:00:15. > :00:17.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:18. > :00:23.With me are Robert Fox, Defence Editor at the London Evening
:00:24. > :00:25.Standard and Rachel Cunliffe, Comment and Features
:00:26. > :00:36.The Observer reports that the government repeatedly
:00:37. > :00:43.failed to act on fire safety warnings before
:00:44. > :00:46.The Express leads with the Queen's respond to the fire,
:00:47. > :00:49.praising Her Majesty for calming the nation.
:00:50. > :00:51.The Sunday Telegraph says Theresa May could face a leadership
:00:52. > :00:57.challenge from within her own party if she waters down Brexit.
:00:58. > :01:00.The Sunday Times reports that senior Conservative figures have told
:01:01. > :01:03.the Prime Minister she has ten days to improve her performance or face
:01:04. > :01:20.Let's have a closer look through the papers. The Sunday Telegraph, which
:01:21. > :01:26.of course all the papers are focusing on, the tragedy that
:01:27. > :01:29.happened in North Kensington. The Sunday Telegraph, the inferno
:01:30. > :01:38.response, not good enough, and admits the PM. Obviously reflecting
:01:39. > :01:44.on her statement. Just saying that basically it wasn't good enough,
:01:45. > :01:49.Robert. It is her body language, I think they are all talking about, it
:01:50. > :01:55.isn't manoeuvring adroitly enough, to get up to see the victims. She
:01:56. > :01:58.does feel very deeply about this, ironically, but finds it difficult
:01:59. > :02:05.to get her feelings across, as her great friend, faithful first the
:02:06. > :02:10.tenant Damian Green has been saying repeatedly through the day, she is
:02:11. > :02:17.distraught about it and I have no doubt about that but it is so odd,
:02:18. > :02:24.go back six weeks ago, the election was getting underway, it was seen to
:02:25. > :02:31.be a huge advantage to her, she was on top of the game and Corbyn
:02:32. > :02:35.wasn't. The contrast that ran throughout the reporting of the
:02:36. > :02:41.Sunday papers, and we've got quite a good sample in front of us, he is
:02:42. > :02:48.body language is better for this and it is more confident. It's not even
:02:49. > :02:53.a left and right thing, it's the Ronald Reagan feature of I feel your
:02:54. > :02:58.pain which seems to be getting across. And we have the
:02:59. > :03:07.extraordinary intervention of the Queen with her message on the day of
:03:08. > :03:10.her official birthday. But back to business, mostly the Conservative
:03:11. > :03:17.newspapers we are looking at, like the Mail on Sunday, they are reading
:03:18. > :03:22.directly from the inferno at Grenfell Tower, which she has no
:03:23. > :03:27.involvement in, she couldn't have seen it happen, it is becoming a
:03:28. > :03:33.very important catalyst in her political future, the future of a
:03:34. > :03:38.government which has barely started. This is part of the churn that is
:03:39. > :03:44.going on. In about three of the papers we've seen so far there's now
:03:45. > :03:49.a question over Queen's speech, the programme on the 28th of June, this
:03:50. > :03:53.is becoming a confidence issue now. This is why the Conservative papers
:03:54. > :03:58.are so worried about this and they are mailing it to the performance in
:03:59. > :04:05.the aftermath of Grenfell Tower because what I think they are all
:04:06. > :04:10.sensing, the response wasn't good enough, and they know this isn't
:04:11. > :04:17.going to go away. It will go into the winter. This is a big turning
:04:18. > :04:21.point. In one constituency it has shown the contrast between rich and
:04:22. > :04:28.poor in Britain today. It has put a magnifying glass, hasn't it? She was
:04:29. > :04:34.there initially but she was just meeting the emergency services. Why
:04:35. > :04:44.is that? I wonder who is giving her ad vice and the moment. -- who's
:04:45. > :04:47.giving her advice at the moment. She isn't overly charismatic, people
:04:48. > :04:55.seem to like that and she has always been a little bit stiff and not a
:04:56. > :04:58.David Cameron kind of Prime Minister and that was working but her
:04:59. > :05:03.complete inability to show emotion where it matters has really hurt her
:05:04. > :05:11.and directly wonder, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, who is giving heard
:05:12. > :05:15.this ad vice, not to them meet the victims, especially when they saw
:05:16. > :05:21.Jeremy Corbyn, who played this fantastically, coming across as
:05:22. > :05:29.somebody who actually cares. I completely agree with you that she
:05:30. > :05:32.has been unlucky, she was not directly responsible for the fire
:05:33. > :05:37.but this has become a symbol of the Tories against Labour, the rich and
:05:38. > :05:41.the poor, a man who is going to make the victims and a cold woman who
:05:42. > :05:47.won't. That message could have been avoided. We have this now, the
:05:48. > :05:53.Sunday Telegraph talking about this stalking horse leadership challenge.
