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:00:19. > :00:25.So welcome to look ahead at what the papers are bringing us tomorrow, we

:00:26. > :00:29.are joint and night by the media commentator at the Daily Telegraph

:00:30. > :00:34.Neal Mitchell and also we are joined by the former special adviser to

:00:35. > :00:46.Harriet Harman. Let us have a look at some of the front pages in

:00:47. > :00:51.detail, we are going to start, with the i, it has the headline united in

:00:52. > :00:54.grief and parliament is to be called on Monday. The Financial Times also

:00:55. > :00:59.highlights how the different critical parties have come together

:01:00. > :01:03.following the killing. The Telegraph says that female MPs have warned of

:01:04. > :01:12.the threat of fatal attacks. The Daily Express prints what it says

:01:13. > :01:17.was Jo Cox's last two words. And the Mira concentrates on the MP's role

:01:18. > :01:27.as a mother, a full-page picture of her with her children. The focus in

:01:28. > :01:32.a lot of the papers, is very much on Jo Cox. You actually knew her? Yes I

:01:33. > :01:38.knew her and I know her husband Brendan. She really was, at a time

:01:39. > :01:43.when people are very cynical about politics, she did represent the best

:01:44. > :01:47.about politics, she was bright, principled, passionate and also she

:01:48. > :01:54.came into politics having had already, lots of causes that she

:01:55. > :01:57.cared passionately about, a huge critical mission, she had campaigned

:01:58. > :02:01.on human rights issues, and I think the thing that summed it up, I was

:02:02. > :02:05.in the individual in Parliament Square and there were so many

:02:06. > :02:10.people. And there was a broad and people were writing things, saying

:02:11. > :02:14.things like "I was saddened by the death but I will be inspired by all

:02:15. > :02:20.life", that is how a lot of people saw it. What do you think she would

:02:21. > :02:24.have made the focus on her life as a campaigner, a politician and a

:02:25. > :02:29.mother, some of the words that came from her colleague's mouth, that she

:02:30. > :02:32.be allowed to leave a legacy. The language and behaviour of

:02:33. > :02:38.politicians needs to change and we need to look to Jo Cox as an

:02:39. > :02:43.example? She is a very humble person, she didn't want to ever be

:02:44. > :02:50.forcing herself to be a centre of attention but I think the legacy she

:02:51. > :02:56.must leave,, had those very beautiful words. She was very much

:02:57. > :03:00.about love overhead, everything she did, was to get to a compassionate

:03:01. > :03:04.and practical solution, and she railed against division and

:03:05. > :03:09.prejudice. If there is anything good that can come out of this sickening

:03:10. > :03:14.murder and assassination, it is for all of us involved in politics, just

:03:15. > :03:19.to perhaps be a bit more kind in how we conduct our politics, because

:03:20. > :03:23.there was a very and there is a very toxic atmosphere around any sort of

:03:24. > :03:26.discourse about public life and I think that is corroding democracy

:03:27. > :03:34.and has led to this terrible incident. That is what she would

:03:35. > :03:39.re-want. 100%. What do you make of the coming together of politicians

:03:40. > :03:43.today, often side-by-side, echoing tribute after tribute to a

:03:44. > :03:49.politician that was clearly really well thought of, not just as a

:03:50. > :03:54.person but a politician? Echoing, it is sad, it is an event like this

:03:55. > :03:59.that has too happen before politicians do come together. There

:04:00. > :04:05.are times at which you see, Jeremy Corbyn and David Cameron next to

:04:06. > :04:11.each other, is the Cenotaph, the State Opening of Parliament and a

:04:12. > :04:17.tragedy. And, her old boss Harriet Harman, we heard her same that we

:04:18. > :04:21.can be brisk and vigorous, in our political discourse, at the same

:04:22. > :04:29.time as, treating each other with tolerance and respect. I think,

:04:30. > :04:35.America is often ahead of us, I mean further down the track, rather than

:04:36. > :04:40.more enlightened in terms of their politics. So polarised now, to the

:04:41. > :04:45.extent that each half of the country doubts the other half's motives. In

:04:46. > :04:50.fact in Pewsey other half 's motives. I think that, a lot of

:04:51. > :04:55.politicians including Harriet Harman have been saying today, we can

:04:56. > :05:01.disagree with each other without believing that the other side are in

:05:02. > :05:08.some way keeling intention, or wish the worst of the country. -- kill

:05:09. > :05:12.intentions. Do you think, when campaigning for the EU referendum

:05:13. > :05:22.starts again, do you think we will see changes in the language used? I

:05:23. > :05:27.would absolutely hope so, I think that any advise involved in this,

