:00:00. > :00:09.revealed the London Bridge attackers tried to hire a 7.5 ton lorry to
:00:10. > :00:14.carry out the attack, but the payment was declined.
:00:15. > :00:18.Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be
:00:19. > :00:24.It will be extended compared to usual.
:00:25. > :00:27.With me are Jack Blanchard, political editor of the Mirror
:00:28. > :00:29.and Caroline Wheeler, political editor of the Sunday
:00:30. > :00:34.The Observer says May's Premiership is in peril.
:00:35. > :00:36.The paper leads with its editorial comment saying Mrs May
:00:37. > :00:43.is discredited, humiliated, and diminished.
:00:44. > :00:46.It says she is now weak, with rivals and opponents no
:00:47. > :00:49.The Daily Mail focusses on the Foreign Secretary Boris
:00:50. > :00:53.Johnson saying he is set to launch a bid to become Prime Minister.
:00:54. > :00:55.It also carries a picture of former Top Gear presenter,
:00:56. > :00:59.Richard Hammond, who was involved in a car crash during filming in
:01:00. > :01:03.The Telegraph says Theresa May may be in Downing Street but she has no
:01:04. > :01:05.power after losing her majority in Parliament.
:01:06. > :01:08.The paper says senior tories are jostling in an unofficial race
:01:09. > :01:12.The Sunday Times claims as many as five cabinet ministers are urging
:01:13. > :01:16.The Express leads with the resignation of Theresa May's two
:01:17. > :01:18.closest advisers Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill.
:01:19. > :01:32.It's headline refers to them as "toxic."
:01:33. > :01:37.A great deal to discuss, mostly focusing on the Conservatives. We
:01:38. > :01:46.will also mention Labour at some point. The Observer. Blocking the
:01:47. > :01:54.DUP coalition. I wonder how or the DUP would have been on the
:01:55. > :01:58.coalition. The experience the Lib Dems had in 2015, the formal
:01:59. > :02:03.coalition running the country for five years, it was disastrous for
:02:04. > :02:07.them. They were almost completely wiped out as a party. There is no
:02:08. > :02:12.appetite to repeat that because of the impact it had among the major
:02:13. > :02:16.parties. We now have a loose arrangement. The problem with that
:02:17. > :02:22.is it is anything but strong and stable in the words of Theresa May.
:02:23. > :02:28.It is weekend wobbly. It could fall apart at any moment. -- weak and
:02:29. > :02:37.wobbly. We don't know how much you will get through, not much, I
:02:38. > :02:46.imagine. For some in the party that clearly think the DUP I'm not the
:02:47. > :02:53.right bedfellows... Absolutely. Ruth Davidson broke ranks yesterday to
:02:54. > :02:59.support she was very concerned about their stance on gay rights. That
:03:00. > :03:06.started many others coming out. There is similar rhetoric about
:03:07. > :03:10.women. Many have come out to speak vocally about fears of getting into
:03:11. > :03:15.bed with the party whose track record on those issues is quite
:03:16. > :03:19.concerning to them. They are antiabortion and also they have a
:03:20. > :03:27.problem with gay marriage and issues like that. There is genuine concern
:03:28. > :03:31.about this. That is aside from the overarching issue about the peace
:03:32. > :03:35.process. Think about where we are at the moment. It is a very fragile
:03:36. > :03:41.peace process. The current power-sharing arrangements and this
:03:42. > :03:52.month. The government previously has been a neutral arbiter of the
:03:53. > :03:59.process. If we get into one, it is shattered. Yes. They are supposed to
:04:00. > :04:06.be neutral and sit above it all. It is easy to sit in London and forget
:04:07. > :04:10.how fragile it is. But people involved in a process for 20 years
:04:11. > :04:14.are coming out this weekend saying it is dangerous and stupid. Jonathan
:04:15. > :04:22.Powell, Tony Blair's Chief of Staff, he was central to making the peace
:04:23. > :04:26.happen. This is a bad idea. You don't know where this goes further
:04:27. > :04:32.down the track. The last thing we want is this peace process to fall
:04:33. > :04:38.apart. Peter said the same thing in our newspaper. He talked about civil
