:00:00. > :00:00.With me are Oliver Wright, Policy Editor at The Times
:00:00. > :00:00.and Kevin Schofield, who's Editor of the
:00:07. > :00:12.For the second day in a row the Times leads
:00:13. > :00:14.with an investigation into the circumstances
:00:15. > :00:16.of Dame Lowell Goddard leaving the independent inquiry
:00:17. > :00:20.Dame Goddard has strenuously denied allegations of misconduct and racism
:00:21. > :00:28.The Daily Mail devotes its front page to the news that footballer
:00:29. > :00:32.Ched Evans has been cleared of rape by a jury.
:00:33. > :00:35.The Guardian goes with the same story, as well as a report
:00:36. > :00:38.that the NHS will not be receiving any extra funding in next
:00:39. > :00:41.The Express also features Ched Evans, but focuses
:00:42. > :00:46.on the issues surrounding Britain leaving the European Union.
:00:47. > :00:50.The Financial Times also leads with a Brexit story,
:00:51. > :00:52.reporting that car manufacturer Nissan has received assurances
:00:53. > :00:59.from the Prime Minister that it's trading status will not be affected.
:01:00. > :01:01.The Telegraph reports that the metropolitan police
:01:02. > :01:04.are withholding the full publication of a report into their handling
:01:05. > :01:11.And the Mirror's front page is dedicated to the actress
:01:12. > :01:15.Jean Alexander, who has died at the age of 90.
:01:16. > :01:24.Let's start with the Telegraph. Falling from a comment Mark Carney
:01:25. > :01:27.has made about the effect of the value of the powerful and will have
:01:28. > :01:33.on inflation and prices. The Telegraph says don't give me orders
:01:34. > :01:36.Carney warns Nei. This is the Bank of England reminding the Prime
:01:37. > :01:41.Minister that they are independent and they don't want to be interfered
:01:42. > :01:48.with by the government. The independence of the Bank of England
:01:49. > :01:51.is something Labour brought in after the 1997 election. This is Mark
:01:52. > :01:59.Carney, the governor, flexing his muscles. He was appointed by George
:02:00. > :02:07.Osborne and was a close ally of George Osborne and was in favour of
:02:08. > :02:14.reunion in the EU referendum. He is basically reacting to comments about
:02:15. > :02:18.the Tory conference speech in which the reason they questioned lower
:02:19. > :02:23.interest rates and quantitive easing and said we will change that. He is
:02:24. > :02:28.firing warning shots he sent back off, we are independent and we will
:02:29. > :02:34.not take any direction from politicians. He set up the system
:02:35. > :02:41.but you have to let us make it work. It was thought to be a good thing.
:02:42. > :02:46.It would no longer have to... You can separate out politics and
:02:47. > :02:51.finance and by giving them. It was a good idea but it didn't go to happen
:02:52. > :02:53.when things start going wrong. This is interesting because the
:02:54. > :02:59.relationship between Osborne and Mark Carney was extraordinarily
:03:00. > :03:02.close, but clearly the relationship between Hammond and Carney and the
:03:03. > :03:07.relationship between Theresa May and Carney is not the same. He is making
:03:08. > :03:12.it very clear that I am not going to allow you to push me around.
:03:13. > :03:17.Circumstances may have changed, Brexit is a huge political issue, I
:03:18. > :03:23.will deal with this as I want and if not, there is always Canada. He has
:03:24. > :03:31.quite a bit longer left on his contract. It was shorter than most.
:03:32. > :03:38.He made it clear it should be shorter than most. He is enormously
:03:39. > :03:42.respected but just in Canada where this country, but around the world.
:03:43. > :03:45.He would not have a shortage of job offers and this is a side shot
:03:46. > :03:51.across the aisle saying either let me do this job properly or find
:03:52. > :03:56.someone else. He is already a hate figure as far as Eurosceptic Tories
:03:57. > :04:01.are concerned. They will be worried about this. They will be saying this
:04:02. > :04:08.is another example of Mark Carney overstepping the mark and he should
:04:09. > :04:12.mind his neck in. There are things the right can do to help the
:04:13. > :04:16.economy, there are things the government can do. You have got to
:04:17. > :04:20.assume that the premised and the governor will both have the best
:04:21. > :04:28.interests of the country at heart, don't you? They might have different
:04:29. > :04:31.ideas of how to get those best interests. One topic you is
:04:32. > :04:35.quantitive easing which is complicated, but the conference
:04:36. > :04:39.speech they signalled quantitative easing is one of those things that
:04:40. > :04:43.is hurting people, hurting savers in particular because there are low
:04:44. > :04:47.interest rates. He would say this medicine is necessary because there
:04:48. > :04:51.will be problems in the broader economy otherwise. May is saying she
:04:52. > :04:57.doesn't like that very much. The question is, he has the whip hand in
:04:58. > :05:02.that relationship? I would love to know what George Osborne thinks.
