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Hello and welcome to our Sunday morning edition of The Papers. | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
With me are Kate Devlin, Political Correspondent | :00:17. | :00:17. | |
and the Sunday Times Editorial Director Eleanor Mills. | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
The Observer leads with the fallout from Iain Duncan Smith's | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
resignation, saying the Tory party is at war. | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
The Mail on Sunday claims the Prime Minister unleashed a four | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
letter tirade at Mr Duncan Smith when the Work and Pensions Secretary | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
made clear he was determined to resign. | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
The Sunday Times focuses on what the resignation could do | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
to George Osborne's leadership ambitions. | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
And the Sunday Telegraph says the knives are out | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
for the Chancellor, as he suffers what they call an "unprecedented | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
The photograph is of the England rugby team, | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
celebrating their Six Nations grand slam victory. | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
The Sunday Express has a different lead, reporting that murder trials | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
could be shown live on TV, under plans to show justice being done. | :01:05. | :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 special report | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
There's plenty to talk about. Welcomer ladies. Let's start with | :01:19. | :01:34. | |
the Sunday Times. The big story today is Iain Duncan Smith attacking | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
George Osborne's budget as unfit. We've got a good chronological | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
timeline of what happened and a series of increasingly acrimonious | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
exchanges between Downing Street and IDS. I think this has been a | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
simmering boil, Iain Duncan Smith has been getting increasingly | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
frustrated with George Osborne. There's lots of people around and | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
mood music about how IDS thought that for universal credit you would | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
have to front-load it so it would cost a bit more to begin with in | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
order to meet everyone over to the universal benefit. He's been | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
complaining the Treasury have not been agreeing to that. The cuts to | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
the disability benefit is the last round of an increasingly acrimonious | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
series of salvos and he's marched out. It sounds like it got really | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
vicious between him and David Cameron with insults flying. This | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
thing about him being dishonourable, anyone who has ever met IDS would | :02:39. | :02:49. | |
know that would sting. He really believes his social justice agenda. | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
He is one of those politicians who mean something. He's not just in | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
there for the greater glory. Read the headline in the Telegraph | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
particularly, knives out for Osborne. It's a he says, she says. | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
Everyone is coming out of the woodwork. It's not pleasant to | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
watch. AB de Villiers it's not. It is instructed to remember that only | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
a month ago the Conservatives were briefing that this is not the 1990s | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
all over again. They were not giving to tear each other apart over | :03:22. | :03:30. | |
Europe. Europe is in a massive row at the moment. I think they are | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
tearing themselves out, I think this Thai rate would remind them of a | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
similar tie rate by John Major back in the 1990s. What does this mean | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
for the Chancellor? It's difficult at the moment. You can't | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
underestimate how angry rank and file Tory MPs who would have been | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
very loyal in the past are about this issue. It just seems to them | :03:59. | :04:07. | |
such a tin ear to be cutting so much from people with disabilities. At | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
the same time as offering a tax cut. Your paper has an interesting piece | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
when it talks about trying to fulfil a self-imposed fiscal issue which is | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
basically that George Osborne has said he would get a massive surplus | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
in the budget by 2020 and he's determined to stick to that. IDS | :04:34. | :04:42. | |
accuses Osborne of playing politics. When I was talking about IDS being | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
an honourable politician, I think he is desperately trying to make poorer | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
peoples lives better. He did have a real, seen conversion. Some of the | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
commentators this morning are saying, what about... Why didn't he | :04:58. | :05:05. | |
stick to his guns beforehand? Also, since there is no longer a | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
coalition, is he finding it more difficult to temper what he sees as | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
perhaps the things he doesn't like George Osborne doing. The other | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
story around today is David laws, talking about how the government | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
were being fishy about how much money they needed for the National | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
Health Service. I think that's right, under the coalition IDS had a | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
lot of support from the Lib Dems. And since they've gone it has become | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
more difficult. I think he also really genuinely loathes George | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
Osborne and he saw this as a point to really resign with maximum | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
