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make sure that they stay safe and that is happening, right now. Much | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
more run a story at 11pm. Now it is time for The Papers. | :00:09. | :00:19. | |
What matter I will get to what The Papers will be bringing us tomorrow. | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
We're joined by the writer and broadcaster Caroline Foster and the | :00:26. | :00:37. | |
jealous, Tony McCoy. The first of our headlines... The Daily Telegraph | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
quotes the council leader in the borough, saying that Grenfell | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
changes everything. The developments in Camden came too late for the | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
daily Mirror. The express labels critics of Theresa May as EU | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
bullies, as the Prime Minister announces details of the offer to EU | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
nationals after Brexit. According to The Times, the Manchester suicide | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
bomber used videos from YouTube and other websites to help build a | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
device that killed 22 people. And the Daily Mail serialises the | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
biography of the Duchess of Cambridge. A couple of the papers | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
are managing to report what happened in Camden tonight, only a couple of | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
them because the news broke so late. We will start with the I. Urgent | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
safety work needed at high rise after buildings fail safety checks. | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
Even this front page was put together in a rush. Absolutely, | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
covering breaking news. Deciding to evacuate a block on a Friday | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
evening. They are talking about putting people up on a leisure | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
centre and speaking about finding hotel rooms in the middle of high | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
season in London for 800 households. My first reaction is, I think this | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
is a mistake. If I was the council I would say to people, there is a very | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
small risk that the fire is going to break out in this block and that the | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
cladding might catch fire and then we might have a repeat of what | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
happened in Grenfell. I would have offered a people asked for temporary | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
accommodation but as we heard from bag lady who lives in one of the | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
blocks, we're talking about people being out of their homes for four | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
weeks. I'm not sure that the council has thought this through. How big is | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
this risk? If I lived in a tower block I would feel the concern that | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
lady expressed and I can understand the Council offering that do that | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
people who requested it by saying that the block is unsafe and we have | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
to move people into a leisure centre seems like a slight overreaction and | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
it is going to put pressure on other councils across the country, to see | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
whether or not they are going to react in the same way. It is | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
difficult when you're in the council's position. What decision | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
you make? I don't think this decision will have been taken, | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
likely. You could tell from the body language of the council leader. I am | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
sure that this was done with a very heavy heart. Whilst the might be a | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
small chance, even this remotest chance of a repeat of those scenes | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
we saw last week is something that no council can be seen to let | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
through. People'svoices have got more powerful in the wake of the | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
tragic circumstances that Grenfell Tower. Can you imagine the outcry if | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
any council sat on any fire safety warning or they did nothing they | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
delayed? It be unthinkable. As you said, Tony, some people have said I | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
am not worried about it, I am not going anywhere. Two things. It will | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
be interesting to see what the Fire Service said. I suspect that they | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
have not ordered an evacuation and this is a political decision. They | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
did express concerns. They expressed concerns about the safety of the | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
building, well, maybe I am wrong about this. Perhaps what council | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
leader should have been doing for the last six or seven years is | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
upgrading facilities in council blocks that they control, perhaps | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
putting sprinklers in, perhaps putting proper fire alarms in before | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
this accident. This, to me, smacks of a panic, knee jerk reaction | :04:24. | :04:24. | |
because Camden and other councils have bigger questions to answer, | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
than just the cladding outside these buildings. The daily Mirror looking | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
at the story, as well, in a connected way, but taking it back to | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
what happened in Grenfell, Cilliers in our kitchens. The Grenfell fire | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
started by a fridge freezer that had not been recalled. Concerns for lots | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
of people about how safe the appliances are. The blame game has | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
moved around as lessons are being learned. We have seen lessons about | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
the cladding being learned at great speed by councils and authorities. | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
They have moved to the fridge freezer. 64,000 of these products | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
have been sold throughout the UK. That will not just the people in | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
tower blocks but all sorts of consumers, and they have been | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
invited to get in touch with the company. Presumably this is one step | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
short of recalling the product. We will find out that there are other | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
councils facing the same criticisms, so it will go on. We don't want to | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
balance safety problems with widespread panic. This particular | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
appliance has a plastic backing to it. That is correct. Not a huge | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
amount of detail in the front page but it seems to be saying that this | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
specific appliance when manufactured in the US has a metal back and in | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
the UK, it has a plastic back that can go up in 90 seconds whereas the | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
metal one stops are far from happening. This is a slightly | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
ignored issue that we have had some concerns about white goods. There | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
was a series of tumble drier fires in London that were raised in | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
Parliament. There has been some concern around white goods and | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
fires. That will come into sharp focus because of what happened at | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
Grenfell. This conversation around cladding we were not having a couple | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
of weeks ago has become a major issue of national importance. The | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
Telegraph looking at the risk to hospitals, feared to be at risk, | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
public buildings will have to be tested, again, following what | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
