:00:00. > :00:16.That's all the sport for now. Now, The Papers.
:00:17. > :00:19.Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:20. > :00:26.With me are the Sunday Times' Foreign Editor, Peter Conradi,
:00:27. > :00:36.Tomorrow's front pages: The Observer says May's Premiership is in Peril.
:00:37. > :00:38.The paper leads with its editorial comment saying
:00:39. > :00:40.Mrs May is discredited, humiliated, and diminished.
:00:41. > :00:43.It says she is now weak, with rivals and opponents
:00:44. > :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. > :00:56.It also carries a picture of former Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond,
:00:57. > :01:00.who was involved in a car crash during filming in Switzerland.
:01:01. > :01:02.The Telegraph says Theresa May may be in Downing Street
:01:03. > :01:04.but she has no power after losing her
:01:05. > :01:12.The paper says senior Tories are jostling in an unofficial
:01:13. > :01:17.The Sunday Times claims as many as five Cabinet ministers are urging
:01:18. > :01:22.The Express leads with the resignation of Theresa May's
:01:23. > :01:24.two closest advisers, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill.
:01:25. > :01:33.Its headline refers to them as 'toxic'.
:01:34. > :01:42.Lets kick-off, Peter. Have the Observer - Theresa May's premiership
:01:43. > :01:46.in peril. Threat of MP rebellion blocks DUP coalition. This has been
:01:47. > :01:50.overtaken since it went to press, because this is based on the idea
:01:51. > :01:54.that there was definitely going to be a deal between the Tories and the
:01:55. > :01:58.DUP. Subsequently, despite the Government announcing that the
:01:59. > :02:01.yesterday evening, we had the announcement from both sides that
:02:02. > :02:07.there isn't a deal yet. One presumes there will be won, but it just shows
:02:08. > :02:11.just how nobody really knows what is going on at the moment. It looks
:02:12. > :02:17.like there will be a deal, doesn't it? It does. Ironically, Theresa May
:02:18. > :02:21.was accusing labour beforehand of having a coalition of chaos, because
:02:22. > :02:24.that is the impression she is creating, last night announcing a
:02:25. > :02:28.deal that had not been finalised. That is chaotic. There are voices
:02:29. > :02:33.within the Tory Party who are very unhappy about this potential deal
:02:34. > :02:39.because of some of the DUP's believes. They are opposed to gay
:02:40. > :02:44.marriage, opposed to abortion. Nicky Morgan, who was the Education
:02:45. > :02:48.Secretary, says we do not want the price of a deal with the DUP to
:02:49. > :02:53.water down our equality policy. It is a strong issue. The Tories have
:02:54. > :02:59.spent years detoxifying the brand. If they make concessions on those
:03:00. > :03:03.social issues, and Ruth Davidson has spoken about it as well, it will
:03:04. > :03:09.hasten her inevitable demise. The other headline in the Observer is:
:03:10. > :03:13.Drop hard Brexit plans, demand MPs. How will this chaos avec Brexit?
