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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
bringing us tomorrow. With me are Sian Griffiths, Education Editor | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
from the Sunday Times and James Millar, Political correspondent from | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
Thank you for joining us. Let's look at the front pages for tomorrow. The | :00:28. | :00:38. | |
Mail on Sunday is leading with the resignation of Grant Shapps and the | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
scandal that is engulfing the Tory party. That story also makes the | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
front of the times. It says the Tory party chairman faces pressure to | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
quit. The Telegraph reports that David Cameron has also been dragged | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
into the crisis of alleged bullying inside the Conservative Party. Grant | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
Shapps and his wife are pictured on the front of the Sunday express but | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
it leads with the story that up to 100 prisoners serving life sentences | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
could be lettered in jail for Christmas. The Observer reports that | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
David Cameron is to risk a Commons vote over Syrian air strikes despite | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
split in the Labour Party. More about that story in the Independent | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
on Sunday. It sends a warning to Jeremy Corbyn from his deputy that | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
he must back down. The Sunday Post has an opinion poll that says that | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
the public cautiously backs bombing raids against Isis yet 74% fear a | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
terrorist attack on the UK within one year. Plenty of choice. A lot | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
concentrating on the vote over Syrian air strikes and Grant Shapps. | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
The Observer has a headline about David Cameron risking a vote. James, | :01:54. | :02:01. | |
is this a big rift in the Labour Party and one that could lead to a | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
split possibly? Yes is the short answer. It's interesting that the | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
Observer is talking about the risk for Cameron to have this vote, we | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
can expected on Wednesday, maybe Thursday. Probably not a big risk | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
because we know that a lot of Labour MPs will vote with the government to | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
launch air strikes on Syria. The question is only how many and | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
harmony that effects, whether it affects Jeremy Corbyn's leadership | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
rather than Cameron 's leadership. Surely the Tory party does not want | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
to risk being voted down again even though the Chancellor says that they | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
don't want to give Isis propaganda of not agreeing on it. I think so. | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
David Cameron must be quite confident I should think that he | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
will get enough MPs to vote for air strikes because it looks now as if | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
it will go ahead on Wednesday. I do not think that he would call the | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
vote unless he was confident that he would get a majority for action. The | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
story in the Sunday Times is interesting it suggests that David | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
Cameron will order our AF air strikes within 36 hours of vote | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
going in favour of action, -- RAF air strikes. And that precision | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
strikes will be used to target the head of the international tax unit, | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
which masterminded the Paris massacre. I think it will be a very | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
interesting week. The vote will probably take place on Wednesday. | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
Jeremy Corbyn is likely, says the Sunday Times, to offer his MPs a | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
free vote after being warned that his Shadow Cabinet is ready to | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
defeat him. If MPs are not allowed to vote as they wish, that is. The | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
last paragraph says that Lord Mandelson has accused Jeremy Corbyn | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
of siding with Isis! Not necessarily as a prize that Lord Mandelson is | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
not impressed by this. The rhetoric is another step up in the rhetoric. | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
Ken Livingstone said some incendiary things last week about the seven | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
salmon bombers and terrorism in the Middle East. Rugby Sevens seven | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
bombers. Now we have Lord Mandelson on the other side. It shows how | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
bitter the battle within Labour is about this -- 7/7 bombers. It shows | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
how compelling the case is against the air strikes and yet Cabinet | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
ministers are having to phone MPs to convince them. The case cannot have | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
been about compelling if they are having to spend the weekend doing | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
that. Nuno Espirito Santo I am sure it is a case of making sure they | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
have enough. Don't you think so? I do, and the motion will limit | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
attacks to Isis targets and will rule out any attempt to commit | :04:58. | :05:06. | |
ground troops to Syria. -- I find it odd, this idea of attacking the | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
masterminds because how can Britain and point the bad guys when the | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
French and the Americans, already active in Syria, apparently cannot. | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
Apparently we have special missiles! It seems strange that we have | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
amazing technology that the French and the Americans do not. I am wary | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
of the idea that the Britons will cut off the head of the snake. The | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
vote, possibly on Wednesday. Will there be enough people voting for | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
it? It sounds like you think they will be. Yes, it doesn't need to | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
many Labour MPs to side with the government for it to come through. | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
Sir Malcolm Rifkind this week said there had to be a healthy majority. | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
It's got to be a big want to look good. What does the public think? It | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
is in the Sunday Post, your paper, James. Just run us through the main | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
figures. Some very interesting stuff here. The main one is that 74% of | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
people fear an attack on UK soil within a year. It almost shows that | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
the terrorists are winning, in a way. The idea is to spread terror | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
and it is working. There are interesting nuggets in the research. | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
We have asked what people think of various leaders and how they are | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
coping with the crisis and the message is clear that people think | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
Jeremy Corbyn is a dead loss as far as this stuff is concerned. Also | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
does everything in Scotland is seen through the prism of the | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
independence referendum -- because everything is seen through that | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
prison, two to one say that they feel safer as part of the UK than | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
they would have been as a separate Scotland. Your comments about Jeremy | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
Corbyn related to people in Scotland? It is a general | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
perception, if you have heard what people are saying on the doorsteps | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
in Oldham, where there will be a by-election this week, if you say | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
the name of Jeremy Corbyn at the doorstep, it isn't going down well, | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
people do not think much of the way that he has handled the Syria | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
crisis. Do you think that is fair, Sian? I think Corbyn is a man of | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
principle. That has always been his position. I think you should allow a | :07:31. | :07:39. | |
free vote. I think that is very important. But for him to change his | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
own personal position would be seen among his only young supporters in | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
