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:00:00. > :00:00.Abrams' latest film, the psychological thriller 10

:00:00. > :00:12.Cloverfield Lane, the sequel to the 2008 film Cloverfield.

:00:13. > :00:15.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

:00:16. > :00:20.With me are Tim Shipman, political editor of The Sunday Times and

:00:21. > :00:22.Caroline Wheeler, political editor of the Sunday Express Tomorrow's

:00:23. > :00:29.The Observer leads with the fallout from

:00:30. > :00:31.Iain Duncan Smith's resignation, saying the Tory party is at war.

:00:32. > :00:33.The Mail on Sunday claims the Prime Minister

:00:34. > :00:36.unleashed a four letter tirade at Mr Duncan Smith when the Work

:00:37. > :00:42.and Pensions Secretary made clear he was determined to resign.

:00:43. > :00:45.the resignation could do to George Osborne's leadership ambitions.

:00:46. > :00:47.And the Sunday Telegraph says

:00:48. > :00:49.the knives are out for the Chancellor, as he suffers

:00:50. > :00:54.what they call an unprecedented backlash from Tory MPs.

:00:55. > :00:58.The photograph is of the England rugby team, celebrating

:00:59. > :01:00.their Six Nations Grand Slam victory.

:01:01. > :01:04.The Sunday Express has a different lead,

:01:05. > :01:07.reporting that murder trials could be shown live on TV under plans to

:01:08. > :01:10.And for the last ever print edition

:01:11. > :01:12.of the Independent on Sunday, the paper has

:01:13. > :01:21.the simple headline Lights Out and a special report on climate change.

:01:22. > :01:27.Well, so much to get our teeth into, The Mail on Sunday is where we will

:01:28. > :01:35.begin with Iain Duncan Smith's all out. Outrage, Cameron's four C at

:01:36. > :01:46.Iain Duncan Smith, we can't even allude to what those four letters

:01:47. > :01:48.were. Appalling latter is. David Cameron is not happy to say the

:01:49. > :01:52.least when he heard Iain Duncan Smith was resigning. Iain Duncan

:01:53. > :02:00.Smith of course resigned late yesterday. A fairly surprising move,

:02:01. > :02:01.not something we had necessarily seen coming, although

:02:02. > :02:05.behind-the-scenes apparently sources close to him said it has been

:02:06. > :02:09.something he was considering for some time. If you believe the line

:02:10. > :02:12.from Downing Street they were puzzled by why he had gone

:02:13. > :02:16.particularly given they had just climbed down on the thing he was

:02:17. > :02:22.concerned about, of course cuts to the benefits for the disabled.

:02:23. > :02:28.That's where they are coming from. This is what David Cameron muttered

:02:29. > :02:33.those words in response to. Puzzled isn't a word the Prime Minister used

:02:34. > :02:39.when he was exploding with rage. I think he was more than puzzled, he

:02:40. > :02:47.was furious. You 4G expletive were told. -- four letter. It's a very

:02:48. > :02:58.serious thing to say. Iain Duncan Smith resigned by letter from his

:02:59. > :03:01.Bucks home -- we're told. He was surprised when he was phoned up and

:03:02. > :03:06.roundly abused for failing to turn up in person and for not giving them

:03:07. > :03:13.to warning. It was all a bit shambolic to be perfectly honest. He

:03:14. > :03:18.resigned at 8:56pm last night. I know. Not the time of day, his poor

:03:19. > :03:22.old special adviser was pulling her hair out, if you're going to resign

:03:23. > :03:26.on Friday night then do it before the first edition of the papers. But

:03:27. > :03:31.Iain Duncan Smith insisted on hanging around until he had had two

:03:32. > :03:35.quite difficult conversations with the Prime Minister. You, Tim, in

:03:36. > :03:43.your newspaper, the Sunday Times, look at what this might mean for

:03:44. > :03:48.George Osborne. The focus now is really turning to what this means

:03:49. > :03:52.for the Chancellor. There's a lot of it all over the place this evening.

:03:53. > :04:05.We're not saying Osborne is unfit, the man has lost 2.5. Stone, on his

:04:06. > :04:10.way to becoming Prime Minister after David Cameron, but the inevitability

:04:11. > :04:15.of George Osborne has evaporated. Quite a lot of people have come

:04:16. > :04:19.pouring out of the woodwork declaring he is unfit for high

:04:20. > :04:27.office. What is if they are not happy with? A lot of this is quite

:04:28. > :04:32.personal. -- what is it. Osborn lorded it over these people for

:04:33. > :04:36.quite some time. -- Osborne. He's quite influential with the Prime

:04:37. > :04:42.Minister in assigning jobs doles out the cash. If you're someone he wants

:04:43. > :04:47.to impress them the phones you up and asks if there's anything he can

