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:00:00. > :00:17.and went on to present Crackerjack and Top of the Pops.

:00:18. > :00:20.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

:00:21. > :00:26.With me are the journalist Benedicte Paviot from the news

:00:27. > :00:29.channel France 24 and the political commentator and former adviser to

:00:30. > :00:32.The Independent on Sunday leads with claims that Jeremy Corbyn

:00:33. > :00:35.is planning to fast-track changes to party policy on Trident.

:00:36. > :00:37.School discipline is the lead in the Observer which claims

:00:38. > :00:41.the prime minister is to suggest that parents should have a say in

:00:42. > :00:44.The Mail on Sunday matches our top story this evening,

:00:45. > :00:49.the swoop by police in Ghana on the main suspect police want to speak to

:00:50. > :00:53.in connection with the murder of Sian Blake and her young sons.

:00:54. > :00:57.The front of the Sunday Times also carries a photo of the suspect

:00:58. > :00:59.Arthur Simpson-Kent but its main story is about the junior doctors

:01:00. > :01:07.The planned junior doctors strike is also the lead in the Telegraph,

:01:08. > :01:12.with the health secretary claiming the walkout could hit A units.

:01:13. > :01:13.And finally the Sun splashes with allegations

:01:14. > :01:25.about the private life of the singer Cheryl Fernandez-Versini.

:01:26. > :01:35.We will begin with politics, as we often do on a Saturday night. The

:01:36. > :01:41.Observer, Jeremy Corbyn urges party unity as a top MP quits. We will

:01:42. > :01:45.have to wait to see who this is. Yes, Alison McGovern. She has

:01:46. > :01:52.already quit, and one could be mistaken for thinking this is going

:01:53. > :01:57.to be another live resignation on the BBC on Sunday. It seems she has

:01:58. > :02:04.already resigned, but the Observer says she will be launching a very

:02:05. > :02:10.bitter attack against John McDonnell, because he in fact

:02:11. > :02:17.earlier this week accused the pressure group Progress, which she

:02:18. > :02:22.chairs, has been full of people with heart right conservative views. The

:02:23. > :02:28.problem with what we are seeing in this column is the development of

:02:29. > :02:33.another internal story to the Labour Party, as opposed to the Labour

:02:34. > :02:39.Party telling the world and certainly the nation, let alone its

:02:40. > :02:45.own MPs, what its policy is under Jeremy Corbyn. The alarm here is the

:02:46. > :02:52.fact that Jeremy Corbyn, although the title says that he urges party

:02:53. > :02:57.unity, in another place it talks about imposing unity, because he

:02:58. > :03:03.seems to be bypassing Labour Party MPs, because he wants to do that and

:03:04. > :03:07.get through his policy on Trident. Will come to Trident in a moment,

:03:08. > :03:10.but when you look at the state of the Labour Party, what your

:03:11. > :03:15.feelings? I think what Alison McGovern is right to highlight is

:03:16. > :03:20.this worrying development we have seen that started during the

:03:21. > :03:28.leadership election, which has seen a coarsening of the internal debate

:03:29. > :03:32.within the Labour Party, a real descent into tactics online that

:03:33. > :03:39.seemed to be operating online from parts of the party, which owes

:03:40. > :03:51.nothing to labour values, and has the Shadow Chancellor making

:03:52. > :03:58.comments about Labour Party members. I think they would prefer to see the

:03:59. > :04:05.Shadow Chancellor talking about George Osborne about policy, rather

:04:06. > :04:11.than making is here as claims about the BBC and the other MPs. There is

:04:12. > :04:15.a suggestion here that there would be a fast track way of teaching

:04:16. > :04:21.Trident. How would it work if this article is correct? Despite all the

:04:22. > :04:24.shenanigans, the position of the Shadow Cabinet is not fundamentally

:04:25. > :04:30.changed on Trident. It is party policy, it is what MPs stood on at

:04:31. > :04:34.the last election. What Jeremy Corbyn is looking to do is create a

