:00:15. > :00:17.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be
:00:18. > :00:22.With me are political commentator Jo Phillips and Nigel Nelson,
:00:23. > :00:28.political editor of the Sunday Mirror and Sunday People.
:00:29. > :00:35.The Observer says that Labour has been plunged into its "greatest
:00:36. > :00:37.crisis for generations" as a leadership bid was launched
:00:38. > :00:45.The Telegraph claims that Theresa May's most senior
:00:46. > :00:47.allies have gone to war against Andrea Leadsom
:00:48. > :00:50.in retaliation for her comments on motherhood.
:00:51. > :00:53.The Sunday Times also goes for the same story and says that 20
:00:54. > :00:56.Tory MPs 'would quit party' if Mrs Leadsom were to win
:00:57. > :00:59.The Sunday Express also covers her controversial comments,
:01:00. > :01:01.saying that mothers have rounded on Andrea Leadsom
:01:02. > :01:04.and accused her of "weaponising" parenthood in her fight to become
:01:05. > :01:13.The Mail on Sunday reports that Sir Cliff Richard has launched a ?1
:01:14. > :01:16.million law suit over the BBC's broadcast of the police
:01:17. > :01:21.The Sunday Mirror splashes on news that the former
:01:22. > :01:24.Labour Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott now believes that
:01:25. > :01:32.Tony Blair illegally led the country into the Iraq war.
:01:33. > :01:46.So, we begin with Andrea lets them. The Sunday Times, the enemies stick
:01:47. > :01:52.the knife in? -- Leadsom. That's before we even get to the Labour
:01:53. > :01:57.Party. It seems that her ill-advised comments that were recorded by the
:01:58. > :02:06.Times and broadcast quite widely, she is now being criticised, saying
:02:07. > :02:12.she is in a better position than Theresa May because she has children
:02:13. > :02:18.and Theresa May hasn't. Apparently 21 MPs have said they would quit the
:02:19. > :02:23.party if she won, including Nick Bowles. Philip Hammond broke off
:02:24. > :02:30.from some quite serious talks to defend Theresa May and criticise
:02:31. > :02:35.Andrea Leadsom. I thought he said he had never heard of her? I think a
:02:36. > :02:44.lot of us hadn't heard of her until she appeared. Does that necessarily
:02:45. > :02:48.matter? I think he was talking about other European leaders, but no, it
:02:49. > :02:54.doesn't matter. The Sunday Times, of all the reports in the Sunday
:02:55. > :03:00.papers, this is the most brutal. They are quoting Iain Duncan Smith
:03:01. > :03:10.as saying the party went from Project Fear to protect smear. She
:03:11. > :03:14.brought it on herself. She did something very stupid, that is
:03:15. > :03:21.absolutely right. This is a woman who wants to be Prime Minister, who
:03:22. > :03:24.has demonstrated astonishing naivete and foolhardiness in making this
:03:25. > :03:31.statement with a degree of arrogance. I think this is all true,
:03:32. > :03:35.but the Tory party is now doing the nasty stuff to try and knock her out
:03:36. > :03:41.of the campaign. I would rather hope that the person who is at the centre
:03:42. > :03:47.of this, Theresa May, would come out and be cool and dignified, get on
:03:48. > :03:53.with business as usual. Will the party be damaged or will it does
:03:54. > :03:58.come together and say, we are all friends now? It depends on the
:03:59. > :04:06.result. The answer last year for Labour was that they were not. From
:04:07. > :04:10.Andrea Leadsom's point of view, we will campaign and get to know the
:04:11. > :04:14.party membership. The party members are now the ones who will decide who
:04:15. > :04:23.becomes Prime Minister. Theresa May it -- Theresa May's supporters would
