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Now on BBC News, here's Julian with The Papers.

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at what the papers are saying this Sunday morning.

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With me are journalist and broadcaster Shyama Perera

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and the political editor for the Sun, Dave Wooding.

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This morning's front pages, starting with the Observer.

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It leads with expert calls for the Government to keep

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co-operating with the EU on security and intelligence after Brexit.

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The Sunday Express talked to Theresa May about her meeting

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with some of the victims of the Manchester attack

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Like many Sunday papers, the Mail on Sunday

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carries a CCTV image showing the Manchester bomber, Salman Abedi,

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The UK's Security Minister has told the Sunday Telegraph

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that social-media firms are not doing enough to tackle extremism.

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And the Sunday Times talks about the Conservative Party

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after Labour narrows the gap in the polls to the single figures.

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We will dip into some of those in the neck 15 minutes or so, the Mail

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on Sunday, Shyama, this is a chilling image of Salman Abedi.

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Well, it is and it isn't, Julian, and what is remarkable about these

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images is abnormal this young man looks. I wouldn't look at him once,

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let alone twice. -- is how normal this young man looks. I just wonder

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about using terms like the face of evil, the action was evil - when you

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use terms like that, people start looking for people who look evil,

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and the whole point about terrorist is that they look like you and me.

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We need to change the language so we can all start understanding what we

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should be looking for, rather than constantly looking for someone who

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looks like they are up to no good, because that is not how they look. I

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suppose I use the word chilling because we know what is going to

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happen with the benefit of hindsight. It is a striking picture,

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and like Shyama says, the normal sign of him, the body warmer, the

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baseball cap, Nike trainers which I gather sell for about ?300, that

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sort of thing. You can just say, over to the right of this picture,

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the only visible sign of the atrocity he was about to commit if

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the strap from the rucksack which contained, as we now know, the nuts

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and bolts. Police releasing the image because they want to get more

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information about what he was doing so they can find out more about

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others who may have been involved. Thank goodness for CCTV, some of the

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goodness it does in enabling them to piece together these events. The

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Sunday Telegraph, some quite strong language from the security minister.

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Yes, there have been lots of different aspects to the terror

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attack, people looking at things we can do to stop radicalisation, to

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track down potential killers, and basically to nip in the bud the root

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causes of radical extremism. The security minister, Ben Wallace,

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apologies, having a right go at the media firms, the likes of... He

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doesn't name them, but Facebook and Twitter, social media giants, saying

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they are duplicitous, saying that, you know, videos are radicalising

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writ in's youth, they are doing nothing to take these down. He uses

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phrases such as these companies flogging details about our lives to

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commercial companies, but they won't do anything about stopping these

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videos going up which are spreading hate and extremism. It is pretty

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strong language. I'm not sure what he's saying that underpins his

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allegations, because obviously things have to be posted before they

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can be removed, and as I understand it, a lot of these companies,

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including Facebook, have taken on greater numbers of staff to try and

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deal with it, but it is still humans who make those judgment goals, and

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therefore there is always going to be a slight delay. I would add to

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this and say, not only are the terrorist groups on social media,

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but we need, all of us, to find a way of toning down language and

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expressions of loathing and hatred on all forms of online discussion,

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including, in my opinion, you know, the Daily Mail comments, the

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Guardian comments. You look at those, sexist, violent, deeply

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unpleasant, and they may not be jihadi, but it is all part of a

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movement, it seems to me, that is predominantly male, predominantly

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aggressive, predominantly hostile, particularly actually, towards

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women, and you know, all of that underpins jihadism. Obviously, these

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are different, led by an ideology, but what I am saying is that hatred

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breeds hatred, and what we should all be doing is finding ways, a

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solution to minimise the expressions of hatred. The Observer front page,

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who wants to kick this off? Future relationships with the European

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Union, with particular reference to security once the Brexit stealers

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done. We have heard various explanations for terrorism, not

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excuses, but different things behind it, people have discussed cuts in

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policing, which Amber Rudd, the Home Secretary, has said is not an issue.

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Jeremy Corbyn as even discussed the foreign policy of Britain, again,

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challenged. What the Observer seems to be pointing to is Brexit,

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surprising that nobody has blamed Brexit, it gets blamed for

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everything else, but Dominic Grieve, the Tory chairman of the Commons

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intelligence and security committee, the former Chief Constable of

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Northern Ireland police service, Sir Hugh Orde, and the head of Europol

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have all said that we need to be within the EU to combat terrorism.

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Part of the problem of being members of Europol and the criminal

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intelligence agency across Europe is that you have to accept the

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jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice, and that is one of the

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three things that Britain is going to pull out of. Which could be part

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of the final deal, of course. For me, it makes me worried as a punter,

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because I think, do I trust any of the parties that are currently

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begging for my vote to be able to come up with such a sophisticated

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and well structured strategy that they can pull all this off while

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simultaneously removing us from the EU? I just can't see it. Staying

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with election matters, Shyama, the front of the Sunday Times, taking us

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back to the election campaign to an extent, with particular reference to

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the Conservative campaign, which they aren't bearing to never story

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is based on an opinion poll. I think they should be nervous, my straw

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polls locally in the Borough of Brent pointing to huge changes among

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people, myself included! We are a marginal constituency, hamsters and

