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