19/06/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Alison Little the Deputy political editor

of the Daily Express and the political

Let me bring you up-to-date with a look through the front pages.

Like many of tomorrow's papers, the Telegraph leads

on the London Mosque attack - they feature a picture

of the suspected attacker, who is alleged to have shouted 'kill

all muslims' and 'this is for London Bridge'.

The Times leads with reports on the man held after the attack.

The Express lead with defiant comments from Prime Minister

following the attack, who says that hate

The I call the terror incident 'an attack on all of us'.

If we start with that, Alison. It's a very striking image. Partly

because it's a night-time image, it's beautifully lit but also its

reflective image. Under that headline, an attack on all of us.

Very powerful. It is, and that's the message lots of politicians have

been trying to get out there. They know how divisive it might be, so

they are trying to say, and trying to convey the message that they

understand that this is an attack on British people and British human

beings. There is never a shortage of pictures and images, we see so many

through social media and television, all the stuff people were filming

last night on their own phones at the scene. It must be quite hard

sometimes for the newspapers to find the still but is fresh, but also

encapsulates a story. Yes, and one that does not distort the story as

well. I think what's very important about the coverage across the board

and all papers that we will see tomorrow morning is they, as far as

I have seen so far, are trying very hard to make it clear that this was

simply a terrorist attack. Just as Westminster was, just as Tower

Bridge was, just as Manchester was a terrorist attack. The terrorists can

come from any community. And they can attack any community. The

headline says, each and every one of them is an attack on all of us. The

Metro has an image of Darren Osborne, the man who is claimed to

have caused the attack. Perhaps most striking is this picture to the

right, in fact I think I've jumped one, I think we have the... Lets do

The Express first. Theresa May and Downing Street. Yes, the evil will

never succeed, which we saw on the front page there. Of course she has

to say that. Of course, it's in a sense, the kind of reflexive

response after any incident of this type. The question, whether these

incidents in themselves change anything, or change our perceptions

of the community we live in, the society we live in, and our sense of

whether or not we are safe. I think a lot of people are asking whether

or not we are safe. And the truth of the matter is, we all have a

responsibility I think to make sure we are as safe as we possibly can

be. There are two ways to do that. One is to make sure the police and

the security services have all the resources that they need, and that's

the responsibility of government, to ensure that is the case. But we all,

I think, have a responsibility as well, because there are clearly

people living amongst us who have hatred and anger in their hearts.

And you can go on to do horrible, horrible things, as we have seen. We

have a responsibility to keep an eye out for that. And to make it clear

that any level of racial hatred, or a sense that somehow there is a

group out there, and other, that we do not approve of, that it is

legitimate to criticise and attack, that has to be stamped out at root

cause. If it gets out of hand, this is what it do. In terms of what we

saw particularly late last night, when we saw this intervention that

features on the front of the Metro, which was the photo I was going to

show you next. The photo of the imam, Muhammad by mood, who later

did a news conference today explaining what had happened, he

says and we see the pictures here, him intervening. Effectively putting

a hand on the shoulder of the man who had just driven into some of his

fellow Muslims, some friends, kind of protecting him, for fear they

might be violence against him. But the anger could turn... An

extraordinary symbol, isn't it? He has been widely hailed as a hero and

I think we'd all agree with that. The mobile phone footage people

have, the panic and screaming, anger, pain. There was a big blob of

people, rightly angry with him, and he just rushed out and said, no,

don't touch. Hand him to the police. And it was fantastic. What a great

leader. The contrast with the negative image of some people who

claim that they are inspired by Islam, with the contrast with those

who kept saying, this is a religion of peace, supposed to be about...

He's devastating that. Also that the Muslim community are absolutely

behind the police. And that, this imam was making it absolutely clear

that it should be the police who deal with it, it should not be mob

rule on the streets even though it seems that the attacker was almost

willingly the crowd to take out vengeance on him. The imam was

saying no, absolutely not, it has to be the police to deal with this.

That's how we do things in this country. The question that has been

raised by some people talking today about this, and this has been raised

and some commentary again tomorrow, is not just the immediate question

of this incident, but whether there has been a rolling together of lots

of different forms of hatred, and fear, and distrust between different

communities. And whether there is a danger of confusing all of this, and

treating everything has the same, so people talked about trying to do

with Islamophobia to prevent -- through the prevent programme, for

example, a programme which is meant to be about ensuring people were not

influenced by extreme thought, and actually radicalise. Any thoughts on

that? Whether there is a clear enough official view, if you like,

of how we deal with the different elements of this? We do have to deal

with the different elements, because they are in themselves different.

