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:00:00. > :00:00.Wednesday's terror attack. The investigation continues and one man

:00:00. > :00:00.remains in custody. The United States says it is investigating

:00:00. > :00:07.coalition air strikes that were carried out in Western Mosul,

:00:08. > :00:23.killing dozens of civilians. Hello, and welcome to our look ahead

:00:24. > :00:29.to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow morning on our breakfast

:00:30. > :00:34.tables. With me Ruefli, a Banking Group adviser. And John rental,

:00:35. > :00:38.Chief political column columnist at the Independent. The Sunday Times

:00:39. > :00:43.claims EU migrants living in Britain will continue to receive Child

:00:44. > :00:47.benefit after Britain leaves. The Observer reports on the coalition

:00:48. > :00:51.air strikes in Mosul, which it says have caused at least 150 civilians

:00:52. > :00:58.and caused international outrage -- killed at least 150 civilians. The

:00:59. > :01:01.Sunday Express's front-page features the Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood

:01:02. > :01:09.and says he has spoken for the first time since trying to stave PC Keith

:01:10. > :01:14.Palmer -- save PC Keith Palmer in Wednesday's terror attack. The mail

:01:15. > :01:19.reports that the air ambulance Prince William co-pilot had a near

:01:20. > :01:23.miss with a drone last summer. The Sunday Telegraph leads with Douglas

:01:24. > :01:27.Carswell's resignation from Ukip, reporting that it could lead to a

:01:28. > :01:32.civil war within the party. Independent also has a picture of

:01:33. > :01:34.Douglas Carswell, but its main story features calls for Europe to stick

:01:35. > :01:40.together following the Westminster terror attacks. You were there when

:01:41. > :01:46.the horror unfolded. A very striking photo of Tobias Ellwood, not a new

:01:47. > :01:49.photo, but seeing it in that context is a very strong image. It is the

:01:50. > :01:56.first time he has spoken to a newspaper since then. You know, he

:01:57. > :02:01.was a modest hero. I remember speaking to an MP who said, you

:02:02. > :02:07.know, that they were told to get out of the way. By the police. Tobias

:02:08. > :02:11.Ellwood went the other way, to the way that they were being told to go.

:02:12. > :02:15.He went because he is a former soldier. He thought he might be able

:02:16. > :02:20.to help, and he did actually try to do all he could to try to save Keith

:02:21. > :02:25.Palmer and to stop the bleeding. But unfortunately he wasn't able to do

:02:26. > :02:29.it. Ruth, to the left, a photograph of Keith Palmer. We have seen this

:02:30. > :02:38.photograph before, it is bringing all of the pieces together over the

:02:39. > :02:40.weekend, I suspect a lot of the papers will do that. The photo was

:02:41. > :02:43.taken by a tourist whom he posed with 45 minutes before he died. He

:02:44. > :02:46.is wearing the stab best which unfortunately wasn't able to protect

:02:47. > :02:49.other parts of his body. You go in and out of those gates on a regular

:02:50. > :02:53.basis, you were a Treasury official a few years ago, you are a regular

:02:54. > :02:57.at Westminster talking to committees, giving evidence and so

:02:58. > :03:02.on. You must have been chilled by what you saw. I think he looked very

:03:03. > :03:06.vulnerable. What strikes me is at the gates there are an armed police.

:03:07. > :03:10.I think they were on at some point, and there were objections from MPs

:03:11. > :03:19.and visitors. That will have to change. I see Lord Ian Blair, you

:03:20. > :03:22.said in the introduction, he is calling for tighter security of the

:03:23. > :03:24.Commons, and I think that is almost a first stop that they have armed

:03:25. > :03:27.police there. They have an police around the rest of the Houses of

:03:28. > :03:31.Parliament and nobody bats an eyelid. There is a dilemma. I spoke

:03:32. > :03:36.on the night of this attack to Lord Laxton, who you will probably know

:03:37. > :03:41.both as Alastair Cook, from the Tory Party, he was an aide to an MP who

:03:42. > :03:45.was blown up almost on the very spot where this attack happened in 1979.

:03:46. > :03:50.He said one of the things that people like her used to say is, we

:03:51. > :03:56.don't want to be treated any differently than anybody else. Those

:03:57. > :04:01.who are against our democracy win, in a sense. I don't think that is

:04:02. > :04:04.realistic. You do have to protect these places. Nobody wanted to put

:04:05. > :04:08.those gates up outside Downing Street either. It was nice to have

:04:09. > :04:12.Downing Street as a normal London street, but it's not practical.

