11/02/2017

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:00:00. > :00:00.Conservationists in New Zealand say another 240 pilot whales have become

:00:00. > :00:00.stranded in a remote bay on the South Island -

:00:00. > :00:13.in one of the country's biggest beachings for 100 years.

:00:14. > :00:16.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

:00:17. > :00:22.With me are Jo Phillips, the political commentator

:00:23. > :00:24.and Nigel Nelson, political editor of the Sunday Mirror

:00:25. > :00:34.First up the Observer - it's reporting what it calls

:00:35. > :00:37.unprecedented criticism by a group of leading retired bishops over

:00:38. > :00:40.the Church of England's stance on lesbian, gay

:00:41. > :00:46.While the Mail on Sunday looks back at a supposed exchange

:00:47. > :00:51.between Diane Abbott and the Brexit secretary David Davis -

:00:52. > :00:54.that's said to have happened after the vote to trigger

:00:55. > :00:58.The Sunday Telegraph focuses on Commons speaker

:00:59. > :01:02.John Bercow and his controversial comments about Donald Trump's visit

:01:03. > :01:05.- also mentioning there that the President may go to areas

:01:06. > :01:11.of the UK that voted heavily to leave the EU

:01:12. > :01:15.The Sunday Express is also looking ahead to that visit

:01:16. > :01:19.and says Mr Trump will 'speak to the people' at a stadium rally

:01:20. > :01:21.with the proceeds going to the Poppy Appeal.

:01:22. > :01:24.Domestic politics take the lead in the Sunday Times -

:01:25. > :01:28.it says secret succession planning is under way for the next labour

:01:29. > :01:48.We can't really get away from Donald Trump. Kick yourself. What is the

:01:49. > :01:55.Express revealing. When he comes here, he wants to do a major rally

:01:56. > :01:59.so for ?10 ahead, you can go and see and do whatever he is going to do.

:02:00. > :02:04.Not quite sure where it is going to be Birmingham, Cardiff, Wembley

:02:05. > :02:12.Stadium. The clever part of it is he will give all the money to the puppy

:02:13. > :02:16.appeal. Very good politics. Suggesting he is coming towards the

:02:17. > :02:21.end of the year and certainly the word around Westminster is not

:02:22. > :02:26.before the end of August, probably in the autumn at some point.

:02:27. > :02:35.Conveniently when Parliament is in recess. Then John Bercow can't ban

:02:36. > :02:40.him. That brings us neatly from the Express to the front of the

:02:41. > :02:47.Telegraph. John Bercow, and not just the remarks about Donald Trump. Just

:02:48. > :02:51.a couple of days before he made that rather astonishing outburst in the

:02:52. > :02:56.Commons chamber, he was talking to some students at Reading University.

:02:57. > :03:02.He revealed that he had voted remain and that he was quite open and frank

:03:03. > :03:10.about his views on Brexit on all that. Is a parliamentarian. Probably

:03:11. > :03:14.a very good and interesting guest but very strict but rules governing

:03:15. > :03:24.the speakers state that they should not be politically partisan. Which

:03:25. > :03:27.is why the Speaker never votes. You don't see them campaigning in

:03:28. > :03:30.by-elections. Some think it's great, some are upset but this I think is

:03:31. > :03:38.probably more damaging because it does suggest that he thinks he is

:03:39. > :03:42.outside the rules that govern the Speaker. It is a very important

:03:43. > :03:47.office. Even though many think it is rather old-fashioned. It is the

:03:48. > :03:52.division between Parliament, the monarchy and the state. Famously,

:03:53. > :03:59.speakers lost their heads for daring to defy the will of the king. Which

:04:00. > :04:02.is why the Budget is always delivered by the Deputy Speaker. The

:04:03. > :04:07.speaker can't have his head chopped off by doing it. That is a tradition

:04:08. > :04:12.from the old days. Curiously, I'm not sure I quite agree with the

:04:13. > :04:16.seriousness. It is a minor thing to say to students who asked the

:04:17. > :04:22.question however, when you think about the absolute power that the

:04:23. > :04:26.speaker wields, can you imagine the Queen turning around to students and

:04:27. > :04:31.saying, I prefer remain. What surprises me is he gets caught out

:04:32. > :04:36.by something like it. I don't think it is a huge deal and it wouldn't be

:04:37. > :04:39.on the front page of item is outburst earlier in the week against

:04:40. > :04:45.Donald Trump but it's a silly thing to do, just like the outburst was

:04:46. > :04:48.silly. An error of judgement. Then you get the whole point about

:04:49. > :04:54.judgement and the authority of the speaker. It is not a capital crime.