:04:24. > :04:32.only like three weeks. Nine weeks, there could be a lot of wild on the
:04:33. > :04:38.floor. We could all be in the shadow cabinet -- blood. The Telegraph have
:04:39. > :04:45.taken the angle, the Tory women are turning against Andrea Leadsom. They
:04:46. > :04:52.have quoted a number of prominent Conservatives who are allies of
:04:53. > :04:59.Theresa May. Some of them were Leave in the referendum campaign, but they
:05:00. > :05:07.are backing Theresa May. Including the leader of the Scottish
:05:08. > :05:13.Conservatives, Priti Patel as well. They also have a quote from Alan
:05:14. > :05:19.Duncan, a former minister and one of Theresa May's supporters. He said, I
:05:20. > :05:22.am gay and in a civil partnership. I have ten nieces and nephews, do I
:05:23. > :05:32.not have a stake in the future of the country? Yes, other MPs have
:05:33. > :05:35.said similar things. This will focus on Andrea Leadsom's view on gay
:05:36. > :05:43.marriage as well, which has also come up. She brought it on herself,
:05:44. > :05:47.I have no sympathy. It is the beginning of the campaign, a serious
:05:48. > :05:55.error, can she come back from it? You're the expert! It will be
:05:56. > :06:00.something else next week. A story like this is bigger the moment but
:06:01. > :06:05.will be forgotten quickly. Maybe it'll be a bout tax returns. Do you
:06:06. > :06:10.think that the Tory party activists who will vote in this election, are
:06:11. > :06:14.you 100% that they might support her? One of the things about
:06:15. > :06:22.supporting her is that a lot of those Tory activists quite like the
:06:23. > :06:26.idea of a Brexit Prime Minister. Theresa May, a safe pair of hands.
:06:27. > :06:34.She seems quite popular when you see her at party conferences. You never
:06:35. > :06:47.can be quite sure how an electorate goes. Moving away from that to your
:06:48. > :06:51.story, Nigel, about John Prescott. This is interesting, we had the
:06:52. > :06:56.Chilcot report this week and this is extraordinary, John Prescott, Tony
:06:57. > :07:01.Blair's deputy Prime Minister now says he believes the Iraq war was
:07:02. > :07:23.illegal? Yes, it was based on something that could and unfettered.
:07:24. > :07:27.-- Kofi Annan said. What is interesting is how little the
:07:28. > :07:30.Cabinet were given in terms of documentary evidence and the kind of
:07:31. > :07:34.things you needed to make a decision. He complained to the
:07:35. > :07:39.Cabinet Secretary at the time about this. One of the most important
:07:40. > :07:46.things was the legality for going to war. It would seem, according to
:07:47. > :07:49.John Prescott, the attorney general came in and told them verbally that
:07:50. > :07:54.he thought the whole thing was legal but there was some paperwork. I find
:07:55. > :07:59.it astonishing that the idea that you are not sitting around with a
:08:00. > :08:05.few bits of paper, doing it, then being told that something of such
:08:06. > :08:11.importance... Without being able to scrutinise whether there is proper
:08:12. > :08:15.evidence for it... He says he was unhappy about it at the time and he
:08:16. > :08:22.regrets voting for war. He has made an apology to the families of those
:08:23. > :08:27.who were killed, both British soldiers and in Iraq. That is not
:08:28. > :08:32.excusing it, they made a collective decision, it was a huge mistake and
:08:33. > :08:36.it shouldn't have happened. If they made a collective decision but only
:08:37. > :08:42.some of them... Line it is about what lessons you learn from that.