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Kilburn, we hang by 1200 votes. You are doing the BBC thing of offering

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caution! Of course! I say this only slightly playfully, because I have

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talked to a cross-section of people, I think they are right to be

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nervous. I don't know of Lynton Crosby can turn things around in two

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or three weeks. Having said that, who would have said even a week ago

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that the Tories would suddenly lose that extraordinary leader that they

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had? Anything is possible, suddenly the election has become exciting. If

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there is a relaunch, what would it look like? Well, I suspect that

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similar things that are being spoken about so far are not having any

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cut-through. Attacking Jeremy Corbyn on the IRA links is not working, we

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have a poll in the Sun on Sunday showing that most people are not

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bothered by it, people think he is a statesman or a dangerous man. So I

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think the Conservatives will move on to talking about where they poll

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backs, Brexit, 70% of people put that as their top issue. I think, as

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we move into the final stages, 11 days today until polling day, it

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will be Brexit versus NHS, that is my own feeling on it, and it says

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here, after the terrorism of the last week, there has been such a big

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paws, it is almost like the whole campaign is starting all over again.

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That was bound to lead all the parties to reflect on security

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matters for a while, wasn't it? But inevitably, and some point, they

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will go back to where they were. Absolutely, as per the story in the

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Observer, they will have to rethink how they are positing Brexit in the

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next couple of weeks, because that is vital to everything, including

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the NHS. The Sunday Mirror reports on the BA chaos, an extraordinary

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image of hundreds of suitcases. I was reflecting this morning, when we

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first in the newspaper industry moved over to computers, those of us

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who moved from typewriters on Friday and started on a computer on Monday

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morning, we were a little bit nervous and kept everything backed

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up, so we printed things out, typed them up, printed them... Some of us

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still do! As we got more used to computers, they have taken over our

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lives, and we don't have any back-up now. As we have seen, while they are

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wonderful and speed things up, when they go wrong, this is what happens.

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Of course, I wonder if BA have a way of printing out the old tickets!

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Even if they have, they don't know where the planes are, because it has

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also affected their call centres, all their information systems. I

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think, you know, coming two weeks after the NHS hacked, it is not a

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hack, just a breakdown, but what we are starting to see, actually, is

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how automation and technical failure can affect our well-being. I have to

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say, I am stocked up on bottles of water and ours theirs in case the

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National Grid goes down! It just seems to me that there is a climate

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of holes in people's systems. It does mean that the war on cyber

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security is very important, this is just a small element of the sort of

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thing that could happen. And the wider implications are, as the

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Mirror says, there will be a huge compensation bill, with people

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claiming presumably not just for the loss of that particular flight, but

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the knock-on effects, holidays that may have been lost, as you say,

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hotels overnight, and there is a reputation issue as well.

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Absolutely. People who have flown... I had a colleague who was flying to

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a wedding yesterday evening, and he booked on a budget airline which was

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cheaper than British Airways, and he was saying, thank goodness I booked

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with a cheaper airline. It just goes to show, you know, you can pay more

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and get less. It is because there is a residual problem today, and that

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is going to carry on for a couple of weeks. If it could have been put

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right within 24 hours, we might have been able to look past it, but it

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will be ruining after right across the week, and so this story will run

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and run, and that is where the real damage will be done. A one off, we

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could forgive or overlooked. We have got and a half left, so I am turning

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slightly nervously to page 21 of the Mail on Sunday, who wants to kick

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off what people should wear when reading the news on BBC?! I think

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you are safe, Julian, you are not wearing any M, or if you are, it

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is not immediately apparent! According to the Mail on Sunday, BBC

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presenters like that have been told not to wear M type clothing, and

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to wear block colours, to generally look tidy. And you pointed at me! I

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said your suit was beautiful! It says no trainers or leather or mock

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leather, no genes or shorts. We can't see and the table, Julian, but

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I can assure the view is that you are not wearing shorts! In the old

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days, I can remember doing the night-time newspaper review in the

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old building... Trade secrets coming out now! I can remember Peter Dobbie

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looking so fantastic, and I looked underneath the desk, and he was in a

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filthy pair of jeans and scuffed trainers, and I couldn't believe it!

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Peter Dobbie is not available for comment, I should point out! Those

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are the days when we never had to stand up. Whereas now they are

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swinging around and looking at you from all angles. The Prime Minister

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will not be here in a ?900 trousers! I suppose we should not distract, is

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that the point? Yes, and I agree what they say about hair, long hair

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is distracting, it should be tied back. You know, bright ties can be

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distracting, we want a newsreader to almost be... Careful! You are both

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things, Julian, highly sophisticated and trustworthy! But really you want

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to hear their voice, you don't want to be looking at them and

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thinking... Look, he is glowing! You can both come back again! When I

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first did TV, somebody said, don't worry what you say, they will just

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trying to hold my stomached in, and trying to hold my stomached in, and

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it paid working! On that uplifting sartorial note, thank you to Shyama

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and David. Just a reminder, we take a look

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at tomorrow's front pages every It's been a fairly quiet

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weather morning across the UK. However, we are

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expecting some changes. Now, there will be some dry weather

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and some sunshine for most of us. However, storms are just waiting

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in the wings to head our way, and this is one part of the UK

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that will see some changes

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