particular as hypocritical. He's a party leader now. And all his MPs | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
disagree with him. He's written to the grassroots. Is still time to | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
consult or does the leader need to read on this issue? It could cost | :08:01. | :08:12. | |
him his position. I have written a column saying that if he loses this | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
by-election this week he'll be on a sticky wicket. Will he magnanimously | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
say, have a free vote? If he doesn't, he is in trouble, one way | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
or another, whichever way he tries to whip his MPs. This by-election, | :08:26. | :08:34. | |
the seat has a majority of 15,000, it would huge loss. Certainly a lot | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
of MPs would think about their positions if he remains leader and | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
that is generally what triggers elections, MPs looking out for their | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
own jobs somewhere down the line. And the Sunday Post and its cautious | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
backing for Syrian air raids against IS? That slightly goes against | :08:55. | :09:03. | |
another opinion poll which said that 48% of people think that the UK | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
should join in with the French, Americans, and other allied forces | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
against Isis. I am splitting hairs yet it is by no means decisive. It | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
is not. The public is rightly cautious, when you think about Iraq | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
and the past. The opinion poll is interesting in that the readers is | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
very strongly that they don't want to put troops on the ground in | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
Syria. -- they say this very strongly. Budget the legacy of Iraq, | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
people do not want troops in the Middle East. The other big story of | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
the day. In the Daily Mail. The headline Resigned, exposed, and then | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
doomed? This is all about Grant Shapps, who quit his ministerial | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
post earlier today, they are talking about an alleged new blackmail plot, | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
and then they are talking about whether Lord Feldman, the Tory | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
chairman, will stay in his post, or whether his days are also numbered. | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
We need to be careful of the details yet this suggests a very murky | :10:11. | :10:20. | |
world. It does. I think actually this is a very moving interview | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
given to the Guardian newspaper that the parents of Elliott Johnson. He | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
is the young conservative activist who apparently committed suicide | :10:31. | :10:32. | |
after allegedly being bullied by a senior election aid. Denies that, of | :10:33. | :10:45. | |
course. When I read the interview I felt so sorry for the parents of | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
this 21-year-old who seemed to have been caught up in a culture where | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
bullying, ambition, alleged blackmail... It is a rather horrible | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
set of allegations swirling around the youth wing of the Conservative | :11:03. | :11:10. | |
Party. What I felt was complete sympathy for the parents of this | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
young man. Not only are they faced with having to deal with the death | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
of their son in terrible circumstances, but now with taking | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
on and changing an apparent culture that led to his death. I think that | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
they are being incredibly brave about standing up and saying, look, | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
this is wrong, do something about it. James, this is rather like one | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
of these TV programmes. House Of Cards. Some of the people involved | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
in this scene to watch these programmes and think that they are | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
real and this is the way that you behave in politics. It doesn't have | :11:52. | :12:00. | |
to be. Absolutely not. A couple of things are worth saying. It is a bit | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
like Syria. A lot of political shenanigans around it. A human story | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
about human suffering. Someone has died. It is worth paying tribute to | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
the Mail on Sunday. And the first to slack them off sometimes but they | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
have gone at this week after week and nobody paid attention but the | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
pressure has been building and strangely enough it is the Guardian | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
interview that seems to have broken it down. Yet you have two paid | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
tribute to the Mail on Sunday, Simon Walker in particular who has really | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
been sticking at this, good journalism. Taking nothing away the | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
individual tragedy of this, do people outside the Westminster | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
closet really care about things going on inside a party? I think | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
they possibly do because of the human heart to this story. Any | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
parent can appreciate that their son has died for whatever reason. And if | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
people have mistreated him along the way, any parent can understand that. | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
It is the Tory party, they are in government, so if there are in | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
question is, they need to be answered. The Sunday Telegraph now. | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
The story says that Army medical staff are expected to be drafted | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
into NHS hospitals to cover for striking junior doctors. The first | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
of those planned industrial action stoppages takes place on Tuesday. It | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
is reassuring that, in a way, that there will be doctors there! It | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
shows that the level of crisis, we are used to the idea of the Green | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
goddesses turning up when the firemen go on strike, but Army | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
doctors in hospitals is something quite new, as is a doctors strike! | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
Talks with a have been adjourned until Monday, Sian, it has gone on | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
for a long time. This is the first of three strikes, another one will | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
be on eight December and a third on 16th December. I think it is a mark | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
of how strongly the junior doctors feel that they are prepared to go on | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
strike three times to make their point. They say they are taking | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
action to make the NHS safe in the future. So I think, again, I would | :14:14. | :14:21. | |
love to see a poll on what the public think about this action by | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
junior doctors. Do they support it or not? Do they feel that junior | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
doctors, on whom we do rely for cover, should strike? The government | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
argues that it is part of a seven-day NHS and contracts have to | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
be renegotiated and most of them will be better off. | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
LAUGHTER I'm not convinced. I talked to a lot | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
of medical students and junior doctors in my job and they are | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
working incredibly hard, such long hours. You think life is a junior | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
doctor is rosy, it is not. You've got five years of medical training | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
to do, then a one-year posts, more exams, they have a really tough | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
time. At the end of it, they get well paid. Eventually! We will come | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
back to that one later. That is it to the papers. Thank you, James and | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
Sian. They will be back at 11th Udupi and other stories making the | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
news tomorrow, we will probably come back to that debate about junior | :15:28. | :15:29. | |
doctors. Stay for the news because doctors. Stay for the news because | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
at 11pm as Grant Shapps resigns over claims that he failed to act over | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
claims of bullying of young Tory party volunteers. We will have the | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
latest. Coming up, the film | :15:43. | :15:43. |