:04:35. > :04:38.rival power base by using the national executive committee of the

:04:39. > :04:44.Labour Party as an alternative voice in this debate. But the fundamental

:04:45. > :04:47.mistake is the more that there is a narrowing of policy debate within

:04:48. > :04:52.the Labour Party, the more we will get ourselves into trouble. We

:04:53. > :04:56.should be looking to broaden the policy debate we are having to have

:04:57. > :05:00.more party members, not to mention the public, somewhere in this debate

:05:01. > :05:07.as well. It was the MPs who were voted in, wasn't it? Yes, in May

:05:08. > :05:14.2015. I know a week is a long time in politics, but surely by now, what

:05:15. > :05:17.would be the real responsibility of the Shadow Cabinet? What is the

:05:18. > :05:22.point of a reshuffle if you are going to try to bypass the Shadow

:05:23. > :05:25.Cabinet anyway? I think this is very worrying, and it seems like the

:05:26. > :05:31.party has not settled down, we were supposed to have a debate in summer,

:05:32. > :05:35.the reason the election had been lengthened, and all this talk that

:05:36. > :05:38.the media is concentrating on, because it seems to be a lot of

:05:39. > :05:48.internal politics going on. Let's look at the Sunday Times. David

:05:49. > :06:14.Cameron, I will bulldoze Sin Cara states -- sink states. This would be

:06:15. > :06:18.to destroy 100 of Britain's sink estates. This is to tackle drug

:06:19. > :06:24.abuse and address poverty. This is to try to really get rid of poverty

:06:25. > :06:27.in this country. But it is also making me think of what we were

:06:28. > :06:37.talking about earlier Ron, parenting classes. It is almost as if the

:06:38. > :06:43.PM's feeling about the country, the family, I think there is a real

:06:44. > :06:47.concern on his part that poverty and drug abuse, and families being a bit

:06:48. > :06:52.disjointed and living inside those estates... He says the families are

:06:53. > :07:01.doing their best but the environment they live in is dire and therefore

:07:02. > :07:18.not conducive to addressing gangs. This will appeal to a lot of Labour

:07:19. > :07:21.voters, won't it? I think... I am sure what will turn out to be the

:07:22. > :07:24.case is that the reality of this policy will turn out to be different

:07:25. > :07:29.from the headline here, and of course you can't talk about the

:07:30. > :07:32.circumstances people are living in without raising the fundamental

:07:33. > :07:36.issues of the fact that this is the same government that is cutting tax

:07:37. > :07:40.credits, that has seen a record number of people going to food

:07:41. > :07:44.banks. If David Cameron really wants to reduce poverty, a headline in the

:07:45. > :07:51.Sunday Times and about sink estates is not the way to do it. The key is

:07:52. > :07:58.to occupy the centre ground, because Jeremy Corbyn is not occupying its.

:07:59. > :08:03.Sir Philip Dilly, who got into a bit of hot water because he was here

:08:04. > :08:11.when all the flood problems were happening, he is the Environment

:08:12. > :08:18.Agency's chair, he was on holiday. Not in the part of the West Indies

:08:19. > :08:23.that he said he was in. On one level, if your home has been flooded

:08:24. > :08:28.it is ghastly, and doesn't really matter if his family relations from

:08:29. > :08:30.Barbados or to automaker? The reason it matters is that the initial

:08:31. > :08:39.statement that the Environment Agency put out was disingenuous, and

:08:40. > :08:42.the reason it matters in reality is because it speaks to a lack of grip

:08:43. > :08:48.that the Environment Agency had going into this problem -- Jamaica.

