11/02/2017 The Papers

to spend more on cycling and road safety measures.

Labour has issued formal warning to members of its front-bench team

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

The MPs won't be sacked but they have been asked

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

With me are Jo Phillips, the political commentator,

Welcome back to this country. It is lovely to come back to the grey

weather. I have missed it so much. And Nigel Nelson, Political Editor

of the Sunday Mirror First up the Observer -

it's reporting what it calls 'unprecedented criticism' by a group

of leading retired bishops over the Church of England's

stance on lesbian, gay While the Mail on Sunday looks back

at the supposed exchange between Diane Abbott

and the Brexit Secretary David Davis - that's said to have

happened after the vote The Sunday Telegraph focuses

on Commons Speaker John Bercow and his controversial comments

about Donald Trump's visit - also mentioning there

that the President may go to areas of the UK that voted

heavily to leave the EU. The Sunday Express is also looking

ahead to that visit and says Mr Trump will Wspeak to the peopleW

at a stadium rally with the proceeds It's domestic politics for the lead

in the Sunday Times - and it says secret succession

planning is underway for the next

Labour Leader after Jeremy Corbyn - Everyone seems to be except in that

President Trump is coming. I think he is. This is an exclusive story by

Caroline Wheeler. Saying Donald Trump will snub Parliament and speak

to the people. He will do a big rally somewhere outside of London,

probably in Birmingham, Cardiff or somewhere else. A big, secure venue.

I imagine the American secret services are probably pulling their

hair out at the thought of it to raise money for veterans. The couple

of things in this story. He was going to come during the summary

says anyway, which avoids the problem of him not speaking to

Parliament. Whether it is his remake to say I want to meet people are not

politicians. I am not sure what the precedent is for president is not

doing big rallies. Previously, Obama and Clinton have done stuff with

schools, arts and charities. I do not see why he cannot do that. State

visits are not set in stone. There seems not to be a reason why not. It

is looking more like the end of summer when Parliament is in recess.

One of the ideas we gather is that he might have been able to come at

the same time as the Tory Party conference and they might have got

him up there to address them. That would have been a rally of some

sort. David Cameron is very keen on Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New

York. I think they have abandoned that idea. They have decided

was too much controversy. I think was too much controversy. I think

the state visit will go ahead. All particularly intriguing because of

the remarks from John Burke in the the remarks from John Burke in the

House of Commons putting them back in the spotlight. It has cast doubt

over the future of his job. What do you make of the story on the front

of the Telegraph? I think you have answered it by saying back in the

spotlight. That is where he likes to be. This is a new row. Apparently

John Birt coe was doing a talk to students at Reading University. --.

He declared he had voted remain. He spoke very politically. We all know

that the speaker is supposed to be apolitical, even though they come

from one of the main parties. Once you become the Speaker, you put

aside those foolish things. He's stands unopposed as well. That is

the tradition. I think probably this is slightly more damaging than his

comments about Donald Trump. Why does it matter? For people who see

the Speaker, a lot of people only see him at Prime Minister's

Questions. Why does it matter what his views are and if he expresses

them? Effectively years chairman of a big meeting, isn't he? I am not

sure that John Kaziranga National Park would like that description of

him. Someone like John Bercow is incredibly powerful. -- that John

Bercow. In one sense it is right. He is the one person in the country in

a position to throw the Prime Minister out of the House of Commons

if necessary. Absolute power is right. That seems to have led him to

make the astonishing outburst about Donald Trump in the first place. Is

it astonishing if so many MPs share that view? Is he representing the

view of the majority in the House of Commons? If he wanted to represent

the views of MPs coming he could have engineered a vote. There will

be a debate about Donald Trump addressing parliament. That will

take place in Westminster Hall if the Speaker tried to introduce that

in the main chamber there would have been a vote and that would have can

is the opinion of MPs. That could have given him cover. He wants to be

the person to say it. I am sure the Queen, with all her years of

experience, is more dealing with a state visit from

someone that perhaps she may not welcome as much a sum and she has

something more in common with. We have had Mugabe, we have had the

Bahraini and is, the Chinese. It is not like we strangers to people we

do not agree with. I sure the Queen could have organised state banquet.

You do not hear about the Queen being a remain or a Brexiteer, do

you? I know lots of people think that the House of Commons is very

old-fashioned. It is. It is those things, there are plenty of ways of

dealing with these things without you having to be personal. You have

both been knocking around Westminster for quite awhile. You

have seen a series of Speakers in the nicest possible way. You have

seen a range of speakers that you go back to Jack whether or, before. Is

John Bercow so unusual. Has he done things differently? One thing he has

tried to do is try to modernise the place. He has brought in a young

family. That is something people do not remember before. I think it is

rather uncomfortable for him. He has tried to do that. What he has

achieved quite a bit is to stand up for the right of backbenchers. We

have made sure they can get their voices heard and it is not just the

top was a good classes in government and opposition. Will he still be in

a year's time question I think he will. If they voted no confidence in

him in the next week it would fail. In the Observer, the Church of

England is back. The Synod. Simek with a meet this week, that is the

ruling body of the Church of England. -- They meet this week.

This is a row which has come from quite a group of retired bishops,

actually very prominent bishops, including people like Peter Selby,

the former Bishop of Worcester and the former Bishop of Oxford. That is

why most people would know these names. They are people who have

Gravett as and background. They have written basically to the ruling soon

odd and said, you are talking the talk about being more inclusive on

gay marriage and LGB TU rights but you are not walking the walk.

The fact it is coming from very respected, sensible figures in the

Church of England is why it is significant. The Church of England

seems to March 20 years behind the rest of the country. We have only

recently had a woman bishop. They have been arguing about it for

years. Women clergy for nearly 40 years. It took that long to get

there. Now we're having the argument over lesbian and gay rights. Again

the country has moved on. When gay marriage was introduced when David

Cameron really stuck his neck out. He put his political future on the

line. The country was perfectly happy with that. That is what the

church has to realise. It is not a huge issue. We are running out of

time to stop want to jump ahead a couple of stories to a cartoon on

the front of the Daily Telegraph. It has been a week of not very good

news. Not very good news about the National Health Service. We have

done a week of broadcasting in the BBC but there have been lots of

other stories about what the experience is like for staff and for

patients. Matt, always reliable on the front of the Telegraph. Tell us

about it. A chap turns around and talks to his wife. He has a great

package in his hand. That is a 1000 piece jigsaw. He says I am taking

this with me in case I have an accident and end up in A We do

need a laugh sometimes. I hope neither of you have been in hospital

recently. No, I have not. Not at all. We have come in for a paper

review. How are you with jigsaw puzzles? Very good. I love them. I

will take a load of books into AMD with me. I think. -- A Do stay

tuned. Thanks to Nigel and joke with the both of you will be back at 11th

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