:04:55. > :05:02.Not at the moment. Who knows? Let's move on. The Sunday Times. Talking

:05:03. > :05:06.of people who might be about to lose their heads, at least according to

:05:07. > :05:14.the newspaper, Jeremy Corbyn's prospects are looking less rosy.

:05:15. > :05:19.Less rosy than what? As his supporters keep telling us, he has

:05:20. > :05:29.won all these local elections and is still leader of the party. Lets talk

:05:30. > :05:34.after the 24th of February after the two by-elections. This is described

:05:35. > :05:43.in the second, what do you call this sub headline? Subject. Who said the

:05:44. > :05:49.show wasn't educational? Party faces poll disaster. That doesn't surprise

:05:50. > :05:55.in the slightest. I am astonished. It is now not secret that Labour has

:05:56. > :06:00.been searching through Gerry Micawber in our there are so few

:06:01. > :06:05.people to choose from now he has managed to alienate much of the

:06:06. > :06:13.Parliamentary Labour Party. He has been nice to them. Even Harold

:06:14. > :06:18.Wilson, didn't he once say a dog is allowed one bite but then the owner

:06:19. > :06:22.might consider putting it down. Very unusual you would have a three line

:06:23. > :06:26.whip on a boat like this and they keep their jobs. Given Jeremy

:06:27. > :06:35.Corbyn's own background, serially defies the own whip. It astonishing

:06:36. > :06:41.he allowed them to keep their jobs but is it -- but it is a human

:06:42. > :06:46.resource issue. Is the Labour Party Mac was is -- is the Labour Party's

:06:47. > :06:54.problem Jeremy Corbyn or is it fundamentally more? I think it is

:06:55. > :06:58.Jeremy Corbyn but the reason he is there is because of the problem of

:06:59. > :07:01.the Labour Party and I think, in a sense, is probably exactly the same

:07:02. > :07:04.thing the Democrats are going through in America right now. There

:07:05. > :07:09.is a sense of, it's fine, it's been great, we can carry on like this. Ed

:07:10. > :07:15.Miliband didn't quite cut the mustard. We will carry on.

:07:16. > :07:22.Everything else has happened with Brexit and David Cameron going.

:07:23. > :07:26.Jeremy Corbyn really has not quite cut the mustard because I think the

:07:27. > :07:32.Labour Party has been, but too long, in denial about the threat to them

:07:33. > :07:40.of Ukip. They have been in denial about Brexit. You scouting around to

:07:41. > :07:45.create a shadow Cabinet. People, you have frankly never heard of. One of

:07:46. > :07:51.two of them, two women, may end up being his successor but I presume

:07:52. > :07:55.that will be decided later. Isn't that the fate of opposition parties?

:07:56. > :07:59.When William Douglas Smith was leader, members about the shadow

:08:00. > :08:02.Cabinet you have never heard of an interviews later, they won the

:08:03. > :08:08.election, those people are Cabinet ministers. People have forgotten

:08:09. > :08:14.that they used to be a skewer. There is always a bit of that but this is

:08:15. > :08:17.more than that. I have been in the House of Commons for more than 30

:08:18. > :08:21.years. I've never seen of the political party has polarised as the

:08:22. > :08:25.Labour Party is. When you see stories like this about the

:08:26. > :08:30.succession to Jeremy Corbyn and suggestions he might jacket in. Most

:08:31. > :08:35.of it is wishful thinking. You can't talk to a Labour MP and ask how they

:08:36. > :08:38.are without them telling you, I am awful, I'm a Labour MP and then

:08:39. > :08:47.going for a diatribe against Jeremy Corbyn. Its public to the stage

:08:48. > :08:52.where he can't be defeated in an open election, as we saw. As a

:08:53. > :09:04.result, Labour MPs who oppose him hoping something else might happen.