:08:49. > :08:51.But more than that, it would seem basic common sense that if you have

:08:52. > :08:55.the kind of job that he has Environment Agency, you would think

:08:56. > :09:00.that being around at this time would probably be a good idea. It is

:09:01. > :09:05.just, when people are having a really tough time, it is bad enough

:09:06. > :09:09.that they think, it is all right to you, you are in Barbados, he is

:09:10. > :09:16.entitled to don his holiday, but it is the timing. I think it is the

:09:17. > :09:25.fact that there was an attempt to lie, certainly to obfuscate at

:09:26. > :09:34.first. I like that better. And this at a time when people's livelihoods

:09:35. > :09:37.and homes and businesses are threatened, very understandably, to

:09:38. > :09:44.then have someone who was available I'm sure via Skype and e-mail and

:09:45. > :09:52.text message, the last thing you want to do is lie about that. It is

:09:53. > :09:55.unfortunate, not a good idea. Of course, when we know how much is

:09:56. > :10:00.paid and he is working three days a week, it gives the impression of

:10:01. > :10:04.somebody that is not very conducive, when there are people who are facing

:10:05. > :10:08.their futures, with businesses having to close down, and the

:10:09. > :10:10.problem of insurance, and how people will get through the coming months

:10:11. > :10:17.when all their possessions and livelihoods have been threatened or

:10:18. > :10:20.are finished. And they will have to completely rebuild their lives.

:10:21. > :10:26.CabiNet split over Europe censorship in the Sunday Times. -- the Sunday

:10:27. > :10:31.Telegraph. A suggestion that David Cameron is trying to keep

:10:32. > :10:44.Eurosceptic ministers on a tight rein over their messaging. There is

:10:45. > :10:53.a suggestion that there will not be collective responsibility, that

:10:54. > :10:58.ministers will be free to vote in conscience. The CabiNet split in

:10:59. > :11:02.itself is not a secret, but the fact that civil servants are apparently

:11:03. > :11:08.looking at speeches and toning down the Eurosceptic nature of certain

:11:09. > :11:14.ministers' speeches, and at the same time others are being encouraged to

:11:15. > :11:21.make Euro friendly speeches, so that is being criticised as being double

:11:22. > :11:24.standards. The Chancellor and PM accused of having already made up

:11:25. > :11:32.their minds, that they would rather stay in. What an exclusive! This is

:11:33. > :11:36.part of the problem, the government has to maintain its fiction that it

:11:37. > :11:40.somehow hasn't made up its mind about whether it thinks Britain

:11:41. > :11:44.should be a member of the EU. This whole problem comes back to David

:11:45. > :11:47.Cameron's focus, because of the nature of the splits within the

:11:48. > :11:51.Conservative Party, in having to focus on party management rather

:11:52. > :11:55.than national interest. That is what is depressing about this whole

:11:56. > :11:58.debate. Whatever happens in this renegotiation, some people will say

:11:59. > :12:02.it is enough mark others that it is not. It doesn't change the

:12:03. > :12:05.fundamentals of whether Britain is better in Europe or not. That is

:12:06. > :12:14.what the argument will be about, and we might as well just get on with

:12:15. > :12:18.it. Here we have a cartoon. The husband says, I can't come to

:12:19. > :12:29.church, the communion wine will push me over my weekly limit. You have

:12:30. > :12:36.got to live a little. All of these experts, whether it is statins, they

:12:37. > :12:39.tell you this, they tell you that, I think a little bit of alcohol,

:12:40. > :12:46.generally I like it with a bit of food... I think having been raised

:12:47. > :12:50.like that, and a lot of French people are, then you enjoy it. Some

:12:51. > :12:55.people said Champagne is like drinking the stars, and I like

:12:56. > :13:01.sometimes been closer to the stars. I like that idea. It is a panel of

:13:02. > :13:08.people giving advice about something people think they know best about.

:13:09. > :13:12.The interesting thing is the story about the Pope and the leadership

:13:13. > :13:15.within the church, and yet again you are seeing a change of tone from the

:13:16. > :13:20.Pope, the challenge he will face is trying to change doctrine, of

:13:21. > :13:28.course. On a Sunday, the best day of the week to start. Lovely to see you

:13:29. > :13:30.both, thank you. Up next, The Film Review.