10/06/2017 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

With me are Jack Blanchard, political editor of the Mirror

and Caroline Wheeler, political editor of

Tomorrow's front pages: The Observer says May's Premiership is in Peril.

The paper leads with its editorial comment saying

Mrs May is discredited, humiliated, and diminished.

It concludes she has lost credibility and leverage.

The Daily Mail says the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson,

is set to launch a bid to become Prime Minister.

It also carries a picture of former Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond

who is in a serious condition after being involved in a car crash

The Telegraph says Theresa May may be in Downing Street

but she has no power after losing her

The paper says senior tories are jostling in an unofficial

The Sunday Times claims as many as five Cabinet ministers are urging

The Express leads with the resignation of Theresa May's two

closest advisers Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill - it's headline

By the way, we will be with you for 20 minutes tonight, I hope you are

pleased. The Observer... I should calm down a bit. The Observer,

made's premiership in peril. We know we've got this mechanism called

confidence and supply, Caroline, who would or wouldn't want a DUP

coalition? It would be more stable, wouldn't it? That is the pro of

having a coalition deal, she could have confidence, although not great

confidence, that she can get some legislation through the House of

Commons, but it would only give her a majority of two. That means that

if people didn't turn up, she would still struggle to command that

majority. There are concerns about the DUP stance it particularly in

things like abortion, gay rights and climate change. There has been lots

of Twitter activity with MPs, Sarah Woollaston was one of them, really

being very bad vocal about their opposition to this kind of

opposition of the party and their stance on these particular issues so

they have urged her to proceed with caution. But she needs back-up from

somewhere and her options are limited. Very limited but this was a

Prime Minister who spent the last seven weeks shrieking about a

coalition of chaos, Labour were supposed to be a big threat to the

nation. She also tried to target your position as a terrorist

sympathiser and there she is trying to find a coalition with the pretty

unpleasant party who has rather close ties to pretty unpleasant

people in Northern Ireland. The hypocrisy is unbelievable. But the

DUP have tendencies, they are only judgment party, they are a natural

fit, in some ways? They are certainly a conservative with a

small C party but they are ultraconservative. They are not

mainstream by any sort of measure. The sort of stuff they talk about in

terms of climate change, denying it exists, and gay rights, really

unpleasant things some of their politicians have said. David Cameron

spent a long time trying to detoxify the Conservative Party and it was

semi successful. Theresa May was the one who warned they were seen as the

nasty party and now they are getting into bed with some of the most

unpleasant people in Parliament. At the extremes of all parties, there

are less liberally minded types. In any party. Some of the things that

Ukip, remember them? Some of the things they talked about, a lot of

people felt they were distasteful. Remember the holder baklava Donald

Trump, when he came to power, Nigel Farage was the only person talking

to him from this side of the pond. They were very here they would not

do business with him, there were not going to make him an unofficial

adviser, they have resisted those kinds of moves before. The other

really serious point, even when you get away from talking about that as

a shield on women's rights, for example, is the whole peace process.

The current peacekeeping agreement ends at the end of this month and

does not compromise our neutrality on this position completely if the

government is side in with one particular party? There are more and

more voices coming out on this. The former Northern Ireland Secretary

Peter Hain has said the prospect of this could be really calamitous for

the peace process moving forward. Sinn Fein said there were to start

talks immediately about power-sharing again and their view

is that this kind of association between the DUP and the

Conservatives isn't permissible because of the Good Friday

agreement. Exactly. The Westminster government are supposed to be

neutral to try and find a balance between them. John Major had no

majority in the House of Commons when he was Prime Minister but he

because he knew how damaging it because he knew how damaging it

would be. Theresa May comes out on the early hours of Friday morning

with no sleep, she is straight on the phone to them, she doesn't care.

What she cares about insuring up her... Power. She cares about how

power. The other story on the front page is drop hard exit, demand MPs.

