15/04/2017 The Papers

life murder conspiracy that absorbed 1920s America, and in particular,

the young J Edgar Hoover. Hello, and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be With me are Nigel Nelson, political

editor of the Sunday Mirror and the Sunday People,

and the political Lovely to see you boit. We will look

at some of the stories in a moment. Tomorrow's front pages,

starting with... The Mail on Sunday leads

with the continued rising tensions around North Korea,

and the threat to wipe out The Sunday Times, also

leading on North Korea, says President Trump is prepared

to strike Korean nuclear sites. The Telegraph goes with

the potential threat to America It says that North Kreoa

posses the capability The differences between

the two countries is summed up in The Express,

who call it the Deadliest Stand-off. The Observer leads on an education

story, and says that free schools So that was just a taster of those

front-pages. A more in-depth natter now with my

guests and goodness, we have to start off with North Korea, don't

we. . We do. What do you make of this? The Sunday Times in particular

is the most worrying of The Papers tonight. Because that seems to sort

of take war a step nearer. What the Sunday Times is saying is that their

quoting general McMaster, Donald Trump's national security adviser

who is saying that the America has the capability of taking out with

conventional weapons the entire nuclear arsenal of North Korea, this

is high stakes stuff, that the first question is what if they haven't got

the capability of doing that? What happens next? The second thing is I

can't see it happening really on the basis of South Korea, the first

thing that would happen is there would be an invasion of South Korea,

and you get a feeling it is like two pugnacious schoolboys squaring off

in the playground. Both knows if one throws a punch they will get hurt,

however you look at it. Certainly we are dealing with unpredictable

people and the worry is that someone will do something really stupid. Jo,

a lot of people saying that this is just the US trying to nudge China to

actually do something. Yes, it is, but the whole relationship between

America and China is not helped by where China sits on the question of

Syria. I mean China has previously gone along with Russia, on UN votes

and things, last week it abstained rather than veto the UN vote, but I

mean, certainly what is happening, and you know, you have got huge

American warships arriving, or heading towards the Korean

peninsula, you have real pressure on a quite untested and inexperienced

team of foreign policy people, not least of all Secretary of State Rex

Tillerson dealing with as Nigel says unpredictable people, but in

difficult area, you know, you have China on the one hand, you have

Russia in the background, always. You have got North Korea, and you

have got where do these rather unpredictable and men who want to

make a show, it is, I have more bombs than you, your bomb is bigger

than mine. At one point is one going to go let's show them who's boss? I

think it is really very worrying. What is interesting is you have Mike

Pence the American Vice-President. He is going to South Korea... Today,

later tomorrow for talks. He is going there to have talks with them,

and back home, in what seems a bit like the vicar at the Tea Party

saying I am sure we can come so some arrangement Geoffrey Clifton Brown

is trying to get a sort of all party support together, although I am

being solutionly facetious, it is that level of bringing together

common-sense and looking at the options, we don't know what North

Korea has got. We have seen what they have shown us, but we don't

know how real they. You I don't know if you have seen the satellite

images. Yes. It is based on the movement of earth. The tests take

place under groan, so this is where they are going, this is where they

are saying there is something coming... You need, certainly the

institute of strategic studies, who know something about these things,

some of the analysis they have done is interesting. What they seem to be

saying is look, we are not sure about the delivery systems, whether

they are capable of doing the a long range launch or anything like that.

That. What they are more certain about and it comes back to the

original point we started with the Sunday Times, the medium range

missiles, they can use, now obviously, that puts all of South

Korea and some of Japan, within striking distance, so that is the

kind of danger. I mean I was sceptical when I saw the stuff on

the parade today. These missiles that can go 7,000 miles and hit the

west coast of America. This is what the Sunday Telegraph is talking

about. We never saw them. They were in their cases, for all we mow they

could have been empty. Obviously, we were meant to think that is what

they might do, but I mean, I am more worried about the ones he has tried

out and work. Yes. OK. We will see how this goes, we will be interested

to hear what Mike Pence does say, of course. Let us go to a football

story now, on the front of The Observer, this is our third story,

Jo, do you want to pick this up? So this is the story about as you refer

to earlier, Everton have banned, Everton football club have banned

the Sun, banned some reporters from being at training ground or maps at

things because of Kelvin MacKenzie 's, the former editor's column.

Which not only cast a slur deeply offensive racist slur on Ross

Barkley their midfielder, but it was also that sort of casual sort of

pugnacious, unpleasantness about people in Liverpool, that frankly,

you know, I would have hoped had died out an awfully long tiling a.

The Sun has a traditionally, it has got a historically appalling

relationship with Liverpool. What do you think of the timing? It is

ridiculous. With Hillsborough anniversary it is crazy. Has Kelvin

MacKenzie got a free rain to do what he wanted to do. Why was there no

editor? Someone saying this is is a bit near the knuckle? Let us put

aside this allegation, of a racial slur, so there was an alleged racial

slur, let us put that to one side and look at the columnist's job. The

columnist's job, particularly a tabloid cluckist's job is to provoke

people, to get people talking, -- columnist. As a tabloid columnist, I

don't see it as provoking necessarily, certainly to get people

talking, to try and give a different way of looking at something. Kelvin

is the master of the insult, and what happened here was that was as

gratuitously insulting as it was possible to be. That is old

fashioned journalism. I am amazed the Sun re-employed him, however,

they did. The bit I am unsurprise Iingly, I don't like the idea of

newspapers suspending their columnist if they don't like

something they write. I don't like football clubs banning journalists

from covering matches, or going to training session, it seems we have a

new kind of reaction to things we don't like, we say well ban that,

shut that person up. Sepsis the casualness, -- sepsis the casualness

people say it is just a bit of harmness bander. It is not harmn't.

