:00:19. > :00:22.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:23. > :00:26.With me are Tim Stanley, lead writer at The Daily Telegraph,
:00:27. > :00:27.and Jessica Elgot, Political Correspondent
:00:28. > :00:29.Tomorrow's front pages starting with.
:00:30. > :00:36.welcome to you both. The front pages... We're not doing them, we
:00:37. > :00:43.are so short a time we're going straight on. The Metro is where we
:00:44. > :00:51.begin. Squeaky bum time. That takes hand-picking. Prime Minister clings
:00:52. > :00:56.to power implying it was a bit nip and tuck from Theresa May today
:00:57. > :00:59.because of her lack of majority. I'm impressed by this because it managed
:01:00. > :01:07.to combine two stories in one. One story is the purchasing of DUP
:01:08. > :01:11.support so the government giving ?33 per taxpayer in order to get the
:01:12. > :01:19.support they need in order to get the Queen's speech voted through
:01:20. > :01:25.which happened today by a margin of 223 -- 323-309. Essentially that is
:01:26. > :01:32.the story, they have paid off the DUP and because they have support
:01:33. > :01:35.they now have a agenda. But it has exposed how things are going was
:01:36. > :01:41.back in the Metro says Theresa May squeaked through the speech and the
:01:42. > :01:47.nature is everyone will be from now on. This is the best it gets for
:01:48. > :01:51.Theresa May. This is all of the Conservative MP votes, no rebels and
:01:52. > :01:57.all of the DUP members. Every vote will be this close. These are the
:01:58. > :02:00.types of things the DUP said yes we will supported that they cannot be
:02:01. > :02:09.sure if they get around to anything as? It covers finance, security, a
:02:10. > :02:13.confidence motion, Brexit legislation so the very basic start
:02:14. > :02:17.of the daily life of the government. That could continue but other things
:02:18. > :02:21.could be disagreed upon and we should listen to save the DUP has
:02:22. > :02:24.forced a U-turn on things like means testing, the Winter fuel allowance
:02:25. > :02:28.and the triple lock and pensions. And of course as we will discuss
:02:29. > :02:31.with the abortion amendment, the price has already shot up a little
:02:32. > :02:43.bit because the government has caved on one other aspect. Why don't we
:02:44. > :02:47.talk about that? Abortion concession had soft Tory revolt on the Queen 's
:02:48. > :02:51.speech, this is an amendment tabled by the Labour MP Stella Crecy.
:02:52. > :02:57.Normally amendments like this on specific issues usually fall by the
:02:58. > :03:00.wayside and I get support there was something about this that really
:03:01. > :03:04.caught the attention of MPs. I think it is because women in Northern
:03:05. > :03:09.Ireland if they come over here for an abortion they have to pay for it
:03:10. > :03:12.even though the UK taxpayers pay for the NHS but because it is so
:03:13. > :03:16.restricted in Northern Ireland most of them will travel over here if
:03:17. > :03:23.they want to have a termination. Most MPs, most Tory MPs said they
:03:24. > :03:27.had no idea this was the case. It seemed like a really strange
:03:28. > :03:29.anomaly. It is bizarre they didn't know because there are certain
:03:30. > :03:34.things about Northern Ireland which set it very much a part in
:03:35. > :03:37.legislative terms for the rest of the UK. But the key thing they
:03:38. > :03:40.didn't know is if they came here to have a termination that they
:03:41. > :03:45.wouldn't have won on the NHS and that they would have a charge. When
:03:46. > :03:48.Stella Crecy put this forward and it is a bit of political gameplaying
:03:49. > :03:53.with baiting the government to see if they would do this if they are in
:03:54. > :04:00.a deal with the DUP, love to talk to the Mac 40 MPs might have abstained
:04:01. > :04:03.or at the very least expressed concerns to the whip about the
:04:04. > :04:07.issue. The government seemed to decide that they have two act in a
:04:08. > :04:11.policy which has been the case for decades in the course of the
:04:12. > :04:18.morning. With cross-party support. You are absolutely right. Abortion
:04:19. > :04:21.remains devolved when it comes to Northern Ireland and there was a
:04:22. > :04:26.ruling by the Belfast Court of Appeal today that it is not a
:04:27. > :04:31.judicial issue, it is a political issue to be decided by the Stormont
:04:32. > :04:36.assembly. This is why I think the amendment was so clever. She
:04:37. > :04:38.identified the one aspect of the Northern Ireland arrangements on
:04:39. > :04:43.abortion which the Commons could legitimately have a say on. That is
:04:44. > :04:47.the issue if you can't have an abortion within Northern Ireland
:04:48. > :04:56.except for cases of rape and help, if you cannot have on their... It's
:04:57. > :05:03.not even for rape or incest. It is if the mother's health or well-being
:05:04. > :05:08.is at risk. OK and a medical emergency. If you cannot have one in
:05:09. > :05:11.Northern Ireland than he pays for it in England? That legitimately was
:05:12. > :05:18.within the purview of the Commons discussion, Ian Paisley junior said
:05:19. > :05:22.that on Wednesday in a debate about the Queen's speech. He said this is
:05:23. > :05:27.something England can do something about so by seizing upon that one
:05:28. > :05:30.bit, she identified the thing the Commons could legitimately discuss.