There will be pressure from all sides, Remainers, leave us,... This

is a massive problem she has, even with the DUP, she has this time

majority in parliament and it means every time she comes to Parliament

with the big vote over Brexit, there will be a fraction over one side of

the other on her own backbenches who say, I don't like that. If they

don't vote for it, she won't get it through. She needs every single one

of her MPs to support her. And there is no way you can unify the party on

some of those positions. And the robber you've got there is it is not

just her own backbench that will be missing. -- the problem. Ruth

Davidson is talking about more ( it. Some of those think it is a failed

bid for dropping the single market. She knows that she not only saved

the union but she actually said Theresa May from an even more

punishing defeat, had she not got those seats in Scotland, she would

not have been able to get anywhere near trying to form a majority

government. You've got the Labour Party, Green MPs, they could all

unite together all to make the Great Repeal Bill which we understand will

be the centrepiece still of the Queen's speech, simply because it

has to be, and they could make the passage of that bill which will be

in credibly complex very difficult and inflict defeat upon defeat upon

defeat. And never mind the Lords. Never mind the Lords because if she

had got her manifesto through she would have been able to rely on the

Salisbury Convention. The Salisbury convention means that if you have a

manifesto, your pledges don't have to go under the same scrutiny by the

House of Lords as pledges that aren't in the manifesto which makes

it easier to pass unpopular legislation. She was relying on this

with her grammar schools legislation because it meant she could

circumvent the House of Lords. In 2010, they didn't honour the

Salisbury Convention which means that anything related to Brexit that

you put in that manifesto will have to go through the Lords. And the

Lords famously and controversially stood in the way of welfare changes.

And that is because when they aren't put in the manifesto, the laws can

say, nobody has voted for this, and we are going to have our say. If it

was in the manifesto and lots a lot of people voted on it, they haven't

got a leg to stand on, but Theresa May haven't got a mandate, people

haven't voted on it. The Sunday Telegraph, in office, but not in

power. Her fragile leadership suffers a further blow with these

two aides resigning. Because it appears, Caroline, that they were

senior Tories were saying that these two have to go. This all started

during pretty much from the moment the manifesto was launched. MPs were

utterly serious that the social care policy. That also thought some of

the other proposals that had led the call vote, the abandonment of the

winter fuel allowance, was and said they got -- unforgivable. People

were describing it as going round on the doorstep like a cold bucket of

sick. Offering the choice to voters between syphilis and bubonic plague

was how one voter put it to me. There was a question about even if

she won slightly convincingly by 40 to the votes if they would actually

survive. As soon as we knew this was heading towards the coalitions

government, it was seen as catastrophic from the policy

narrative, these two would always be... Your fabulous report this

morning that we all leapt upon, there was a real ultimatum issued by

Theresa May to say that unless they go, you go. They handed in their

resignations and the letters and statements were public today. More

on this in the Sunday express. Make's toxic aid resigns. But

ultimately they are only aids and all ministers have advisers, don't

they? But the Minister or the Prime Minister in this case, the buck

stops there. Absolutely. Inside Westminster and Whitehall, people

know how powerful these two people were. They were two of the most

powerful people in this country, along with Theresa May. Unelected.

Unelected. To normal people looking at this, Hank on, you have had a bad

election result and you have sacked your advisers, that is not a good

look, she has not... This is the moment where she has dispatched her

Chief Whip to go fast to basically shore up a majority for her to try

and basically save her of and, save her skin, her aides have fallen on

their sword to save her, and she goes shopping. There is a sense that

it hasn't really sunk in. She is probably exhausted because of the

time they have had. I do think that Caroline is right and there was a

sense that she is in denial. Anyone that saw that statement outside

Downing Street yesterday, it was embarrassing, she had a crushing

result,... She couldn't believe what happened. She has to be able to

process it. You have to realise and relate. It was the same speech she

could have been given in she had a majority. People were watching

open-mouthed. They were expecting conciliation. She got shoved back

out the door to do an interview because she forgot to apologise. You

cannot respond in that way to such a big situation. The Mail on Sunday,

Boris sets launch it to be PM as Theresa May clings on. How far along

as this bit? When are we are likely to see it? How long is a piece of

string? This is the least surprising story. We have been braced her Boris

ever since the referendum. They tried to keep him tucked away and

till the last couple of weeks when they let him out of his box a little

bit. It was noticeable on Friday morning when he wasn't giving his

backing to the Prime Minister even when people were asking him. We know

that Boris has been desperate to be Prime Minister at least 15 years,

bubbly his whole life. The question is when is it coming. It is more

likely to be in maybe a few months' time. The idea that she is going to

be PM for a long time, we know she won't fight another election, so, as

we know, that is to lease sires -- fires the starting gun. As soon as

the exit poll came out, we started talking about when she would resign.

