11/06/2017 The Papers

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

With me are the Sunday Times' Foreign Editor, Peter Conradi,

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 says she is now weak, with rivals and opponents

The Daily Mail focusses on the Foreign Secretary Boris

Johnson saying he is set to launch a bid to become Prime Minister.

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

who was involved in a car crash during filming in Switzerland.

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.

Its headline refers to them as 'toxic'.

Lets kick-off, Peter. Have the Observer - Theresa May's premiership

in peril. Threat of MP rebellion blocks DUP coalition. This has been

overtaken since it went to press, because this is based on the idea

that there was definitely going to be a deal between the Tories and the

DUP. Subsequently, despite the Government announcing that the

yesterday evening, we had the announcement from both sides that

there isn't a deal yet. One presumes there will be won, but it just shows

just how nobody really knows what is going on at the moment. It looks

like there will be a deal, doesn't it? It does. Ironically, Theresa May

was accusing labour beforehand of having a coalition of chaos, because

that is the impression she is creating, last night announcing a

deal that had not been finalised. That is chaotic. There are voices

within the Tory Party who are very unhappy about this potential deal

because of some of the DUP's believes. They are opposed to gay

marriage, opposed to abortion. Nicky Morgan, who was the Education

Secretary, says we do not want the price of a deal with the DUP to

water down our equality policy. It is a strong issue. The Tories have

spent years detoxifying the brand. If they make concessions on those

social issues, and Ruth Davidson has spoken about it as well, it will

hasten her inevitable demise. The other headline in the Observer is:

Drop hard Brexit plans, demand MPs. How will this chaos avec Brexit?

Does it increased the likelihood, in your view, and from Europe's point

of view, maybe, base of the Brexit? It might. A lot

of people... The was that she would be in the pocket of the hard Brexit

supporters in her party. Now she doesn't have a majority, she has to

look more widely, to Labour and the Lib Dems, perhaps, and that could

have the effect of softening Brexit. You have to bear in mind, the DUP

don't want a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic,

an important issue for them, so she has to bear that in mind. The

Scottish Conservatives, the same. It could lead to a softer Brexit,

certainly. Lets look, James, at the Sunday Telegraph. In office, but not

in power. Fragile leadership. Peter mentioned the Scottish Conservatives

under Ruth Davidson, and she has obviously talked about an open

Brexit, hasn't she? Which is code for staying in the single market, I

believe. She is in a powerful position, having run an excellent

campaign, in contrast Mrs May's, and she has made this coded reference to

softening Brexit, and she has also made a coded reference to not making

an alliance with DUP. She is an out lesbian who is engaged to her

partner. If there is any suggestion that the Tories would alter their

policy on gay marriage, that is a deal-breaker. And she has 13 Tory

MPs in Scotland, very surprisingly successful there. If Ruth Davidson

withdrew their support, she is toast. To quote someone else this

morning, she is a dead woman walking. That would be strange - you

might get the ten DUP but then lose the 13 Scottish Conservatives. We

are going to unknown territory, aren't we? We certainly are! It will

keep us all very busy. Let's focus on another relevant yesterday, which

was that Theresa May's two toxic aides, as the Sunday express calls

them, have resigned, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill. All the papers have

carried this analysis, that she had a very close clique going in Downing

Street and a centralised way of working. All prime ministers do, but

she seems to have taken it to a further level, really, and I think

the role of the advisers has been interesting. It has been something

that has been known to political insiders for a long time, and I

think gradually, in the last few weeks in the run-up to the election,

it has emerged quite a powerful role the two of them have played. In the

newspapers, Nick Timothy has been transformed from this sort of very

smart, on this year, brilliant Guru into failure and the man behind the

defeat. They were the people who pushed her to have the election in

the first place. Also, Nick Timothy was behind the so-called dementia

tax, putting that into the manifesto at the last moment without

consultation with the Cabinet. I think he is now denying that. Years.

According to one of the papers, there is a suggestion that Philip

Hammond made that a condition of staying, saying, this is a red line.

These to my car to go. The former director of communications at number

ten yesterday said there was a toxic atmosphere there, and she accused

them of being brutal, which I think is code for something more harsh,

and that they were being extremely rude to elected cabinet ministers

when they had never stood for election for these positions. And I

think that is a legitimate concern, that you have unelected officials

wielding too much power, and I think that is giving her -- given her

breathing space of a couple of days. Gavin Barwell, who was a minister,

lost his seat on Thursday and is popular. Even though he was wet, he

is popular, which means that he can speak human, unlike Mrs May, and he

can speak to people, which is a great criticism of her. One person

they were allegedly route it was the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, and he

