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on a mass scale in a country which claims to be a politically advanced | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
country. Hello and welcome to our look ahead | :00:00. | :00:21. | |
to what the the papers will be With me are Martin Lipton, | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
who's Deputy Head of Sport at The Sun and the journalist | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
and broadcaster, Rachel Shabi. Tomorrow's front pages | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
starting with... The Observer leads with fire safety | :00:31. | :00:31. | |
standards in schools, saying proposals to relax guidelines | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
are to be dropped by ministers. Prince Harry dominates the front | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
page of the The Mail on Sunday. It says he considered quitting his | :00:38. | :00:50. | |
royal role, but he stayed for the Queen. -- | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
The Sunday Telegraph's headline reads "Blackmail fears after Mps | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
story on the Sunday Times, who say there was fury at the time | :00:57. | :01:06. | |
it took for the incident to be revealed. | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
And the Express leads with an image of Jeremy Corbyn, | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
saying he ignored Armed Forces Day invitations to appear | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
way will begin with the Observer and the ongoing concerns about fire | :01:13. | :01:24. | |
safety. Ministers and panic U-turn over fire | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
safety in schools, cost-cutting would have been a disaster. Yeah, | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
all source of things emerging about fire safety in the aftermath of the | :01:36. | :01:47. | |
tragedy at Grenfell Tower there were proposals to relax safety rules for | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
skills as a cost-cutting measure but it has now completely abandoned | :01:53. | :02:01. | |
that. The Observer says that it is more evidence that the government | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
has changed its approach, that it is less occupied with cost-cutting and | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
more concerned with health and safety, which obviously makes you | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
wonder why health and safety wasn't the priority in the first place! It | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
is odd, when you think that you have health and safety regulations, fire | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
regulations, building regulations, how flexible of a? What we have | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
first of all is a sense of innate chaos which seems to have taken over | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
the whole of local and national government in the wake of the | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
horrendous events of ten days ago in Kensington. I find it hard to | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
believe that in this day and age it was acceptable at any point for | :02:46. | :02:55. | |
safety measures not to be standard in buildings which people are going | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
to use. I don't know what sort of country we are in when this is | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
allowed to happen. The statement from this draft legislation that's | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
cool buildings do not need to be sprinkler protected to achieve a | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
reasonable standard of life safety -- that school buildings. Do not | :03:15. | :03:24. | |
meet that. Why? If you have children there, you would want to put things | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
in place. These housing blocks, there were no spin the systems. It | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
is astonishing. Some of it is down to cost, the retrofitting of old | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
buildings. Changes are made in good faith, and people discover that they | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
are not OK with tragic consequences. It is a coming together of lots of | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
different things. It seems to be motivated by cost-cutting, | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
especially if he's like the cladding. That seems to be becoming | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
a bigger and -- especially issues like the cladding. That seems to be | :04:04. | :04:12. | |
becoming a bigger and bigger issue. 34 blocks in 17 authorities. I have | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
heard that 100% of those buildings tested so far have failed. This is a | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
terrifying... It is a national crisis and what is worrying at the | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
moment is that the government is not treating it like a crisis. It has | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
not have Cobra meetings. Ed Miliband was tweeting earlier that when we | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
have things like foot and mouth, there were Cobra meetings and it was | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
coordinated as a national level. I want to look at the Sunday | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
Telegraph, they are saying it is not just about cladding, installation is | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
the real inferno threat. It will have to widen out the scope of the | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
investigation and maybe that will trigger these emergency meetings. | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
The cost of what will have to be done is now having a significant | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
threat to budgets of government, local governor and national | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
government. This seems to be an escalation. And it has to be done. | :05:17. | :05:24. | |
Nobody can be a cheapskate is now. In case something else happens. And | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
they were to blame. It is going to be an astronomical price to be paid. | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
And where is the money coming from? They have to find it from central | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
government because councils don't have the money. Experts are saying | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
that it is ludicrous that you are only testing the outer covering of a | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
building and not the insulating material. So again, inside buildings | :05:54. | :06:02. | |
is being looked at. This has come up before, that experts are saying that | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
it is the panelling behind the cladding, the material dues is | :06:09. | :06:17. | |
different in the UK. In the the US, they use metal, we use plastic, | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
which is highly flammable. In this report in the Sunday Telegraph, why | :06:22. | :06:29. | |
are you testing the outer cover and not the interlacing material? And it | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
can be the cavities left behind when you seal windows that pull the fire | :06:35. | :06:46. | |
up in -- inside the building. So councils are concerned because they | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
want to make sure that people are safe but also because they are | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
worried about how they will be able to afford to do that which is why it | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
needs to happen on a nationally coordinated level. | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
Let's look at some genuine party politics, the Conservative Party. | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
The Sunday Telegraph saying Tory plot to skip toxic generation and | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
install younger face as next leader. Who is this plot by and who is the | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
younger face? This is an inversion of the usual. Young cardinals like | :07:20. | :07:28. | |
having an old Pope but this time they are forgetting the old Pope and | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