But they have the same root cause, which is the sense of hatred. That

is what we all can recognise in each and every one of them. So you do

have to have specific ways of dealing with radicalisation within

the Muslim communities, but at the same time you have to have slightly

different ways of looking for right wing, far right extremism wherever

it is they might be living. You don't use exactly the same

techniques to approach them, but, they are so similar. And the idea

that they are completely different phenomenon on... Demonising and

attacking a group, yeah. This was the fear many had that there would

be some backlash, retaliation, something of that kind. Let's talk

about the Telegraph. A different subject, inevitably that is their

main story, but this was supposed to be the day when all the papers were

expected to be leading on Tuesday morning with a Brexit talks. It's

still there on the front page, just. A lot of papers lead on Brexit

because the attack happened so late. Could not make it into today's

papers. Davis slammed the door on any hope of a soft Brexit. Is it as

simple as that? Looking at this, it is and it isn't. The Telegraph have

chosen to go in by saying, both David Davis and the EU are making

clear we are leaving the single market and the customs union. A lot

of pro-Brexit can say, of course we are. Even Philip Hammond, the chief

Remainer in the Cabinet, said yesterday, when it comes to be about

is how much access you have. So this new relationship could do that? To

me this is not rocket science. I'm slightly surprised, one of my

colleagues was in Brussels today so I will hear from him tomorrow, but

that it might take chilly end of October they say, to sort out the

issue of citizens rights. EU citizens. That was supposed to be

some way the easiest thing. But we are also expecting there is a

suggestion that Theresa May, when she does the Brussels summit with

other EU leaders on Thursday, or Friday, that she will go with this

kind of big generous offer on migrants rights to try and win them

over. Maybe cajole slightly earlier. If we prop forward to the Guardian,

EU yields inverse negotiations... Clearly there were concessions, on

trade and all that. One of the reasons both David Davis and the EU,

on the EU side, they are trying to say we are clear it's going to be

hard exit. They have to start somewhere. If there is still the

possibility of the House of Commons turning around, when there clearly

is not a majority for hard Brexit, then it just makes the negotiating

his nurse almost impossible to do. The basic fear of having one hand

tied behind your back. Going back to the Telegraph, it's clear there are

people and parties in the House of Commons who are determined to do

their best to ensure that it is not a hard Brexit, or if it is hard,

it's hard with a soft centre. Maybe we need Mohammed, the imam, to come

in halfway through the talks and try and get them to calm down. Let's end

with The Times. A couple of interesting stories, this want of

Russia threatening the RAF in US air force jets after an American jet

apparently attacked a Syrian plane. That's right. All getting very

located isn't it rushed up I won't pretend to be an expert but it was a

Syrian jet brought down by an American jet. The first time in

Americans have bought down a foreign jet since Kosovo. To write it off as

the RAF being under threat as a big extreme. There was a suggestion that

the Russians will be tracking planes. It goes back to this problem

that Russia is there with the Syrian air force, cooperating with the

Syrian government. We and the Americans have certain preferred

partners who are in the opposition, but there are other groups that

neither the Russians or the Americans are very keen on. The

Americans on the British are a lot more robust on Syria than they were

in the past. I don't think the Russians have any right to complain

about that given the way they have been behaving in the past five

years. It also reminds us of this hideous situation in Syria, that is

continuing. We have been so... It's not getting any better. Let's end.

How else can we possibly end? Nobody is quite yet saying on the front

page, what a scorcher, but Britain bakes in the longest heatwave for 20

years, says The Times. Yes, Lance you were saying to me earlier,

goading me as a representative of a Brexit supporting paper, were we

going to have to go back to Fahrenheit after Brexit? LAUGHTER I

think I smiled. Your paper has stuck with Brown hype through thick and

thin! We will all have to go back to Fahrenheit. Could that be in the

Great Repeal Bill? We will find out... If we do go back to

Fahrenheit, it doesn't make it any cooler! It doesn't solve anything.

On that note, thank you very much. That's it from the papers.

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