damage. How much of a big explosion can I cause as I go. We thought | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
Osborne didn't really believe in we are all in it together, his playing | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
politics for his own ends. In his letter where he says we're not all | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
in this together that's very damaging to George Osborne if he's | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
trying to look leader after the referendum. It's a sign of the | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
danger that Osborne is in that Michael Gove has had to come out | :06:13. | :06:21. | |
today, adding this intellectual heft to the campaign to leave the | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
European Union. His piece in the Sunday Telegraph is so weedy. It's | :06:26. | :06:35. | |
trying to sit on the fence. It's not a ringing endorsement of either of | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
them. The front page of the Observer, the immoral cuts as IDS | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
called them. That could come from Jeremy Corbyn. You can see why | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
Cameron and people are furious. Do you think that this attack by Iain | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
Duncan Smith, will it backfire on him, because already Ross Alterman | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
is saying it's more about Brexit than cuts -- Ross Alterman -- Ros | :07:03. | :07:13. | |
Altmann. She says it's all to do with the European Union. I think has | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
well these attacks on Osborne today make it look as if it's more to do | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
with the European Union. What happens after the votes, suggestions | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
today there would be a leadership challenge against Cameron almost | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
immediately after the vote. Because of a weakened Osborne. That is what | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
the Sunday Times is saying, because this would weaken George Osborne so | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
much that after the referendum he wouldn't have it handed over by | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
Cameron. But there would be a leadership challenge. The real | :07:49. | :07:58. | |
spectre is Boris. He is a fellow supporter of Brexit and on the side | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
of IDS. Have we heard from him? He is away skiing. A really good front | :08:06. | :08:16. | |
page on the mail on Sunday. We are moving on to the Daily Express. | :08:17. | :08:24. | |
Cameras in court. This has been quite contentious. Even when we were | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
at first thinking about cameras in Parliament, there's always been an | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
issue about cameras in public places like that where public people might | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
be seen. It's very interesting what the pilot is going to do. It is | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
going to record, and not actually show but just record the moment, the | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
judges comments and summing up and why he has made the decision he has. | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
I think that is potentially an interesting way to do it. The | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
argument has aways been, on the one hand justice has to be done and be | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
seen to be done which is incredibly important to democracy. On the other | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
hand, fears about sensationalism and OJ Simpson's trial but also | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
intimidation of witnesses, to think they are going to be on camera | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
whenever they give evidence. It sounds like they have come up with a | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
slightly, possibly workable solution. Is it something the public | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
would want to see? I did know if they would watch it or not. The | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
juicy bits of trials is everyone giving evidence. I think it would be | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
interesting for people to see what judges say which is sensible and | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
doesn't get reported but in the media. I covered the OJ Simpson | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
trial. It was absolutely... You couldn't move away from it. It was | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
like the first reality TV. It's no accident that the Kardashians were | :09:54. | :10:04. | |
born from the OJ Simpson trial. Let's move on to the times. We have | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
this story about the abducted schoolgirls who seem to be have | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
forgotten. These are the schoolgirls, nearly 250 schoolgirls | :10:15. | :10:22. | |
were abducted from northern Nigeria two years ago. I sent one of our | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
best foreign reporters back to Nigeria, for five months she has | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
been trying to find out what's happened to them. Michelle Obama, | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
David Cameron, everyone is saying this is a stain on the soul of the | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
world. Michelle Obama said we have seen these girls, we would do | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
everything we can to get them back. There is a great story that says | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
that. They did know at various points where they were and they | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
could have got them out and nothing has been done which I think is a | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
massive scandal. How long did it take to do this story? Five months. | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
This is our big investigation and I think it's a really important piece | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
everyone should read. Why has it become the forgotten story? It's | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
quite difficult to work out. It was such a big story at the time. | :11:15. | :11:24. | |
Global. 6 million tweets. Every celebrity you can imagine. Then the | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
whole thing was forgotten. This is the problem with celebrities getting | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
involved in very serious, difficult international problems. I don't | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
object to celebrities getting involved but I think what's awful is | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