:05:03. > :05:09.Glad he isn't having to deal with that. We should keep an eye on his
:05:10. > :05:14.Twitter account. Let's move on to the Financial Times. Theresa May
:05:15. > :05:22.assures Nissan its UK plant will be shielded from Brexit followed. This
:05:23. > :05:29.is going to be music to the ears of Nissan, but other companies will
:05:30. > :05:33.want this. This is the first big problem and test for the government.
:05:34. > :05:37.Nissan have an investment decision coming up which they said they will
:05:38. > :05:44.make this year. It is about whether to produce the new car model and
:05:45. > :05:49.where to do it. They have factories in France, Spain and they have a
:05:50. > :05:53.factory in Sunderland. Before Brexit, everyone assumed it would go
:05:54. > :05:57.to Sunderland. It is the most efficient Nissan factory in Europe.
:05:58. > :06:02.It was producing the previous model and it was a foregone conclusion.
:06:03. > :06:05.Brexit changes the game on that. Nissan very specifically went to the
:06:06. > :06:10.government and said if you want is to build this in Sunderland, we need
:06:11. > :06:15.guarantees. If you are Theresa May and you have Nissan coming to you,
:06:16. > :06:20.thousands of jobs in Sunderland am a huge symbol that Brexit is going
:06:21. > :06:25.wrong, you will take them seriously. The Chief Executive of Nissan had a
:06:26. > :06:29.meeting in Downing Street and Theresa May has pretty explicitly
:06:30. > :06:34.said we will guarantee that nothing goes wrong. That could bring
:06:35. > :06:38.government subsidies. The subheading is that the rules will not change.
:06:39. > :06:43.How can she get that assurance when we don't know what the terms of
:06:44. > :06:53.Brexit will be? She is airing on the side of caution. For optimism. They
:06:54. > :07:00.are terrified at the first big economic reaction to the Brexit food
:07:01. > :07:03.will be the closure of a plan with the decision not to invest further
:07:04. > :07:08.in a planned, lots of jobs at stake here and if there are massive job
:07:09. > :07:12.losses as a direct result of Brexit. It is all well think that
:07:13. > :07:18.Conservative conference, talking about hard Brexit, but when it comes
:07:19. > :07:23.down to brass tacks like this, she might be a little bit softer than
:07:24. > :07:27.she would like to make out. If one business seems to get an
:07:28. > :07:31.advantageous deal out of this, other companies will want the same. It is
:07:32. > :07:35.an acknowledgement from the government that Brexit will cause
:07:36. > :07:39.significant wobbles in the economy. I feel like I say this every time
:07:40. > :07:44.when something about Brexit comes up, how can anyone say what the
:07:45. > :07:50.shape of it is going to be one we are only at the beginning? It is not
:07:51. > :07:56.just up to what Britain wants. The point about this deal is the
:07:57. > :08:00.government is saying on the quiet, even if Brexit goes wrong, we will
:08:01. > :08:07.subsidise you. Even if Europe puts on tariffs on Nissan cars, we will
:08:08. > :08:14.make sure that you don't lose out as a result. The form of words is we
:08:15. > :08:18.will make sure you are protected, but they are not saying we know what
:08:19. > :08:23.the outcome of the deal is, they are sent if you put in the investment,
:08:24. > :08:26.we will make sure you don't lose out. That is extraordinarily
:08:27. > :08:31.significant and other manufacturers will want similar guarantees. There
:08:32. > :08:35.will be other industries that are affected that will want similar
:08:36. > :08:40.protection. Of course there will. This is a big precedent being set by
:08:41. > :08:45.the government and there is no reason why other industries will not
:08:46. > :08:52.set hang on, if Nissan kept this, we should get something. Someone said
:08:53. > :08:56.the other day that we haven't had so much access to government for a very
:08:57. > :09:01.long time, people wanting to be nice to us, wanting to reassure us. That
:09:02. > :09:06.is one consequence of Brexit. The government is far more aware of the
:09:07. > :09:10.whip and that business has because what might have been on the business
:09:11. > :09:13.pages is going to the front of the paper I went as political
:09:14. > :09:21.ramifications which they wouldn't have had in the past. We will move
:09:22. > :09:30.on to the times. Here we have another story about the Lowell
:09:31. > :09:34.Goddard who was the former chair of the sex abuse enquiry. The Home
:09:35. > :09:40.Office knew about fears over abuse judge. She did quit over
:09:41. > :09:46.allegations. I will, to what she has said in her defence in a moment but