:04:13. > :04:15.There are armed police around Westminster already. There was a

:04:16. > :04:19.counterargument. One of the reports today said that perhaps the police

:04:20. > :04:23.themselves or security services are concerned that having an armed

:04:24. > :04:32.officer may make them a potential target. Whereas if you had roving

:04:33. > :04:34.armed police and unarmed officers but officers with protection that

:04:35. > :04:37.might be a good balance, but clearly you think events have proved that

:04:38. > :04:39.wrong. I think they have to be insistent. They have armed police

:04:40. > :04:42.now, there is a precedent for it. I think the police by the gates should

:04:43. > :04:49.be armed as well stop right let's move on to the Observer. This, John,

:04:50. > :04:53.is the report from you are gassed all. They are increasingly confident

:04:54. > :04:57.according to this report, although the police haven't said this openly

:04:58. > :05:01.yet, that Khalid Masood acted alone and we may never actually no,

:05:02. > :05:05.because he didn't share that information, why he did what he did

:05:06. > :05:09.on Wednesday. Talk about a fast moving story. 24 hours ago we were

:05:10. > :05:15.reporting the exact opposite. These WhatsApp messages they wanted to get

:05:16. > :05:19.at. Suggesting he had been indoctrinated and perhaps encouraged

:05:20. > :05:23.to do it. I think... You know, how do I know? This feels more plausible

:05:24. > :05:30.to me, that we are just talking about a man armed with nothing more

:05:31. > :05:34.than a car and a knife. You know, in a rage about, you know, goodness

:05:35. > :05:40.knows what and we will probably never know. It's very odd, because

:05:41. > :05:45.he was 52 years old, and in a way, you think of people in a rage in

:05:46. > :05:49.their 20s and teens, young men who fired up by jihadists. He doesn't

:05:50. > :05:53.seem to have been motivated by that. In fact we don't know what his

:05:54. > :05:57.motivation was. It does seem as though it was premeditated, he must

:05:58. > :06:00.have worked out his route to come across the Westminster Bridge, to

:06:01. > :06:04.work out where he would do quite a lot of damage. Thank goodness he

:06:05. > :06:08.didn't do more damage, actually. More to the point, if he acted

:06:09. > :06:11.alone, as Amber Rudd said the other day, you really can't stop all of

:06:12. > :06:15.these things come you know. I'm afraid in an open society there is

:06:16. > :06:20.always a risk that we will be hit by people like this. Let's move on to

:06:21. > :06:30.the other story on the front of the Observer. In a sense we have been

:06:31. > :06:32.talking about, terrible for those involved, but a comparatively small

:06:33. > :06:35.number of casualties compared to what is happening in so many other

:06:36. > :06:37.parts of the world on sadly an almost daily basis. One place where

:06:38. > :06:40.the casualty numbers one loses track of almost is Iraq. This assault on

:06:41. > :06:44.Mosul has been going on for months. It is hard to tell how much progress

:06:45. > :06:48.is being made and how come you know, the objective is to take the whole

:06:49. > :06:52.of Mosul, but quite how far they are in achieving it. I remember reports

:06:53. > :06:55.months ago suggesting that Mosul was about to fall and you got the

:06:56. > :06:58.impression that this was something that was going to happen in the next

:06:59. > :07:05.few days. It is extraordinary how much Iraq has just forward of the

:07:06. > :07:08.front pages of our newspapers. But, you know, good for the Observer for

:07:09. > :07:12.putting it back there. Well, a tragic civil war, we know that. At

:07:13. > :07:15.the end of the day, the Iraqi forces will actually prevail and they will

:07:16. > :07:20.we take Mosul. This attack actually took place last week. It has

:07:21. > :07:24.suddenly come into view. The UN has raised concerns about the number of

:07:25. > :07:28.civilians and whether if you like the ends justify the means. Let's be

:07:29. > :07:32.honest about this, they are going to resume this attack on Mosul, they

:07:33. > :07:36.are going to get hold of Mosul, and Isis will be pushed further and

:07:37. > :07:41.further and told the caliphate, as they call it, will disappear. At the

:07:42. > :07:44.terrorism will continue. Let's move on to the Independent. Job, you know

:07:45. > :07:51.about this story because it is your photograph on the top left there. By

:07:52. > :07:58.2020, cars will be Tory again, you say that as if it is of years? It is

:07:59. > :08:02.obvious that he wants to rejoin the Conservative Party -- Douglas

