :12:54.doesn't quite capture it. But it is a classic, by the grace of God.
:12:55. > :13:05.Weather breaks not on the buggy? But everybody has been there. `` were
:13:06. > :13:14.the brakes. I have taken my toddlers on the tube. I was wondering, why
:13:15. > :13:18.are the brakes not on? But it is so stressful to get on and off a tube
:13:19. > :13:26.with a buggy. She probably thought, well, I will leave them off. The
:13:27. > :13:31.advice is, don't jump onto the tracks. But you're going to, aren't
:13:32. > :13:45.you? Absolutely, what an amazing mum. That is it for the papers. My
:13:46. > :13:49.guests will be back again at 11:30pm. Coming up next it is time
:13:50. > :13:56.the sports day. `` for sports day.