:00:00. > :00:19.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:20. > :00:27.With me are Jason Beattie, head of politics at the Mirror,
:00:28. > :00:32.and Tim Shipman, political editor at the Sunday Times.
:00:33. > :00:36.in a moment we will find out the correct way to make a scone.
:00:37. > :00:40.The Express features the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
:00:41. > :00:43.who saw their visit to Paris overshadowed by the Orly airport
:00:44. > :00:48.The paper says the royals "continued defiantly with their programme".
:00:49. > :00:51.The Sunday Times also pictures the Duchess of Cambridge,
:00:52. > :00:54.but its main story is that alleged rape victims will be spared
:00:55. > :00:57.under new reforms announced by the Justice Secretary.
:00:58. > :00:59.The Mail goes it alone with a controversial call
:01:00. > :01:03.from a retired doctor for women to be able to terminate a pregnancy
:01:04. > :01:07.The Telegraph says new evidence has emerged over claims
:01:08. > :01:10.that a pregnancy testing drug has been linked to birth defects
:01:11. > :01:13.And the Sunday Mirror has an exclusive interview
:01:14. > :01:15.with George Michael's personal medic,
:01:16. > :01:19.who says the star knew his death was near.
:01:20. > :01:26.We are going to start with the Sunday Express an exclusive which
:01:27. > :01:33.tells us that we may not be faraway from a snap general election.
:01:34. > :01:37.Perhaps. This is a very interesting mineshaft because we've all been
:01:38. > :01:42.talking to MPs who think it might be a good idea to have a general
:01:43. > :01:47.election. The Tories are in a bit of a mess with perhaps going to court
:01:48. > :01:51.over breaking the spending limits during the campaign. Nicola Sturgeon
:01:52. > :01:54.is calling for a referendum, we have evidence as a result of the budget
:01:55. > :01:57.that the government is finding it difficult to do anything because
:01:58. > :02:05.when ten or more Tory MPs object things don't happen. So there are a
:02:06. > :02:08.lot of people around the Prime Minister who would like to have a
:02:09. > :02:11.general election. The Express says they have been text between senior
:02:12. > :02:17.members of the party, suggesting let's go for it on the fourth of
:02:18. > :02:21.May, let's declare Brexit on the last week of March and go for it.
:02:22. > :02:24.One problem is that the one person who still doesn't agree with this is
:02:25. > :02:29.the Prime Minister Theresa May. She is a pretty determined lady.
:02:30. > :02:33.According to the people I've spoken to she is still absolutely adamant
:02:34. > :02:38.that she isn't doing it. But this is an interesting development that
:02:39. > :02:41.people high up are beginning to talk about quite seriously. Hold on a
:02:42. > :02:48.moment, aren't we bound by fixed term parliaments? We are. Introduced
:02:49. > :02:52.by David Cameron to strengthen the durability of the coalition means
:02:53. > :02:56.that if she wants to hold a general election she has to go to MPs and
:02:57. > :03:01.two thirds of them have the vote in favour of calling an early poll.
:03:02. > :03:05.That's not impossible. I think it would be difficult for Labour to say
:03:06. > :03:08.no, partly because it would look on that they would have an election
:03:09. > :03:12.when the Tories can say, these people didn't want you to have a
:03:13. > :03:16.vote. Labour would have to pretend that they are in a position to win
:03:17. > :03:20.over the general election. It may look unlikely at the moment but they
:03:21. > :03:25.have potential. That's a technicality. The more difficult
:03:26. > :03:34.thing for Theresa May is what is the benefit of going alone? As Kim said,
:03:35. > :03:41.-- Tim said, she doesn't have on mandate and that came up when Philip
:03:42. > :03:48.Hammond had to do the reverse -- reversal... Yes, it would be useful
:03:49. > :03:57.to say, this is what I am standing on, a parliamentary majority that is
:03:58. > :04:01.far too thin. But she has Brexit coming up and she has two years of
:04:02. > :04:07.difficult negotiations. If they break down, that's when she will
:04:08. > :04:14.have to say, this is my plan for Brexit. The EU are not accepting it,
:04:15. > :04:18.I am going to put this to a vote. Who else is going to benefit? The
:04:19. > :04:23.Lib Dems? They are back up into double figures in the polls and seem
:04:24. > :04:26.to be ahead of Ukip. If you look at local council by-elections they are
:04:27. > :04:30.winning seats off the Tories and Labour, so they are doing OK. It is
:04:31. > :04:33.their Spring Conference this weekend and they are beginning to try and
:04:34. > :04:41.say some interesting things about how you might bring together some of
:04:42. > :04:46.the moderate Labour types and be Remainer Tories and then into
