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