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it Hello and welcome to our look ahead | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
to what the the papers will be With me are Ben Riley-Smith, | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
assistant political editor of the Daily Telegraph | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
and Kate Devlin, Westminster Thank you for joining us. Let us | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
look at the front-pages first. The I's front page is dominated | :00:24. | :00:35. | |
by the Conservative cabinet ministers and MPs criticising | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
the government's decision to make Heathrow its preferred | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
choice for a new runway. The Metro also leads | :00:41. | :00:41. | |
with that story, under The Telegraph says Zac Goldsmith's | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
resignation from the Commons, sparked by the Heathrow decision, | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
has caused what it calls a "Brexit by-election" with the Liberal | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
democrats likely to fight it The Express carries a claim | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
by International Development Secretary Priti Patel that UK | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
money is being wasted on what the paper calls undeserving | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
foreign aid projects. The Guardian's obtained what it | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
claims is a leaked recording of remarks Theresa May made | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
in a meeting with investment bankers, when she apparently | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
expressed worries about the economic Don't have your baby out of hours | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
is the stark warning from the Mail, which says three out of four NHS | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
labour wards have no consultant The Times leads with Heathrow, | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
but it also reports that drugs companies that hike | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
up their prices excessively face huge fines after the UK's | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
competition watchdog opened up The Sun say Sir Cliff Richard's | :01:39. | :01:54. | |
lawyers have evidence of texts sent prior to a raid on his home two | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
years ago, he is suing the force and the BBC. | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
Well, let us begin, shall we talk about an airport? We better had. It | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
is the only story round. It S let us start with the front-page of the i, | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
the big headline Tory rebels let fly on Heathrow, with pictures of Boris | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
Johnson, Zac Goldsmith and the Education Secretary. I suppose given | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
that Theresa May has allowed this period of openness, it was entirely | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
predictable they would come out in opposition, but they have pulled no | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
punches. They haven't. Downing Street was very keen to emphasise | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
that you know, there has been 40 years of dithering and it has only | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
taken them four months to take this decision it has only taken them four | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Mondays of Government to rewrite the rules, and give this, you know | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
extraordinary dispensation to the Foreign Secretary, to the Education | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
Secretary, to come out and criticise their own Government. It is very | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
interesting what they have said as well. Boris, being Boris has said a | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
lot of things about it today, including predicting that London | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
would be awash with planes. But I am not surprised the i has pulled out | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
this word. He said it is undeliverable. So we from Foreign | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
Secretary predicting his own Prime Minister's ?17 billion project is | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
going to fail. It is like the Brexit campaign all over again. It is. I | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
was just about to say. One wonders how this genie can be put back in | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
the bottle eventually, buzz they have this period of Purdah or what | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
you want to call it, how can they forget these things have been said. | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
What they will hope is people like Boris and Justine took today to get | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
their statement out today, whenever they are asked in the future, they | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
can say I have made my feelings clear, they are there on the record | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
and point back to them. That is an optimistic view, especially from | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
Zac, who has resigned, Zac Goldsmith resigned. He is running as an | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
independent in a by-election. He will hammer the Government on | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
Heathrow, if he wins, and that will be seen as a victory for the | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
anti-Heathrow campaign, so that will be another blow. Like you say, we | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
don't know how long it will be caught up in the court, how long the | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
consultation period will be, whether it will disappear as a Tory split | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
issue. There is this strange thing, that the opponent, the political | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
opponents can make their opposition plain in TV studios but not in the | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
House of Commons? Yes yes, that was a very key demand that Theresa May | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
made, she made them request permission from her, to be able to | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
say these thing, but she told them point blank they wouldn't be able to | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
say them in the House of Commons. But of course, Zac Goldsmith is not | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
a member of the Cabinet. He is not being held by these rules, and he, | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
you know, he gave it both barrels in the House of Commons today. They | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
managed to kind of get both of these, they also announced they | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
