06/10/2016

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:00:25. > :00:32.Rowena Mason, Deputy political editor of the Guardian. Thank you

:00:33. > :00:37.for coming in. The front pages: Most of them have this lead story about

:00:38. > :00:41.Steven Woolfe. Images released by ITV News, which show the Ukip

:00:42. > :00:52.leadership collapsed after an altercation with another MEP. That

:00:53. > :01:00.is featured on the Metro. The i Also has this as their top story.

:01:01. > :01:05.Scotland Yard has been caught up in a corruption scandal, according to

:01:06. > :01:08.the Daily Telegraph. Cliff Richard is leading legal action against the

:01:09. > :01:11.BBC and the police after being named in a child sex enquiry, in the Daily

:01:12. > :01:15.Mirror. The Daily Express looks ahead to the Autumn Statement which

:01:16. > :01:19.he says will contain measures to help struggling families. The Times

:01:20. > :01:26.says gambling companies face a crackdown on TV advertising during

:01:27. > :01:30.the daytime. Let's begin... That story about Steven Woolfe, one of

:01:31. > :01:35.the Ukip leadership contenders, and how it has featured on the times.

:01:36. > :01:42.This is the photo from ITV News. A lot of papers have it on their front

:01:43. > :01:46.page. A dramatic blow to the Ukip reputation. There is a certain

:01:47. > :01:50.unease about whether this picture should be used at all, but the

:01:51. > :01:58.papers have gone with it. We had some discussion, as well, to a

:01:59. > :02:02.certain extent all of us have been desensitised to some of these

:02:03. > :02:05.images. What is and isn't in good taste. This is probably veering

:02:06. > :02:09.towards not in good taste coming yet we have it over all of the front

:02:10. > :02:17.pages. That happens in a public space, so it is up for grabs. Yes. I

:02:18. > :02:21.feel slightly sorry for Steven Woolfe who has had this terrible

:02:22. > :02:25.health scare. He seems to be OK now. He is sitting up and smiling. But he

:02:26. > :02:33.is now pictured spread-eagled on the floor. Bit rough on him. It is. But

:02:34. > :02:39.the headliners dramatic blow to Ukip's reputation, do you think that

:02:40. > :02:42.is true? -- the headline is. They will now have an enquiry into

:02:43. > :02:45.exactly what happened in this altercation. It has taken place

:02:46. > :02:56.between Steven Woolfe and another MEP. Mike Hookem's spokesperson said

:02:57. > :03:01.he did not touch Steven Woolfe. There are different versions on what

:03:02. > :03:04.has happened. Ukip will look into what happened, according to Nigel

:03:05. > :03:09.Farage, who was once again Ukip leader, and there is the possibility

:03:10. > :03:14.there could be some kind of disciplinary action, or suspension

:03:15. > :03:17.against one or both of them. And we have a leadership competition coming

:03:18. > :03:22.up for Ukip again because Diane James stood down after just 18 days

:03:23. > :03:30.in the job. This is one of those things where, you know, if Ukip was

:03:31. > :03:35.a conventional political party, some have suggested that it is a

:03:36. > :03:39.different kind of political party where the one-time leader steps down

:03:40. > :03:42.after 18 days, the long-time leader steps back in, the favourite to

:03:43. > :03:46.replace her has now been caught up in some kind of altercation. How do

:03:47. > :03:51.you predict what will happen next? I have no idea. There are also reports

:03:52. > :03:56.that Steven Woolfe was thinking about leaving Ukip. That's correct.

:03:57. > :04:02.We ran a story yesterday saying that Steven Woolfe had been in talks with

:04:03. > :04:05.the Conservative Party until quite recently about defecting. He then

:04:06. > :04:10.admitted he had been seriously thinking about it. He claims this

:04:11. > :04:15.happened before he learned that Diane James was going to stand down

:04:16. > :04:19.as Ukip leader. Very conveniently for him it meant that having decided

:04:20. > :04:22.Ukip was his future he was then able to announce he was going to run for

:04:23. > :04:28.the leadership again. But it's caused a lot of tension within Ukip.