:04:39. > :04:42.servants intrinsically involved in the process raising fear and alarm
:04:43. > :04:48.about the damage this could do to the process moving forward. There
:04:49. > :04:52.are genuine concerns now it could be absolutely, in his words,
:04:53. > :04:56.calamitous. The DUP say they don't want a hard Brexit, because they
:04:57. > :05:00.don't want a border between Northern Ireland and the republic. That might
:05:01. > :05:05.prove to be some leverage they can apply with regards to Brexit which
:05:06. > :05:09.would please a lot of people. They could do that in all sorts of
:05:10. > :05:17.things, some might please people and others not. Now people in Northern
:05:18. > :05:22.Ireland are wagging the dog of the entire country. It is what the
:05:23. > :05:27.Conservatives have said Labour will do with Scotland. And then half an
:05:28. > :05:30.hour on a Friday morning, let us do that. Reckless. They are not
:05:31. > :05:34.thinking about the implications for the peace process and what it will
:05:35. > :05:39.look like. Professor John Curtice, who never seems to be wrong about
:05:40. > :05:46.this, he called it right away. He said that is where she could go to
:05:47. > :05:49.for support. UKIP... I mean, in politics, don't you sometimes have
:05:50. > :05:53.to make allegiances were you never expected to? They're restricting
:05:54. > :06:01.that. But the Conservatives have been running a seven-week campaign
:06:02. > :06:06.about that. Four hours later, they are doing exactly what they said
:06:07. > :06:09.they would not do. It is hypocrisy. They would argue it is an
:06:10. > :06:15.arrangement which has been informal for some time. You often find the
:06:16. > :06:21.DUP go behind the Conservatives on lots of things. The difference if it
:06:22. > :06:25.is a very cynical bid to shore up her own power base and majority.
:06:26. > :06:34.That is what people are taking exception to as opposed to... I just
:06:35. > :06:41.want to say, the DUP saw off the Ulster Unionist Party. Exactly.
:06:42. > :06:45.There is only ten of them. It is enough to get her over the line just
:06:46. > :06:53.if every one of her MPs it supports us. There might be ten DUP MPs.
:06:54. > :06:57.There are 19 openly gay Tory MPs. They are furious to see their leader
:06:58. > :07:03.jumping into bed with this very anti-gay rights party. If they
:07:04. > :07:07.decide to vote against Theresa May, the majority has gone straightaway.
:07:08. > :07:14.These concerns have been raised with her already, especially the LB GT
:07:15. > :07:20.rights issue. I know she has had assurances, Ruth Davidson, that
:07:21. > :07:25.those issues will not be on the table. But if you are in a situation
:07:26. > :07:29.where you are desperate to shore up votes on a particular issue, for
:07:30. > :07:33.example, a vote on a Brexit deal on the grand repeal bill, for example,
:07:34. > :07:37.how far would she go to guarantee she gets that through the house if
:07:38. > :07:42.it became a confidence issue? It became about her leadership again?
:07:43. > :07:47.She would do pretty much anything, I would imagine, to get that through.
:07:48. > :07:52.They use the expression jump on the bed so many times. We need a
:07:53. > :08:08.different phrase for it. -- jump into. Via The Observer. She has no
:08:09. > :08:14.mandate. It is up to negotiation. I had an interview on Friday with
:08:15. > :08:17.David Davis. He said this is all about Brexit and she wanted to
:08:18. > :08:20.strengthen her hand with this election. How many votes does she
:08:21. > :08:26.need to claim she has the mandate for what happens next? He said to me
:08:27. > :08:30.a majority of one was enough. Of course, she does not have a majority
:08:31. > :08:34.of one. There are serious question marks about whether she has a
:08:35. > :08:40.mandate. Having said that, lots of people are saying this is academic,
:08:41. > :08:43.that she went to the polls for different reasons and used Brexit as
:08:44. > :08:49.the general excuse for doing it. There are other things a play. The
:08:50. > :08:55.threat from Scotland. The expenses scandal that was nipping her toes.
