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Hello and welcome to our Sunday morning edition of The Papers.

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With me are Kate Devlin, Political Correspondent

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and the Sunday Times Editorial Director Eleanor Mills.

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The Observer leads with the fallout from Iain Duncan Smith's

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resignation, saying the Tory party is at war.

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The Mail on Sunday claims the Prime Minister unleashed a four

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letter tirade at Mr Duncan Smith when the Work and Pensions Secretary

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made clear he was determined to resign.

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The Sunday Times focuses on what the resignation could do

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to George Osborne's leadership ambitions.

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And the Sunday Telegraph says the knives are out

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for the Chancellor, as he suffers what they call an "unprecedented

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The photograph is of the England rugby team,

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celebrating their Six Nations grand slam victory.

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The Sunday Express has a different lead, reporting that murder trials

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could be shown live on TV, under plans to show justice being done.

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And for the last ever print edition of the Independent on Sunday,

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the paper has the simple headline Lights Out and a special report

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There's plenty to talk about. Welcomer ladies. Let's start with

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the Sunday Times. The big story today is Iain Duncan Smith attacking

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George Osborne's budget as unfit. We've got a good chronological

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timeline of what happened and a series of increasingly acrimonious

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exchanges between Downing Street and IDS. I think this has been a

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simmering boil, Iain Duncan Smith has been getting increasingly

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frustrated with George Osborne. There's lots of people around and

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mood music about how IDS thought that for universal credit you would

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have to front-load it so it would cost a bit more to begin with in

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order to meet everyone over to the universal benefit. He's been

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complaining the Treasury have not been agreeing to that. The cuts to

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the disability benefit is the last round of an increasingly acrimonious

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series of salvos and he's marched out. It sounds like it got really

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vicious between him and David Cameron with insults flying. This

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thing about him being dishonourable, anyone who has ever met IDS would

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know that would sting. He really believes his social justice agenda.

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He is one of those politicians who mean something. He's not just in

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there for the greater glory. Read the headline in the Telegraph

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particularly, knives out for Osborne. It's a he says, she says.

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Everyone is coming out of the woodwork. It's not pleasant to

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watch. AB de Villiers it's not. It is instructed to remember that only

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a month ago the Conservatives were briefing that this is not the 1990s

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all over again. They were not giving to tear each other apart over

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Europe. Europe is in a massive row at the moment. I think they are

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tearing themselves out, I think this Thai rate would remind them of a

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similar tie rate by John Major back in the 1990s. What does this mean

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for the Chancellor? It's difficult at the moment. You can't

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underestimate how angry rank and file Tory MPs who would have been

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very loyal in the past are about this issue. It just seems to them

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such a tin ear to be cutting so much from people with disabilities. At

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the same time as offering a tax cut. Your paper has an interesting piece

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when it talks about trying to fulfil a self-imposed fiscal issue which is

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basically that George Osborne has said he would get a massive surplus

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in the budget by 2020 and he's determined to stick to that. IDS

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accuses Osborne of playing politics. When I was talking about IDS being

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an honourable politician, I think he is desperately trying to make poorer

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peoples lives better. He did have a real, seen conversion. Some of the

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commentators this morning are saying, what about... Why didn't he

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stick to his guns beforehand? Also, since there is no longer a

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coalition, is he finding it more difficult to temper what he sees as

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perhaps the things he doesn't like George Osborne doing. The other

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story around today is David laws, talking about how the government

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were being fishy about how much money they needed for the National

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Health Service. I think that's right, under the coalition IDS had a

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lot of support from the Lib Dems. And since they've gone it has become

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more difficult. I think he also really genuinely loathes George

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Osborne and he saw this as a point to really resign with maximum

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damage. How much of a big explosion can I cause as I go. We thought

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Osborne didn't really believe in we are all in it together, his playing

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politics for his own ends. In his letter where he says we're not all

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in this together that's very damaging to George Osborne if he's

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trying to look leader after the referendum. It's a sign of the

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danger that Osborne is in that Michael Gove has had to come out

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today, adding this intellectual heft to the campaign to leave the

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European Union. His piece in the Sunday Telegraph is so weedy. It's

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trying to sit on the fence. It's not a ringing endorsement of either of

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them. The front page of the Observer, the immoral cuts as IDS

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called them. That could come from Jeremy Corbyn. You can see why

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Cameron and people are furious. Do you think that this attack by Iain

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Duncan Smith, will it backfire on him, because already Ross Alterman

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is saying it's more about Brexit than cuts -- Ross Alterman -- Ros

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Altmann. She says it's all to do with the European Union. I think has

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well these attacks on Osborne today make it look as if it's more to do

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with the European Union. What happens after the votes, suggestions

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today there would be a leadership challenge against Cameron almost

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immediately after the vote. Because of a weakened Osborne. That is what

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the Sunday Times is saying, because this would weaken George Osborne so

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much that after the referendum he wouldn't have it handed over by

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Cameron. But there would be a leadership challenge. The real

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spectre is Boris. He is a fellow supporter of Brexit and on the side

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of IDS. Have we heard from him? He is away skiing. A really good front

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page on the mail on Sunday. We are moving on to the Daily Express.

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Cameras in court. This has been quite contentious. Even when we were

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at first thinking about cameras in Parliament, there's always been an

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issue about cameras in public places like that where public people might

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be seen. It's very interesting what the pilot is going to do. It is

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going to record, and not actually show but just record the moment, the

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judges comments and summing up and why he has made the decision he has.

