24/09/2016 The Papers

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

With me are the political editor of the Sunday Express,

Caroline Wheeler, and the political commentator Jo Phillips.

The Sunday Telegraph has an interview with former

Prime Minister Tony Blair, in which he says inquiries

into alleged abuses by British troops should never

David Cameron's former spin doctor is quoted

in the Mail on Sunday, where he reveals divisions sprang up

between Cameron and Theresa May during the Brexit campaign.

London's mayor Sadiq Khan claims in the Sunday Times that divisions

in the Labour Party could lead to a split.

The Sunday Express says the detective who brought double

murderer Christopher Halliwell to justice believes he may also have

killed the missing chef Claudia Lawrence.

And the Sun reports that TV presenter Zoe Ball and her DJ

husband Norman Cook are separating after 18 years together.

Let us begin and start with the Sunday Times. Following on from the

big story of the day, Jeremy Corbyn's re-election of the Labour

leader. Sadiq Khan saying that a purge by Jeremy Corbyn could kill

Labour. You think there will be a purge? I think I am not alone in

thinking that the call for unity and wiping the slate clean up going to

be very hard to deliver with the people involved and who are

supporting Jeremy Corbyn. He has got huge support, he has an increased

majority, beating Owen Smith comp reactively. He has got a mandate

from the hundreds of thousands of people who have joined the Labour

Party, but the question is, are they actually going to work with the

shadow cabinet and the MPs in Parliament? Because without the

support of the MPs in Parliament he hasn't actually got an effective

opposition. He is just a leading protest group. Caroline, you have a

story from the Sunday express. And you are saying there could

effectively be a shadow cabinet in exile, so Labour moderates will be

on the backbenches running a sort of shadow, shadow cabinet? Exactly. If

you have spoken to any senior voices with a Labour Party recently they

have been scratching their heads about where they can go next. They

tried this fairly dramatic coup, which has backfired. It has made

Jeremy Corbyn stronger, rather than weaker. It hasn't now he is in a

position to start purging the party using boundary changes, as an

opportunity to get rid off moderates. You think he will do

that? Those are the indications we have been given, Batty has this

opportunity to reintroduce shadow cabinet elections and doesn't look

like he's desperately inclined to do that, which basically means he will

be appointed cabinet. It remains to be seen whether he will be able to

muster enough MPs to sit in at shadow cabinet and fulfil those

roles, but we understand, and I've spoken to numerous moderates, who

say actually they still think they have a role in the party, although

not necessarily within the Jeremy Corbyn camp to hold Theresa May's

government to account and they say they are various ways in which they

can do this, one of them is sitting in internal policy committees,

coming up with new ideas and in essence generating a kind of

ulterior agenda for the Labour Party, even potentially an ulterior

whipping system where they can counter selective education and

bandwidth there are moderate MPs to vote in a certain way. It's a

fascinating proposal. It is, but the question that you have to ask is why

don't you put your tribalism to one side and actually go in with the

Liberal Democrats? And just worry about the name later. I know a lot

of Labour people would think that is madness, but everything is there,

the structure is there. Just do it, because then you would automatically

then become the opposition. You ask a question about the moderates

regularly. There is this movement by Paddy Ashdown which is trying to

unite the left and become a centrist party and get when you speak to any

of the moderates and ask whether this is something they are

considering, the answer usually comes back that no decision Labour

Party and they aren't prepared to move away from that, but will limp

on as they are under Jeremy Corbyn. Moving from divisions within the

Labour Party to divisions within the Conservative Party. The Mail on

Sunday have what they called the explosive book by Number 10's

insider, David Cameron's former spin doctor. Watch the you make of these

revelations in which apparently David Cameron begged Theresa May to

come off the fence over Brexit but she refused so often. One of

Cameron's allies asked if she was secretly an enemy agent. Really? It

is colourful language and explosive, a Mail on Sunday serialisation of a

book. They paid a lot of money for it because it probably won't sell

many books, but you would think that these people had something better to

do than keeping meticulous notes or reading other people's text messages

but this bombshell exposures... David Cameron has a book, everyone

else has a book. Tim Shipman is a journalist! Exactly. This is all

really about, as Caroline said before, this wouldn't be about

Theresa May if she wasn't the Prime Minister. They've picked on the bits

about her apparently failing to support David Cameron on 13 separate

occasions which are then detailed in large print. Her sphinxlike approach