:09:47. > :09:50.tell us what this is about. This is a significant clinical story because
:09:51. > :09:53.you have the Home Secretary and the permanent Secretary, the most senior
:09:54. > :09:59.civil servant, going before the House of Commons and speaking to the
:10:00. > :10:03.Home Affairs Select Committee about why the Lowell Goddard quit and they
:10:04. > :10:07.said she quit because she was homesick and she wanted to go back
:10:08. > :10:13.to New Zealand. We ran a story yesterday with allegations about
:10:14. > :10:16.what her behaviour had been like. Now we have the statement from the
:10:17. > :10:21.Home Office saying they were aware of these concerns at the time at
:10:22. > :10:24.which Amber Rudd and the permanent secretary gives evidence. Why didn't
:10:25. > :10:29.they tell the committee then? There is a paragraph here about what the
:10:30. > :10:36.Home Office has actually said about what he knew. They said on July 29,
:10:37. > :10:39.did it is important, the Home Office was made aware of concerns about the
:10:40. > :10:50.professionalism and competence of Justice Gothard. They basically said
:10:51. > :10:53.that the decision was taken not to inform the Home Secretary. It was an
:10:54. > :11:00.enquiry matter as opposed to a government matter. This raises
:11:01. > :11:06.different questions. The previous secretary was Theresa May who is now
:11:07. > :11:11.promised. What did she know? The spokesperson for the Prime Minister
:11:12. > :11:17.was asked this this morning. She just would not be drawn on it at
:11:18. > :11:19.all. She wanted to shut it down. There is a possibility the pro
:11:20. > :11:25.Minister may have known about this. He just wonder, when you give
:11:26. > :11:28.evidence to Parliamentary committees, you cannot mislead
:11:29. > :11:35.Parliamentary committees, especially not if you are a cabinet minister.
:11:36. > :11:38.For Amber Road to say this was categorically the reason, that she
:11:39. > :11:43.was homesick, now we know that wasn't the case. We had heard
:11:44. > :11:48.things. The other thing is that Theresa May had this reputation of
:11:49. > :11:52.being all over every bit of detail. I spoke to a former minister who
:11:53. > :11:55.said it was inconceivable that if there were rumours going around the
:11:56. > :11:58.committee that Theresa May didn't know about them. Over the coming
:11:59. > :12:02.days there will be more pressure to find out what Theresa May knew and
:12:03. > :12:08.when she and why people want more open and honest about it. That is
:12:09. > :12:12.reiterate what the Lowell Goddard has said. She has strongly denied
:12:13. > :12:18.all the albums of the story run by the Times today, that is Friday and
:12:19. > :12:23.that includes any allegations about her conduct. That is the Lowell
:12:24. > :12:25.Goddard APPLAUSE Statement.
:12:26. > :12:29.We will stick with the enquiry because it is on page four of the
:12:30. > :12:35.times. The enquiry will be cut back to say that. It will be scaled back
:12:36. > :12:40.to keep it on track. The leak QC amongst others had said, some time
:12:41. > :12:46.ago, they were concerned about what the enquiry was trying to achieve in
:12:47. > :12:52.its scope. Ten years is the estimate of how long this will take. They
:12:53. > :12:55.have compiled millions of documents, pages of documents and haven't taken
:12:56. > :12:59.a single piece of evidence from any witnesses. There is a real danger
:13:00. > :13:06.that it will run out of control and we will be here in a long time and
:13:07. > :13:09.there will be no outcome and in the meantime millions of pounds of
:13:10. > :13:16.taxpayer money is being spent. You can understand why the government
:13:17. > :13:20.will want this to be tightened and made shorter so we can get to the
:13:21. > :13:25.bottom as quickly as possible. The victims are desperate to know what
:13:26. > :13:29.has been happening. What is the ultimate aim is what you have to
:13:30. > :13:33.ask. People say they want closure, they want to understand why it
:13:34. > :13:38.happened. If you have an enquiry of such scope, the answer is will be
:13:39. > :13:43.different depending on what you are looking at. If you merge this
:13:44. > :13:46.something together into a great morass of separate and different
:13:47. > :13:50.things, there is a dangerous that your ultimate outcome is less
:13:51. > :13:57.satisfactory than if you looked at specifics. Is it clear what will
:13:58. > :14:02.have to go? The problem they have is having set up the enquiry, any
:14:03. > :14:06.attempt to reduce its skill is likely to face huge controversy from