everyone thinks because they have sent a tweet that they've done | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
something about it. The reality is these girls are in the jungle, | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
married off to terrorists, being raped constantly no one is doing | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
anything about it. If it had been someone else do you think someone | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
would have done something about it? It would be hard to imagine if 250 | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
white British or American schoolgirls went missing two years | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
on they would still be in that situation. Is there any sense | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
anything is being done, that there is a re-emergence of a willingness | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
to do something? I'm hoping our story today might have that effect. | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
I really think this is an outrage. Another Times story, London on | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
alert. This is really terrible. The National crime agency and the police | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
are warning we might get a situation where simile to in Paris, we got | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
simultaneous attacks in London. They are saying they've got the Army on | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
stand-by and the SAS and other units to deal with a dirty bomb. It | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
reminds us how serious the threat we face is. And the political fallout | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
from something like that. It is a huge responsibility keeping everyone | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
safe. You can't have 100% security. It's incredibly difficult to try and | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
deal with this style of attack. The police were previously told to train | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
for three happening at the same time, now they are being told to | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
train for between seven and ten. It is basically impossible. There are | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
shades of going back to Northern Ireland when we were growing up, | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
when everyone, the public has to be vigilant at these times. The police | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
can't be everywhere. Absolutely. It's easy for people to forget that. | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
If they see a bag lying beside the road or anything like that. We all | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
need to be vigilant. President Obama has gone to Cuba. What we make of | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
that? I still don't know what it's going to mean. I know what it will | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
mean for President Obama. He said he would do this in the very early | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
stages of his presidency. It's one of the things that he's trying to | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
take off his list. This morning there was an announcement about | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
Hotel openings in Cuba. American hotels opening in Cuba. It looks as | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
if there will be business investment on the back of this which in itself | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
is very interesting. I think many questions remain about what it will | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
actually mean in the long-term. To begin with it was going to be their | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
would-be flights to America. I think there's been lots of trouble because | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
lots of big European firms have been piling in, buying up the best sites | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
and the Americans are bit cross. He is going to meet, as well as Raul | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
Castro, the dissidents weather Raul Castro likes it or not. I think he | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
has two. Given how many Cubans are in Florida. It is a very difficult | :15:01. | :15:09. | |
one in terms of American politics. We have to end with the independent | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
with a heavy heart but a fantastic front page. It's really sad it's the | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
last ever print edition of the Independent. Run by my good friend | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
Lisa Markwell. Really sad from a female perspective, she is one of | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
the few female editors of a big newspaper. I think it's really sad. | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
She has done brilliantly on a Sunday to highlight different kinds of | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
agendas and do some fantastic writing with a tiny budget and a | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
team of 12. It is a plucky liked going out which is sad for everyone. | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
It is sad to see a whole title no longer on the shelf. One of their | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
hallmark has been these very eye-catching, brave front pages. And | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
to do with climate change. And refugees which is a subject that | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
sometimes gets lost. Do you think we will maintain a link with it when | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
its online? Would we be sitting here talking about it if it was only | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
online? I do read a lot of stuff online as well. But we don't sit | :16:18. | :16:28. | |
here talking about Buzzfeed, do we? And the thing about the mag unease, | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
-- magazine. People love a Sunday paper. I would say that but I think | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
it's true. How much will it be missed? I'll miss it. They are | :16:40. | :16:48. | |
moving online, they say they are going to do the kind of stories | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
they've always done. In terms of a physical presence, reading it on a | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
Sunday. But Lisa Markwell and her team went be their online. | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
Just a reminder we take a look at tomorrow's front pages every | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
evening at 10.30 and 11.30 here on BBC News. | :17:11. | :17:24. | |
It's the vernal equinox today, signalling for those who followed | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
the astronomical calendar, the first day of spring. | :17:29. | :17:32. |