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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be | :00:14. | :00:22. | |
With me are Tim Shipman, political editor of The Sunday Times | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
and Caroline Wheeler, political editor of | :00:27. | :00:27. | |
The Observer leads with the fallout from Iain Duncan Smith's | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
resignation, saying the Tory party is at war. | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
The Mail on Sunday claims the Prime Minister unleashed a four | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
letter tirade at Mr Duncan Smith when the Work and Pensions Secretary | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
made clear he was determined to resign. | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
The Sunday Times focuses on what the resignation could do | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
to George Osborne's leadership ambitions. | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
And the Sunday Telegraph says the knives are out | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
for the Chancellor, as he suffers what they call an "unprecedented | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
The Sunday Express has a different lead, reporting that murder trials | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
could be shown live on TV, in a bid to show justice being done. | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
And for the last ever print edition of the Independent on Sunday, | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
the paper has the simple headline "lights out" and a report | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
A bonanza for people like this. You could hardly believe what you are | :01:18. | :01:32. | |
seen when we all saw the story drop last night that Ian Duncan Smith had | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
resigned. With the mail on Sunday. Expletives | :01:35. | :01:46. | |
at Chequers. Expletives on the telephone, we are told. In other | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
newspapers as well, I should stress. I have had more cans of Diet Coke | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
today than I have had hours sleep since this book. Ian Duncan Smith | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
said in his resignation letter to David Cameron yesterday, by car, I | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
am told. At the taxpayers expense. Probably. It arrived at the primers | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
to reforms him up and says, is there anything I can do to keep you? And | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
please don't resign immediately, have a think. Ian Duncan Smith | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
phones back a couple of hours later and says I am off and I will issue | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
my letter to the media. At flash point in the prem and Mr Gore 's | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
desert. He calls him dishonourable for his behaviour because he didn't | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
have the guts to turn up and resign in person. The reason that she was | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
supposedly resigning, the cuts to disability benefits, he had not | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
bothered to mention to the Prime Minister before. David Cameron is | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
furious. There is a huge lead in the Sunday Times as well on this. And in | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
the Sunday express. Probably in the Telegraph as well. It has been a | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
very well briefed story and it has a right old mess. We have all been | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
waiting for weeks that there is a civil war and put the party but | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
tonight there actually is. And you actually seen anything like this | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
before? In all the times you've been covering politics. In his letter, he | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
was very plain and explaining why he was calling. And then the reaction | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
that we also last night. It was astonishing and some senses. There | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
was a strange delay from when he announced he was calling and number | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
ten responding. I am told from sources close to Smith that there | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
had been some warning signs that he wasn't happy for some time and it | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
was some suggestion that he had been unhappy about the direction of | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
policy for some time and particularly on the cuts agenda, he | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
could see that cuts were being made at all costs and putting in jeopardy | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
what he saw as his latest work, which is around the agenda of making | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
work pay. He wants to be seen as a social reformer. That is his legacy. | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
He has people close to him referring to him in those terms. Will he be a | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
light to get away with that? Some people have an in touch as saying | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
that you have to remember that has legacy has meant hardship for a | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
great deal of people. And that is how number ten want to spend it. | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
That he was looking for an excuse to go. He was not happy with the way | :04:25. | :04:33. | |
that things were going. There is a suggestion he wanted to cause pain | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
and embarrassment to the Chancellor, who is in favour of the prime | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
ministers renegotiation deal to stay in Europe. If you speak to those who | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
are close to Iain Duncan Smith, they are very determined that this was | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
about the fact that he wanted -- you felt that his whole life 's work was | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
being undermined by the slicing of the budget. But as luck at the | :04:55. | :05:08. | |
Sunday Times. This shreds as attack -- has chances of getting to number | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
ten. George Osborne has been this dominant figure in politics for a | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
long time. All the people that support and the man himself have | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
been trying to make it years the inevitable next leader after David | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
Cameron. He offers people job got -- jobs, he gives my to constituencies | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
and he gets a lot of support. Since it looks like he will not win, | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
people come crawling out of the woodwork. What we have huge night as | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
all-out war on George Osborne by ministers, MPs, who are sick to | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
death of him walking at over the party. There are people sing he is | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
unfit for the job, people come heading into the jail catcher in the | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. -- comparing him to the jailed catcher. | :05:57. | :06:11. | |
-- child catcher. We also have the revolution that last week one of the | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
people closest to him was telling people that he made not run. If you | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
make not win, he will not risk the humiliation of running. One voice is | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
awful quiet in this also far as Boris Johnson. She is on holiday, | :06:30. | :06:39. | |
skiing. He is -- he will be delighted. Ever since Boris Johnson | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