:04:47. > :04:50.something that will appease the hardliners. What the Tories are
:04:51. > :04:54.worried about is they think voters punish parties who are in it for
:04:55. > :04:59.themselves. the Sunday Telegraph. Philip Hammond faces mutiny from
:05:00. > :05:03.Brexit ministers. They don't think they are well equipped for the job
:05:04. > :05:07.they have to do. Yes, after months of telling a day have all the staff
:05:08. > :05:12.and they have the finest negotiators possible, now we've got the free
:05:13. > :05:18.Brexit departments, we have Boris Johnson and Liam Fox and the
:05:19. > :05:22.department of national trade and the department for exiting the EU. They
:05:23. > :05:26.all say they don't want the 6% budget cuts they will impose just as
:05:27. > :05:31.the entities negotiations. Beyond that, there is an element of the
:05:32. > :05:35.Brexiteers ganging up on an already weakened Philip Hammond. Why would
:05:36. > :05:43.they want to do that? Because Philip Hammond is the last true Remain
:05:44. > :05:49.around the table. It sounds like the title of an epic novel, The Last
:05:50. > :05:54.True Remainer. It could be like the last of the dinosaurs! They see him
:05:55. > :06:02.as the block for getting the Brexit they want. The phrase is Brexit
:06:03. > :06:07.blocker. He isn't effective blocker as he was a fortnight ago, because
:06:08. > :06:11.he has been weakened, but this is a tiny bit, if one was going to be
:06:12. > :06:15.cynical, like an attempt to weaken him further. I'm told there were
:06:16. > :06:19.Brexiteers getting together last week who had a WhatsApp group and
:06:20. > :06:25.they were sharing their thoughts and the instruction went out to certain
:06:26. > :06:30.backbenchers to "kill Phil", which is demotic. It is the first time the
:06:31. > :06:34.Brexiteers have really agreed on much for some time, but they all
:06:35. > :06:40.agree that they think Philip Hammond is wrong about Brexit. The Times.
:06:41. > :06:45.Jaws or is born scuppers second jobs for MPs -- George Osborne. How so?
:06:46. > :06:51.He has six of them now. He has six jobs. Lots of MPs do something on
:06:52. > :06:57.the side. Some are qualified lawyers or they have EADS -- business
:06:58. > :07:01.interests. What we are revealing tonight is that there are lots of
:07:02. > :07:06.different watchdogs and investigation committees and they
:07:07. > :07:13.all pretty much do -- restrict things further. What these Tory MPs
:07:14. > :07:17.are discovering is that by going off and earning such colossal amounts of
:07:18. > :07:22.money and doing quite so much in-depth time-consuming work, Mr
:07:23. > :07:30.Osborne may be spoiling the party for all of them. He personally is
:07:31. > :07:34.facing God knows what and Iain Duncan Smith, the former leader, has
:07:35. > :07:38.been on another WhatsApp group, they are at it everywhere! He is
:07:39. > :07:49.comparing George Osborne to Gordon gecko, from Wall Street, greed is
:07:50. > :07:53.good, look at this. I was told by someone from GCHQ that the use of
:07:54. > :08:00.WhatsApp because it is about the most secure form possible. All that
:08:01. > :08:09.means is that the spy agencies and anyone else can't break into these
:08:10. > :08:15.messages. When there are 40 odd people on a message stream, it
:08:16. > :08:18.doesn't take too long to four -- on up someone and share the jokes. It
:08:19. > :08:22.is about the money George Osborne is earning? If he was and earning any
:08:23. > :08:31.money for these jobs would it be a problem? Some Tory MPs are going, he
:08:32. > :08:36.has all our jobs now. It is a very difficult area to police. For
:08:37. > :08:42.example, some MPs occasionally like to do a bit of journalism. They can
:08:43. > :08:47.write for papers like the Sunday Times and get paid for it. Very
:08:48. > :08:50.rarely, actually. Do you want to stop them doing something like that?
:08:51. > :08:58.Do you want to stop someone like Alan Johnston writing books in what
:08:59. > :09:07.he says is his bedtime? So it is and that they want to outright ban all
:09:08. > :09:13.jobs but they get paid handsomely, three times the average wage to do
:09:14. > :09:17.this job. They think George Osborne doing all these jobs diminishes
:09:18. > :09:22.their job. He makes it looked like something you can do in a couple of
:09:23. > :09:25.hours a day and for them this is a noble calling, for some of them.
:09:26. > :09:29.They are also worried he will go into the tea room or to the
:09:30. > :09:38.committee and write down what they are all saying and stick it in his
:09:39. > :09:41.newspaper. He might not put certain negative things about people in the
:09:42. > :09:53.papers and put negative things about people like the PM in the paper.
