11/02/2017

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:00:00. > :00:00.to spend more on cycling and road safety measures.

:00:00. > :00:00.Labour has issued formal warning to members of its front-bench team

:00:00. > :00:00.who disobeyed Jeremy Corbyn's order to vote for Brexit.

:00:07. > :00:09.The MPs won't be sacked but they have been asked

:00:10. > :00:22.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

:00:23. > :00:30.With me are Jo Phillips, the political commentator,

:00:31. > :00:34.Welcome back to this country. It is lovely to come back to the grey

:00:35. > :00:41.weather. I have missed it so much. And Nigel Nelson, Political Editor

:00:42. > :00:43.of the Sunday Mirror First up the Observer -

:00:44. > :00:48.it's reporting what it calls 'unprecedented criticism' by a group

:00:49. > :00:50.of leading retired bishops over the Church of England's

:00:51. > :00:51.stance on lesbian, gay While the Mail on Sunday looks back

:00:52. > :01:00.at the supposed exchange between Diane Abbott

:01:01. > :01:02.and the Brexit Secretary David Davis - that's said to have

:01:03. > :01:04.happened after the vote The Sunday Telegraph focuses

:01:05. > :01:11.on Commons Speaker John Bercow and his controversial comments

:01:12. > :01:13.about Donald Trump's visit - also mentioning there

:01:14. > :01:16.that the President may go to areas of the UK that voted

:01:17. > :01:18.heavily to leave the EU. The Sunday Express is also looking

:01:19. > :01:25.ahead to that visit and says Mr Trump will Wspeak to the peopleW

:01:26. > :01:28.at a stadium rally with the proceeds It's domestic politics for the lead

:01:29. > :01:32.in the Sunday Times - and it says secret succession

:01:33. > :01:43.planning is underway for the next

:01:44. > :01:54.Labour Leader after Jeremy Corbyn - Everyone seems to be except in that

:01:55. > :02:03.President Trump is coming. I think he is. This is an exclusive story by

:02:04. > :02:06.Caroline Wheeler. Saying Donald Trump will snub Parliament and speak

:02:07. > :02:11.to the people. He will do a big rally somewhere outside of London,

:02:12. > :02:19.probably in Birmingham, Cardiff or somewhere else. A big, secure venue.

:02:20. > :02:23.I imagine the American secret services are probably pulling their

:02:24. > :02:28.hair out at the thought of it to raise money for veterans. The couple

:02:29. > :02:32.of things in this story. He was going to come during the summary

:02:33. > :02:38.says anyway, which avoids the problem of him not speaking to

:02:39. > :02:44.Parliament. Whether it is his remake to say I want to meet people are not

:02:45. > :02:49.politicians. I am not sure what the precedent is for president is not

:02:50. > :03:00.doing big rallies. Previously, Obama and Clinton have done stuff with

:03:01. > :03:05.schools, arts and charities. I do not see why he cannot do that. State

:03:06. > :03:11.visits are not set in stone. There seems not to be a reason why not. It

:03:12. > :03:16.is looking more like the end of summer when Parliament is in recess.

:03:17. > :03:20.One of the ideas we gather is that he might have been able to come at

:03:21. > :03:23.the same time as the Tory Party conference and they might have got

:03:24. > :03:31.him up there to address them. That would have been a rally of some

:03:32. > :03:40.sort. David Cameron is very keen on Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New

:03:41. > :03:45.York. I think they have abandoned that idea. They have decided

:03:46. > :03:49.was too much controversy. I think was too much controversy. I think

:03:50. > :03:51.the state visit will go ahead. All particularly intriguing because of

:03:52. > :03:55.the remarks from John Burke in the the remarks from John Burke in the

:03:56. > :04:01.House of Commons putting them back in the spotlight. It has cast doubt

:04:02. > :04:08.over the future of his job. What do you make of the story on the front

:04:09. > :04:12.of the Telegraph? I think you have answered it by saying back in the

:04:13. > :04:19.spotlight. That is where he likes to be. This is a new row. Apparently

:04:20. > :04:33.John Birt coe was doing a talk to students at Reading University. --.

:04:34. > :04:42.He declared he had voted remain. He spoke very politically. We all know

:04:43. > :04:46.that the speaker is supposed to be apolitical, even though they come

:04:47. > :04:54.from one of the main parties. Once you become the Speaker, you put

:04:55. > :05:02.aside those foolish things. He's stands unopposed as well. That is

:05:03. > :05:08.the tradition. I think probably this is slightly more damaging than his

:05:09. > :05:14.comments about Donald Trump. Why does it matter? For people who see

:05:15. > :05:17.the Speaker, a lot of people only see him at Prime Minister's

:05:18. > :05:23.Questions. Why does it matter what his views are and if he expresses

:05:24. > :05:29.them? Effectively years chairman of a big meeting, isn't he? I am not

:05:30. > :05:34.sure that John Kaziranga National Park would like that description of

:05:35. > :05:41.him. Someone like John Bercow is incredibly powerful. -- that John

:05:42. > :05:47.Bercow. In one sense it is right. He is the one person in the country in

:05:48. > :05:50.a position to throw the Prime Minister out of the House of Commons

:05:51. > :05:54.if necessary. Absolute power is right. That seems to have led him to