:04:29. > :04:32.He has a lot of support from the grassroots activists and from people

:04:33. > :04:35.like the major donor for Ukip, Aaron Banks, but other people within the

:04:36. > :04:42.party think it is unacceptable that he was on the verge of jumping ship

:04:43. > :04:45.to another political party. Some senior Tory figures did believe he

:04:46. > :04:55.was going to come over to their side. We will find more about that

:04:56. > :04:59.when the enquiry is over. Now, the Labour Party reshuffle. Why do you

:05:00. > :05:06.having stayed on as leader of the having stayed on as leader of the

:05:07. > :05:09.Labour Party? -- Jeremy Corbyn. I think he wants to make sure the team

:05:10. > :05:16.around him will be loyal to him. That looks like what this reshuffle

:05:17. > :05:20.is aiming to achieve. There is an appointment of some key allies to

:05:21. > :05:25.senior posts. Diane Abbott becoming the Shadow Home Secretary. Keeping

:05:26. > :05:37.Emily Thornberry in her job as Shadow Foreign Secretary. The other

:05:38. > :05:42.interesting one is Chakrabarti, who led the enquiry into anti-Semitism

:05:43. > :05:46.within the Labour Party. He is surrounded himself with people who

:05:47. > :05:50.are of the same politics. And another interesting move which I

:05:51. > :05:57.think as just come in quite recently in the last 30 minutes is that he

:05:58. > :06:00.has moved Clive Lewis from the role of Shadow Defence Secretary into a

:06:01. > :06:08.new role as Shadow Business Secretary and replaced him with a

:06:09. > :06:12.pro-trident MP. That is another move to shift the Shadow Cabinet so it

:06:13. > :06:20.aligns more closely with his views. Jeremy Corbyn is anti-Trident. Clive

:06:21. > :06:24.Lewis, while being sceptical of Trident, he said he thought Labour

:06:25. > :06:27.should park the issue. At the conference all of the talk was about

:06:28. > :06:32.we need to have unity. This reshuffle will give us an indication

:06:33. > :06:37.the Parliamentary Labour Party, or the Parliamentary Labour Party, or

:06:38. > :06:43.the grassroots, won't it? Those are some excellent points. The

:06:44. > :06:48.difficulty now is how does Labour battle between unity and loyalty.

:06:49. > :06:54.These are two different concepts now. Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party

:06:55. > :06:59.now, given the people who have been sacked, what is the party going to

:07:00. > :07:05.look like? How do you unify what was previously a disparate group of MPs,

:07:06. > :07:12.most of whom did not want him as leader. What does he do now? How

:07:13. > :07:14.does he unify the party? I suppose a lot of MPs were waiting to see

:07:15. > :07:17.whether there would be the whether there would be the

:07:18. > :07:20.opportunity to vote on who sat in the Cabinet. Some of these posts

:07:21. > :07:26.have already been handed out. Is that a possibility for some of the

:07:27. > :07:31.other Shadow Cabinet? There was as recently as a few days ago a plan to

:07:32. > :07:41.actually talk about this idea of Shadow Cabinet elections. I think

:07:42. > :07:45.allies of Jeremy Corbyn say that there could be this opportunity for

:07:46. > :07:49.Shadow Cabinet elections down the line. But when it gets to that point

:07:50. > :07:53.it'll be difficult to remove some of those people from their current

:07:54. > :07:57.posts who have been loyal to the needy, and who Jeremy Corbyn likes,

:07:58. > :08:04.and had not given him a hard time in those roles. There are other

:08:05. > :08:09.questions about which roles in the Shadow Cabinet would you make an

:08:10. > :08:11.elected, and how many would you make elected, and the Worcester shadow

:08:12. > :08:26.ministers believe that you suddenly told, you out of a job. -- and most

:08:27. > :08:33.of the shadow ministers who you suddenly told you are out of a job.

:08:34. > :08:38.Theresa May had to have a hard line on immigration for her party but it

:08:39. > :08:40.hasn't gone down well among other European leaders. Angela Merkel was

:08:41. > :08:45.also speaking to a domestic constituency. We will get to the

:08:46. > :08:49.point soon by these national leaders will be talking to each other. And

:08:50. > :08:51.these negotiations are not going to be easy by all indications are two

:08:52. > :08:55.years in which the first few months years in which the first few months

:08:56. > :08:59.where there will be a French national election campaign, a German

:09:00. > :09:03.national election campaign. The idea this will be two years and we are

:09:04. > :09:07.done, I think a lot of these countries have particular things

:09:08. > :09:14.they want out of these negotiations. And we are talking about 28