:08:56. > :08:59.It will be tough for her to get through the kind of Brexit she has
:09:00. > :09:04.wanted to pursue and said she would. I know Whitehall insiders, lots of
:09:05. > :09:08.them have said they are literally ripping up the plans they had made.
:09:09. > :09:11.They are saying those plans are pretty much dead in the water. We
:09:12. > :09:19.have not heard much about it, happily? They now realise they have
:09:20. > :09:24.to make concessions. The most important bits, getting out of the
:09:25. > :09:28.custom union, it is hard. This is the first time in this election we
:09:29. > :09:32.have had a chance to vote on what type of Brexit... Were they really
:09:33. > :09:38.voting on that? Many people said it is the NHS and education and social
:09:39. > :09:42.care. That is why they liked Jeremy Corbyn. There were people in the
:09:43. > :09:47.referendum voting on the NHS as well. How can you do sting which
:09:48. > :09:56.these things? A party puts forward a manifesto... Distinguish Yarmouk --
:09:57. > :10:00.distinguish. It is the first time they have had a chance to vote on a
:10:01. > :10:05.type of Brexit. Theresa May said this is why we are going to the
:10:06. > :10:09.polls, specifically for support for Brexit and her planned. She did not
:10:10. > :10:13.get it. It is hard to argue now that we will leave the EU in this way.
:10:14. > :10:17.She needs more of a consensus than the way she has tried to do it. What
:10:18. > :10:22.has happened during the course of the day. The Sunday Telegraph. In
:10:23. > :10:30.office and not in power. Fragile leadership. Her two chiefs have to
:10:31. > :10:35.resign. Another bit of pressure added. The feeling is that senior
:10:36. > :10:44.services thought Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill had too much say. Yes. It
:10:45. > :10:47.was a settling of scores as well. It is hard to overstate how powerful
:10:48. > :10:51.these two people were. They were running the country with Theresa May
:10:52. > :10:55.almost exclusively. That upset other member is of the cabinet and Tory
:10:56. > :10:59.party and people in Whitehall who felt they should have had more say
:11:00. > :11:02.and could not get near the Prime Minister because these two people
:11:03. > :11:10.were basically running the country. -- members. They could not wait to
:11:11. > :11:14.wield the axe so to speak when the opportunity arose. It was not just
:11:15. > :11:18.the election result. We were talking about how fragile the power base was
:11:19. > :11:22.right from the moment the Tory manifesto was published three weeks
:11:23. > :11:29.before polling day. People lapped onto the front pages of newspapers
:11:30. > :11:33.about it. -- lept. MPs were taking this policy onto the doorstep. They
:11:34. > :11:40.were finding it was absolutely monstered and savaged. Many said it
:11:41. > :11:48.was going down like a bucket of cold sick among Conservatives voters.
:11:49. > :11:57.Like the triple lock for example. They have been seen as culpable for
:11:58. > :12:04.that. The Sunday Express, your paper, May's toxic aides resign. And
:12:05. > :12:08.incomes Gavin Barwell, who lost his seat, finding himself with a good
:12:09. > :12:16.job as Chief of Staff. -- in comes. Twice the money. They are not paying
:12:17. > :12:24.to of them. They are saving money. Austerity is working. Yes. He is
:12:25. > :12:28.reasonably popular among Tory MPs. They have been getting along well
:12:29. > :12:34.over the past two years. It is seen as a conciliatory measure. You have
:12:35. > :12:38.to understand these two aides were the life of the reason made. Along
:12:39. > :12:47.with her husband. Now she is looking isolated. -- Theresa May. They were
:12:48. > :12:53.her sounding board. Now that is taken away and she is left standing
:12:54. > :13:09.alone. But Barwell is like. He will have to be a critical friend. He
:13:10. > :13:21.dubbed Theresa the freezer. He said she left everyone out except for
:13:22. > :13:25.those two. MPs are saying it is time to thaw and to stop that freezing
:13:26. > :13:28.out of people, bringing them back into the tent. That is possibly what
:13:29. > :13:32.this appointment signals. The other people we have heard from today have
:13:33. > :13:36.said that. It is a brave decision she has made. She kept her powder
:13:37. > :13:41.dry since leaving Downing Street, the former Director of
:13:42. > :13:44.Communications, who broke cover to talk about her own experience of
:13:45. > :13:47.working in Downing Street and how she felt, that they were very
:13:48. > :13:56.dysfunctional, that they were not very inclusive, that they ruled
:13:57. > :13:59.everything with an iron fist, that there was not much negotiation
:14:00. > :14:02.discussion, and everything was rubberstamped and went through them
:14:03. > :14:06.and that made life pretty umpires and for her and others. -- pretty
:14:07. > :14:13.unpleasant. Ultimately they are AIDS, not the
:14:14. > :14:17.Prime Minister or Deputy Prime Minister? That's how they were
:14:18. > :14:22.acting. Looking at the public, they will say while on you carrying the
:14:23. > :14:26.can, you didn't win the vote on your leadership by the margin needed, you
:14:27. > :14:31.need to be walking away, not sacking your advisers and blaming them.