:08:43. > :08:45.John Prescott argues that we should have learned a lesson. Let's get
:08:46. > :08:55.away from this idea of presidential government. The Prime Minister comes
:08:56. > :09:11.first, then Cabinet responsibility. Going to the Observer,. -- going to
:09:12. > :09:15.the Observer... Angela Eagle says, she is pretty much saying she is
:09:16. > :09:18.going to launch a leadership campaign on Monday. So it is a
:09:19. > :09:23.battle between her and Jeremy Corbyn. Could this be the end of the
:09:24. > :09:30.Labour Party? I think it is. I cannot see how the Labour Party can
:09:31. > :09:37.go on as the official opposition when you've got more than 100 MPs
:09:38. > :09:41.who do not support their leader. He is struggling to get enough people
:09:42. > :09:49.to put together a shadow cabinet. He is refusing to stand down. You have
:09:50. > :09:55.now got Unite the union, the biggest donor, there general secretary has
:09:56. > :10:03.turned on Tom Watson, Jeremy Corbyn's deputy. Angela Eagle is
:10:04. > :10:09.probably a stalking horse to try and push things through. I can see a
:10:10. > :10:15.point... Posted Brexit, everything is up for grabs in a way and in
:10:16. > :10:23.turmoil. The Lib Dems, who don't get very much coverage these days, are
:10:24. > :10:28.in a position with a disgruntled Labour Party and perhaps with the
:10:29. > :10:33.more European side of the Conservative party to begin to do
:10:34. > :10:37.something sensible. There is a feeling that there is a group of
:10:38. > :10:43.people who are not represented in these shenanigans. You are
:10:44. > :10:47.absolutely right that there has been a lot of talk in Westminster about
:10:48. > :10:55.how a merger could work with the Lib Dems. What would happen is that
:10:56. > :11:03.Jeremy Corbyn, should a split happen, would retain the party name,
:11:04. > :11:09.offices and money. The new Labour would be interesting. They would
:11:10. > :11:14.have party organisation money, Administration. What would they be
:11:15. > :11:19.called? One of the things I was saying in my: This week is that it
:11:20. > :11:32.is rather like crossing a labrador with a poodle, so you would get the
:11:33. > :11:38.Labour-doodle-Dems. I wonder how many people would vote for them? I
:11:39. > :11:42.do hope it is a more sensible name. There are other dog breeds that come
:11:43. > :11:48.to mind, but perhaps we shouldn't... The Sunday Times, one of their
:11:49. > :12:04.reporters was tragically killed in Syria. The story here is that he --
:12:05. > :12:08.the Assad government deliberately targeted the building in which she
:12:09. > :12:14.was staying? Yes, apparently her family have filed a lawsuit. She was
:12:15. > :12:17.killed in the house by a rocket attack, and the family are claiming
:12:18. > :12:23.she was killed by a Syrian government forces. I am sure you
:12:24. > :12:28.will remember, just after she had done a very moving and shocking
:12:29. > :12:35.report, pretty much accusing the Syrian army of shelling cold,
:12:36. > :12:38.starving children. It was one of many memorable reports that she did.
:12:39. > :12:42.She did the live television interview from the building where
:12:43. > :12:52.she was staying, and within hours she was killed. The suggestion is
:12:53. > :12:56.that it was deliberate? The idea that your targeting journalists in
:12:57. > :13:03.that way... Whether it has any legs to go on, who knows? Go into
:13:04. > :13:10.something slightly lighter, the prospects for Andy Murray? You're a
:13:11. > :13:21.big tennis fan, the match tomorrow? Nigel knows more about it. Which one
:13:22. > :13:26.is Andy Murray in the pictures? I think it is very exciting. I think
:13:27. > :13:33.he is really in with a chance. In with a chance? Will donate! I think
:13:34. > :13:44.you can do it, I think it's brilliant. Of course he can do it.
:13:45. > :13:57.He will be playing at Milos Raonic. -- playing at Milos Raonic. We think
:13:58. > :14:03.18 million might watch? Yes, millions and millions. It would be
:14:04. > :14:09.nice to have something cheerful. After everything we've been going
:14:10. > :14:29.through. Express has a special about steamy nude TV shows, Train-spotting
:14:30. > :14:35.live? It is live footage of trains. -- new. They probably should have
:14:36. > :14:44.shown it... Equate here is, laughing at train-spotters has become a cheap
:14:45. > :14:52.joke for too long. -- the quote here. That's it for now, up next,
:14:53. > :14:54.the Film Review.