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In other news: Bill Cosby walks free from court after the judge declares | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
a mistrial in his sexual assault case. | :00:08. | :00:23. | |
Welcome, and to our look ahead to what the papers will be | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
With me are Robert Fox, Defence Editor at the London Evening | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
Standard and Rachel Cunliffe, Comment and Features Editor | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
The Observer claims that the government repeatedly | :00:34. | :00:43. | |
failed to act on fire safety warnings before the fire at Grenfall | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
The Express leads with the Queen's response to the fire, | :00:47. | :01:00. | |
praising Her Majesty for calming the nation. | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
The Sunday Mirror labels the Duke of Cambridge | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
the 'prince of compassion' for the role he played in responding | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
The Sunday Telegraph says Theresa May could face a leadership | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
challenge from within her own party if she waters down Brexit. | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
The Sunday Times reports that senior Conservative | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
figures have told the Prime Minister she has ten days to improve her | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
performance or face a confidence vote in the party. | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
Let's begin with a little bit more in-depth look. All of the papers | :01:25. | :01:32. | |
focusing on the terrible tragedy in west London. The Sunday Telegraph is | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
talking about the response, the initial response, being simply not | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
good enough. The Prime Minister has issued a statement reflecting that | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
as well. A real juxtaposition in terms of what the volunteers were | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
doing straightaway after the tragedy. They all got together and | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
yet, the officials were taking a long time. I think this is the | :01:55. | :02:03. | |
question of the need for really in-depth enquiries. It is propping | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
up the time to start going into the detail of things like building | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
standards, fire regulation, going back to things like the Bradford | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
fire and the King's Cross fire which were particularly bad. Its work | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
flagging them up because the commander has been indicating that | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
this is going to be the worst civil fire in London since the blip by the | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
looks of things, looking at the toll of death and injury and people being | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
displayed. -- since the blitz. It makes it so truly iconic. I think | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
the first responders' argument is quite interesting. The police and | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
the Fire Brigade and everybody trying to do their stuff but what | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
comes in with the local council people, this is where Mrs May has | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
been extremely graphic, from various quotes in the papers, about her | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
criticism. That seems to me there is a big failure here which is | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
indicated in the sidebar story, interestingly, in the Observer, | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
saying the British Red Cross is now being asked to put professional | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
organisers into North Kensington to help out. The problem is what you do | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
after the first responders. It is what America learned after nine or | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
11 and Hurricane Katrina. It is no use to say that we will do things in | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
the third World. Nonsense. Take a country like Italy which 80% of the | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
tension that shellac territory is subject to our -- earthquakes. They | :03:44. | :03:52. | |
have a ministry who deals with units of the military like the Red Cross | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
that can go in that honestly, this recurrent callout the military, | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
particularly if the Tory are going to cut the military down. When you | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
have army of 100 thousand, and you can't call out that many people. | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
Actually, we have big questions because Grenfell Tower isn't a thing | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
that can be fixed in five days. It will take five months or possibly | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
even a year to get everybody sorted out, get them housed, get their | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
lives on an even keel, if even they can be in some cases. The Prime | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
Minister is saying she was the people as affected to be re- housed | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
in three weeks. A big challenge. She is saying that because of the | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
criticism she has been unsympathetic. It's because she | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
didn't meet them for several days. We are talking about hundreds of | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
people in central London and you also have the issue of all the other | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
people in tower blocks who are are in potentially similar fire risk | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
situations who are raising concerns and fears that their lives. It is | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
completely understandable. -- they fear for their lives. It is really | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
crucial. We have had a lot in the past few days and have all become | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
experts in fires and fire defence systems and flammable building | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
cladding that there is a subsequent issue here which is that it doesn't | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
seem to be a centralised response system. You are hearing responses | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
from survivors and families saying there is nobody here we can talk to, | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
they don't have the information, the charities and the Red Cross are | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
being helpful but no one is being, there is no centralised unit where | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
they can get the resources they need. Counselling, medical | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
resources, anything. That is separate from building regulations. | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
We really should be able to do this in one of the richest countries in | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
the world. We are expecting a task force and somebody with high viz | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
jackets to turn up. We are expecting that to take place. A lot of the | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
criticism has been focused on to are made and it has been a difficult | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
week for her. The election result has been a difficult result for her. | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
The Sunday Telegraph is now talking about this threat as a stalking | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
horse leadership challenge without naming who this potential challenger | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
is. I think I hear the wheelbarrow of the daily Sunday Telegraph | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
politics trundling down. It is a strange piece because the headline | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
says the Conservatives are allegedly preparing a stalking horse,' is. -- | :06:48. | :06:56. | |
single quotes. They couldn't really name anybody. It really is rather | :06:57. | :07:10. | |
unsatisfactory but the Telegraph is in Tory heartland so it is picking | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
up the mood music, if I can mix and that is all. There is clearly | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