It is when the dust settles that you think about it logically, about what

this actually means. In terms of taking over the party in the current

state it is now, it would be a huge gamble and it would make the

likelihood of a second general action, a rapid one, much more

likely. This is the thing that the Tory MPs want to avoid, particularly

the ones that supported Brexit, because they are fearful that if

there is a second pole and one quite rapidly, that Labour will winds, and

they want to avoid that at all costs. Boris won't be the only one

who wants to be Prime Minister. Only in his own mind, probably. How

appealing to the wider party will Boris be as their candidate? He will

be appealing for a certain reason. One of the things that she wasn't

was at the Dixie dynamic character and one of the things that has come

up in the recriminations after the election results is that Jeremy

Corbyn came across as being very personable, he was human, he was

speaking from the heart, he had great empathy, he gave great

campaign speeches, he and cigarette public, all of those things he can

do well. -- he invigorated the public. The interesting thing about

Boris is he has always been seen as a uplift, he can reach out beyond

the Conservative ace, people love him, but we don't know how strongly

backlash against him will be from people who supported remain. For a

lot of people, Boris is a hate figure. And they will associate him

with a pledge he made on the bus about the NHS. There is the anyone

but Boris idea. That is after the referendum as well. The Sunday

Times, SMS Tory, five Cabinet ministers urging him to topple

Theresa May, but also the chance of delivering a sub. Brexit for

business. -- a softer Brexit is this. Philip Hammond is a bit

emboldened. Politics is so interesting like that. Philip

Hammond, his career looked on the rocks after the disastrous budget,

he was supposed to be sacked. And suddenly she comes away from this

election result... He said, Hank on a second, you are basically asking

me to support you as Prime Minister word you about to sack me? Haven't

you spent the last aids spending time briefing against me? That

conversation must be wonderful. And now, she has -- he has the power and

he gets to but his demands to her. I will support you but this is what I

want. He is telling the Prime Minister you change the way you do

Brexit, you put the economy centre stage. She hasn't got Nick, she

hasn't got the owner, she hasn't got the three people left in the world

that she trust. She does have Gavin Barwell, people say he is very attic

and well liked. You can lose your job as an MP one day and double your

salary the next. Finally, away from this, it is a week ago since the

London Bridge attack happened. It feels like longer because of what

has been happening, and ordinarily, we would have been talking about it

a great deal more. Hospitals warned that they are tourist targets. The

shocking headline, and suddenly, it seems perfectly plausible. If you

are looking to make headlines and shock people, of course, the idea

that people working around the clock trying to help people, the thought

that they could be targeted is horrific. You see it abroad. The

number of times in Syria, in much worse circumstances, they are

targeted, and this little haven that is trying to patch people up, they

are targeted. The truth of it is Everything is a target. We have

heard reports of hospitals and schools being put on alert. Let's

look at the Sunday express again. This is Jeff Ho, one of your

generous. Injured in this attack last week. I read something

wonderful today, that all 48 people who went to hospital with injuries

will survive them. They will survive because of the extraordinary care.

And they might not have done some time ago. This is Jeff Ho, this is

our business editor. He has written for us today, he sent his copy along

with a little note, he is still quite poorly, he is in hospital, he

is not long out of intensive care, he dashed his throat was slashed, he

is not able to talk properly yet. He said it helps him to bright this. We

read every word of it and many of us, after completing it was in

floods of tears, it is incredibly moving and powerful because this guy

walked into the first altercation, somebody was having a go at a answer

and he stepped in to help this bouncer, turned around, walked five

doors down into a restaurant and straight in to an assault. He says

he got a jab to the guy in the Arsenal shirt before they started

coming at him and he tried to take these guys down as he knew there

were people behind him who couldn't defend themselves. We need to rip

things like that after something so horrific. Well worth the read. And

he has joined tinder now. If he cannot find a nice lady friend after

this there was something wrong with the world!

They'll both be back at 11.30pm for another look at the stories

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