:14:32. > :14:37.There are rumours Theresa May wanted to resign but was persuaded to stay.
:14:38. > :14:47.Moving onto the Mail on Sunday, Boris is set to launch bid to BPM as
:14:48. > :14:53.Theresa May clings on. His team is circling a wounded leader. That's
:14:54. > :14:56.not a surprise that people, notably the Foreign Secretary, are thinking
:14:57. > :15:00.about having a shot. Literally from when the exit poll came out we
:15:01. > :15:07.started talking about Boris on manoeuvres. There was further
:15:08. > :15:10.speculation when he came out and didn't say things supportive of
:15:11. > :15:13.Theresa May in the aftermath of the election results. The story
:15:14. > :15:18.inevitably moves on whenever there's a wounded Prime Minister, it's a
:15:19. > :15:23.sign there is a leadership contest brewing. Fires are starting. The one
:15:24. > :15:27.thing we know about Boris is it in his DNA that he wants to be Prime
:15:28. > :15:30.Minister, there's no doubt that is the top job he wants and he's almost
:15:31. > :15:36.willing to trample over anybody to get their. No, it's not a particular
:15:37. > :15:40.surprise that this is the story featuring both in the mail and the
:15:41. > :15:44.Sunday Times but what is a surprise is the idea he is set to launch it,
:15:45. > :15:49.which suggests something imminent -- Mail. I don't know what your
:15:50. > :15:52.soundings are like from MPs but certainly Conservative MPs,
:15:53. > :15:56.especially the more critical ones, of Theresa May's premiership, are
:15:57. > :16:00.quite clear this isn't the time to get rid of her and it would be
:16:01. > :16:05.damaging for both country and party and would make the prospect of a
:16:06. > :16:08.general election all the more likely, which of course they feared
:16:09. > :16:11.desperately would lead to a Labour government. I'm going to put a cat
:16:12. > :16:17.amongst the pigeons and change the order, we will do the times, the
:16:18. > :16:21.Mirror and then back to the Times. That's what we'll do -- Times. I
:16:22. > :16:28.have missed something out. I'm supposed to be honest! We're doing
:16:29. > :16:32.the Times next. That is also about Boris Johnson, we must call him by
:16:33. > :16:36.his Paul Mayne, people get quite cross when we give him not his
:16:37. > :16:44.nickname, just his first name -- full name. Five ministers urging
:16:45. > :16:47.Boris to topple Theresa May. He has tweeted today that the Mail on
:16:48. > :16:50.Sunday is tripe, I am backing Theresa May, let's get on with the
:16:51. > :16:55.job so whether these ministers will persuade him? This won't take a lot
:16:56. > :17:04.of persuading for him, this is about timing, when is the right time? How
:17:05. > :17:07.will it look when he does go for it? There's suggestion that he might be
:17:08. > :17:10.looking at having a stalking horse candidate, somebody else makes a
:17:11. > :17:12.challenge to Theresa May's premiership first, someone who
:17:13. > :17:16.doesn't think they will win but triggers the leadership contest so
:17:17. > :17:20.the process gets under way, the MPs start to consider it, start to vote
:17:21. > :17:25.and at that point Boris goes in and says, if you're having a leadership
:17:26. > :17:29.contest, why don't I put my name in the hat and he romps to victory!