:03:14. > :03:18.Does it increased the likelihood, in your view, and from Europe's point
:03:19. > :03:30.of view, maybe, base of the Brexit? It might. A lot
:03:31. > :03:38.of people... The was that she would be in the pocket of the hard Brexit
:03:39. > :03:42.supporters in her party. Now she doesn't have a majority, she has to
:03:43. > :03:46.look more widely, to Labour and the Lib Dems, perhaps, and that could
:03:47. > :03:51.have the effect of softening Brexit. You have to bear in mind, the DUP
:03:52. > :03:53.don't want a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic,
:03:54. > :03:58.an important issue for them, so she has to bear that in mind. The
:03:59. > :04:03.Scottish Conservatives, the same. It could lead to a softer Brexit,
:04:04. > :04:12.certainly. Lets look, James, at the Sunday Telegraph. In office, but not
:04:13. > :04:14.in power. Fragile leadership. Peter mentioned the Scottish Conservatives
:04:15. > :04:19.under Ruth Davidson, and she has obviously talked about an open
:04:20. > :04:23.Brexit, hasn't she? Which is code for staying in the single market, I
:04:24. > :04:29.believe. She is in a powerful position, having run an excellent
:04:30. > :04:33.campaign, in contrast Mrs May's, and she has made this coded reference to
:04:34. > :04:39.softening Brexit, and she has also made a coded reference to not making
:04:40. > :04:42.an alliance with DUP. She is an out lesbian who is engaged to her
:04:43. > :04:46.partner. If there is any suggestion that the Tories would alter their
:04:47. > :04:51.policy on gay marriage, that is a deal-breaker. And she has 13 Tory
:04:52. > :04:55.MPs in Scotland, very surprisingly successful there. If Ruth Davidson
:04:56. > :05:01.withdrew their support, she is toast. To quote someone else this
:05:02. > :05:07.morning, she is a dead woman walking. That would be strange - you
:05:08. > :05:10.might get the ten DUP but then lose the 13 Scottish Conservatives. We
:05:11. > :05:17.are going to unknown territory, aren't we? We certainly are! It will
:05:18. > :05:23.keep us all very busy. Let's focus on another relevant yesterday, which
:05:24. > :05:26.was that Theresa May's two toxic aides, as the Sunday express calls
:05:27. > :05:31.them, have resigned, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill. All the papers have
:05:32. > :05:38.carried this analysis, that she had a very close clique going in Downing
:05:39. > :05:44.Street and a centralised way of working. All prime ministers do, but
:05:45. > :05:48.she seems to have taken it to a further level, really, and I think
:05:49. > :05:51.the role of the advisers has been interesting. It has been something
:05:52. > :05:55.that has been known to political insiders for a long time, and I
:05:56. > :05:59.think gradually, in the last few weeks in the run-up to the election,
:06:00. > :06:04.it has emerged quite a powerful role the two of them have played. In the
:06:05. > :06:10.newspapers, Nick Timothy has been transformed from this sort of very
:06:11. > :06:19.smart, on this year, brilliant Guru into failure and the man behind the
:06:20. > :06:23.defeat. They were the people who pushed her to have the election in
:06:24. > :06:27.the first place. Also, Nick Timothy was behind the so-called dementia
:06:28. > :06:30.tax, putting that into the manifesto at the last moment without
:06:31. > :06:36.consultation with the Cabinet. I think he is now denying that. Years.
:06:37. > :06:39.According to one of the papers, there is a suggestion that Philip
:06:40. > :06:46.Hammond made that a condition of staying, saying, this is a red line.
:06:47. > :06:50.These to my car to go. The former director of communications at number
:06:51. > :06:53.ten yesterday said there was a toxic atmosphere there, and she accused
:06:54. > :07:00.them of being brutal, which I think is code for something more harsh,
:07:01. > :07:02.and that they were being extremely rude to elected cabinet ministers
:07:03. > :07:07.when they had never stood for election for these positions. And I
:07:08. > :07:12.think that is a legitimate concern, that you have unelected officials
:07:13. > :07:17.wielding too much power, and I think that is giving her -- given her
:07:18. > :07:23.breathing space of a couple of days. Gavin Barwell, who was a minister,
:07:24. > :07:29.lost his seat on Thursday and is popular. Even though he was wet, he
:07:30. > :07:33.is popular, which means that he can speak human, unlike Mrs May, and he
:07:34. > :07:38.can speak to people, which is a great criticism of her. One person