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I think that is potentially an interesting way to do it. The

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argument has aways been, on the one hand justice has to be done and be

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seen to be done which is incredibly important to democracy. On the other

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hand, fears about sensationalism and OJ Simpson's trial but also

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intimidation of witnesses, to think they are going to be on camera

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whenever they give evidence. It sounds like they have come up with a

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slightly, possibly workable solution. Is it something the public

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would want to see? I did know if they would watch it or not. The

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juicy bits of trials is everyone giving evidence. I think it would be

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interesting for people to see what judges say which is sensible and

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doesn't get reported but in the media. I covered the OJ Simpson

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trial. It was absolutely... You couldn't move away from it. It was

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like the first reality TV. It's no accident that the Kardashians were

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born from the OJ Simpson trial. Let's move on to the times. We have

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this story about the abducted schoolgirls who seem to be have

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forgotten. These are the schoolgirls, nearly 250 schoolgirls

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were abducted from northern Nigeria two years ago. I sent one of our

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best foreign reporters back to Nigeria, for five months she has

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been trying to find out what's happened to them. Michelle Obama,

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David Cameron, everyone is saying this is a stain on the soul of the

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world. Michelle Obama said we have seen these girls, we would do

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everything we can to get them back. There is a great story that says

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that. They did know at various points where they were and they

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could have got them out and nothing has been done which I think is a

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massive scandal. How long did it take to do this story? Five months.

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This is our big investigation and I think it's a really important piece

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everyone should read. Why has it become the forgotten story? It's

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quite difficult to work out. It was such a big story at the time.

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Global. 6 million tweets. Every celebrity you can imagine. Then the

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whole thing was forgotten. This is the problem with celebrities getting

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involved in very serious, difficult international problems. I don't

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object to celebrities getting involved but I think what's awful is

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everyone thinks because they have sent a tweet that they've done

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something about it. The reality is these girls are in the jungle,

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married off to terrorists, being raped constantly no one is doing

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anything about it. If it had been someone else do you think someone

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would have done something about it? It would be hard to imagine if 250

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white British or American schoolgirls went missing two years

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on they would still be in that situation. Is there any sense

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anything is being done, that there is a re-emergence of a willingness

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to do something? I'm hoping our story today might have that effect.

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I really think this is an outrage. Another Times story, London on

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alert. This is really terrible. The National crime agency and the police

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are warning we might get a situation where simile to in Paris, we got

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simultaneous attacks in London. They are saying they've got the Army on

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stand-by and the SAS and other units to deal with a dirty bomb. It

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reminds us how serious the threat we face is. And the political fallout

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from something like that. It is a huge responsibility keeping everyone

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safe. You can't have 100% security. It's incredibly difficult to try and

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deal with this style of attack. The police were previously told to train

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for three happening at the same time, now they are being told to

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train for between seven and ten. It is basically impossible. There are

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shades of going back to Northern Ireland when we were growing up,

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when everyone, the public has to be vigilant at these times. The police

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can't be everywhere. Absolutely. It's easy for people to forget that.

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If they see a bag lying beside the road or anything like that. We all

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need to be vigilant. President Obama has gone to Cuba. What we make of

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that? I still don't know what it's going to mean. I know what it will

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mean for President Obama. He said he would do this in the very early

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stages of his presidency. It's one of the things that he's trying to

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take off his list. This morning there was an announcement about

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Hotel openings in Cuba. American hotels opening in Cuba. It looks as

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if there will be business investment on the back of this which in itself

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is very interesting. I think many questions remain about what it will

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actually mean in the long-term. To begin with it was going to be their

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would-be flights to America. I think there's been lots of trouble because

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lots of big European firms have been piling in, buying up the best sites

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and the Americans are bit cross. He is going to meet, as well as Raul

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Castro, the dissidents weather Raul Castro likes it or not. I think he

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has two. Given how many Cubans are in Florida. It is a very difficult

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one in terms of American politics. We have to end with the independent

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with a heavy heart but a fantastic front page. It's really sad it's the

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last ever print edition of the Independent. Run by my good friend

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Lisa Markwell. Really sad from a female perspective, she is one of

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the few female editors of a big newspaper. I think it's really sad.

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She has done brilliantly on a Sunday to highlight different kinds of

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agendas and do some fantastic writing with a tiny budget and a

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team of 12. It is a plucky liked going out which is sad for everyone.

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It is sad to see a whole title no longer on the shelf. One of their

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hallmark has been these very eye-catching, brave front pages. And

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to do with climate change. And refugees which is a subject that

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sometimes gets lost. Do you think we will maintain a link with it when

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its online? Would we be sitting here talking about it if it was only

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online? I do read a lot of stuff online as well. But we don't sit

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here talking about Buzzfeed, do we? And the thing about the mag unease,

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-- magazine. People love a Sunday paper. I would say that but I think

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it's true. How much will it be missed? I'll miss it. They are

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moving online, they say they are going to do the kind of stories

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they've always done. In terms of a physical presence, reading it on a

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Sunday. But Lisa Markwell and her team went be their online.

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Just a reminder we take a look at tomorrow's front pages every

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evening at 10.30 and 11.30 here on BBC News.

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It's the vernal equinox today, signalling for those who followed

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the astronomical calendar, the first day of spring.

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