:05:28. > :05:32.both campaigns, must have the wherewithal to say to everybody,

:05:33. > :05:37.everything has changed because of this. We are in a different country

:05:38. > :05:42.because of what has happened. Each side has got to dial down the over

:05:43. > :05:47.the top rhetoric and that has happened on both sides. And I think,

:05:48. > :05:52.think very carefully about the tone with which they campaign. I don't

:05:53. > :05:59.think anybody will want to see this horrible murder, politicised in

:06:00. > :06:03.anyway, Joe was a fierce campaigner for the remains side and also a

:06:04. > :06:09.fierce campaigner for Democritus seat, about making the arguments. As

:06:10. > :06:14.Harry was saying, we can make the arguments on both sides and make the

:06:15. > :06:21.way which is totally appropriate. And the call to Parliament on

:06:22. > :06:26.Monday, in many ways as we have done already today, get greater insight

:06:27. > :06:30.into a politician, a mother and a campaigner that some might not even

:06:31. > :06:35.have heard of. And certainly didn't know, but we are getting an insight

:06:36. > :06:42.into this quite unique person. And we will do further, many people

:06:43. > :06:48.hadn't read the article she wrote with Andrew Mitchell about Syria,

:06:49. > :06:52.Andrew Mitchell was known to most people, about the Downing Street

:06:53. > :06:58.incident, that he, and this very sensible Yorkshire lass, who was a

:06:59. > :07:06.social campaigner, far removed from the Tory party, the idea that they

:07:07. > :07:14.could work together on an issue as emotive as Syria, was really

:07:15. > :07:20.impressive. And Stephen Kinnock, her Parliamentary office mate, I think

:07:21. > :07:24.they share an office, barely able to contain his emotion when he was

:07:25. > :07:29.speaking. There will be much more of that and presumably it will be at

:07:30. > :07:33.the same time as the debate about politics, moves on about the

:07:34. > :07:42.security of MPs, the way that we talk about MPs, regard in which we

:07:43. > :07:48.hold them or don't hold them. It is only seven years, since the expenses

:07:49. > :07:52.crisis, when MPs were suddenly lower than bankers. In the nation's

:07:53. > :07:59.esteem, and it has been easy for people to forget. I wonder how it

:08:00. > :08:05.has been going down particularly with young people. There is a huge

:08:06. > :08:09.issue in trust in politics and output a cool class, it is

:08:10. > :08:13.incredibly interesting, it has given people a breath to stop for a minute

:08:14. > :08:16.and one of the interesting things on social media as B-nets hashtag

:08:17. > :08:22.#ThankYourMP where lots of people had taken the opportunity to try and

:08:23. > :08:26.recognise the good work that MPs do, and we have had quite if you

:08:27. > :08:30.articles over the last 24 hours reminding us that it is fashionable

:08:31. > :08:34.to say, snouts in the troughs and they are all in it for themselves.

:08:35. > :08:40.But actually, politicians of all political views tend to go into

:08:41. > :08:44.politics to do good, they make lots of personal sacrifices. They work

:08:45. > :08:50.pretty much every day of the week, they are not in it for the money and

:08:51. > :08:53.it is important to remember, that if you constantly denigrate politicians

:08:54. > :08:58.and politics, you will get the politics that you have asked for. On

:08:59. > :09:04.the safety issue, I think this will be an issue that is very important

:09:05. > :09:13.because most MPs will not want to have heavy security. Or the need to

:09:14. > :09:18.have security, you don't get American senators having surgeries

:09:19. > :09:22.about noisy neighbours. Know but congressmen and senators travel on

:09:23. > :09:29.public transport and walk around on the street. But British politics has

:09:30. > :09:34.a unique accessibility, but a lot of female MPs in particular, friends of

:09:35. > :09:41.mine, get death threats, rape threats, threats of extreme sexual

:09:42. > :09:43.violence on a daily basis. 12 of the daily papers reporting on female

:09:44. > :09:48.politicians stop you even today, I was looking at Jess Phillips's

:09:49. > :09:53.timeline, she's still getting the most horrific abuse. A lot of staff

:09:54. > :09:58.who run them, the constituencies, our young women. There is no

:09:59. > :10:03.security. There is an issue about how do you carry on and have that

:10:04. > :10:08.unique accessibility and openness, but how do you also look after the

:10:09. > :10:14.MPs and the staff also doing an important job? And you think that

:10:15. > :10:20.debate. Quite soon? I think it has already started. As you say, the

:10:21. > :10:23.front page of the Telegraph is talking tomorrow, about how female

:10:24. > :10:32.MPs warned that there could be a fatal incident if security was not

