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

:00:17. > :00:22.With me are Josie Delap of The Economist and Prashant Rao,

:00:23. > :00:24.Deputy Europe Business Editor for the International

:00:25. > :00:30.Tomorrow's front pages starting with...

:00:31. > :00:31.The Sunday Telegraph has an interview with

:00:32. > :00:34.the new independent reviewer of terrorism legislation who says

:00:35. > :00:37.the threat of terror attacks is at its highest in a generation.

:00:38. > :00:40.The Sunday Times reports on a leaked report that

:00:41. > :00:42.Sir Mo Farah's coach, Alberto Salazar, may have broken

:00:43. > :00:45.anti-doping rules to boost the performance of some

:00:46. > :00:50.Both Salazar and Farah deny any wrongdoing.

:00:51. > :00:53.The Sunday Express has more details about the man who murdered

:00:54. > :00:56.the children's author Helen Bailey. The Mail on Sunday claims that

:00:57. > :00:59.a critically ill little girl died hours after a GP refused

:01:00. > :01:02.to see her because she turned up a few minutes late

:01:03. > :01:08.And The Sunday Mirror reports that the fiancee of notorious

:01:09. > :01:17.prisoner Charles Bronson is also working as an escort.

:01:18. > :01:23.So, let's begin. We are starting with the Observer newspaper and a

:01:24. > :01:29.big headline across the front. Jeremy Corbyn to take the blame, or

:01:30. > :01:35.we face disaster. That word disaster has been thrown around a lot in the

:01:36. > :01:39.last 24 hours. It has, and this is after Labour won one of the

:01:40. > :01:45.by-election seat, but it lost Copeland which it has held since

:01:46. > :01:50.1935 and it is very unusual for a government to seize a by-election

:01:51. > :01:55.seat. We have now seen the deputy leader, Tom Watson, and Keir

:01:56. > :02:01.Starmer, Labour's Brexit spokesman, criticising Jeremy Corbyn, who when

:02:02. > :02:08.asked after the results who should be taking responsibility, was it

:02:09. > :02:12.him? He said no. There is increasing pressure from other members of the

:02:13. > :02:17.party for him to take some of the blame. And pressure for him to stay.

:02:18. > :02:21.He has got a small piece in the Sunday Mirror where he talks about

:02:22. > :02:27.how he takes his share of responsibility. But he makes clear

:02:28. > :02:32.he was re-elected as the leader not too long ago. It is interesting what

:02:33. > :02:35.is happening with the Labour Party. In the last paragraph in the

:02:36. > :02:41.Observer it says about one third of Labour voters would be more likely

:02:42. > :02:46.to vote for his replacement. If he is part of the problem, it is not

:02:47. > :02:51.clear what the solution is. Do you think there is a growing group

:02:52. > :02:56.against him? These are pretty open and against him in terms of being

:02:57. > :03:02.critical of him either bleakly or directly. Do you get the sense

:03:03. > :03:06.Jeremy Corbyn is better in opposition and he would be in

:03:07. > :03:11.government if you know what I mean? Yes, he is a rebel. He was a Labour

:03:12. > :03:16.rebel for many years. He was not part of the Tony Blair government,

:03:17. > :03:20.not part of that leading group of Labour MPs and it was a great

:03:21. > :03:25.surprise when he won the election. For a long time he was very

:03:26. > :03:29.comfortable with that important position of questioning your party,

:03:30. > :03:33.of raising descent, but that does not necessarily win elections. It

:03:34. > :03:40.does not seem to be working for him at the moment. In the Sunday Times,

:03:41. > :03:45.you mentioned Tom Watson talking about the possibility of a wipe-out.

:03:46. > :03:50.Let's talk about that a bit more. For people like that to say that,

:03:51. > :03:59.what does that say about the state of the people at the top of the

:04:00. > :04:05.party for a start? Is Jeremy Corbyn not listening? It sets out how

:04:06. > :04:10.worried they are and compares the fears of Labour in Scotland where it

:04:11. > :04:13.was totally wiped out by the SNP. That is what they are fearing in the

:04:14. > :04:19.north of England where labour is losing its long-held seeds. What

:04:20. > :04:24.about who is coming through? Who would replace him? We had a

:04:25. > :04:28.discussion earlier, there are interesting people who may

:04:29. > :04:35.potentially replace Jeremy Corbyn. But last summer the list of people

:04:36. > :04:41.who came up were wiped out. Labour's supporters support Jeremy Corbyn, or

:04:42. > :04:48.they did last summer. The number of people who are not tainted by the

:04:49. > :04:53.Tony Blair years or indeed Iraq war, and those who came through an

:04:54. > :04:56.incredibly green after the last election, there is not a crossover