:08:03. > :08:05.Carswell. Theresa May's whole approach, a lot of what she is

:08:06. > :08:09.interested in, is getting back the Ukip voters who deserted the Tory

:08:10. > :08:15.body. That is what grammar schools was about, her hard line on Brexiter

:08:16. > :08:18.-- who deserted the Tory Party. It would be hard if you are a Tory

:08:19. > :08:25.activists in Clacton, given that he has rubbed your nose in it by

:08:26. > :08:31.holding the seat... Forcing a by-election. Douglas Carswell is a

:08:32. > :08:35.very engaging blokes, very popular. And I think that they will have him

:08:36. > :08:39.back. He was always a square peg in a round hole in any political

:08:40. > :08:43.parties appeal and he is a bit of a maverick, that is part of why we

:08:44. > :08:47.like him, he is a free thinker. He doesn't fit in very well, he

:08:48. > :08:51.certainly didn't fit in in Ukip, which is a nest of vipers anyway!

:08:52. > :09:01.The only thing stopping him coming back to the Tory Party is his own

:09:02. > :09:04.principle that if you change party you have got to have a by-election,

:09:05. > :09:07.he doesn't want to do that so he is in the holding pen at the moment. I

:09:08. > :09:10.think he will rejoin the Tories. Ruth, what do you make of it was

:09:11. > :09:12.like he hasn't quite done with instant job's immortal phrase,

:09:13. > :09:16.ratted and we ratted, because he hasn't gone to his old party --

:09:17. > :09:21.Winston Churchill's phrase. I think he has been Tory all along. He said

:09:22. > :09:25.that he joined Ukip because he was desperate for Brexit. A lot of

:09:26. > :09:29.Tories were desperate for Brexit, but now it is being delivered by

:09:30. > :09:34.Theresa May, he is a Tory. But a strategic Tory. You are not

:09:35. > :09:38.connected to any party, but you aren't enthusiastic supporter of

:09:39. > :09:43.Brexit. I am a member of the Tory Party. I hadn't realised you are now

:09:44. > :09:47.a member. From your point of view, being do so as dispassionate as I

:09:48. > :09:52.know you will be about this, do you think Ukip has a purpose now post

:09:53. > :09:59.two I don't think. You have just admitted that Laurie Conservative! I

:10:00. > :10:05.can authoritative lyc e that Ukip is finished! They are having a civil

:10:06. > :10:10.war despite the Sunday Telegraph. There is a very striking image. Ukip

:10:11. > :10:17.has been having a Civil War since it was founded! A very wonderfully

:10:18. > :10:23.vivid, colourful picture of the floral tributes, some laid by police

:10:24. > :10:27.officers outside the site where PC Keith Palmer died. We have time for

:10:28. > :10:31.a very interesting story. On the face of it, Ruth, this ought to be

:10:32. > :10:34.giving the other editors in Fleet Street palpitations when they see

:10:35. > :10:39.this on the front of the Mail and they haven't got it. William's

:10:40. > :10:45.helicopter a split-second from lethal crash. Do we know if it is

:10:46. > :10:49.true?! Of course it is true, but it is rather carefully phrased. It is

:10:50. > :10:54.Prince William's helicopter, but not necessarily with him in it. That's

:10:55. > :11:01.very sharp. There is a photograph of Prince William, but you are right,

:11:02. > :11:05.it doesn't say he was in there. It was also quite a long time ago,

:11:06. > :11:10.that's the other thing. Also, what kind of drone was this? Was it a

:11:11. > :11:15.little plastic throne, sort of that size, or was it something more...

:11:16. > :11:20.Was it being operated by somebody? We will have to wait until we get a

:11:21. > :11:26.hard copy of the paper until we find out on page four. I think it is a

:11:27. > :11:30.nonstory! In that case, giving your judgment, Ruth, we won't do it in an

:11:31. > :11:35.hour's time, we will find something else to talk about! Revenge on, we

:11:36. > :11:41.will be back with you in an hour's time at 11:30pm -- Ruth and John.

:11:42. > :11:44.Coming up next... The President of the European Commission has insisted

:11:45. > :11:48.that the UK will have to wander its financial commitments as part of any

:11:49. > :11:53.deal, a figure that could be around ?50 billion. He has been speaking to

:11:54. > :11:58.Europe Editor Katya ahead ahead of celebrations marking Europe's 60th

:11:59. > :12:15.anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. But saying that, we

:12:16. > :12:18.should not be naive.