seems to have emerged empowered from all of this. He may push for a

softer Brexit. Precisely. That was the expectation in the past few

weeks, that he would be toast after the election, the way that Theresa

May would not confirm that he would be there as Chancellor. He is

probably quite a happy man at the moment. Let's look at Boris and what

all this means for him. We have the Mail on Sunday saying, Boris is set

to launch bid to be Prime Minister as May clings on. This morning, he

has put out that this is tripe. The more he says that, the more

convinced I am that he will run. It is like when Michael Heseltine said

he could not foresee circumstances where he would stand against Mrs

Thatcher and then the next week he did. There is also, apparently, an

anyone but Boris campaign going on. There is a sense that he is flaky

and unreliable, those things that Michael Gove, as he flagrantly

stabbed him in the front and back last year... And the site! And the

head and everything, he said he was not reliable. Those allegations will

resurface. Certain allegations from the past will come back towards him,

I think, and I think there will be a really tight campaign if it is him

against David Davis. Apparently, Amber Rudd's majority was too slim,

only 300 or so, so she is out of the running. I would not say that Boris

is on the way to coronation, it is not a done deal because there are

people in the party who do not trust them. The Conservative Party is

thinking, we need a leader for the future who can take on Jeremy

Corbyn, who did surprisingly well. It is a matter of when they get rid

of her, really, rather than whether they will. But also, who replaces

her. Yes, but also the question of how this plays out in the country.

No one wants another election. If you get a new leader in, and they

don't have an election, again, they might feel they don't have a

mandate. Let's look at the Sunday Mirror. They are talking about

Jeremy Corbyn - 13 million voted for us, we'll push all the way. He still

believes he could be Prime Minister, theoretically at least. I want to

eat my hat like Paddy Ashdown here, because I had been on this programme

many times in the past few years saying I thought he was rubbish, a

disaster for the Labour Party and democracy because he had no hope of

cutting through, and I hereby apologise to him because he has done

brilliantly. I have three daughters, the eldest two of which voted this

time, both students, and they have been part of an incredible movement,

and their friends have mobilised in a way they never did in the Brexit

vote, where only 40% of young people voted. This time, up to 70% of young

people voted, and that is because he offered them hope. Young people

particularly are hard-wired for hope, and that is what the offer

than what Theresa May signally failed to do. Young people voting

must be a good thing for a democracy. Indeed. If you look at

how the share of the vote has gone up, or the proportion voting has

gone up since 2010, it is extraordinary. It must largely be

the result of the Brexit referendum. A lot of them not bothering to vote

then and then seeing what happens... It was billed as the revenge of the

young. Precisely, I think so. It also shows you can get quite a lot

of votes by promising to drop tuition fees and pay back those that

have... And also, a good social media campaign. Absolutely. And some

brilliant memes, if that is the right word. They did lots of jokey

things. To go back to the young people, last year, my middle

daughter was abroad in Vietnam, but she made a postal vote, and when she

did, she said to us, I feel like older people have stolen my future.

Young people are saying, we didn't vote last time, we have to make our

voices heard, and now they have, and good on them, because Theresa May

was offering a Project Via, a cavalcade of despair, and that did

not resonate with people -- Project Fear. A quick look at the Sunday

Times front page. We have already talked about it, but five Cabinet

ministers urging Boris to double Theresa May. We do not know who they

are. Boris, Boris, Boris and Boris! He is wearing a rather flamboyant

coat, isn't he? It is maybe a sort of LGBT coat, with those colours,

isn't it? He is perhaps appealing for the Liberal Conservative vote

there, but I do think there will be huge civil war going on. The phone

lines will be red-hot, like that time when Michael Portillo set up a

campaign headquarters, installed lots of phones, that sort of thing.

The Tory Party are very good at being ruthless when they think their

leader is a dead duck, and Theresa May is, and she won't be allowed by

the Tory Party to stand at another election, so there will be blood on

the carpet, the walls, the ceiling, everywhere. I think we've got the

idea! Amazingly, just over a week ago, we had the London Bridge

attack. Such a strange election, with the two terror attacks.

Hospitals and GP surgeries are told that, for the first time, they could

be targeted by terrorists. It is appalling. It sounds outlandish and

horrific, but it is based on guidance being issued by the police

to NHS officials, warning of this worst-case scenario where this might

happen. We have had examples in other countries, such as

Afghanistan, where there had been raids on hospitals. In Afghanistan,

they killed 50 people, and the terrorists were dressed as doctors.

That was how they sneaked into the hospital. That is an appalling

scenario. It is good that hospitals are being warned, but you wonder

about the depths to which they will sink. Geoff Ho of the Sunday express

was caught up in the attacks and has written about his experience. People

were concerned about him on social media, because he was known to have

been drinking in the area, as a lot of people work, so lots of concerns

about whether he was safe. He was a real hero, and it's an incredible

story. Inside the Sunday express, a huge spread, really. People are

always fascinated to read the eyewitness account of somebody who

showed such incredible bravery. He fought back and thank God, he

survived. He is an example of what we all hoped we would do, but when

confronted, we very well may not. We may have run, in his situation, but

he had the courage to confront the terrorists, take them on, and

possibly his actions spared other people from being killed. There is a

good line in his first person piece: This is not how the night should

have ended for anyone. It is not how nights in Borough N. London is one

of the friendliest places in the world. I think that is a positive

message. -- it is not how one night out in Borough end. I think defiance

is the best response to terrorism. There was a taxi driver who tried to

run them down. It hit particularly close to home for us, because we

were there. One of my colleagues almost got run over by the ban. He

left the office, came out, and the van swerved, which is how we were

alerted to what was going on. -- almost got run over by the van.

Imagine the greater carnage that could have been caused if they had

gotten hold of a lorry. Thank you both for being with us. That is it.

Just a reminder, we take a look at tomorrow's front pages every