08/07/2016 The Papers

York and the New York police Commissioner. That is the main

story. Now let's take a look at the papers.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

With me are the Political Correspondent for the Evening

He is about to become political editor which is proof that we are

The Guardian meets with the shooting of pi -- of five police officers in

Dallas and the country is reeling from what it calls a massacre.

The Mail leads with news that some financial firms are exploiting

the falling value of the pound to rip off British holiday-makers.

The Mirror carries a full-page image of the Dallas shooting suspect.

The Weekend FT focuses on attempts to save the Port Talbot steel works.

Conservative leadership contender Theresa May has given an interview

She says the future will be brighter after Brexit although she backed the

campaign to remain in the European Union.

While her rival Andrea Leadsom has given her interview to the Times,

saying that the fact she has children gives her the edge

The Sun devotes its front page to the Dallas shooting suspect.

Micah Johnson, the dead man believed to have been the suspect in the

police killings. Inevitably, the front of the

Guardian, the US reels from the Dallas massacre and a moving picture

that has been in a lot of the papers. Yes, so much imagery from

this incident is that you could have picked anything but the Guardian has

done well to capture a lot of the shop and helplessness I think a lot

of Americans will be feeling. -- the shock. This is was a monstrous

incident and the story has taken a thoughtful look at tying in the

horror of mass order -- smoulder, along with the themes of American

society and the gun culture and race relations that have collided to

bring about this tragedy. It is quite extraordinary what has

happened. Every day, you think that is the worst use we can get the day

and then you get something worse. Lorretta Lynch is the Attorney

General in America and she is black and she says that America has now

got feelings of helplessness, uncertainty and fear. It certainly

has because this sounds like a lone gunman. You could have that in any

city now and that is the big fear. The other is cup cat killers. What

is going to happen next? -- copycat. This is terrible and you can only

think, and they were all on a march, like lives matter. The march passed

by peacefully. A black man kills white police officers and you think

this is going to get worse before it gets better. It is the final insult

of the horrific affair that the people who were there peacefully

demonstrating and expressing their views in a way a democracy allows,

that has been sabotaged and undermined by this awful incident.

And it has the added difficulty for Americans that this was a man who

two weeks ago may have been considered a war hero. Yes, we will

get to the mirror with that. Extraordinary that, the impact these

scenes have because so much is caught on camera because everybody

has a camera phone and that quality is so good to be broadcast. There

were two death that week and one of which, the guy was dying and it was

shot by a policeman and his girlfriend was putting it out live

on Facebook. What surprises me is how few of the papers have carried

this on their front page. This is a serious and terrible thing that has

happened, it has knocked Tony Blair from the front pages for which

should be grateful. It is not on half the newspapers. Two top boys is

carrying it, the mirror and the Sun. -- tabloids. The Mirror pointing out

to Mako weeks ago, Micah Johnson had been thought of as a hero, he was an

army reservist -- two weeks ago. Served in Afghanistan and who knows

if that played into his behaviour last night. And this photo I find

more extraordinary. We have a man in camouflage turning to look at the

camera, perhaps not aware what is going on over his shoulder. As the

gunman apparently walks behind a concrete pillar and shoot somebody

in the back. I would not put that picture on the front page. Before a

man dies, yes. There was a story not so long ago of a person he used to

work in a TV station and who shot a reporter and filmed it and put it on

the internet and there were editorial decisions to put the

moment before that happened on the papers and maybe that was what the

shed and we will see more of that. The happy pictures on social media

of the many you referred to, Philando Castile, bleeding to death

in a car after being shot and his girlfriend put that on Facebook. And

we had this evening an example of that which we played off -- played a

little of, the serving black police officer who posted something on her

Facebook page denouncing racist police who served in the uniform.

And the emotions of delivering that on Facebook have much more power

than an interview. If that is what I was thinking of, that was so

dignified, it was not a rant. She became more emotional as it went on.

It was not over the top, it was a cry from the heart. Police in

America must wonder what could happen next. Yes. Anybody can get a

gun in America. Extremely difficult job they do. And you tend to focus

on these mass shootings and they reach across the Atlantic to our

News pages. But the gun problem in America is a steady flow of

shootings that happen underneath these mass shootings. Something like

30,000 people a year die from gun related injuries. If you include

just the injuries that survive, it is 100,000. And something like, even

though only 50% of the population is African-American, around 50% of the

gun murders affect black people. So it is intricately tied to the race

relations in America and this has brought this out. When I was waiting

earlier, there was a woman reporter in Washington on the News Channel

saying part of the problem is the old police officers would be

differently trained and less softly, softly and more go in and grab them.