:17:30. > :17:34.That's the most likely thing. Others will want to stop him, not everyone
:17:35. > :17:44.will want him. There are other names like Amber Rudd and David Davis
:17:45. > :17:47.particularly but I want to point out in Tim Shipman's excellent story, he
:17:48. > :17:51.says although he has had these calls from these five Cabinet ministers
:17:52. > :17:57.urging him to stand, he decided on Friday challenging May would
:17:58. > :18:01.destabilise the government and catapulting Corbyn into Downing
:18:02. > :18:05.Street and that's what the fear is, if you have a leadership contest you
:18:06. > :18:09.make the possibility of a second general election more likely. I was
:18:10. > :18:13.talking to a couple of Tory contacts today and there is genuine fear
:18:14. > :18:18.among some of them that if there was another general election, which is
:18:19. > :18:22.possible, this one hasn't created a result, they could lose and that's
:18:23. > :18:28.the worst thing, losing to Jeremy Corbyn and having him in Number 10.
:18:29. > :18:32.The Daily Mirror exclusive says we might not have to wait that long
:18:33. > :18:37.according to Jeremy Corbyn. He thinks he could be Prime Minister
:18:38. > :18:40.within days, that is what he has told my Sunday Mirror colleagues. He
:18:41. > :18:44.is of the opinion that Theresa May is not going to be able to do this,
:18:45. > :18:48.she has stitched together this coalition of crackpots as we
:18:49. > :18:52.memorably dubbed it in the Mirror yesterday and is it really going to
:18:53. > :19:02.hold? She's got a tiny majority in the Commons with the help of the
:19:03. > :19:06.DUP. But the party is in turmoil. She's not going to be able to get
:19:07. > :19:09.things through, can she get her Queen's speech through unamended
:19:10. > :19:13.Quanne a budget? Maybe, maybe not, it could fall apart quickly and the
:19:14. > :19:16.Leader of the Opposition is within his rights to try to form a
:19:17. > :19:21.government. But he doesn't have the numbers either, he can say what he
:19:22. > :19:24.likes to the Mirror, even with the support of the SNP and the Lib Dems
:19:25. > :19:28.he doesn't have enough. He is waiting in the wings and snapping at
:19:29. > :19:32.her heels and there's another revelation today he is already
:19:33. > :19:35.putting together his alternative Queen's speech if there was an
:19:36. > :19:39.opportunity for him to put his forward over the one now Theresa May
:19:40. > :19:46.must literally be tearing up, the one they had prepared before, there
:19:47. > :19:50.are huge question marks about her policy agenda, for example the
:19:51. > :19:54.grammar school revolution, can she get that through, no, the DUP can't
:19:55. > :19:58.vote on education reforms anyway because it is a devolved issue.
:19:59. > :20:02.There's huge question marks about some of those policies. The other
:20:03. > :20:07.thing with Labour, suddenly the Conservative Party are taking Jeremy
:20:08. > :20:11.Corbyn seriously. So is the Parliamentary Labour Party! That's
:20:12. > :20:15.absolutely true. So is the press, they have laughed at him and mocked
:20:16. > :20:21.him, the Conservative Party were overjoyed he was the Labour leader,
:20:22. > :20:25.they thought they would not him out of the park and suddenly it's not so
:20:26. > :20:29.funny any more and suddenly they are seeing him as a genuine threat who
:20:30. > :20:33.could genuinely be in Downing Street if another election happens or even
:20:34. > :20:38.if it doesn't. Suddenly the dynamic has changed. One Labour MP told me
:20:39. > :20:42.we are all Corbyn Easter is now. Something they weren't saying a few
:20:43. > :20:48.days ago. There's a sense the party is going to pull behind him because
:20:49. > :20:51.they can sense Tory blood, and they now think there's a realistic
:20:52. > :20:55.opportunity they could form the next government whenever the next
:20:56. > :20:59.opportunity arises. Labour is more united now than in a long time.