happened in Grenfell. The scale of the checks that is going to be | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
carried out in public buildings is enormous. This is not just | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
hospitals, it is also schools. All of us have seen the way in which | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
1960s buildings have been spruced up by sticking some cladding on the | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
front of them. That was a popular method of making these buildings | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
look more modern, but there are hundreds of them all over the | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
country. We haven't even considered private tower blocks. Obviously, | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
hospitals, schools, universities, will become a focus. The Department | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
of Health says it is working with the building research Establishment. | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
They are having a busy week doing the testing on the cladding. And an | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
obstruction has gone out to hospitals, who did the contracting, | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
what sort of cladding was use? -- and instruction. So this is going to | :07:31. | :07:39. | |
take time. This is the trickle-down effect. In the wake of last week's | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
tragedy, one of the immediate criticisms was that many of these | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
regulations were too complex to be interpreted by standard local | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
authorities. Clearly, what we should remember is that this cladding and | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
these buildings have been in existence for half a decade and this | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
was a tragedy that stood alone, so we had that people are seen this | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
with perspective but on the ban, these are tests that should not have | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
been happening in this knee jerk speed, this haste to move things to | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
the top of the pile, that should have been going on much more | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
regularly. Let's move on to the express, shall we? Theresa May | :08:18. | :08:27. | |
stands up to EU bullies. I would say that, watching the spectacle of | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
Theresa May in Europe is relatively speaking what she does better. We | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
know that she has had a terrible two weeks since the election. I would | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
think she may be relieved to go behind closed doors into boardrooms | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
with lots of paper and policy to munch through and, frankly, anything | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
she says, at least she's not going to have the PR disasters that she | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
had when meeting the electorate and being asked to respond to tragedies. | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
How Clay is it, the direction we're going in? It is as clear as mud. | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
That is probably not how I would have interpreted what is going on, | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
the way the Express has. Theresa May has gone to the European Council, | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
meeting of the heads of government, a regular meeting and they have lots | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
of things to discuss, by the way. Brexit is not top of the agenda for | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
the other 27 nations. They have many issues to deal with. I can | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
understand the sense of frustration from them. What Britain wants is not | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
clear to our European allies and friends. This process has been | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
delayed by a leadership election last year, Theresa May chose to | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
delay it by two months by having an election in which she thought she | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
would win a majority for what is called Bohar Brexit. She completely | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
lost her majority and has no mandate for her hard Brexit or any part of | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
the EU negotiation strategy and the reality of a hung Parliament means | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
that a very small part, pro-European Tories in her own party will be able | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
to scupper significant parts of a plan as it goes through. She has | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
arrived in Europe, she's been humiliated by the British | :10:10. | :10:11. | |
electorate, she still does not have a plan and the plan she does have is | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
likely to be voted down by Herrerin party. So if you are a European | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
leader you are not sure whether, what she wants whether she will be | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
able to deliver any of it. Negotiations that everyone involved | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
with will have two compromise, over something. This comes after a | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
concession about EU national staying in this country. Saying that she is | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
standing up to bullies, is she walking in back was come on the back | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
foot? There was going to be much budging. There has already been | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
fudging and U-turns on the manifesto before the election, there was a | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
U-turn, so he can expect some more before the signature is dry. We will | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
be here in two years, talking about this. It is a marathon, not a | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
sprint. Let's go to The Mail. Glasto's Labour Love In. Ed Balls | :11:03. | :11:19. | |
has been spotted in the bathroom queue with his towel. Tom Watson is | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
there, he seems to be a regular. I've seen them there in the past. | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
They are getting hot under the collar because Jeremy Corbyn is due | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
to address the crowd and the BBC has been accused of bias because this is | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
happening. It is a televised event and they are televising it. The BBC | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
did not book Jeremy Corbyn to appear on the premise stage. But they have | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
a duty to televise -- on the Pyramid Stage. A BBC youth reporter, someone | :11:50. | :11:57. | |
who may or may not have voted for Jeremy Corbyn was quoted as saying, | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
"Brilliant". They are supposed to be generating enthusiasm for an event | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
that they are televising. Abe supposed to stand back and say that | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
other MPs' speeches are available? My view is that the BBC should not | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
be showing this. It would not be particularly difficult for the BBC | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
to cut away. They massively open themselves to accusations of bias | :12:23. | :12:32. | |
for the left. I do think that this is an explicit political act that | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
has been done to put the Leader of the Opposition on the main stage. | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
That is politics and not music and the BBC needs to be clearer about | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
where that line falls. If it was me I would not go anywhere near | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
broadcasting it. Theresa May is not going to be there, that is the | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
point, there is clearly biased side. What if the Prime Minister turns up | :12:52. | :13:02. | |
at Glyndebourne and makes a speech? I think he's hijacking this event. | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
But he was invited. Whoever invited him is hijacking the event to make a | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
political point. A bit of a different light tonight. I am so | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
sorry. It is because of the News events and what is happening at | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
Camden. Caroline and Tony will be staying and will be back in the next | :13:23. | :13:31. | |
hour. Join us again at 11pm for more news. | :13:32. | :13:33. |