29/10/2016 The Papers

We'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment.

First, the headlines: The US Presidential candidate

Hillary Clinton has demanded full details of the latest email

investigation by the FBI into whether they contained

Her Republican rival, Donald Trump, called the news the biggest

French President Francois Hollande has called on Britain

to take its share of the remaining child migrants who are still

in Calais, after the camp known as the Jungle was

MPs calling for action on mobile phone coverage say it's unacceptable

that visitors to Britain often get better coverage than

A report said 17 million customers had poor reception at home.

The Royal Clarence in Exeter, described as England's oldest hotel,

has collapsed after a devastating fire.

More than 100 firefighters tackled the blaze at the 300 year

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

With me are Mihir Bose, columnist at the London

Evening Standard, and the Assistant Editor of the Times,

The Observer leads with reaction to the FBI reviewing

its investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails,

with senior Democrats accusing the bureau's head

of compromising its political neutrality.

That story's also featured on the front

of the Sunday Times, which claims that Hillary Clinton's

The Mail on Sunday criticises the BBC for a show

featuring a transgender story-line, which it says is available

A novel solution for the country's housing crisis is unveiled

on the front page of the Sunday Telegraph.

It says the government is to offer help to build

While the People carries an interview with the mother

of murdered toddler Jamie Bulger, who says she's living in fear

Let's now begin our review and we are starting with the story, the

October surprise! The only story, Clinton and those e-mails. Why, what

actually in them, are they any difference to the e-mails that were

already investigated and why is James Comey apparently going on?

Because of course it is supposed to be politically independent, the FBI.

We are already hearing that he is a Republican. Also, the way he has

presented it has allowed Donald Trump to say that there must have

been a terrible offence for the FBI to reopen the enquiry. This is just

a preliminary look. We don't even know, unless he knows what's in the

e-mails, we don't know. The problem for Clinton is that she has this if

you like problem of trust. American people, even though some of them are

voting for her, don't actually like her or believe in her. This story

opens up that count. So far, what we've had since the revelations of

the way Trump behaved and his comments about women and so on, the

focus has always been on the macro. Revelations coming out, one after

the other. -- being on Trump. This laptop on which the e-mails were

held was the laptop of Antony Wiener and we only know about him because

of his misdeeds. And he seems to have shared his laptop with his

wife. That's why it was seized, as a result of an investigation into

another offence. Of course we don't know what these e-mails have. This

is one of the elements of the story that's been brought out, in terms of

the FBI. Why have they come out with this now when even they don't know

what is included and the head of the FBI was told not to go ahead with

this. The attorney general, to whom he is supposedly answerable, told

him not to do this and it seems as if, I've been reading some stuff out

of America tonight, the agents at the FBI themselves hadn't actually

examined the e-mails. There is no time to do this before the elections

because one supposes that needs to be done properly. So it's a

tremendous mess. What is one of the papers is reporting it is already

narrowing the poll lead that Hillary had. If you read his letter it

suggests something without actually saying it. Let's turn to the Sunday

Times, which also leads with this story. The headline, that Hillary is

at war with the FBI, it will be interesting to see whether James

Coney does see out his ten year term. He was of course appointed by

Barack Obama in 2013. They do talk about the polls as well on the front

page of the Sunday Times. This also illustrates the unique collection we

have in America. The next president of Hillary Clinton would be taking

office having to do something about the FBI. I mean, that's not

something that happened in the past. What would you think if you were one

of the 20 million Americans who have already voted? They might be wanting

to change their minds and those key swing states, will this be something

where those people who feel this fundamental distaste at the

Washington ruling class might think this is just another example of

their poor behaviour, of their shadowy dealings, and decide Donald

Trump, the man who says he is the anti- politician, decide to vote for

him? It will be interesting to see what the polls do say, because

although we have been pointing out that they are narrowing, this was

before the story broke. So they are not really reflect evolver last 24

hours, so we will see what happens. All this is when Hillary Clinton

proves herself to be the commander in chief and shows such cool rap is

that people admire her. Who knows? And the state vote might be

different to the national vote. Staying with the Sunday Times.

