05/12/2015 The Papers

sack the chief whip. The Sunday Telegraph claim senior members of

the Tory party are threatening to resign of plans for Heathrow get the

go-ahead. Let us begin. Your political editor of the Sunday

express and that is lovely to have you here but I want you to document

something other than politics and latter is your headlines saying

killer storms. We understand the storm has claimed its first victim,

a 90-year-old who was blown into the side of a bus. This story was moving

as he went through the day, not something that figure at massively

on our news list in the morning but we sell a lot of papers in the North

of England and as we move through the course of the day the situation

became more serious with a growing number of flood warnings across

large swathes of the North of England and Wales, and not just

those AV is more prone to flooding. We have also heard that places like

Cockermouth are expected to be under water from seven p.m.. Thousands

evacuated and people left without power and of course the storm

continues and we still have 85 mph winds across large parts of the

company and the more rain to come, and moving southwards, so I think

this story will move on and then the North of England, this is what our

readers will be waking up to tomorrow. If they can get to the

newsagent! Which is always a worry! I have had some amazing stories to

night of people being rescued, and one of the things that struck me

talking to people in the middle of it all, as journalists will be

doing, it seems to catch people rather by surprise and also rather

than -- rather worse than floods in those parts before? Storms can

become the main story of the day from Norway. We have all had a week

where we expected the Labour Party to be on the front page over the war

and suddenly the storm and homes underwater. We will come onto more

political matters but just sticking with your paper, the front-page

picture, a great picture. We have had great pictures all day and my

Twitter feed has been full of pictures from my friends in the

North East sweating -- tweeting pictures of water and roads closed

and people not able to get home. Your name is on the front page,

Special Report on pages four and five. Quite a lot of elements, take

us through this, there are three main stories. The first one is that

there are lots of rumours and plots within Westminster against Jeremy

Corbyn but the main story has been almost the opposite angle, of

moderate MPs attacking Jeremy Corbyn for not calling off the attack gods.

Campaigning to get these MPs deselected. Jeremy Corbyn feels that

the abuse he is receiving is not being reported, and this sort of

covers that. That first one, rumours that the leader passed out. Is this

right? I missed this. It is astonishing but it is what MPs have

been saying all week and I reported it to the leader's office yesterday,

and they are furious. Categorically untrue, and they see it as a mere

two undermine him, because they can't attack his politics and he won

in Oldham they have to do this. They plan to sack the Chief Whip and

reshuffle the Shadow Cabinet Minister stop you reporting it you

think it is on the cards? They see Rosie Winston, the Chief Whip as not

being one of the layers. She was very influential informing the

Shadow Cabinet when she helped steady the ship and appoint the

shadow cabinet, and she was very influential in the coming up with an

agreement for a free vote on the Syrian air strikes, but that has led

some of the Syrian air strikes, but that has led some of Jeremy

Corbin's supporters to think that she is not supportive, and they need

somebody on their side. Is it your impression that this is what we are

going to see? That they have to be real loyalists? I think so. It is

really interesting because if you remember after the vote, they were

reports she had walked into the opposite division lobby which would

be absolutely astonishing, so there are real issues around her, but the

thing I find so surprising is that he has had a tough week, or a tough

beginning of the week. But not a tough end! And the point is that the

Oldham result has possibly toughened his resolve to actually deal with

some of the resistance within the party. The interesting thing is if

he is going to purchase party of the moderates, who will he put in their

place and will he find enough allies to be able to fill those positions?

The front page of the Observer goes on about

confidence, this is interesting stuff. At the start of the week we

would have been thinking about short pages of moderate MPs calling for

Jeremy Corbin's resignation because they were expecting him to suffer a

humiliating result, and actually there was a swing to Jeremy Corbyn,

over 60% of the vote, which is an amazing achievement. The moderates

are not sure what to do. The old phrase a week is a long time in

politics and circulate through. I don't think he is out of the woods

yet and lacking in the background is this bullying scandal. People like

Stella Creasy being threatened and told she would be deselected. If you

then purges moderates it'll open him up to the same kind of allegations

of snazzy type behaviour, purging his shadow can in his critics. --

Sasi. Stella Creasy has a public meeting tomorrow and I am told she

will have a fairly strong police presence because of the kinds of

threats she has received. I don't think either elements of the stories

will go away and Jeremy Corbyn will try to strengthen his hand and the

moderates will still have something to say over how he manages his own

politics and team. Staying on the front page of the Observer, new

bombing raids hit the city in all fields. Tell us what this is about.

-- Syrian oilfields. They have been out talking to the pilots and

navigators and the Observer has an interesting tack on this, as they

are talking about the second wave of bombing raids but suggesting the

coalition forces may become drawn into the strikes against the jihad

ease in Libya. It is said this comes on the back of a reconnaissance

missions the French have done in Libya and raises questions about

where is this going to end? If we are now going to talk about Libya

becoming a target as well, whether or not the UN resolution will even

cover our involvement. The message that has been coming out clearly

from Michael Fallon today, is that this is going to be a long and

protracted conflict, and he's really trying to manage expectations that

they will not go on and come out and it will be over by Christmas. We are

in for the long haul. The phrase, not going to be a short or simple

operation. Statement of the obvious but it could go anywhere? It reminds

me of the polar opposite of the statement in Afghanistan when John

Reid said there might not be a shot fired in Afghanistan and we were

still only nine years later. Mission creep in this conflict seems

inevitable. If we're talking about Libya, a front on Friday said Isis

were now in Afghanistan. Let's go to the Sunday Telegraph. The main

story, I think it is your turn. Tories at war over Heathrow

expansion. The recommendation of a third runway at Heathrow but they

arguing goes on and it looks like it's getting worse? I am not sure we

will have this front-page story for the next four years or maybe for my

lifetime! It is CNN off a lot of senior Tories hate the idea of

Heathrow so Cameron will have the balls of his own? A lot of Tories

equally on the other side want the prime minister just to get on with

it and give this the green light. It was the clear recommendation,

supposed to be recommended last week and now delayed a couple of weeks.

The words we are hearing back in Westminster as there will be some

form of fight Shand Cameron will put up some legal battles and this will

drag on and on. The long grass, another political phrase. If that

your impression? I think so. The interesting thing is this comes down

to logistics. They all have constituencies that would be

affected sort becomes a story about whether or not they will resign.

They have been put into a fairly difficult position because David

Cameron said there would be no expansion, but now they have reined

back from that and it creates a bit of a problem. There's an easy way

out of this and we know there will be a judicial review on this and

there are concerns about pollution and all sorts of get out of jail

free card is that the Prime Minister could use, but the general consensus

thank you very much indeed. We will be back later with another look at

the stories. No time for reporters.