:00:16. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers
:00:19. > :00:22.With me are the political commentator, Jo Phillips
:00:23. > :00:24.and the Political Editor of the Sunday Express,
:00:25. > :00:40.Distinguished company with which to review the front pages. The Sunday
:00:41. > :00:47.Telegraph has an interview with former Prime Minister Tony Blair and
:00:48. > :00:52.he says enquiries into abuse of British troops should never have
:00:53. > :01:01.been ordered. David Cameron is quoted in the Mail on Sunday. London
:01:02. > :01:06.Plaza Mayor Sadiq Khan claims in the Sunday Times that divisions in the
:01:07. > :01:09.Labour Party could lead to a split. And the Sunday Express says the
:01:10. > :01:12.detective who brought Christopher Halley well to justice may have
:01:13. > :01:22.killed the missing chef Claudia Lawrence. -- Christopher Halliwell.
:01:23. > :01:26.The Sun reports that Zoe Ball and Norman Cook are separating after 18
:01:27. > :01:32.years together. Let's start with the Sunday Times.
:01:33. > :01:39.The big story of today was the real election of Jeremy Corbyn. The
:01:40. > :01:46.Sunday Times says a purge now could kill Labour. It's not really
:01:47. > :01:53.surprise on. Sadiq Khan is the most senior elected Labour official in
:01:54. > :01:58.the country. He is not in Jeremy Corbyn's shed their cabinet so he
:01:59. > :02:02.can speak out with a great degree of seniority. He is obviously saying
:02:03. > :02:07.what many people are thinking that the purge of MPs who are not loyal
:02:08. > :02:14.to Corbyn by the Lamenting group would see a split worse than that
:02:15. > :02:27.which led to the setup of the SDP with the gang of four -- the
:02:28. > :02:35.momentum group. Mr Corbyn was not talking about a purge. As Jo said,
:02:36. > :02:43.we would not expect him to come out and say now let the purge begin! We
:02:44. > :02:46.do know behind the scenes that he is keen to get the former members of
:02:47. > :02:54.the Shadow Cabinet who left in the summer back on board. There are some
:02:55. > :02:58.who are willing but I know there are others who feel concerned that the
:02:59. > :03:05.boundary changes are on the horizon and they will face deselection. Last
:03:06. > :03:12.week we saw a list going out of uncooperative Labour MPs which many
:03:13. > :03:15.of them saw as a bit of a hit list and they feared this would be used
:03:16. > :03:20.by Momentum supporters to go after them and that is making them feel
:03:21. > :03:27.reticent about rejoining the party. The attempt by MPs to dethrone
:03:28. > :03:33.Jeremy Corbyn has backfired because he has ended up with a bigger slice
:03:34. > :03:39.of the vote and a stronger not weaker division. He has 61% of the
:03:40. > :03:42.vote which is 2% more than last time, a competence of victory. But
:03:43. > :03:47.he still does not have the support of his MPs in Parliament. It is
:03:48. > :03:54.great, Jeremy Corbyn is clearly very popular. So is Mary Berry and lots
:03:55. > :04:02.of other people. Clearly popular amongst the registered supporters. A
:04:03. > :04:06.YouGov poll yesterday was clear that Labour members who joined the party
:04:07. > :04:09.prior to 2015, it was Owen Smith who was far more popular amongst them.