:04:48. > :04:51.do for you -- he doles out the cash. When it doesn't look like

:04:52. > :04:54.you're going to win then you need to fall back on personal charm, and

:04:55. > :05:00.that's not been a great strength of the Chancellor so far. One rather

:05:01. > :05:04.sharp tongued minister here is comparing him first to Frank Spencer

:05:05. > :05:08.and secondly to the Child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which

:05:09. > :05:12.is about as damning an insult I've heard for some time. It's about

:05:13. > :05:14.judgement as well. We've had numerous examples where his

:05:15. > :05:24.judgement has been brought into question. There was the Omnishambles

:05:25. > :05:29.budget in 2008, and there was the tax credit fiasco, which wasn't that

:05:30. > :05:34.long ago, only in November. It's whether or not he has understandably

:05:35. > :05:38.core message of the party and a feeling that because he has

:05:39. > :05:44.appointed his proteges to those high positions, he's reflecting his ideas

:05:45. > :05:46.within an echo chamber. Iain Duncan Smith said last night in his

:05:47. > :05:54.resignation statement that this change to the disability payments

:05:55. > :05:58.was a step too far, indefensible to hand over tax breaks to higher

:05:59. > :06:02.earners while taking away benefits from all vulnerable people. Then we

:06:03. > :06:06.have Baroness Altmann, pensions minister, who has walked alongside

:06:07. > :06:11.Iain Duncan Smith, really letting loose tonight with this personal

:06:12. > :06:16.statement saying she is incredulous by the way he has behaved and the

:06:17. > :06:20.fact Iain Duncan Smith, she says, championed this very package of

:06:21. > :06:24.reforms that he is now used as a reason for resigning. This is one of

:06:25. > :06:29.the more astonishing statements any of us have seen for some time. If

:06:30. > :06:34.one is allowed to inject a note of cynicism, Baroness of modern was

:06:35. > :06:37.busy rounding on George Osborne not so long ago saying he's getting it

:06:38. > :06:44.wrong over pensions -- Baroness Altmann. Today he is getting into

:06:45. > :06:48.Iain Duncan Smith that will make the party leadership more happy with

:06:49. > :06:52.her. She said she found it hard to work with him and he wants to

:06:53. > :06:59.further the campaign to leave the EU. If one was being suspicious you

:07:00. > :07:03.could say large chunks of this statement was written in Downing

:07:04. > :07:07.Street. I know her well, she's an honourable character, but it's

:07:08. > :07:12.interesting she is prepared to sling the Khyber in this way. I'm sure

:07:13. > :07:15.that's not quite the right phrase. There are bits of this reminiscent

:07:16. > :07:22.of the discussions Number 10 have had with us today. There are quotes

:07:23. > :07:28.that I can recognise here. She was also saying... Iain Duncan Smith

:07:29. > :07:31.shut her up. That's another astonishing bit, from a personal

:07:32. > :07:35.perspective for months I've been silenced by him in what I said has

:07:36. > :07:39.been strictly controlled. That must be the weeks when she wasn't being

:07:40. > :07:43.silenced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Prime Minister.

:07:44. > :07:47.Maybe she's being silenced by all of them, if she's trying to get a

:07:48. > :07:51.message out that nobody likes. Quite. Don't forget, Ros Ball G-Man

:07:52. > :08:00.is one of Britain's leading pensions experts -- Ros Ball Jo Oldman. She's

:08:01. > :08:03.coming from the outside and often what goes on in Whitehall is pretty

:08:04. > :08:09.baffling to people who not spend a lot of time there. This may be her

:08:10. > :08:14.natural reaction to being cooped up and told to be quiet. She has

:08:15. > :08:17.certainly told us how she feels. Let's move on and away from what's

:08:18. > :08:22.happening with Iain Duncan Smith, but staying with what is happening

:08:23. > :08:27.with the Conservatives. The Sunday Telegraph, Brexit campaign is built

:08:28. > :08:31.on fantasy claims Sir John Major, former Prime Minister, who wasn't

:08:32. > :08:36.always exactly keen on what was going on with the European Union in

:08:37. > :08:39.his own day, was he? He had a tough time from his own people and in the

:08:40. > :08:44.finest traditions of what we've seen from the Prime Minister, he had his

:08:45. > :08:48.own words for the Euro sceptics in those days. You have to feel a bit

:08:49. > :08:52.for Sir John, he's made it on the front of the Telegraph this evening,

:08:53. > :08:56.but he's been bumped from Andrew Marr tomorrow and been replaced by

:08:57. > :09:01.Iain Duncan Smith. Good to see him getting an outing here. He's seen as

:09:02. > :09:04.an elder statesman and Downing Street lakes to wheel him out and

:09:05. > :09:07.use him because he's popular with the waverers in the middle that

:09:08. > :09:14.think... My mum thinks he's a nice chap and might listen to what he

:09:15. > :09:18.says about Europe. Why is he saying it's a fantasy to think of Brexit?

