28/06/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Jenni Russell, columnist at The Times, and Steve Hawkes,

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with:

The Metro's front page is dominated by a picture

from the Hillsborough disaster - on the day six people were charged

over the deaths of 95 football fans in 1989.

The Mirror's headline is "95 - manslaughter charges",

with the paper showing the faces of all the victims

The relatives of the victims are pictured on the front

page of the Guardian, as they called today's CPS

One of those charged, former chief superintendent David Duckenfield,

is pictured on the front of the Telegraph.

The paper also reports on what it sees as a day

of confusion from the government on public sector pay.

The Times reports on the apparent choice of the senior judge

who will lead the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower disaster.

The FT leads on a day of uncertainty for Europe's bonds

A lot of the front pages Jude lead with the Hillsborough decision, and

six people facing charges in relation to that incident back in

1989. What we are going to do is start with the Metro, which is

focusing on this potential farce over the 1% pay cap. The Labour

Party put forward an amendment to the Queen's Speech, that the pay cap

should be dumped. It didn't pass, but a lot of debate over this. What

this has exposed is the terrible trouble that Theresa May's

government is in. She called an election to get the big majority,

and ended up without one. She realised that the public doesn't

find her government popular, have had enough of this territory and

want a different kind of Britain, and she doesn't know what to do

about it. Her Chancellor, who she intended to sack until she found

herself with no panel when she came back, her spokesman let everybody

know that that public disquiet about the pay cap, and that some people

might get a rise in their salaries, but the Chancellor is furious that

the Prime Minister is taking financial decisions without

consulting him first. This situation would have been unimaginable a month

ago, when Theresa May was the mistress of everything and the

Chancellor was about to lose his job. It wasn't long ago when Theresa

May was rated the most popular Prime Minister in recent history. We now

have outright chaos. Jeremy Corbyn didn't land a blow today. Theresa

May got through PMQs. We had Oliver Letwin on BBC this morning, saying

that it looked like this was going to end. Then Michael Fallon said,

looks like we are going to have to raise Army pay by more than 1%.

Chris Grayling came out as well. We thought she would announce she is

reviewing it. After PMQs, the Tory press office gave a signal that

there was going to be a review. The next fiscal event is the autumn.

They didn't talk about the pay cut that is in place until 2020, and we

thought, there we go. Then the Chancellor through his toys out the

pram, and there is absolute turmoil in government again. Is Philip

Hammond the architect of all this? The architect of the row? No, no. If

all the indications through the day are that the government is going to

get rid of this, and then all of a sudden they are not... What Philip

Hammond is not prepared to put up with any more is a Prime Minister

who thinks she can make announcements about his area. It

shows how powerful the Chancellor is now, and how little coordination and

trust there is between the people who run the country. . I cannot

envisage the Tories are sticking with this. It looks as though he

wants to be the one to announce this. It looks he wasn't allowed to

do that much. After the election, he walked into Number 10 and said, I

thought you were going to sack me. It was that kind of confrontation.

They have to try and stop this squabbling, because they will be out

of power if this carries on. The Telegraph continues this. Tory chaos

after public paid double U-turn. This is what you were alluding to

earlier when you had ministers earlier on today suggesting that the

policy was going to be changed, and then suddenly they decided not to.

Spare a thought for the people in Number 10 at the moment. Two of

Theresa May's lieutenants have gone, and there is a huge vacuum there.

The people there are good people, but there is a real vacuum in terms

of what is going on. Cabinet ministers are told what to eat,

where, say, when to move. They now feel emboldened. Remember about

Grenfell Tower couple of weeks ago, Number 10 didn't know... That would

not have happened before. I think people will be watching this

thinking, you still have a Prime Minister, someone at the top. No

matter how weak she is, she's still at the top. Can she not say, no,

this is how it's going to be? If not, why not? If you are working in

the public sector, you don't really care about this row. You think, I

haven't had a pay rise in five years, and information is now

soaring towards 3%. Real wages are being squeezed, and people will

start to feel a lot poorer. If they cannot keep their government

together and they have to call another election, according to

current opinion polls, Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party have a very