:04:57. > :05:02.of people who are saved on both sides, the experience, but not being

:05:03. > :05:07.tainted. We are hearing advance notice of what he will say this

:05:08. > :05:12.afternoon and he will admit the loss underlined what he said the scale of

:05:13. > :05:18.how hard the task is of persuading people of the message. This is why

:05:19. > :05:22.we stood up to hatred and division. I cannot lie and say that the result

:05:23. > :05:27.in Copeland was what we wanted, but now is not the time to run away or

:05:28. > :05:32.give up. He is saying they cannot run away from their message, but the

:05:33. > :05:37.question for many people is what is their message at the moment? It is

:05:38. > :05:42.not clear whether they oppose or support Brexit. He is saying Labour

:05:43. > :05:49.supports it, but there are many people who do not like Labour's

:05:50. > :05:51.stance on Brexit. Working out what Labour stands for at the moment is

:05:52. > :05:59.one of their major challenges. The second story from the Sunday Times,

:06:00. > :06:06.the benefits for migrants replace the act. What is this? This is the

:06:07. > :06:10.new revolution after the last revolution. It is the biggest change

:06:11. > :06:16.in a generation. The immigration debate is constant. This is an

:06:17. > :06:21.interesting change that they are proposing and it kind of makes it a

:06:22. > :06:28.little more technocratic by removing the number of Visas from the

:06:29. > :06:34.government's control in theory. I am curious about this committee that

:06:35. > :06:38.will recommend these is. What if it is too low or too high? What about

:06:39. > :06:45.if you have to bring in 100,000 engineers? Who is going to advise

:06:46. > :06:50.them? This as immigration is a technocratic thing, but at the

:06:51. > :06:53.moment immigration is an extraordinarily political issue in

:06:54. > :07:07.Britain. This reaffirms the government's desire to rid reduce

:07:08. > :07:11.immigration down to 10,000 people. It does really means stopping lots

:07:12. > :07:15.of family reunification is happening and stopping refugees happening,

:07:16. > :07:21.cutting international students, cutting and skilled migration and

:07:22. > :07:24.also skilled migration. This is when Theresa May is trying to do trade

:07:25. > :07:34.deals with people like India and America who send skilled people

:07:35. > :07:40.here. If they start accepting people from these countries, this is not

:07:41. > :07:43.clear. Theresa May says that all those here at the moment on the

:07:44. > :07:52.triggering of Article 50, they will remain. This goes to the point that

:07:53. > :07:57.immigration feeds into everything. It is in every single debate in one

:07:58. > :08:02.way or the other. When Theresa May went to India, the Indian government

:08:03. > :08:07.was asking about Visas. This does not stop at the water's edge. Other

:08:08. > :08:12.countries are asking, will our students be able to go to British

:08:13. > :08:20.universities? Will our entrepreneurs be able to setup? Let's go do

:08:21. > :08:25.something lighter. A bit of trouble in Cambridge. This is a college

:08:26. > :08:29.where students have been complaining about items on the menu like

:08:30. > :08:33.Jamaican stew and Tunisian rice, arguing they are cultural

:08:34. > :08:39.misrepresentations and they do not exist in the countries that are

:08:40. > :08:48.being referenced. I mean it is sort of easy to laugh at these kinds of

:08:49. > :08:51.things. It is hard to imagine that these are deliberately

:08:52. > :08:56.disrespectful, that this is the college trying to impose some sort

:08:57. > :09:02.of colonial idea on its culture. If the point of this is to make

:09:03. > :09:07.students feel at home, if it is to educate other students about

:09:08. > :09:13.different cuisines, this is a bit cack-handed. It sounds just like a

:09:14. > :09:17.recipe to be honest. The Pembroke catering staff, stop mixing mango

:09:18. > :09:23.and beef and calling it Jamaican stew. That came from the students.

:09:24. > :09:26.If you are going to do it, get it right, get the name right. It sounds

:09:27. > :09:31.foolishly inaccurate rather than deliberate. It also sounds

:09:32. > :09:36.delicious. Have we gone politically correct mad? Where does political

:09:37. > :09:42.correctness begin and what is too much? There are reasonable things

:09:43. > :09:46.that are of a different era that should not be set any more that are

:09:47. > :09:55.offensive to minorities and that are helpful. I am not sure if this

:09:56. > :10:00.college was trying to hurt people. This was just not handled terribly

:10:01. > :10:04.well. The editorial in the Sunday Times is not forgiving on the

:10:05. > :10:12.students. There is danger everywhere. Think what might happen

:10:13. > :10:16.in Pembroke College if a student from someone else is asked if they

:10:17. > :10:22.want a bit of Bakewell tart. This is more serious, terror chief threat. A