:14:07. > :14:15.certain interests. Some people will say it is a whitewash. Let's go back
:14:16. > :14:19.to the Telegraph. Scottish Nationalist MPs to reject the code
:14:20. > :14:28.requiring an act in UK interests. This might scupper the idea of
:14:29. > :14:32.another vote on independence. It is Groundhog Day in Scotland. We are
:14:33. > :14:39.back to talking about the constitution. Now, it is a really
:14:40. > :14:43.good story, an interesting story. There is a new code of conduct that
:14:44. > :14:47.MPs have to say they will act, they have a duty to act in the interests
:14:48. > :14:52.of the United Kingdom as a whole which is a different wording. The
:14:53. > :14:59.previous wording referred to the nation. The SNP, whose raison d' tre
:15:00. > :15:04.is to break up the United Kingdom, their MPs will say we are not keen
:15:05. > :15:08.on standing up for the interests of the United Kingdom because we want
:15:09. > :15:12.to see the end of the United Kingdom. They are saying it needs to
:15:13. > :15:22.be changed or they won't sign up to it. What is the sanction if you
:15:23. > :15:34.don't? I don't know. It will make matters of SNP MPs. Tommy Sheppard
:15:35. > :15:41.is saying they will try to change it. Tommy Sheppard only joined the
:15:42. > :15:45.SNP in the days after the referendum. It was a senior official
:15:46. > :15:51.in the Scottish Labour Party not so long ago. He was assistant general
:15:52. > :15:54.secretary. He switched sides, became a nationalist, joined the SNP and
:15:55. > :16:01.ran to be deputy leader. He was defeated by Angus Robertson. He is
:16:02. > :16:09.one of the new breed of SNP MPs, quite militant. He says up with this
:16:10. > :16:15.we shall not put. They are a force. They only has a majority of 12, so
:16:16. > :16:23.the SNP have some clout. Go back to the FT. Defeat to Uzbekistan leaves
:16:24. > :16:32.Chinese clone of World Cup glory a long shot. The Chinese football team
:16:33. > :16:41.has not been doing well. They lost to Syria as well. I like the line
:16:42. > :16:48.that they are saying they will do something we are good at and one of
:16:49. > :16:51.the Chinese tabloid papers are saying they should abandon the
:16:52. > :16:56.beautiful game and go back to playing ping-pong. It is a great
:16:57. > :17:02.story. A surprise and story for the FT to have on their front page.
:17:03. > :17:06.Because the president is a massive football fan, there is a lot of
:17:07. > :17:11.money in the Chinese football league. They are bringing in a lot
:17:12. > :17:18.of foreigners. They are saying the Chinese players, they don't know
:17:19. > :17:23.what to do almost because they are so used to play with foreigners,
:17:24. > :17:34.highly paid and talented foreigners. Remind you of anyone? I am not in a
:17:35. > :17:38.position to comment. Is the argument then to not allow so many foreign
:17:39. > :17:44.players to play in their teens and bring on the home support? We have
:17:45. > :17:50.heard that before. When are they supposed to be holding the World
:17:51. > :17:59.Cup, 2018? That was the hope. They hoped to not only host the World Cup
:18:00. > :18:04.but to qualify... I don't follow it closely. They hope to qualify and
:18:05. > :18:09.hope to host the World Cup and eventually win it. As I say, there
:18:10. > :18:15.is as much chance of Scotland winning it. The president has
:18:16. > :18:22.decreed China will have 20,000 training centres and 70,000 pages in
:18:23. > :18:26.place by 2020. That would help. You would imagine Silbert can you buy
:18:27. > :18:31.your way to success in football? Yes, you can't, can't you? It would
:18:32. > :18:36.take a long time. If they do that they will enjoy the fruit 20 or 30
:18:37. > :18:43.years down the line. He instant success because he is spending this
:18:44. > :18:46.money. There is all this stuff at the Olympics which the Chinese want
:18:47. > :18:57.happy with. They came third to the UK which didn't go down particularly
:18:58. > :19:02.well. Shall we just look at this. To make us all feel better, look at
:19:03. > :19:05.those seven piglets. The web is most domesticated breed in the world.
:19:06. > :19:10.They are very sweet. I feel better just looking at the picture. I
:19:11. > :19:16.thought you would as well. That is if The Papers tonight. Don't forget,
:19:17. > :19:21.all The Papers are online on the BBC News website where you can read a
:19:22. > :19:33.detailed review of them. You can see us there as well each night. Thank
:19:34. > :19:47.you both very much. Coming up next, the weather.
:19:48. > :19:48.Good evening. We will lose the chilly