is becoming difficult. You know... We knew all of that, didn't we? We

knew she was playing a clever game which in the end paid off. But also

is his thing about personalities. There was never a sense that there

was any warmth between Theresa May and David Cameron. The fact that she

is the longest serving Home Secretary since the Second World War

and is actually regarded to have done a very good job and been a

steady pair of hands on many things, but she has made some quite

devastating attacks on the public school boys. That said David Cameron

was involved in it. It is also about rewriting history, knowing now that

we have Theresa May as the Prime Minister. At the relegation that are

more interesting are not the ones about Theresa May, but those that we

picked out before, this idea that Boris Johnson said these text

messages just nine minutes before he said he was going to campaign for

the leadership. Essentially saying, don't worry, David, I will campaign

for Leave, but we will be crushed. There's no chance will win. This

kind of duplicitous as is staggering. Tim Shipman has a book

as well. Briefly run through what that is saying about what happened

between David Cameron and Theresa May. It is the same sort of thing.

David Cameron branded Theresa May livid after he said she would drop

plans of immigration. This goes back to 2014 when David Cameron was

planning to make a speech. He wanted to come in with a very tough deal,

and emergency brake on the number of EU migrants, but it was well-known

that Angela Merkel wouldn't have accepted that, and so David Cameron

did a deal which was cutting the benefits to new arrivals. But again

this is sort of rewriting history slightly to say that because Philip

Hammond, who was the then Foreign Secretary, and Theresa May refused

to back David Cameron, but what they did say is that you would look a bit

of it it if you stand up there and say this and then Angela Merkel

says, don't be ridiculous! The final point while we are on internal

divisions, David Cameron and Michael Gove, who were huge friends, and the

men and their wives have been close for more than a decade according to

the Sunday Telegraph. And they haven't spoken since Brexit,

apparently. I am not desperately surprised by that at all. It is well

known they were close, and the Prime Minister did feel an enormous sense

of betrayal and felt Michael Gove was going to have his back in this.

He knew he was a Brexiteer and as far as understand Michael Gove had

led him to believe he was going to play a more genial role in the

campaign and the Prime Minister was genuinely staggered to find out that

he was then going to be the sort of many head of Leave and was going to

lead the campaign and that came as a blow to him. But of course there

were other unsavoury things said, all about their relationship in

various newspaper columns by Michael Gove's wife that wouldn't have gone

down well. There was apparently an attempt by Michael Gove to make

ridges with Boris Johnson, although I understand some of those overtures

have been rejected. The bridges have not been built. I imagine Boris

Johnson would delight in saying he is too busy. But of course he has

actually done quite well out of it. Boris Johnson has had the second

life as the Foreign Secretary and is doing quite well. And Michael Gove

less so. Less so. He does cut quite a lonely figure these days. I am

sure you choose him up when we say hello. We just a cost everybody we

see. You will talk to anybody! You should be careful! Talking about

some of the more important issues, like what will happen to The Great

British Bake Off. The Sunday Times says the BBC are turning off the

heat with a rival programme, the gloss of course they have got three

of the stars still, but you wonder whether that is allowed under the

copyright rules. Yes, I presume the copyright belongs to the company

that came up with the format. The BBC did it, took a gamble, it has

been hugely successful and the company had sold that format. That's

what happens in television. It seems the BBC is cooking up something. In

terms of a rival show. You won't have to do much, because they have

got the main ingredients. You just need to tinker with the format a

little bit, change the name, Strictly Come Baking. What else did

we come up with? It could be the Hairy Bakers. Absolutely. And let's

talk about Strictly. Poor old Ed Balls made his debut and it didn't

go too well. Maybe this is where Michael Gove should go. This is

about careers for politicians, when life beckons beyond... They do like

to line these people up. We all love an underdog and generally we could

see that a mile off, that he made bigger said underdog. But it is the

British thing of thinking he is a good sport, he doesn't mind making a

full lock himself. After the debut, he is bottom of the leaderboard, I'm

afraid. They said he was quite conservative. I must say the

trousers look very uncomfortable. He is apparently madly disappointed.

I'm not sure what he was expecting. I would have thought that even in

your wildest dreams you are not going to be top. Good sport for

trying. He will be in panto somewhere this Christmas. This is

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