Now officers get trained differently and some of the problems get caused

by the lack of training of the older officers. Now the domestic matters

which feature on some of the front pages, beginning with the Telegraph.

This is an interview with Theresa May. You must be in seventh heaven

as a political correspondence and shortly to be editor? Yes, and

completely exhausted, I have not slept for a month since EU

referendum and unexpected things keep happening. Everything gets

turned upside down and that is why this Tory leadership contest is so

exciting because Theresa May. Two women going into the membership vote

and she showed theoretically be the big favourite but nobody is taking

anything for granted. Remember Ken Clarke and Iain Duncan Smith going

into a leadership ballot and everybody said it would go for Ken

Clarke. He is the experienced man, and they went for Iain Duncan Smith.

And David Cameron against David Davis and tell that big speech at

the Tory conference. As Theresa May puts it on the front page of the

Daily Telegraph, politics could do with some bloody difficult women!

That is a Ken Clarke quote. She is quite right. Yes, she seems to be

making a point that the UK can look forward to this bigger and brighter

future which is interesting. That was the main theme of the first

speech of Andrea Leadsom so she perhaps has seen this would be an

advantageous beam and she wants a piece of that action, so in this

article, she is perhaps presenting a brighter face to the public after

being seen as this stern taskmaster who will take the EU and batter them

into shape. When you meet her, and I have met her a couple of times and

never interviewed her, she comes across as quite shy. She is very,

very friendly. Which was a surprise to me because she has a very stern

us -- stern exterior. Ever since she has come out as wanting to be the

next Prime Minister, she has completely transformed into this

smiley clever woman. And showing it. Before, she just did the job and she

hid away. She also has said she does not want parallels drawn between

these two women but I am afraid Andrea Leadsom is not up for not

drawing parallels. And that takes us drawing parallels. And that takes us

neatly to the Times. She has done something which is drawing a

parallel different personal experiences, if not political. It is

better I do not talk about this. We have tried to work out the

calculation that went into her making the comments in this

interview. Steam coming out of your ears at the moment, we will speak to

you in a minute! She has suggested she would be a better Prime Minister

because she has children and she is a mother. Taken on its own out of

context, that could be Bury North tweet know in the she could not have

children -- that in the last week. And that it was a difficult thing to

accept. She said they were affected by it, she never played it up. Yes,

she was very dignified. And so this is a very low blow. And Andrea

Leadsom alludes to the fact that maybe Theresa May could be hurt by

it. And she talks about it. She says she feels, the quote is genuine, I

feel being a mother means you have a real stake in the future of our

country, a tangible stake. Is that unreasonable? She says, I am sure

Theresa May will be really sad she does not have children so I do not

want to be the, Andrea has children and the razor does not, I think that

would be really horrible. That is exactly what you are doing, Madame!

And she says, motherhood means more empathy. This is not empathetic,

this is saying, I have children, you have not. I think it is horrible. We

have seen in this contest how playing the person instead of the

ball has backfired. Yes. It is interesting because the last time we

saw that, it was down to MPs to pick the winning candidate and now it is

down to the Tory membership so Andrea Leadsom may have made a

calculation that this line of attack will play well with a lot of small

seated Conservatives. In the last couple of minutes, Andrea Leadsom

has tweeted, re-tweeted the cover of the times and added the words, truly

appalling and the exact opposite of what I have said, I am disgusted. I

am sorry, we journalists and we do not make things up, we really do

not. That happened 30 years ago and it does not happen now. This is in

quotes. Everybody was Mac mobile phone... We do not know what was not

included. It does not matter. The stuff in quotes is leaving me

flabbergasted that somebody of judgment... Even if you do give her

the benefit of the doubt. Which I will not, I am struggling. Even so,

she has said things in quotes which have been easily put into this kind

of story and that suggests a judgment. One last story. Greedy

currency firms exploiting holiday-makers because of the fall

in the money macro. 1 euro for ?1 if you are lucky! I am amazed at the

Mail which I used to work for a long time ago, they consider that the

best story at the moment with such awful things happening on the world

stage, shame on them for that. And if you go on holiday, do not buy

your money at the airport. Watchdog would give that advice. There are

plenty of places, most people have got a phone to find the best way to

change money. I wish I had listened to you back then!

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