:05:54. > :06:02.Not a difficult week for her, obviously, but this idea of her not
:06:03. > :06:07.being able to water down Brexit. We don't know who could possibly be the
:06:08. > :06:14.challenger. This story, if it were not so serious, could be very funny,
:06:15. > :06:19.the way it has been written. Mate facing the threat of a stalking
:06:20. > :06:22.horse leadership challenge. The assistant political editor of the
:06:23. > :06:30.Sunday Telegraph says that this has happened in the past, figures from
:06:31. > :06:38.the past, like the challenger to Margaret Thatcher in her pomp, but
:06:39. > :06:46.name names, Ben, who is it? And he can't. This is becoming quite a
:06:47. > :06:50.story. The Eurosceptics have warned that any attempt to keep Britain in
:06:51. > :06:58.the customs union and the Single Market, any leeway from getting out
:06:59. > :07:03.of the European Court of Justice isn't acceptable. Well, actually,
:07:04. > :07:18.those items, per se, were not on the referendum paper. I recall my days
:07:19. > :07:22.on the Telegraph, Michael -- might colleague, William deeds, he said to
:07:23. > :07:28.me about 22 years ago, he thought that the European issue, this was
:07:29. > :07:34.post-Maastricht, is going to split the Tory party and he asked whether
:07:35. > :07:39.it would survive. I hope he's listening up there because it is
:07:40. > :07:45.really a very big issue. This is the issue, where Mrs May is in great
:07:46. > :07:49.difficulty, she cannot curb the hard isolationists, as I call them, who
:07:50. > :08:01.really wants to... It is more than the tail wagging the dog. This is a
:08:02. > :08:07.real problem for the Tory party because as long as this goes in they
:08:08. > :08:11.will be in a poor state to fight a general election and that won't be
:08:12. > :08:15.in five years' time. Can we have another so soon? The Sunday Times
:08:16. > :08:21.suggesting that the Tories are giving her ten days. Yes, if you
:08:22. > :08:26.read the story about the backbench MPs, the shadow leaders who are
:08:27. > :08:29.secretly pulling the strings come at the 1922 club, it seems that they
:08:30. > :08:33.have run out of patience with Theresa May. Quotes like she is
:08:34. > :08:44.making the party more toxic, she needs to stop feeling sorry for
:08:45. > :08:48.herself. They have a problem here in that they don't want another messy
:08:49. > :08:57.leadership challenge. Who do they have? Michael Gove, equally toxic.
:08:58. > :09:01.David Davis, chief Brexiteer, but not really Prime Minister material.
:09:02. > :09:07.People talking about Ruth Davidson coming down from Scotland. She isn't
:09:08. > :09:13.an MP and I think she is incredible but she is a Remainer, so if the
:09:14. > :09:19.Eurosceptics want a Eurosceptics that isn't her. Who are we left
:09:20. > :09:24.with, Boris Johnson. That is a prospect that is the only thing
:09:25. > :09:30.stopping those Tory leaders from ending her prime ministerial career.
:09:31. > :09:33.They are waiting to have somebody viable to replace her and they
:09:34. > :09:45.don't. Between a rock and a hard place because the observer is saying
:09:46. > :09:52.that business would like her to rethink a hard Brexit. What is she
:09:53. > :10:00.going to do. The Observer is the cheerleader of the soft Brexit.