:04:10. > :04:14.And without the support of the Labour Party in Parliament, he is
:04:15. > :04:18.not effective as Leader of the Opposition. Whether or not they
:04:19. > :04:23.allow the elections to Shadow Cabinet, that will be the testing
:04:24. > :04:28.point. Let's shift the focus from the Labour Party to the Conservative
:04:29. > :04:33.Party. A couple of papers have stories detailing the divisions
:04:34. > :04:42.between David Cameron and Theresa May. The Sunday Times have a story,
:04:43. > :04:47.what is that about? That is the Sunday Times political editor who
:04:48. > :04:52.appears regularly on this programme, Tim Shipman, who has a book coming
:04:53. > :04:56.out shortly, which is a chronicle about what went on behind the doors
:04:57. > :05:02.of Downing Street during the referendum campaign. One of the
:05:03. > :05:05.things he is saying in this book is Theresa May told Cameron he should
:05:06. > :05:12.not push ahead with the months for an emergency brake on migrants
:05:13. > :05:17.coming to Britain. He is using this as a division within the Cabinet to
:05:18. > :05:22.suggest that Cameron and Theresa May were at loggerheads over Brexit and
:05:23. > :05:26.she had not been supportive of his plans to shore up support for
:05:27. > :05:30.renegotiation. However, if you read on, what it is basically saying is
:05:31. > :05:34.there was this plan on the table for this emergency brake which was going
:05:35. > :05:38.to be introduced at the last moment to shore up support and ultimately,
:05:39. > :05:43.Cameron was told he would not get away with it. Obviously, he would
:05:44. > :05:48.not go ahead with something which would essentially be blown a role
:05:49. > :06:00.spree by the rest of Europe almost immediately. -- a raspberries. The
:06:01. > :06:05.Mail on Sunday have information by someone who used to work at the BBC
:06:06. > :06:09.and now he has a book which is being serialised in the Mail on Sunday,
:06:10. > :06:15.again about the divisions between David Cameron and the extent of his
:06:16. > :06:20.frustration by Theresa May's refusal to back him on the EU referendum. He
:06:21. > :06:27.begged her to come off the fence but she refused and one of Cameron's
:06:28. > :06:32.allies questioned whether she was secretly and enemy agent. They don't
:06:33. > :06:36.waste time! He has only just come out of Downing Street, got his
:06:37. > :06:42.knighthood and here comes the book. I do think you should have a little
:06:43. > :06:48.degree... You will not be reading it? I am sure I can read the
:06:49. > :06:56.explosive extracts if I want to. It is all written in this hyperbole
:06:57. > :07:01.about bombshells and explosive revelations. It does not tell you
:07:02. > :07:07.anything you did not know. But nine minutes before Boris Johnson put
:07:08. > :07:11.himself at the head of the Leave campaign, he had reassured Cameron
:07:12. > :07:16.in a secret text, it could not be that secret because Craig Oliver saw
:07:17. > :07:23.it and read it, it is really about the shenanigans behind the scenes
:07:24. > :07:26.with David Cameron, Michael Gove and Boris Johnson. Theresa May has been
:07:27. > :07:34.in Downing Street for a few months so now it is she was this, that, the
:07:35. > :07:44.other. Some of it I have to say it does not ring true. Disinterest in
:07:45. > :07:47.because it is kind of history. Yes, and rewritten history because
:07:48. > :07:51.Theresa May is in power. Would she have been the focus of this book if
:07:52. > :07:56.it was Boris Johnson who had become Prime Minister? This talks about the
:07:57. > :08:00.fact that Theresa May was not being desperately supported and in one
:08:01. > :08:05.decision she decided to go on holiday for a weekend break with her
:08:06. > :08:11.husband rather than support Cameron. If you know something about Theresa
:08:12. > :08:17.May, she was never off duty as Home Secretary. The idea that she would
:08:18. > :08:23.flounce off on holiday and not be a full player in this is a little bit
:08:24. > :08:28.far-fetched. Ultimately, she played an amazing game during Brexit. She
:08:29. > :08:32.literally let all the other people in the leadership race take each