the old cardinals and go for the Young Pretoria on guard. People like | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
Sajid Javid and Jessye Norman and uncle Tom Cobleigh and all! The | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
likes of Johnson and David and Hammond one has to assume are seen | :07:45. | :07:56. | |
as part of a bustard flush -- a busted flush generation. I'm not | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
sure this will be agreed by too many people within the parliamentary | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
Conservative Party. We are absolutely certain that any | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
political prediction is a legible twaddle because everyone but is | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
entirely wrong over the last few years. Well, yeah. Not all of us! | :08:16. | :08:29. | |
You said Brexit would win, Trump would win and Coleman would come out | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
as the top leader? I did not say any of that but I was more willing to | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
engage with possibilities of the Corwen leadership and to see that | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
there were political shifts that might create support for him in a | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
way that lots of people were very quick to dismiss. But you didn't see | :08:49. | :08:58. | |
it coming? Nobody saw it coming. Nobody's crystal balls are working. | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
The fact that you have clearly got factions and its use within the Tory | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
party are clear. You have a silly diversion stories. This one in the | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
Telegraph... Would you like the movers onto the Sunday Times? It | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
says ministers want spreadsheet fail. -- spreadsheet Phil Hammond. | :09:21. | :09:31. | |
So, apparently... Have you told us the headline? I just told you, | :09:32. | :09:41. | |
ministers want spreadsheet Phil Hammond as caretaker PM. And they | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
want an immediate usurpation of Theresa May. There should be a | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
double headed beast at the top of the Tory party which will be Phil | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
Hammond and David Davis, but only for two years. Would they want the | :09:54. | :10:01. | |
job, given what they have to do? I do know. It's a strange situation | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
for the Conservatives. In this case, the political editor has been | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
speaking to a lot of people, a serving minister who is on the | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
Hammond side, who says that the PM's brand is so damaged, it's painful. | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
The calculation that people are making is that she is so inadequate | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
we cannot wait two years. That is the Conservative's dilemma, she is | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
toxic as a brand, and yet they can't figure out who to replace her with. | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
When they do, they will. But Philip Hammond, what a turnaround for him! | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
This is a fellow whose budget unravelled in two days and he is now | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
supposed to be this safe pair of hands. He was sidelined during the | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
entire election campaign and was going to be dumped if she had the | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
majority that she expected. There's obviously a factional war going on | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
and he is the figurehead of the Remain side. But a minority within | :11:04. | :11:12. | |
the parliamentary party, a majority of those will be Brexiteers and even | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
those that won't have become such, even the current Prime Minister. | :11:17. | :11:26. | |
Let's look at the Observer. Corbyn tells Glastonbury, don't build | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
walls. Thousands chanting his name. A peculiar spectacle, not what you | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
expect at Glastonbury, to have a leading politician on the stage with | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
people cheering instead of throwing things at him. It is an | :11:42. | :11:52. | |
extraordinary thing. Full it is a phenomenon that I find hard to get | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
my head around, but it exists. If we have said this a few years ago, that | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
the Labour Party will have a staunchly left-wing leader who will | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
appear at a headline concert at Glastonbury to tens of thousands of | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
people who will chair his name and he will read Shelley to them, rise | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
like lines, you are many, they are few. If you said that that was going | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
to happen, if you years ago, right... The reason it is a | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
phenomenon is that he has tapped into a hunger for this kind of | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
politics. It has been there for some time, without somebody to articulate | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
it at a political level. He is the man that has done it. He has | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
catalysed this incredible movement around him. But the express and Mail | :12:42. | :12:49. | |
on Sunday both saying, why was he at Glastonbury and not at Armed Forces | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
Day which is where Prince Edward and the Prime Minister was. Some people | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
will say he should have been there, others will say he exercised his | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
democratic right not to be there. Whatever Jeremy Corbyn does he will | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
be criticised by some and criticised by others. -- praised by others. But | :13:08. | :13:16. | |
I don't understand where this phenomenon came from. It is clearly | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
there. Finally, the Mail on Sunday, I wanted out, says Prince Harry, a | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
reluctant Prince. He says he considers quitting the royal role, | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
but stayed because of the Queen. I am not a royalist, but I respect | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
what the younger generation of royals have been doing by speaking | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
so honestly about these issue is. He has spoken before about the | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
difficulty he has had after the death of his mother. He has spoken | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
of having mental health issues at -- as having all. They have tried to | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
promote awareness around mental health and I respect their efforts | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
in that field. I think it is important work and they are good | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
representatives for that conversation. If you step down from | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
the royal role, you would lose the financial support, you would have to | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
walk away from quite a lot of privilege. You would, you would have | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
to live by your own means. Clearly he is quite intelligent young man. I | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
am not entirely convinced by this argument, I have to say. Do you | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
think years lying? Are you calling the Prince a liar? It's easy to say | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
without necessarily going through it. We may talk about this again at | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
1130. It depends what Rachel decides we are going to talk about with you. | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
We will be back at 11.30 for another look at the stories | :14:50. | :15:00. |