came out in favour of the exit for -- from Europe, his popularity has | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
soared. At the same rate that George Osborne popularity has diminished. | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
George Osborne has known that his popularity was on the wane. There | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
was a tax credits row last autumn when he was damaged. This rebellion | :07:01. | :07:11. | |
over the personal independence payment has shown that he has | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
misjudged the mood of the party once again. Want is recoverable but twice | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
not suck. Everyone needs a friend and George Osborne 's rent as | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
Michael Gove, coming to his side. The one member of the true that is | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
trying to remain friends with everybody. Osborne invited Gove over | :07:30. | :07:40. | |
to his tax funded home to be nice to him and keep it all sweet. Meikle | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
Corp has done a piece for the Sunday Telegraph saying that everybody | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
needs to pull together. I think the Secretary of State for Justice | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
should probably read all the stuff that we had just been looking at and | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
see what chance that is of everybody remaining friends. It is pretty wall | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
at the moment. But is usually interesting to political journalists | :08:01. | :08:10. | |
like you, but, I'm almost you for you, but what I want to know is what | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
this is matter to the country? Why would people who don't follow the | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
ins and outs at with spinster need to worry about this? I think at the | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
heart of this there is a row about something that is fundamental. It is | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
to do with the direction of travel for the country, it is about how we | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
move forward. The flashing lights of the economy are plunking away and we | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
are trying to get our books back into the red, so that we can protect | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
ourselves of any shocks that made commented future. It is all about | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
how that will happen and basically, Ian Duncan Smith has tried to | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
protect his empire and he is saying that he doesn't think we can cut and | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
cut and cut at the expense of things that need it most well at the time | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
that Mike at the same time as giving tax breaks to the high income | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
earners. The other thing you get with others in fighting in one party | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
if you think back to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, it was all them | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
arguing with each other and the opposition at that time was largely | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
irrelevant. The fact that the Tories feel that they are able to have this | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
ridiculous Civil War on the front page of every paper is partly a | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
function of the fact that they do not think that Jeremy Corbyn is a | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
threat to them. That is special about her CD as a bookish as for the | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
country. If you don't have an effective opposition, this is what | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
happens. There was a poll that put carbon ahead for the first time. -- | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
Jeremy Corbyn. The public does not like political parties that are | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
fighting each other all the time. A couple of quick stories away from | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
the Conservatives. The Sunday express their stocking about plans | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
to screen the moderate trials. Not the whole trial, but certain parts | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
of it. There has been talk about this for a long time now. It is all | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
about open justice. What the proposal as it is that they will | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
have a pilot scheme at the Old Bailey, to film the sentencing | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
remarks of just -- judges, whether viewed to in the future appealing -- | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
paving the way for the jet -- tell the position of the high-profile | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
trials. There is precedent for this across the rest of the world. We saw | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
the Oscar Pistorius trial, the OJ Simpson trial, and I think this is | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
just about seeing that we need to evolve our criminal justice system | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
into the 21st-century. They have been doing it in the Court of Appeal | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
for well. The real question is comes next. Is this the thin end of the | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
wedge when we suddenly get the British barristers grandstanding | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
like Johnnie Cochran back in the good old days? There are judiciary | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
is probably scored to adapt to the skin of thing than almost anywhere | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
in the world and there is a positive development. It will be interesting | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
to see how far it goes in the years to come. Finally, the last and | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
addition of the Independent on Sunday. Lights out, it says. They | :11:15. | :11:25. | |
are talking about the reasons for optimism on climate change. It is | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
very sad to see the paper going online. I have friends who work | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
there. I think it is a fantastic newspaper. Pound for pound, in terms | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
of the budget they have and the staff they have, they put out a good | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
product. It is a great shame to see it going online only. We need to | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
embrace the future. They can make a success of a deer, or to the good | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
and David Cameron has given an interview this evening. No escape | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
from politics. There are some cracking lines on there. One of the | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
things that David Cameron actually says is that he would not rule out | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
serving in a future government. Once he stood down as Clemens to, he has | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
said he will not serve a third term, but he may come back and read up in | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
the parklands and the future. Boris Johnson will be delighted to offer | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
him the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. That is a further | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
papers. -- That's it for | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
The Papers this hour. You'll both be back at 11:30pm | :12:26. | :12:27. | |
for another look at the stories The Easter weekend is within sight. | :12:28. | :12:51. | |
The weather pattern across the | :12:52. | :12:52. |