:08:33. > :08:37.other out. It worked very well for her. The idea that David Cameron
:08:38. > :08:44.said in January she could be Prime Minister in six months... In
:08:45. > :08:48.January, it was going to be Boris. We are talking about David Cameron,
:08:49. > :08:54.one former Prime Minister, let's talk about another former Prime
:08:55. > :08:58.Minister, Tony Blair. The Sunday Telegraph are continuing their
:08:59. > :09:04.campaign into a quarry is into alleged abuses of British troops in
:09:05. > :09:16.places like Iraq and Palestine -- there enquiry is. -- Iraq and
:09:17. > :09:27.Afghanistan. The Iraq historic allegations team was set up by
:09:28. > :09:36.Gordon Brown. Obviously, it is of grave concern for service personnel
:09:37. > :09:39.who have served in difficult circumstances in terrible places
:09:40. > :09:45.that 14 years on they are being investigated and in some cases, the
:09:46. > :09:51.particular case which came up recently about the Iraqi teenager
:09:52. > :09:58.who drowned in a canal outside Basra in 2003, that was investigated in
:09:59. > :10:03.2004 and the soldiers involved were cleared in 2006. It is the length of
:10:04. > :10:07.time. You think troops should be investigated if there is an
:10:08. > :10:12.allegation? I think there should be an investigation and we cannot on
:10:13. > :10:15.one hand welcome, as I think everybody in this country did the
:10:16. > :10:19.enquiry into Hillsborough which brought to light what people had
:10:20. > :10:25.been saying for a long time, and at the same time say, well, we can't do
:10:26. > :10:30.it because soldiers are above reproach. And it is not something
:10:31. > :10:34.which Theresa May has not said. She has brought her top brass in to say
:10:35. > :10:39.let's knock a few heads together and see what we can do to look at these
:10:40. > :10:45.cases and bring this to a reasonable conclusion. We would not expect her
:10:46. > :10:53.to draw a line under it and say let's not look at this. It is about
:10:54. > :10:58.speed, I think. Talking of speed, we have not got too much longer. Let's
:10:59. > :11:04.go to a couple of lighter stories. The Sunday Times, the Great British
:11:05. > :11:12.Bake Off saga continues. You think that is a lighter story! The BBC is
:11:13. > :11:17.threatening to rush out a rival show to the Great British Bake Off which
:11:18. > :11:24.has gone to Channel 4. Not much has gone to Channel 4 apart from Paul
:11:25. > :11:30.Hollywood. One man and his tent. Maybe Mary and Mel and Sue will do
:11:31. > :11:35.it in a kitchen somewhere else. Is this what the BBC should be doing?
:11:36. > :11:38.They are supposed to be an innovator. John Whittingdale said
:11:39. > :11:47.ultimately what the BBC should be doing is not morning losing it to
:11:48. > :11:51.Channel 4, just come up with a new show. But if they come up with a new
:11:52. > :11:58.one it could be a breach of copyright on the formula. They could
:11:59. > :12:05.call it take off. Or a cough. And from one hit BBC showed to Strictly
:12:06. > :12:15.and we have Ed Balls. Doesn't he look lovely? Never mind Paul
:12:16. > :12:20.Hollywood, Ed Balls and Mary Berry. Balls and Berry. But does he know
:12:21. > :12:26.anything about baking? I am not sure he doesn't know anything about
:12:27. > :12:31.dancing either. They said for a former Labour minister it is very
:12:32. > :12:37.conservative dancing. Is he an example of a politician reinventing
:12:38. > :12:41.himself? He lost his seat and now he's starring on prime-time
:12:42. > :12:46.television. Whatever you think, it is tough when you lose your seat.
:12:47. > :12:52.Some people manage to get on with it. Michael Portillo has had a very
:12:53. > :12:56.successful career as a broadcaster, historian and travel writer and
:12:57. > :13:00.still does the odd bit of politics with Andrew Neil. Ed Balls is
:13:01. > :13:14.obviously keen on doing this side of thing.
:13:15. > :13:18.He is the lighter side. He has said it will probably embarrass his
:13:19. > :13:20.family. Bless him. We love a loser in this country. Will you be
:13:21. > :13:22.watching him? Maybe. Thank you for the time being.
:13:23. > :13:29.You'll both be back at 11.30pm for another look at the stories