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