good chance of winning because people are fed up with the Tory

policies. People had better get their acts together and start acting

like a government who are coordinated not only on this, but

also on the huge issue of Brexit. There isn't any sign of that at the

moment. Public sector workers deserve a pay rise, and I believe

that is coming. I cannot envisage there will be a budget where the

Chancellor stays up and says they will keep it at 1%. I don't think it

will happen. After what we have lived through this year, it's not

going to happen. But they need to find out where they find this. An

extra 1% on the whole public sector payroll is ?3 billion. It is the

equivalent of another penny on income tax. There was a report this

morning saying that the public don't mind a rise in taxes if it goes

towards this. Lets go on to Buzzfeed. There is a story that's

interesting, talking about the fact that a number of people who are

missing presumed dead as a result of the Grenfell Tower disaster all

ended up in a small, concentrated number of flats. It seems that as

the fire took hold beneath them, the people at the top of the block went

upwards and outwards, hoping to escape the fire. Although the police

have managed to talk to at least one person from 106 flats lower down in

the block, and they know that among those flats, 18 people died, they

say they have not been able to locate anybody alive from the top 23

flats. They don't know how many people were there for many reasons.

They don't know how many people moved up. They know that a number of

the flats were being sublet, and the council have no record of how many

people were in those flats. They also don't know how many people were

staying over as guests for Ramadan. There are a lot of conspiracy

theories, because there are lot of conspiracy theories and mistrust of

the authorities. A lot of people feel that the authorities locally

are trying to cover-up the number of dead. The people in the council are

trying to frantically identify who was there that night. They are

asking anyone who was there that night, even if they were staying

there is legally, to come forward and identify themselves. They know

that people who were staying there are too scared to come forwards in

case they face some action. I was there in the wake of the disaster,

and I was walking towards the tube in the evening. I overheard somebody

talking, who didn't see me and my producer, and somebody said, the BBC

is part of the conspiracy. You walk past and you think, you know, we are

reporting what the police are telling us, and the police are

telling us that from what they understand, it is this number of

people who were in the apartments when the whole thing went up, and

they probably will not have a confirmed figure until the end of

the year. This is where ministers have to step up and forget politics.

Some are forget worried about the ramifications. Trust has been eroded

because of all of this drip drip, not because of the deaths, which are

heartbreaking, but because of all this other information, such as

government buildings, hospitals and schools being said to have this

cladding on them, but we're not being told which ones. And who

brought that cladding and who is to blame? That feeds all this. I

certainly don't believe that. In years and years of being ignored,

and the feelings they had of these places being dangerous being

ignored. One thing the Home Office could do is to come out and say, we

will not take any action against anyone, irrespective of their

immigration status and we will offer a lifetime amnesty, that would make

a difference. At Home Office are saying that they will not take

action. They are not offering an amnesty for the rest of their lives.

I should just quickly say, it looks as if they have picked a judge to

head the enquiry into the Grenfell Tower disaster. This was coming

tomorrow, so fair play to the Times. What this reminds me of, remember

the child sex abuse enquiry, where we have had four judges? The victim

groups were not happy with the choice of judge. I just hope we

don't have this down. There is some unease already about this judge, Sir

Martin Moore. I hope we can move on about this and the enquiry can

start. Never mind the Times with this story. The source is confirmed

tonight to our Laura Kuenssberg. Finally, a sad day, Michael Bond,

the creator of Paddington Bear, has died at the age of 91. Do you

remember the books growing up? I was old enough to be around when the

Paddington books were first published. They were almost the

first books I learnt to read with. I also had a Paddington Bear in

somebody's house when my daughter took her first steps. We took the

boots of the little Paddington and put them on her feet, and they

fitted perfectly. I have a photo of it. One of the actors who put trade

Paddington in the TV show, he read that Paddington was a Peruvian Bear,

so he came to the audition with a South American accent. And Michael

Bond said, no, more like Noel Coward! Thank you both for coming.