:07:39. > :07:41.they were allegedly route it was the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, and he
:07:42. > :07:48.seems to have emerged empowered from all of this. He may push for a
:07:49. > :07:51.softer Brexit. Precisely. That was the expectation in the past few
:07:52. > :07:57.weeks, that he would be toast after the election, the way that Theresa
:07:58. > :08:00.May would not confirm that he would be there as Chancellor. He is
:08:01. > :08:11.probably quite a happy man at the moment. Let's look at Boris and what
:08:12. > :08:16.all this means for him. We have the Mail on Sunday saying, Boris is set
:08:17. > :08:22.to launch bid to be Prime Minister as May clings on. This morning, he
:08:23. > :08:26.has put out that this is tripe. The more he says that, the more
:08:27. > :08:33.convinced I am that he will run. It is like when Michael Heseltine said
:08:34. > :08:36.he could not foresee circumstances where he would stand against Mrs
:08:37. > :08:47.Thatcher and then the next week he did. There is also, apparently, an
:08:48. > :08:51.anyone but Boris campaign going on. There is a sense that he is flaky
:08:52. > :08:55.and unreliable, those things that Michael Gove, as he flagrantly
:08:56. > :09:03.stabbed him in the front and back last year... And the site! And the
:09:04. > :09:10.head and everything, he said he was not reliable. Those allegations will
:09:11. > :09:14.resurface. Certain allegations from the past will come back towards him,
:09:15. > :09:20.I think, and I think there will be a really tight campaign if it is him
:09:21. > :09:24.against David Davis. Apparently, Amber Rudd's majority was too slim,
:09:25. > :09:29.only 300 or so, so she is out of the running. I would not say that Boris
:09:30. > :09:32.is on the way to coronation, it is not a done deal because there are
:09:33. > :09:37.people in the party who do not trust them. The Conservative Party is
:09:38. > :09:41.thinking, we need a leader for the future who can take on Jeremy
:09:42. > :09:44.Corbyn, who did surprisingly well. It is a matter of when they get rid
:09:45. > :09:53.of her, really, rather than whether they will. But also, who replaces
:09:54. > :09:59.her. Yes, but also the question of how this plays out in the country.
:10:00. > :10:02.No one wants another election. If you get a new leader in, and they
:10:03. > :10:06.don't have an election, again, they might feel they don't have a
:10:07. > :10:11.mandate. Let's look at the Sunday Mirror. They are talking about
:10:12. > :10:15.Jeremy Corbyn - 13 million voted for us, we'll push all the way. He still
:10:16. > :10:24.believes he could be Prime Minister, theoretically at least. I want to
:10:25. > :10:28.eat my hat like Paddy Ashdown here, because I had been on this programme
:10:29. > :10:32.many times in the past few years saying I thought he was rubbish, a
:10:33. > :10:36.disaster for the Labour Party and democracy because he had no hope of
:10:37. > :10:40.cutting through, and I hereby apologise to him because he has done
:10:41. > :10:44.brilliantly. I have three daughters, the eldest two of which voted this
:10:45. > :10:48.time, both students, and they have been part of an incredible movement,
:10:49. > :10:52.and their friends have mobilised in a way they never did in the Brexit
:10:53. > :10:58.vote, where only 40% of young people voted. This time, up to 70% of young
:10:59. > :11:02.people voted, and that is because he offered them hope. Young people
:11:03. > :11:04.particularly are hard-wired for hope, and that is what the offer
:11:05. > :11:10.than what Theresa May signally failed to do. Young people voting
:11:11. > :11:15.must be a good thing for a democracy. Indeed. If you look at
:11:16. > :11:19.how the share of the vote has gone up, or the proportion voting has
:11:20. > :11:23.gone up since 2010, it is extraordinary. It must largely be
:11:24. > :11:29.the result of the Brexit referendum. A lot of them not bothering to vote
:11:30. > :11:33.then and then seeing what happens... It was billed as the revenge of the
:11:34. > :11:38.young. Precisely, I think so. It also shows you can get quite a lot
:11:39. > :11:45.of votes by promising to drop tuition fees and pay back those that
:11:46. > :11:55.have... And also, a good social media campaign. Absolutely. And some
:11:56. > :12:00.brilliant memes, if that is the right word. They did lots of jokey
:12:01. > :12:03.things. To go back to the young people, last year, my middle
:12:04. > :12:12.daughter was abroad in Vietnam, but she made a postal vote, and when she
:12:13. > :12:16.did, she said to us, I feel like older people have stolen my future.