:10:33. > :10:39.improved. The correspondence between Theresa Mahan some senior police

:10:40. > :10:44.chiefs, you don't want to throw the Democratic baby out with the bath

:10:45. > :10:48.water. You don't want one incident, horrific and tragic as it is, to

:10:49. > :10:52.completely change the very good way in which we do politics, which is

:10:53. > :11:00.that you can go and see your MP about your noisy neighbour, all your

:11:01. > :11:03.Visa. That is what Stephen Timms said, he got varies seriously

:11:04. > :11:08.stabbed in his constituency by a woman a number of years ago -- very

:11:09. > :11:13.seriously. He still carries on the surgeries. He has been out today

:11:14. > :11:18.saying that he thinks it is very important that that culture

:11:19. > :11:25.continues. There seems to be a wave of change within the public as well,

:11:26. > :11:30.if you are across social media today, there was a hashtag trending

:11:31. > :11:37.highly. Not everyone was thinking the MP. But mainly, it was people

:11:38. > :11:43.saying, my local MPs in a fantastic job. You can tell, that those MPs

:11:44. > :11:47.were quite touched by some of the messages that they were getting.

:11:48. > :11:54.Particularly in this dark day after the death of Jo Cox. That is

:11:55. > :11:59.absolutely right, lots of MPs especially post-expenses, most of

:12:00. > :12:04.the MPs were badly caught up, they resigned all day went to prison but

:12:05. > :12:10.they have tended to be away from Parliament. There is a whole new

:12:11. > :12:14.generation of MPs who came in from 2015, and they I think a lot of them

:12:15. > :12:17.had been quite humbled by this #ThankYourMP, they say they have

:12:18. > :12:22.come into politics where they did not expect anyone to say thank you.

:12:23. > :12:28.Nobody wants a sanitised culture where the media just praises MPs, we

:12:29. > :12:33.want our MPs to be held to account in a rigorous way, in the way that

:12:34. > :12:36.the British press do. But there is something about if you constantly

:12:37. > :12:41.just denigrate MPs day in and day out, you do drip poison into the

:12:42. > :12:48.overall thing about where public opinion is. We want to end the

:12:49. > :12:53.programme showing the front cover of the times, the reason for this, is

:12:54. > :12:59.that they have made the call on the position on the EU referendum, which

:13:00. > :13:04.is not long away? The referendum campaign has restarted, tomorrow

:13:05. > :13:10.morning, the Times leader coming out forum Main, it is a four page

:13:11. > :13:15.editorial, we read it so you don't have to do. It is very much a hold

:13:16. > :13:27.your nose in Dorset of remains from the times. So the league campaign

:13:28. > :13:31.have made a great case. -- the Leave campaign. They say David Cameron

:13:32. > :13:35.needs to go back yet again, after the shuttle diplomacy that he did

:13:36. > :13:40.earlier in the year, to EU leaders to say that this is a common market.

:13:41. > :13:45.That is where they start from. That in 1975 we voted to remain in the

:13:46. > :13:49.common market, a capitalist project and it should be according to The

:13:50. > :13:54.Times again, and the French, specifically should not be allowed

:13:55. > :13:57.to stand in the way of free-market reforms, so they are really saying

:13:58. > :14:07.that David Cameron should go out and be a Tory in Europe, assuming that

:14:08. > :14:11.the vote goes remain on Thursday. You would know more than anything,

:14:12. > :14:17.what do you think we will see happen in politicians in the next few days

:14:18. > :14:21.as we head closer? I think campaigning will resume in all

:14:22. > :14:28.honesty Sunday into Monday definitely. I think that the remain

:14:29. > :14:32.campaign will stick on the message in the economy, I think this

:14:33. > :14:39.development of the time is coming out his incredibly helpful, Remain

:14:40. > :14:44.site and I think Leave will have two things very carefully about how they

:14:45. > :14:48.pitch their message. It will be very tight and both sides will be

:14:49. > :14:52.focusing heavily on the turnout, because that will make a huge swing

:14:53. > :14:57.of difference, and I think they will be targeting young people. A lot of

:14:58. > :15:02.young people are saying that they will not even vote. A lot of people

:15:03. > :15:07.say that the older vote will come out but it is who can motivate the

:15:08. > :15:12.younger people, I think you will only get to the younger people with

:15:13. > :15:18.a more positive message of hope. Thank you very much for that, thanks

:15:19. > :15:23.for watching. Don't forget, all of the front pages are wrong line where

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:15:39. > :15:53.too. We will be back with the latest headlines.

:15:54. > :15:54.Good evening, after a week of wild weather, things are