:05:55. > :06:01.make the astonishing outburst about Donald Trump in the first place. Is

:06:02. > :06:08.it astonishing if so many MPs share that view? Is he representing the

:06:09. > :06:12.view of the majority in the House of Commons? If he wanted to represent

:06:13. > :06:16.the views of MPs coming he could have engineered a vote. There will

:06:17. > :06:21.be a debate about Donald Trump addressing parliament. That will

:06:22. > :06:24.take place in Westminster Hall if the Speaker tried to introduce that

:06:25. > :06:30.in the main chamber there would have been a vote and that would have can

:06:31. > :06:36.is the opinion of MPs. That could have given him cover. He wants to be

:06:37. > :06:38.the person to say it. I am sure the Queen, with all her years of

:06:39. > :06:46.experience, is more dealing with a state visit from

:06:47. > :06:51.someone that perhaps she may not welcome as much a sum and she has

:06:52. > :06:57.something more in common with. We have had Mugabe, we have had the

:06:58. > :07:05.Bahraini and is, the Chinese. It is not like we strangers to people we

:07:06. > :07:14.do not agree with. I sure the Queen could have organised state banquet.

:07:15. > :07:25.You do not hear about the Queen being a remain or a Brexiteer, do

:07:26. > :07:31.you? I know lots of people think that the House of Commons is very

:07:32. > :07:36.old-fashioned. It is. It is those things, there are plenty of ways of

:07:37. > :07:41.dealing with these things without you having to be personal. You have

:07:42. > :07:46.both been knocking around Westminster for quite awhile. You

:07:47. > :07:51.have seen a series of Speakers in the nicest possible way. You have

:07:52. > :07:59.seen a range of speakers that you go back to Jack whether or, before. Is

:08:00. > :08:04.John Bercow so unusual. Has he done things differently? One thing he has

:08:05. > :08:10.tried to do is try to modernise the place. He has brought in a young

:08:11. > :08:15.family. That is something people do not remember before. I think it is

:08:16. > :08:20.rather uncomfortable for him. He has tried to do that. What he has

:08:21. > :08:25.achieved quite a bit is to stand up for the right of backbenchers. We

:08:26. > :08:29.have made sure they can get their voices heard and it is not just the

:08:30. > :08:38.top was a good classes in government and opposition. Will he still be in

:08:39. > :08:44.a year's time question I think he will. If they voted no confidence in

:08:45. > :08:50.him in the next week it would fail. In the Observer, the Church of

:08:51. > :08:54.England is back. The Synod. Simek with a meet this week, that is the

:08:55. > :09:07.ruling body of the Church of England. -- They meet this week.

:09:08. > :09:13.This is a row which has come from quite a group of retired bishops,

:09:14. > :09:17.actually very prominent bishops, including people like Peter Selby,

:09:18. > :09:22.the former Bishop of Worcester and the former Bishop of Oxford. That is

:09:23. > :09:29.why most people would know these names. They are people who have

:09:30. > :09:34.Gravett as and background. They have written basically to the ruling soon

:09:35. > :09:44.odd and said, you are talking the talk about being more inclusive on

:09:45. > :09:48.gay marriage and LGB TU rights but you are not walking the walk.

:09:49. > :09:58.The fact it is coming from very respected, sensible figures in the

:09:59. > :10:02.Church of England is why it is significant. The Church of England

:10:03. > :10:08.seems to March 20 years behind the rest of the country. We have only

:10:09. > :10:12.recently had a woman bishop. They have been arguing about it for

:10:13. > :10:17.years. Women clergy for nearly 40 years. It took that long to get

:10:18. > :10:22.there. Now we're having the argument over lesbian and gay rights. Again

:10:23. > :10:26.the country has moved on. When gay marriage was introduced when David

:10:27. > :10:31.Cameron really stuck his neck out. He put his political future on the

:10:32. > :10:36.line. The country was perfectly happy with that. That is what the

:10:37. > :10:41.church has to realise. It is not a huge issue. We are running out of

:10:42. > :10:46.time to stop want to jump ahead a couple of stories to a cartoon on

:10:47. > :10:51.the front of the Daily Telegraph. It has been a week of not very good

:10:52. > :10:56.news. Not very good news about the National Health Service. We have

:10:57. > :11:00.done a week of broadcasting in the BBC but there have been lots of

:11:01. > :11:05.other stories about what the experience is like for staff and for

:11:06. > :11:12.patients. Matt, always reliable on the front of the Telegraph. Tell us

:11:13. > :11:18.about it. A chap turns around and talks to his wife. He has a great

:11:19. > :11:24.package in his hand. That is a 1000 piece jigsaw. He says I am taking

:11:25. > :11:30.this with me in case I have an accident and end up in A We do

:11:31. > :11:35.need a laugh sometimes. I hope neither of you have been in hospital

:11:36. > :11:47.recently. No, I have not. Not at all. We have come in for a paper

:11:48. > :11:57.review. How are you with jigsaw puzzles? Very good. I love them. I

:11:58. > :12:07.will take a load of books into AMD with me. I think. -- A Do stay

:12:08. > :12:15.tuned. Thanks to Nigel and joke with the both of you will be back at 11th

:12:16. > :12:26.are. Coming next, Reporters.