:10:01. > :10:04.Talking about no deal, no Brexit immediately. If things go the way
:10:05. > :10:09.that Angela Merkel fears in Europe over the next year or so, that may
:10:10. > :10:16.come to pass. Mrs Merkel is preoccupied with things like
:10:17. > :10:21.migration, the viability of the Eurozone and Italy above Brexit. And
:10:22. > :10:28.her own election as well. That is less of a worry than it was. Working
:10:29. > :10:33.in the continental press, it is amazing how the gap isn't just the
:10:34. > :10:45.channel, it is several Atlantic oceans between perceptions in
:10:46. > :10:49.Europe. What is going on in Brussels and London. I think that the opening
:10:50. > :10:52.of the Brexit negotiations will be a formality because they got to work
:10:53. > :10:58.out what they are talking about because both sides seem to be
:10:59. > :11:03.talking past each other. I think there is a lot going there. It is
:11:04. > :11:10.led by my great friend William Keegan, who has a business column
:11:11. > :11:15.which is always saying no Brexit. We were discussing the other day, I'm
:11:16. > :11:19.going to charge him for plagiarism, because I gave him the line that the
:11:20. > :11:24.poverty we could face could be worse than anything, possibly worse than
:11:25. > :11:32.austerity. And there I see it in the Observer! The serious side of it, I
:11:33. > :11:36.think that business really hasn't spoken yet and I think we're going
:11:37. > :11:40.to hear a lot more of it as we build up to the party conference season,
:11:41. > :11:48.which is when it will really come out. That is the point, ten days to
:11:49. > :11:55.go but nobody is actually handling her, in the old metaphor, the pearl
:11:56. > :12:01.handled revolver. Some big names being mentioned in the article, the
:12:02. > :12:08.big beasts of business. It is an impossible position, isn't it? It is
:12:09. > :12:13.something we are covering a lot, what business wants from Brexit.
:12:14. > :12:17.Businesses have been making preparations for hard Brexit but
:12:18. > :12:23.there are so many considerations that aren't on the table at the
:12:24. > :12:28.moment because the rhetoric is all about migration, sovereignty and it
:12:29. > :12:32.hasn't moved on to what we want. What's clear when you look at the
:12:33. > :12:42.juxtaposition here, the Sunday Telegraph saying that you had better
:12:43. > :12:48.not soft on Brexit, everyone is taking this as proof, whatever they
:12:49. > :12:53.wanted, whether it is Jeremy Corbyn or the hard Brexiteers, that this
:12:54. > :13:00.shows that people are with them. This result, which is... I think
:13:01. > :13:05.everyone lost, that is my evaluation of the resort but everyone is taking
:13:06. > :13:11.it as a sign that they were right. It is so I'm clear and it is totally
:13:12. > :13:24.up for grabs. This proves that I was right. It shows what a lousy is
:13:25. > :13:30.Gelant a -- lousy instrument a referendum is. The Sunday express
:13:31. > :13:36.says that the Queen is calming the nation. We saw her with volunteers
:13:37. > :13:39.on the front line. Again, arguably, perhaps a suggestion that it should
:13:40. > :13:43.have been Theresa May but we have the Queen stepping up. Her
:13:44. > :13:49.appearance shows that Theresa May's line that she didn't meet people
:13:50. > :13:54.because of security concerns, caught out there. The Queen has shown
:13:55. > :13:59.phenomenal leadership, as she has threw her career. She has been a
:14:00. > :14:06.unifying figure, in the context of the fire and the election. It is at
:14:07. > :14:10.times of political uncertainty, like 2010, there wasn't a clear
:14:11. > :14:13.government, that this monarch that we had in the background who looks
:14:14. > :14:17.nice on banknotes has a very important constitutional role and
:14:18. > :14:23.people look to the monarchy for leadership. In one sentence, you
:14:24. > :14:29.would a code that? Yes, it is turning what we saw in the movie,
:14:30. > :14:35.the Queen, on its head. Somehow they have grown an emotional quotient
:14:36. > :14:41.that is lacking in the political leadership at the moment. We will
:14:42. > :14:45.have to leave it there. Don't go away. We will be going back to have
:14:46. > :14:49.another look at the papers in about half an hour's time. Stay with us
:14:50. > :15:05.for that. Now, the weekend weather. It has been the hottest
:15:06. > :15:08.day of the year so far, temperatures reaching 30 degrees
:15:09. > :15:11.in a number of spots