:09:05. > :09:09.Jeremy Corbyn is Britain's most unpopular party leader behind the

:09:10. > :09:17.SNP and Ukip. Yet a leading Britain's biggest political party.

:09:18. > :09:24.The front of the Observer now. Above bunch of retired bishops are

:09:25. > :09:30.lecturing the current bishops about handling gay rights. You didn't make

:09:31. > :09:39.a great job of it. It is a bit like elder statesman. The Church of

:09:40. > :09:44.England's ruling body, in Parliament, meeting this week. 14

:09:45. > :09:52.retired bishops. They are significant bishops. It's anyone who

:09:53. > :09:56.is listen to radio forward heard. Peter Selby, the former Bishop Paul

:09:57. > :10:02.Worcester and Richard Harriss Boxford, they are saying, you are

:10:03. > :10:09.talking the talk about LG BT rights and stuff but you're not walking the

:10:10. > :10:18.walk. I don't think for one minute we are suggesting there should be a

:10:19. > :10:24.change. It would be good. It would help the church if you could somehow

:10:25. > :10:32.coming to the age that the rest of us live in. The 21st century.

:10:33. > :10:37.Sometimes it feels like we are moving back into the 20th century.

:10:38. > :10:48.Particularly when you look at the left hand of the Sunday Times.

:10:49. > :10:51.Russia's Cold War style. This is genuinely serious. What the

:10:52. > :10:58.intelligence agencies seem to be talking about is that we have been

:10:59. > :11:02.penetrated like never before. We really are up to dealing with the

:11:03. > :11:07.Russians and Chinese who are both trying to into everything. What the

:11:08. > :11:13.Telegraph is saying, 60 significant cyber attacks a month. The Sunday

:11:14. > :11:21.Telegraph are talking about 3000 attacks a day. There is an awful lot

:11:22. > :11:27.going on. Our security is very bad. Ministers are putting it at the top

:11:28. > :11:33.of the agenda. This has fallen to the Chancellor to do that. A major

:11:34. > :11:38.conference coming up this week. It is a serious issue and thank

:11:39. > :11:46.goodness it is being addressed. Is it because we haven't taken it

:11:47. > :11:55.seriously before? One of the things that is interesting is what Nick.

:11:56. > :12:01.This is fake news. News website that is based in Edinburgh. It is a

:12:02. > :12:09.Russian- funded site. This help they can use stuff, it's all part of the

:12:10. > :12:17.whole thing. The story on the front of the Sunday Telegraph. Hackers

:12:18. > :12:23.targeting kettles. Apparently, Nigel Wyatt -- Nigel and I were discussing

:12:24. > :12:29.it earlier. Why would you need a computerised cattle? You can boil

:12:30. > :12:37.water from the next room. If you want to boil water from the next

:12:38. > :12:49.room. You might as well make yourself a thermos flask. There is

:12:50. > :12:52.so much effort going into these. Then you can have computerised

:12:53. > :12:58.bridges. They will sort out the ingredients. You can programme it

:12:59. > :13:04.from outside. Why are we bothering? Why are people worried about things

:13:05. > :13:09.like this? People are so dam lazy. What it does mean is that the

:13:10. > :13:13.Russians and the Chinese were just talking about it, they can

:13:14. > :13:20.conceivably hack into the whole Wi-Fi system. It's an intriguing. I

:13:21. > :13:27.thought wonder at the Russian samovar would be a lot easier. Joe

:13:28. > :13:31.Phillips, Nigel Nelson. Maybe something a bit stronger than a cup

:13:32. > :13:37.of tea when you get home tonight. It is good to see a boat again. The

:13:38. > :13:48.paper review is on line. We will see you again. We are here every night.

:13:49. > :13:50.Thank you very much your company. More news at midnight.