would give this special dispensation a week ago, presumably in a bid to | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
head it off, headlines like this, and it doesn't appear to have | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
worked. Indeed. Let us move on to the telegraph now, with the story | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
you alluded to, Ben. Your own newspaper of course. Heathrow forces | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
May into a Brexit Bentaleb shirntion triggered by the resignation of Zac | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
Goldsmith. What is interesting is that Zac Goldsmith said he wanted | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
this to be a referendum this by-election to be a referendum on | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
Heathrow, but how can it be, because the Conservatives won't put a | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
candidate up against him. And the Lib Dem a candidate is likely to be | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
anti-Heathrow as well. It turns it into what will become a Brexit | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
by-election, Because? 71% of people in Zac Goldsmith's constituency | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
voted to remain, he was a very ardent Brexiteer, the Lib Dems are | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
the party who have gone out of their way to be as pro-EU as possible, | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
openly pushing for a second referendum, being accused of not | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
listening to the British people, but they see an opportunity to represent | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
the 48%, and pick up key by-elections like this one, you have | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
Lib Dems and a badly pro-EU party fighting against a former Tory | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
candidate who was a big Brexiteer, so it is going to be about the EU. | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
That versus probably Zac's charisma so it will be a fascinating battle. | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
Is this something the Prime Minister should have for seen or could have | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
for seen? Zac has never been that quiet in coming forward and | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
suggesting he might do this. But the fact it might become an anti-Brexit | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
campaign? I see. I think that is probably something they should have | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
thought avenlt it is quite difficult -- about. It is quite difficult. | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
They are stwung way or another. This is smart politics so the | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
Conservatives cannot lose this by-election, so they can't lose on | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
Heathrow. And in a loft ways that was probably the most sensible thing | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
they could do, is just to withdraw themselves from the race. | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
The other The other thing this does, is it takes what was a very slim | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
majority for Theresa May this morning, a majority of 12, instantly | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
makes it a majority of 11, that is very serious problem for her as | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
well. So what you saw in the Conservative statement, saying they | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
were going to stand against him was a lot of praise for Zac, so clearly | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
the hope is when he comes back, that he might, you know, vote with the | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
Conservatives. That might just be optimistic. You can imagine them... | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
Theresa May needs every boat she can get. She only has a working vote of | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
11. A A bad case of flu running rampant and she is stuffed. Let us | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
look at one more Heathrow story, on the front-page of the Metro, the | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
headline is air rage, it is about Theresa May's problems in her own | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
backyard, in her own constituency, and the paper says that she is | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
potentially guilty of having committed something of a U-turn over | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
Heathrow. Heathrow. David Cameron got hammer with this, no ifs, no | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
buts then began to turn round and have this independent commission and | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
prepare the ground for a U turn on Heathrow. He left office before it | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
got to that point, but Theresa May backed all similar sentiments, there | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
were leaflets that have had her saying I will fight to stop the | :08:46. | :08:54. | |
Heathrow runway. It is perfectly acceptable. But Maidenhead, her own | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
council is one of four Tory councils that will sue her own Government | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
over the Heathrow third runway. It is remarkable, that will play out | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
again, over years, so that is not go to go away. Can I draw your | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
attention, Kate, to another headline in the Guardian, moving on the a | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
different story but more problems for Theresa May. This is what the | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
Guardian claims is an exclusive. A leaked recording revealing what | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
Theresa May thinks about Brexit. This is from a recording to a speech | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
she gave to a group of economists at Goldman Sachs in which she was quite | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
warm about the EU. She was, she was one about what might happen to the | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
banking industry if we voted for Brexit. What she suggested was that | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
lots of banks may need to go abroad, and I think this is really | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
interesting story, because it is interesting to think where these | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
stories have come from, you are right, it is a taped record, it was | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
made in May, but at the weekend, we had the shop steward for the bankers | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
suggest that maybe banks might go abroad after Brexit. And the | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
industry has been hammered for that for a couple of days. Suddenly, we | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