:21:00. > :21:07.Let's pull you away from this story. Do you want me to do the Sunday
:21:08. > :21:11.Times? Charlie Hollis it up? It is connected to the Sunday Express
:21:12. > :21:16.story we will do in a second -- shall I hold it up. Hospitals warn
:21:17. > :21:23.they are terrorist targets. A week since the horrific attack in London
:21:24. > :21:28.Bridge and Southwark killing eight. How do you protect public buildings?
:21:29. > :21:38.Hospitals and other buildings are open, you just walk in. But you have
:21:39. > :21:43.to do, people are using things like kitchen knives, vans and cars,
:21:44. > :21:47.everyday things, you can't ban these things, you can't have armed guards
:21:48. > :21:51.on the front doors of every building so I don't know how you protect
:21:52. > :21:55.against it. The trick is in the end catching these people before they
:21:56. > :21:59.act. Stopping the radicalisation as well, which is the real problem with
:22:00. > :22:03.this happening online, not people meeting people on the streets all
:22:04. > :22:08.going to see hate preachers but sitting in their bedrooms and seeing
:22:09. > :22:11.this hate that mobilises them to commit these terrible atrocities.
:22:12. > :22:15.Let's finish on a more positive note that has come out of those awful
:22:16. > :22:20.events of last week because Geoff Ho, one of your colleagues, he has
:22:21. > :22:26.been writing about his involvement in trying to stop these attackers? I
:22:27. > :22:32.know I am biased but even if it weren't my particular paper I would
:22:33. > :22:38.urge everyone to read Geoff's Tory. Geoff is a trusted colleague and a
:22:39. > :22:42.good friend -- story. What he did this time last week was incredibly
:22:43. > :22:47.brave. Now for the first time in his own words he has told the story of
:22:48. > :22:52.what happened to him when he took on the three jihadists in a pub in
:22:53. > :22:58.Borough Market just moments after he intervened in another fight,
:22:59. > :23:02.stepping in between a bouncer and some troublemakers as he describes
:23:03. > :23:06.it in his own words, he made the fateful decision to follow up that
:23:07. > :23:11.little altercation with a little snifter in another pub rather than
:23:12. > :23:15.getting the train home. That fateful moment led him to walk into what...
:23:16. > :23:20.It's just an unimaginable thing, I don't think many of us could imagine
:23:21. > :23:23.what it would be like. The way he describes what happened, he
:23:24. > :23:29.literally used his own body, his own skill, he is a martial arts expert,
:23:30. > :23:34.to fend off these attackers. He took the decision very, very consciously
:23:35. > :23:39.that the only way to stop a huge loss of life was to keep these guys
:23:40. > :23:44.talking, to try to distract them, to play for time, to make sure, praying
:23:45. > :23:49.the police were on their way, that they would do as little damage to
:23:50. > :23:54.him as possible as he kept others hiding behind barstools and tables
:23:55. > :23:59.safe. That's exactly what happened. He had his throat slashed. He was
:24:00. > :24:03.very lucky to be alive. I work up to the news on Sunday morning he had
:24:04. > :24:07.been very badly injured and was in intensive care -- I woke. We didn't
:24:08. > :24:13.know his prospects but I'm really pleased to tell you he is sitting up
:24:14. > :24:17.in bed, he is accepting visitors, there are queues outside the
:24:18. > :24:22.hospital ward to see him, we are all struggling to see him. If he is
:24:23. > :24:27.watching, best wishes to Geoff and speedy recovery. Thank you to the
:24:28. > :24:32.gallery crew for following my front-page bingo. I love that shot
:24:33. > :24:36.from over there! Use that again! Thank you, that's it for the papers
:24:37. > :24:41.tonight. Don't forget you can see the front pages online at the BBC
:24:42. > :24:46.News website and we have colleagues that tweet them on Twitter every
:24:47. > :24:50.night. All of the papers are there seven days a week and all the
:24:51. > :24:54.additions are posted there and on iPlayer if you missed them. Thank
:24:55. > :24:56.you to Jack and Caroline. Time for the weather forecast next. Good
:24:57. > :25:10.night. Good evening. Mateen always keeps us
:25:11. > :25:14.on our toes and the weather does as well. Different day tomorrow
:25:15. > :25:15.whatever you had today --