:09:54. > :09:58.Small story, page 26, moving along now! The second story on the Sunday
:09:59. > :10:06.Times. Rape returns to be spared court or a deal and this will be
:10:07. > :10:10.pre-recorded cross examinations, so that a witness or an alleged victim
:10:11. > :10:15.wouldn't have to be there in court. Potentially facing the person who is
:10:16. > :10:21.accused. That's right. This is Liz Truss's big announcement. There is a
:10:22. > :10:26.big deal coming in on Monday. -- Bill. She is saying that they've
:10:27. > :10:32.trials this with child sex cases, where the victims give evidence on
:10:33. > :10:36.camera. They are cross-examined, but the judge can limit the amount of
:10:37. > :10:40.time they have to undergo cross examination and the type of
:10:41. > :10:43.questions that are asked. They have been cases in the past where they've
:10:44. > :10:46.been asked about their past sexual history and often that is regarded
:10:47. > :10:50.as inadmissible by the judge, but quite often what will happen in a
:10:51. > :10:54.courtroom is that the defence lawyer will ask it, they will rule it out,
:10:55. > :10:58.but the jury has heard it anyway. In these cases the incentive to do that
:10:59. > :11:02.is low because if it is inadmissible if simply gets cut out of the
:11:03. > :11:05.videotape and never gets played in court and what they've done with the
:11:06. > :11:11.trials that they've done is that this speeds up the number of guilty
:11:12. > :11:16.pleas by people and stops the victim having to go through a situation
:11:17. > :11:22.where the evidence is very strong and the defence will back off, you
:11:23. > :11:25.get an early guilty -- guilty plea and you save time and save trauma
:11:26. > :11:29.for the victim. That's been criticism for many years, the trauma
:11:30. > :11:34.witnesses have to go through. I think if anything it will make it
:11:35. > :11:45.less arduous and sometime a horrific process. Let's look at the Observer.
:11:46. > :11:49.It said the Guardian, but it isn't! There must be somebody who can send
:11:50. > :11:53.it across! Secret tape reveals the mental to seize control of Labour.
:11:54. > :12:02.This is the momentum of the group... The people who helped Jeremy Corbyn
:12:03. > :12:11.become leader. What's the plot? The head of Momentum has been recorded
:12:12. > :12:15.suggesting that the head of Labour's biggest backer, who is up for
:12:16. > :12:20.election in April, if he gets re-elected, which now seems likely,
:12:21. > :12:26.then he could, and I have to emphasise this is good, he could
:12:27. > :12:29.affiliate with Momentum and that would mean a lot of money or be pro
:12:30. > :12:37.Jeremy Corbyn. What's interesting here is we've got drama on top of
:12:38. > :12:45.melodrama on top of infighting, which is so Byzantine. But we've got
:12:46. > :12:52.these personal fights going on between Len McCluskey at his old
:12:53. > :13:01.former flatmate, Tom Watson. It are at loggerheads -- they are at local
:13:02. > :13:06.-- loggerheads. Tom Watson is determined to stop Len McCluskey
:13:07. > :13:13.building Annie Power. To the extent that he is back in the rival. We've
:13:14. > :13:17.got that drama and then we've got this big drama of Jeremy Corbyn at
:13:18. > :13:21.some point having to stand down and they are desperate to make sure that
:13:22. > :13:25.before he goes they get their left candidate in place, which again the
:13:26. > :13:28.border at in the Labour Party are trying to stop. We have this big
:13:29. > :13:36.drama and these personal fights going on as well.
:13:37. > :13:45.Momentum have all the people and United have the money. If you bring
:13:46. > :13:50.them together you can change the rules of the leadership election so
:13:51. > :13:55.you need far fewer MPs to get on the ballot paper. If you do that, there
:13:56. > :13:59.is a hard left candidate on the ballot paper every time and that is
:14:00. > :14:02.how they get a stranglehold on the Labour Party going forward. That is
:14:03. > :14:11.what this is about. Fascinating. Stopped repressing Cornwall. --
:14:12. > :14:20.stop. Do you feel oppressed by the English? I don't think so. We just
:14:21. > :14:33.want our talents and skills all around the area... People don't
:14:34. > :14:52.appreciate our spirit. We know how to make the best tea. The Devonians
:14:53. > :14:57.might not get this, put the cream on top after. I wouldn't put cream on a
:14:58. > :15:04.pasty. This is upsetting, but we need to finish. It was nice to see
:15:05. > :15:06.you. We have run out of time. Coming up next, The Film