:12:17. > :12:19.Young people are saying, we didn't vote last time, we have to make our
:12:20. > :12:26.voices heard, and now they have, and good on them, because Theresa May
:12:27. > :12:36.was offering a Project Via, a cavalcade of despair, and that did
:12:37. > :12:44.not resonate with people -- Project Fear. A quick look at the Sunday
:12:45. > :12:47.Times front page. We have already talked about it, but five Cabinet
:12:48. > :12:57.ministers urging Boris to double Theresa May. We do not know who they
:12:58. > :13:02.are. Boris, Boris, Boris and Boris! He is wearing a rather flamboyant
:13:03. > :13:08.coat, isn't he? It is maybe a sort of LGBT coat, with those colours,
:13:09. > :13:13.isn't it? He is perhaps appealing for the Liberal Conservative vote
:13:14. > :13:18.there, but I do think there will be huge civil war going on. The phone
:13:19. > :13:22.lines will be red-hot, like that time when Michael Portillo set up a
:13:23. > :13:28.campaign headquarters, installed lots of phones, that sort of thing.
:13:29. > :13:31.The Tory Party are very good at being ruthless when they think their
:13:32. > :13:36.leader is a dead duck, and Theresa May is, and she won't be allowed by
:13:37. > :13:41.the Tory Party to stand at another election, so there will be blood on
:13:42. > :13:47.the carpet, the walls, the ceiling, everywhere. I think we've got the
:13:48. > :13:53.idea! Amazingly, just over a week ago, we had the London Bridge
:13:54. > :13:57.attack. Such a strange election, with the two terror attacks.
:13:58. > :14:04.Hospitals and GP surgeries are told that, for the first time, they could
:14:05. > :14:09.be targeted by terrorists. It is appalling. It sounds outlandish and
:14:10. > :14:13.horrific, but it is based on guidance being issued by the police
:14:14. > :14:21.to NHS officials, warning of this worst-case scenario where this might
:14:22. > :14:23.happen. We have had examples in other countries, such as
:14:24. > :14:30.Afghanistan, where there had been raids on hospitals. In Afghanistan,
:14:31. > :14:34.they killed 50 people, and the terrorists were dressed as doctors.
:14:35. > :14:39.That was how they sneaked into the hospital. That is an appalling
:14:40. > :14:42.scenario. It is good that hospitals are being warned, but you wonder
:14:43. > :14:55.about the depths to which they will sink. Geoff Ho of the Sunday express
:14:56. > :15:04.was caught up in the attacks and has written about his experience. People
:15:05. > :15:08.were concerned about him on social media, because he was known to have
:15:09. > :15:11.been drinking in the area, as a lot of people work, so lots of concerns
:15:12. > :15:21.about whether he was safe. He was a real hero, and it's an incredible
:15:22. > :15:24.story. Inside the Sunday express, a huge spread, really. People are
:15:25. > :15:28.always fascinated to read the eyewitness account of somebody who
:15:29. > :15:35.showed such incredible bravery. He fought back and thank God, he
:15:36. > :15:39.survived. He is an example of what we all hoped we would do, but when
:15:40. > :15:46.confronted, we very well may not. We may have run, in his situation, but
:15:47. > :15:50.he had the courage to confront the terrorists, take them on, and
:15:51. > :15:54.possibly his actions spared other people from being killed. There is a
:15:55. > :15:59.good line in his first person piece: This is not how the night should
:16:00. > :16:04.have ended for anyone. It is not how nights in Borough N. London is one
:16:05. > :16:12.of the friendliest places in the world. I think that is a positive
:16:13. > :16:26.message. -- it is not how one night out in Borough end. I think defiance
:16:27. > :16:31.is the best response to terrorism. There was a taxi driver who tried to
:16:32. > :16:35.run them down. It hit particularly close to home for us, because we
:16:36. > :16:41.were there. One of my colleagues almost got run over by the ban. He
:16:42. > :16:48.left the office, came out, and the van swerved, which is how we were
:16:49. > :16:56.alerted to what was going on. -- almost got run over by the van.
:16:57. > :17:00.Imagine the greater carnage that could have been caused if they had
:17:01. > :17:05.gotten hold of a lorry. Thank you both for being with us. That is it.
:17:06. > :17:09.Just a reminder, we take a look at tomorrow's front pages every