:09:15. > :09:16.countries. This will not be easy. Domestically, conservative

:09:17. > :09:21.politicians can talk about anything they like, say what they want, but

:09:22. > :09:24.it is all to be played for in negotiations, isn't it? That's

:09:25. > :09:28.right. Often politicians are talking right. Often politicians are talking

:09:29. > :09:32.in a domestic context and they might forget how their comments will be

:09:33. > :09:38.received overseas. It looks like the French Housing Minister has had a

:09:39. > :09:42.pop about the Home Secretary's proposal to ask companies to say how

:09:43. > :09:51.much their workforce were international workers. It seems

:09:52. > :09:54.like... There is a lot of leaders playing to their own audiences at

:09:55. > :09:57.home. Theresa May is going to come home. Theresa May is going to come

:09:58. > :10:04.up against this in her negotiations in the months to come. One other

:10:05. > :10:07.interesting thing to note is that it seems to be... Angela Merkel's tone

:10:08. > :10:12.seems to have shifted since Theresa May one became leader. That press

:10:13. > :10:15.conference they gave jointly in Berlin, Angela Merkel was saying I

:10:16. > :10:19.am in listening mode, come to us with a proposal, we will see what

:10:20. > :10:25.happens, but as it has become clearer that Theresa May is moving

:10:26. > :10:31.towards the rhetoric of hard Brexit, that seems to have annoyed people

:10:32. > :10:35.over the continent. The Daily Express, savers to get boost at

:10:36. > :10:40.last. Tory plan will help millions of hard-working families. We know

:10:41. > :10:45.the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has said it is up to

:10:46. > :10:48.the government, but how does the government do that when the Bank of

:10:49. > :10:52.England is in charge of interest rates? It is a difficult thing.

:10:53. > :10:57.There are some things the government can do by making saving more

:10:58. > :11:01.attractive. Savers have lost out big time in the last few years. There is

:11:02. > :11:05.no prospect of interest rates rising. Anything the government can

:11:06. > :11:09.do to make saving more tax efficient. In the mould of the ice,

:11:10. > :11:17.when it was created, when it was that idea of encouraging people to

:11:18. > :11:21.save. -- in the mould of the ISA. The government can still do things

:11:22. > :11:26.to incentivise regular people to put money in their saving accounts. The

:11:27. > :11:29.pensions expert now sit in the House of Lords and she is suggesting

:11:30. > :11:35.something which would be appealing, but how do you do it? A 4% national

:11:36. > :11:41.savings bond. People would jump at the chance to get 4% in returns at

:11:42. > :11:46.the moment. It seems like a natural thing for Theresa May to do given

:11:47. > :11:50.the kind of politics she's been talking about in her party

:11:51. > :11:54.conference speech. Wanting to help savers. Many of those people will be

:11:55. > :11:59.traditional Tory voters, maybe older who have seen the value of their

:12:00. > :12:03.savings and their pensions decline. The other side of that is that their

:12:04. > :12:06.out of people in the UK just managing, struggling people, who

:12:07. > :12:15.don't even have the money to put into savings, and it won't do much

:12:16. > :12:20.for them. The Daily Telegraph, going walkies since before Stonehenge.

:12:21. > :12:25.Tell us more. This is an intriguing and charming story about prehistoric

:12:26. > :12:31.travellers who seem to have taken an Alsatian with them on a 215 mile

:12:32. > :12:38.journey from York to the site of Stonehenge. -- 250 mile. How do they

:12:39. > :12:40.know? What have they found? They have found a tooth from one of the

:12:41. > :12:46.earliest domesticated dogs. I have earliest domesticated dogs. I have

:12:47. > :12:51.never been to Stonehenge. You must. It isn't clear that this journey

:12:52. > :12:58.happened at one time. I think the dog might have been quite tired at

:12:59. > :13:02.the end of it. All in one stretch. Perhaps he has spent many years of

:13:03. > :13:05.his life walking across many parts of the UK. Nice to know Alsatian 's

:13:06. > :13:11.have been around for such a long time. That is it. Some light relief

:13:12. > :13:17.amongst some of the political stories we have to deal with. You

:13:18. > :13:24.can read a detailed review of the papers. It is therefore you seven

:13:25. > :13:29.days a week on the website -- it is their for you.

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