Unless people say this is harmless. You know, obviously, it is now that

matter for the police to decide whether or not there is a

prosecution. Put that to one side. It's a is slur on the people of

Liverpool about what he said about people... It is amazing, that Kelvin

MacKenzie of all people, would have put anything in his column about

Liverpool but a he knows the reaction there. The relationship

isn't the best. We must point out at this point, that Kelvin MacKenzie

denies that there was any intention of a racial shrub. So we will make

sure that is, that is stated because there is a police investigation.

Yes, absolutely. All right. Well, let us move, we will stay with The

Observer, actually. The EU Crown Jewels, we could lose them. Did you

know we had them for a start? So, these are the European banking and

medicine agencies, otherwise known as the European banking authority,

and the European Medicines Agency. They employ between bun,000 people

and they provide a hub for businesses in the UK and are based

in London. But according The Observer report, the EU is set to

inflict a double hue my Asian on the Prime Minister -- humiliation,

stripping Britain of its European agencies within weeks and basically

holding a beauty contest to see which city gets them, whether it is

Amsterdam, Frankfurt Milan or Paris. They are regarded as among the Crown

jewels, I am sorry, I find that a bit hard to... Maybe going a bit

far. According to The Observer, it is worth 1,000 jobs in this country.

We don't want to lose these thing, but then again, what do we expect?

If we are leaving the EU, these things, they are regulatory body,

they can't stay here, they will have to go to an EU country, so whether

they go now, or in two years' time, seems to me a bit irrelevant, and I

could, we are going to get a lot of this, the EU will make sure we are

punished for what we are doing, and this is the start of the punishment.

They are going to hurt us. Yes, we will get a good spanking for this.

OK, The Independent and I notice the story earlier today, actually, this

new poll giving Tories an historic lead over Labour on the front-page

of The Independent. Still bad new, not doing very well in these polls.

Labour is not doing very well at all. The poll is one that said even

something like 45% of Labour voters don't think he is a very good

leader, but this is the first time since a government, first time since

1983 when a government in power has been so far ahead of the opposition,

that was Margaret Thatcher, just before her second victory at the

ballot box, so this is a poll conducted by come Perez for the

independent, gives the Tories are 46% of the vote share so that the 21

points ahead of Labour. 11% for the Liberal Democrats and 9% for Ukip. I

mean it is damning for Labour, but I feel like we say that every week.

Afraid so. I am sure if you are a Labour MP you probably feel that is

what people say. It does say, it does say that some of Mr Corbyn's

policies, including free school meals and forcing private schools to

pay VAT enjoy public support but you could argue that the weather

forecast for the Bank Holiday Monday would enjoy support and we have more

chance of getting that. We have a real poll with the local elections

coming up, let us see how he does there is this How do you think he

can fix it. I am not sure that it is actually fixable. That the Labour

Party, there are two Labour Parties in Parliament, there is the Jeremy

Corbyn wing, and the provisional wing which is the other Labour MPs,

I am not sure that is fixable, if, they are beginning to up with policy

for the first time. We have seen a raft of them. Let us so if the

public like it. The only way things can improve if he improves in actual

proper votes, we get... Does he want to fission it? I get the impression

that he is so arrogant, despite this image of humility and authenticity,

whatever that means that you wonder whether he does want to fix it. Like

any opposition minister I think he wans to be Prime Minister. Do you?

That is the impression one gets from him, now, the question is will he

make it to 2020 when the elections comes up There won't be a leadership

challenge this year, there is no question after the debacle last year

they can do it. They are working on a possibility for 2018. . He might

not make the chance of getting to a general election. ? You wonder

whether there is going to be pressure on Theresa May to call an

election. You think he should. I do. It St what did for Gordon Brown, he

didn't have the man Tait, that he was crowned rather than Oman date.

He succeeded to power rather than won it. If she went to the country

with this sort of lead, she would most likely increase her majority,

which then at least she can say, I now have a mandate, and that gives

her a mandate. It means she can in a way silence or at least neutralise

some of the critics in our own party on such a slim majority, I it would

help the country because it would force Labour to do something. She

said she won't do it, which is the first thing and the second is I am

sure she is conscious that political parties get punished by voters if it

likes like they are doing it for their own narrow interests. It

wouldn't be, she would argue it was for the public interest and it would

be... If she changes her mind that is how she would argue it. Quickly,

let us finish off with an amazing discovery. I think this is my

favourite story. It is fab isn't it. Back to the Sunday Telegraph. This

is some workmen working at Lambeth Palace and they discovered the tombs

of five former Archbishops going back to the early 17th century. They

found it because they put down a mobile phone, and they discovered

that there was a hidden stairway, and beneath that was a brick lined

vault and in the brick lined vault were all these led coffins. It is

amazing, the really good thing I think is so fantastic is the details

have been kept secret up until now, to make it all safe, to make the

vault safe, because the museum is going to have a grand opening next

month. A great line from the site manager, he says we see lots of

bones but we knew this was different the moment we spotted an

Archbishop's crown. On that note, we are finishing off on the Sunday

Telegraph there, I hope you will join us in half an hour, for our

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