something that. -- mix a metaphor. They must be thinking she is not | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
doing terribly well but there is no obvious challenger that I can see | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
emerging. Once a name is mentioned, it is cancelled out almost | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
immediately. Left, Right, woman, man, Amber Rudd, Michael Gove, David | :07:38. | :07:48. | |
Davis, as Johnson. Every time it is raised in a conversation in media, | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
quite rightly, it is itself cancelling, self-destruct mechanism. | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
They do know what to do. The interesting thing and merging from | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
all the plate -- papers today, real concern about the Queens speech on | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
the 28th of June which is usually the manifesto for a government with | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
a comfortable majority or a working majority. No, now it looks as if it | :08:12. | :08:19. | |
is going to be the occasion of the first may be quite a number of these | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
autumn of confidence votes. In the Prime Minister. The longer that goes | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
on, the process, I think her position looks as if it will weaken. | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
She has really got to pull a rabbit out of a hat and suddenly say, "I am | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
in charge, I can show you how to do it and this is the way forward." The | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
Sunday Times is saying the Conservative Party is giving Theresa | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
May ten days to turn this all around. They are also focusing on | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
the Queens's speech and can she regain the favour of her party. Of | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
course, if she can't, you have labour waiting in the wings. What is | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
interesting about the election result, many of those in the Labour | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
Party are taking it as a mandate for Jeremy Corbyn to become Prime | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
Minister. There were protests planned this week and John | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
McDonnell, the Shadow Chancellor, was saying people should go to the | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
streets at to defy Tory rule and it was as if they are selling the idea | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
that Theresa May had stolen the election. Obviously, she won more | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
seats than labour. Labour did still lose the election that it is really | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
interesting to look at how the Labour Party is merging the | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
response, the outrage over the fire and the upset over the election and | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
to kind of build a movement that says, for whatever reason, whether | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
it is the election of a fire or accept, this woman is not able to | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
lead us. I think that sentiment is coming through the Tory party as | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
well. She is being pressured from all sides. As the observer is | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
suggesting, big businesses are telling her to rethink our heart | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
breakfast. Also telling her do not water down the Brexit. -- are hired | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
Brexit. 'S - Crowtree. -- hard. It is what is best for the British | :10:10. | :10:27. | |
people. To go back to the Sunday Telegraph, the only word that comes | :10:28. | :10:36. | |
to mind is brave. The people have voted for a hard Brack said. No, | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
they voted to leave the EU -- Brexit. The Eurosceptic MPs have | :10:44. | :10:53. | |
warned any attempt to keep Britain in the customs union and a single | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
market and give any leeway for the European Court of Justice will | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
trigger an overnight coup. What is this? Is this journalism? Actually, | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
it is pure comment. What it is, I'm sorry, not being a card-carrying | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
Tory myself, this is a thoroughly divided party. I know that your | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
party, Rachel, is looking at the story that the big companies the | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
observer is looking at that don't want this hard Brexit. The EU | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
citizens living here, largely living and working in London, there are | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
trading restrictions, financial services passport in, all of that. | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
The unifying factor, both with the Eurosceptic and people within the | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
Conservative Party and with business, is that they want Theresa | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
May to listen. She hasn't been very good at that. She has her advisers | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
should listens to but she keeps her cards close to her chest. Whoever | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
they are. They ask clearly still having an effect of her. It is that | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
mentality of battling down the hatches -- battening down the | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
hatches. They need negotiation with the rest of Europe, you need | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
somebody who is listening to concerns. People that can listen to | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
advice. We haven't seen that from her. Can she change? If she wants to | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
stay Prime Minister, she has two. Very unusually for a Prime Minister, | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
she didn't fight the election on the economy. On security and leave it | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
with me. It is so unusual in modern times is not to major on the | :12:40. | :12:49. | |
economy. I think that ... We are good talk about that for hours but | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
we will come back to the parody -- terrible tragedy. The royals are | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
taking the mood of the nation. The Queen has calmed a shaken nation. | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
This I'm sure it is common sense that the Queen is incredibly well | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
advised. The way that little touches, the statement, drawing the | :13:16. | :13:25. | |
nation together. But also the nice, deft touch of announcing the award | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
so they could an ounce PC Keith Palmer's medal, richly deserved. In | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
a non- cynical way, it was just brilliant. It was just all the good | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
guys had gone out of the way and done things and really put their | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
lives on the line, as PC Keith did. That is so good. I will bring Rachel | :13:50. | :13:59. | |
in on this. We have the younger side of the Royal family, the Prince of | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
compassion. Look at that photo. Leigh especially juxtaposed to the | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
photo next to it which is the harassed -- horrific scene of the | :14:09. | :14:19. | |
building. The Queen is now 91. She isn't going to be around forever and | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
people are looking to Prince Charles and Prince William, do they have the | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
same touch to bring the country together in is really difficult | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
moments. The one thing you didn't mention, is Kate. That trio of | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
William, Harry and Kate. They really are, and have got the touch between | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
them. It quite magic. It's different from the older generation. Taking it | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
through. We have to leave it there. As always, not enough time to talk | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
about all of this but thank you very much for joining us on the Papers. | :14:57. | :15:06. | |
Stay with us. It is time for Meet the | :15:07. | :15:08. |