:09:19. > :09:23.He's giving a scene Jo similar warning to one we have seen before,

:09:24. > :09:27.saying there would be economic disaster ahead and the breakup of

:09:28. > :09:31.the UK if Britain votes to leave the EU. He said the outcome would

:09:32. > :09:34.trigger a second referendum on Scottish independence, which is

:09:35. > :09:39.another one of those arguments we have seen made before which has

:09:40. > :09:46.struck a fear chord in everybody's hearts, because everyone knows

:09:47. > :09:48.Scotland has a different perception of Europe to the rest of the UK.

:09:49. > :09:51.It's an interesting intervention, you can see why he's done it,

:09:52. > :09:55.perhaps that's why he did it, because they knew he was going to be

:09:56. > :10:02.on Marr. I don't see a definitive new argument from those wanting us

:10:03. > :10:06.to remain. It's up to the Leave campaign... This is the tragedy with

:10:07. > :10:10.this debate, we've heard every argument that's likely to be made

:10:11. > :10:16.and we are still 95 days from the key moment. We will be back again.

:10:17. > :10:21.Who knows what could happen within the Conservative party within that

:10:22. > :10:24.time. That's the problem, this story could become the Conservative party

:10:25. > :10:29.in all out civil war. There's probably more days of that to come.

:10:30. > :10:33.And for the government, the risk is they can put up their grid and

:10:34. > :10:37.advance these arguments and put up what they want, but events can

:10:38. > :10:41.intervene. Migration crisis, if there's a terrorist attack, these

:10:42. > :10:45.things could affect the outcome of this in a way they can't control.

:10:46. > :10:52.Sunday express, a different story, Old Bailey live on TV. Which bits of

:10:53. > :10:56.a case would be shown? This is going to be a pilot scheme. The government

:10:57. > :11:02.has a clear intention, this is the lower action of travel they want to

:11:03. > :11:07.go in, the Ministry of Justice will lay a proposal on Monday to make

:11:08. > :11:10.this pilot scheme a reality. They will film the sentencing statement

:11:11. > :11:15.the judges make. They're doing it in eight courts across the country and

:11:16. > :11:18.the Old Bailey is one of them, which is significant, because the Old

:11:19. > :11:22.Bailey normally gets the most prolific offenders and high profile

:11:23. > :11:26.murder cases we ever see. I must stress it's a pilot, although there

:11:27. > :11:32.is Presidents, because they've started to film in the court of

:11:33. > :11:37.appeal. Britain is usually a way behind other countries. We've seen

:11:38. > :11:41.other trials across other countries before with Oscar Pistorius in South

:11:42. > :11:46.Africa and OJ Simpson in America, Amanda Knox. How much appetite is

:11:47. > :11:50.there for this? I wonder how much appetite there is for looking at the

:11:51. > :11:56.sentencing. The danger is unless you get the Monty Python singing judge

:11:57. > :12:00.or something like that it could be rather jump. Most broadcasters for

:12:01. > :12:05.big murder trials would carry that footage. The interesting thing is to

:12:06. > :12:10.see if it expands further and we could get into celebrity barristers

:12:11. > :12:15.strutting their stuff. Anyone who has watched Making A Murderer has

:12:16. > :12:19.seen there's an appetite for true crime on the television, let's see

:12:20. > :12:25.if it takes off. We shall. Finally, lights for the Independent on

:12:26. > :12:29.Sunday. Here's the last print edition it says of this newspaper,

:12:30. > :12:35.but the news never stops, we've got used to these very striking front

:12:36. > :12:40.pages the Independent on Sunday. This is the picture here because it

:12:41. > :12:45.is Earth hour across the world. Very sad. Those of us who work in print

:12:46. > :12:50.don't like to see any publication close, especially not one which is

:12:51. > :12:53.as interesting and different as the Independent on Sunday, which has a

:12:54. > :12:58.lot of fine journalists working with it. I'm baffled by the picture to be

:12:59. > :13:04.honest, it doesn't immediately scream Independent. That is their

:13:05. > :13:08.offices. Especially when they've got an interview with the Prime

:13:09. > :13:13.Minister, which I'm quite jealous of. They are talking about optimism

:13:14. > :13:17.for climate change and lights out. A sad day but we will still feature

:13:18. > :13:22.them on the BBC. We will let you go home and go to sleep before you

:13:23. > :13:27.become completely catatonic. Thanks for joining us, it's been a very

:13:28. > :13:28.interesting evening. Coming up next it's time for The Film