:10:23. > :10:31.bigger and greater terror threat that we are facing. This is the new

:10:32. > :10:34.independent overseer of the country's terrorism, a watchdog. You

:10:35. > :10:40.cannot question his credentials, he has been a barrister for 30 years

:10:41. > :10:46.and has prosecuted these cases. When he says something like this, you

:10:47. > :10:51.have to take notice. The headline is warning of the risk of attacks in

:10:52. > :10:57.Britain is at its highest since the dark days of the IRA. It is a stark

:10:58. > :11:01.warning. It is. What we talk about these things we talk about the level

:11:02. > :11:05.of threat and how serious it is, but you do not get a strong sense of

:11:06. > :11:10.exactly what that represents in terms of the kinds of attacks. You

:11:11. > :11:14.have to assume that the threat level was very high after the 7/7

:11:15. > :11:20.bombings. Did that mean we would see more bombings in the line of 9/11?

:11:21. > :11:25.Now it is about lone wolf attacks and British people who have been

:11:26. > :11:30.radicalised and have spent time fighting in Syria. It is a very

:11:31. > :11:36.sophisticated threat level, even though it is described in broad

:11:37. > :11:40.terms. It has changed over 30 years, we are facing different threats now.

:11:41. > :11:46.We are dealing with it in a different way. That is right. One of

:11:47. > :11:50.the things in the interview is Max Hill points out there has been one

:11:51. > :11:55.fatality in Britain through terrorism. It is remarkable how

:11:56. > :11:59.successful Britain has been at preventing or heading off these

:12:00. > :12:04.kinds of attacks. It is easy to lose sight of that with these constant

:12:05. > :12:07.warnings of terrorism. People in Britain have largely been able to

:12:08. > :12:12.lead their lives in peace and security since the 7/7 attacks. You

:12:13. > :12:16.only realise when something might have been happening is when you hear

:12:17. > :12:20.the court case. Let's move onto another story. We

:12:21. > :12:26.have heard from Michael Heseltine today this. The peers are uniting to

:12:27. > :12:33.soften Brexit. This could be potentially embarrassing for Theresa

:12:34. > :12:37.May. It is going to be embarrassing for Theresa May because the

:12:38. > :12:40.Conservatives do not have a majority in the House of Lords, so we will

:12:41. > :12:45.see a lot of debate amongst people who oppose Brexit and Michael

:12:46. > :12:50.Heseltine and other Tory rebels are planning to vote against it. I do

:12:51. > :12:54.not think in the end the House of Lords will vote it down, but they

:12:55. > :13:01.will do their best to put some amendments onto it. It illustrates

:13:02. > :13:06.the astonishing perplexity that Brexit brings. It is not just a

:13:07. > :13:10.negotiation with 27 other countries, it is a negotiation with the House

:13:11. > :13:15.of Lords, the House of Commons, there are so many different actors

:13:16. > :13:21.which we do not appreciate. This is getting complicated really fast. The

:13:22. > :13:25.stakes are high for her, and she was there on the first day in the House

:13:26. > :13:31.of Lords watching and you would be if this was your first big piece of

:13:32. > :13:34.legislation, but it shows what is at stake. Absolutely, this is the

:13:35. > :13:39.greatest political change that Britain has had to face in many

:13:40. > :13:43.generations. It is an extraordinarily complicated,

:13:44. > :13:48.difficult task. And we will hear about it every day until it happens.

:13:49. > :13:56.Let's finish off on a funny note. You cannot beat a cartoon. We are

:13:57. > :13:59.talking about Highgate. And the pie eating goalkeeper who was spotted

:14:00. > :14:06.eating pie on television and has since been sacked because he was

:14:07. > :14:12.betting on it. It says a bet that Meryl Streep will eat meat pie

:14:13. > :14:18.during the Oscars ceremony. There has been a lot of talk about meat

:14:19. > :14:26.pies. I will not tell you what we keep under the desk. I am not sure

:14:27. > :14:31.about this story, the original story about the goalkeeper, because it is

:14:32. > :14:41.bittersweet. He lost his job. It is hard to see who was really badly

:14:42. > :14:50.affected. Everyone loves a sports story of the plucky small team. It

:14:51. > :14:57.was heart-warming. It is hard to imagine who wanted him fired. He

:14:58. > :15:01.cried, I feel sorry for him. We have had Jamaican stew and pies and

:15:02. > :15:02.everything else in between. Thank you very much for joining us this

:15:03. > :15:06.week. Just a reminder we take a look

:15:07. > :15:26.at tomorrow's front pages every The weather is going to throw

:15:27. > :15:31.everything at us over the next couple of days. Rain, Gayle, snow,

:15:32. > :15:33.ice, hail and blunder.