find a tape recording suggesting that the Prime Minister is very | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
sympathetic to their cause and indeed suggested before the vote | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
that I may need to do this. I think it is an interesting story. You | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
smell a bit of a set up there, do you sno? Well... Somebody has leaked | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
it. Somebody has leaked it. It certainly puts bankers in a better | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
light. The one thing you would say adds secret recordings go that get | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
leaked, there is no smoking gun in here that will be used to undermine | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
Theresa May, she is saying there is a good economic argument for staying | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
in the EU and there is a chance some firms might think again if it is | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
Brexit. That that was close to her public position. Should we be that | :10:55. | :11:03. | |
surprised. She was a remainor, perhaps some see over the financial | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
sector, that this isn't going to damage her massively in the long | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
run. Let us go back to the Metro, and to the big photograph of, they | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
have at the top. Jungle ablaze, this is a reference to the fact that the | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
Jungle camp at Calais is starting to be demolished. With people still | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
living there. Which ever way you look at it, this particular story in | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
the demolition of the Jungle, it is not a solution to any sort of | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
problem, is it? No, and you feel it is only just beginning, because they | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
are about seven, eight nine thousand refugees at the beginning of the | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
week, they begun clearing them out. The problem is all those who wanted | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
to go and were happy to go have left, there is a nub of people, | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
saying I don't want to go, I want to get to Britain this is the best | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
place for me to be, that throughout the rest of the week is when it is | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
going to get trickier, when they will need to foribly remove some of | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
these people and that is when some of the scenes that have only been on | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
the periphery could get worse, all the people have been moved, those | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
asylum claims haven't disappeared, they are in different parts of | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
France, will they return and try to get into Britain. The refugee crisis | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
is nowhere near finished by demolishing one camp. Do you think | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
that in the days to come, we are going to see some difficult scenes | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
with people who are determined to get to the UK or determined not the | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
leave, that in a sense, you know, it has been fairly peaceful to now, it | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
is going to get harder. It has and the approach the French authorities | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
are taking is, is as Ben says an attempt to try and persuade people, | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
they are doing it gradually, they are trying to take down buildings, | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
you know, building by building, bit by bit, rather than going for a kind | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
of enforced confrontation, the problem they will face is that the | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
expectation is that hundreds of people will still try to stay by the | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
end of the week, and then what are they going to do? I am going to | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
return boat of you to what may feel like ancient history, we have had so | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
much politics but cast your minds back to the general election | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
campaign of last year, and the Ed stone which the i is going to have | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
some fun with. Photo at the bottom. How Ed stone returns to haunt | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
Labour. How can a disaster happen twice? You thought the Ed stone can | :13:30. | :13:37. | |
do no more damaged. It has got them a ?20,000 fine from the Electoral | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
Commission, and I think it cost about seven-and-a-half grand the Ed | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
stone, that was part of more than ?100,000 that the Labour Party | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
failed to register properly with the Commission, and today it has been | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
announced they have been fined 20,00 pounds, they blamed on an admin | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
error, but it is a second bout of embarrassment. It has been very | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
expensive. Was so much money ever so ill spent? The problem is Labour | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
were warned this would be a problem, this isn't actually the first Ed | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
Stone they tried to do. They tried to do one during the Scottish | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
independence referendum, it was killed off by a kind of Labour | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
politicians in Scotland, insisting it would look ridiculous, doing a | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
mock-up to show how badly it would go down, they managed to kill off | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
the idea. Nine months before it was resurrected for the Ed Stone. On the | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
grounds it would look like a tombstone. Which is what it came to | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
be named after all. There must be some red faces Echeverria more so | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
than before. Thank you. That it is for The Papers tonight. All the | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
front pages are are online on the BBC website where you can read a | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
detailed review. It is all there, seven days a week. You can see us | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
there too, with each night's edition of The Papers being posted shortly | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
after we finish, so thank you very much. | :15:12. | :15:14. |