Putin. He isn't swimming or posing with tigers, IT soft power. He is

becoming very close it seems to prominent groups in the Conservative

Party. A group founded by Margaret Thatcher and another group, very

historic. It seems the leaders of these groups have had visits funded

by the Russians, to go to Crimea and basically they are saying, we

shouldn't treat Putin as a pariah. Sanctions should be lifted. And it

actually says the group has called for cooperation agreements with

Russian intelligence. Do you think they should have accepted those

troops in the first place? You would think there would be a big question

mark. Why on earth should Hebe inviting them? He just wants to

bring as many people as possible on his side. You just came back from

Moscow, did he not invite you? No, no invitation. There was a lot of

complaints about the sanctions, in those shops laden with goods and

looking at these gorgeous cars, one can't quite see what impact they are

having. Talking to people who come back from Russia, clearly Putin

still has a lot of support in Russia. I suspect for the new few --

the next few days or weeks we will see what's really behind this. What

is the latest take on Brexit? This is a story which says that Michael

Gove has co-founded a group with if you like the blessing of Boris

Johnson. Really? They are still in mailing each other, who knows what

the e-mails will be saying?! This group suggests there are 14

countries with a total worth of 17 trillion who are willing to sign

agreement with us and these countries are twice the size of the

countries of the EU, that it trades with, provided we get out of not

just the free movement but also the customs union. How significant is

that? For me this raises one big question, be -- the Nissan deal. I

would like to read what was pledged to Nissan in that letter, where they

were obviously given assurances that they would be able to continue to do

business exactly as before. If we have this kind of complete Brexit,

total Brexit, one can't work out how those agreements that are obviously

going to be made with Nissan and other companies could possibly be in

the lamented. As you say, we need those letters to be revealed. You

are right. When we have this hard Brexit, when we leave the customs

union... Where would we go? The point they are making is we can do

trade deals with China, with India, other countries, more favourably

than what we get with the EU. A lot of our trade deals are witty 28

countries at the moment. Do you think we would have an easier go of

it with Canada, because they struggle with the EU? This is all

within the realm of context. I find it surprising that the countries

with which we could be trading with don't seem to be named. This figure

of 17 trillion, where is that from? I am always suspicious of a figure

like that. And I don't think we take into account that countries like

China and India have their own agenda. Even countries like

Australia have moved on from what they were 30 or 40 years ago. So

they have their own agenda and why they would be willing to trade with

us, certainly. But why that trade would be better than what we have

with the EU is very debatable. Again, so many questions with

Brexit. We are waiting for the button to be pressed. We are going

to stay with the Telegraph. I am going to direct this straight to

you, because there are many people who wouldn't know what a modern

prefab is. What is an old prefab? Looking at that headline you think,

I don't know about that. The post-war housing solution, that's

what they were. We now use the word modular, which means factory made

and it works for the Swedes. 80% of homes in Sweden are modular built,

prefab. They are better than jerry-built? Yes, and in America it

is popular. It is quicker, it don't need much scaffolding and we need to

start tilting homes very quickly. We need about 250,000 new homes every

year and at best we built about 120,000 at present. So we've got to

change the way we build. Remember, there have been some big government

pledges made on this and people are waiting for them to deliver. I have

one question for you, since you are an expert. Will we have better phone

reception with this prefabs than we have at the moment? I think that

would mean a great many more masts that people are happy to have at the

moment. Getting back to the Observer. Theresa May. She is

managing families set to be worse off. This is not what she was

promising. This is another question raised about Theresa May. You will

remember all of the things she said outside Downing Street, after she

became Prime Minister. About how she would help families who were finding

it very difficult to manage and things like that. This story is

saying that unless film -- Philip Hammond's statement reverses some of

the decisions taken by George Osborne in his budget, these

families will be worse off. There have been lots of cuts and they give

a figure, but a couple with two children, living at the living wage

level, will be ?2000 worse off by 2020. The cost of living is rising

and if you are a low income families spend much more of your income on

food and those price rises are going to start coming through in the

markets. We are already seeing them. It is not just Marmite, it is other

stuff. We have been warned. It has been a pleasure. Thank you very

much. That was The Papers. Coming up on BBC News, The Film Review and of

course plenty more on the website. Have a lovely evening.