:05:31. > :05:36.There was support and it didn't end up getting voted on, she withdrew
:05:37. > :05:39.it. So she probably managed to identify the one thing that you
:05:40. > :05:43.could actually do through the Commons. Movie: looking at the
:05:44. > :05:53.express which is a somewhat perplexing headline. May gets big E
:05:54. > :05:56.exits boost. How? When I first saw this I couldn't understand what the
:05:57. > :06:05.story was about and then I read it and this was about an amendment
:06:06. > :06:08.which will supported by good chunk of Labour MPs against the advice of
:06:09. > :06:12.their own party whips which was to keep Britain in the single market.
:06:13. > :06:22.The way the express have done this is to say that this motion was
:06:23. > :06:27.rejected by thumping 322 votes - one original one which was betrayed as a
:06:28. > :06:32.defeat for Labour but it was a back table amendments. Jeremy Corbyn
:06:33. > :06:36.whipped the majority of his MPs to vote to abstain on the amendment so
:06:37. > :06:42.it is a bit of a technical way of betraying it. It happily into the
:06:43. > :06:55.next headline which we understand a bit more which is on page two of the
:06:56. > :07:00.sun. Regular trio Corbinned. Some of the MPs have voted to stay in the
:07:01. > :07:03.single market lost their place on the Labour front bench. Corbin
:07:04. > :07:12.sacked three and two May have resigned. One definitely reside.
:07:13. > :07:15.This is what is really fascinating. Everyone is talking about the
:07:16. > :07:18.election that didn't go the way people expected. I have been away
:07:19. > :07:21.for a few weeks and it seems like Labour won the election. The
:07:22. > :07:25.government is on the back foot so that outcome is unexpected that the
:07:26. > :07:28.other one that other people are talking about is that the Labour
:07:29. > :07:33.front bench has reconciled itself to Brexit and not just to Brexit to
:07:34. > :07:36.leaving the single market. So we're now in a position where Jeremy
:07:37. > :07:41.Corbyn is whipping his people to keep them on side of leaving the
:07:42. > :07:45.single market, sacking people who disagree with that and of course the
:07:46. > :07:50.left and much of the Labour Party are cheering him on. It is true the
:07:51. > :07:53.election did not produced a hard Brexit Tory led government that
:07:54. > :08:00.everybody expected that would have this massive majority. True. But the
:08:01. > :08:04.election result has empowered Jeremy Corbyn which means you have the
:08:05. > :08:10.Labour Party which is essentially committed to a kind of hard Brexit.
:08:11. > :08:15.And will thereby disappoint a lot of the Labour members who voted remain?
:08:16. > :08:19.It is striking when you compare the Glastonbury 2016 wire it was the
:08:20. > :08:25.time of the referendum and many people are customary weighted in
:08:26. > :08:31.their tents for the result and this year the great reception that Jeremy
:08:32. > :08:37.Corbyn got and it feels like there is quite a disconnect from that
:08:38. > :08:42.young demographic who are mostly pro-remain and their feelings about
:08:43. > :08:46.Jeremy Corbyn because as Tim just said the basically has
:08:47. > :08:51.rubber-stamped hard Brexit. Left, right and centre there are divisions
:08:52. > :08:55.where you look. The times. Keep the cost of cladding style tower experts
:08:56. > :09:01.told. This is the Times investigation revealing council
:09:02. > :09:05.pressure over the cost of the refit. We must save the BBC has not seen
:09:06. > :09:10.these e-mails and we will tell you at the moment for the Council have
:09:11. > :09:14.said in response. Because of obvious legal implications of this I'm going
:09:15. > :09:20.to stick very precisely to the text. It describes this in minutes of
:09:21. > :09:23.meetings, price outlets and other correspondence which focuses on
:09:24. > :09:27.cost-cutting before the refurb is. Which has been linked to the fire
:09:28. > :09:32.which seven people tragically died in. One example. One e-mail lists
:09:33. > :09:36.three options for the reduction of costs in cladding intended to encase
:09:37. > :09:44.the building. For instance the use of aluminium panels instead of sink
:09:45. > :09:49.which could mean a saving of 293,000 pounds. Of course zinc panels would
:09:50. > :09:55.be noncombustible but the aluminium cladding which was eventually used
:09:56. > :10:00.had a flammable core. Let's tell you what the council said. They have
:10:01. > :10:12.said that the Cabinet of the Council and the person the Council are
:10:13. > :10:18.leading, rock fielding melon, are... Based on the advice received from
:10:19. > :10:23.the managing company which was not only response will for delivering
:10:24. > :10:30.the project but ensuring the Bill James met the current regulations.
:10:31. > :10:33.-- building. They are asking for a justification in the increase of the
:10:34. > :10:38.budget which would have been made in the spirit of ensuring public funds
:10:39. > :10:41.whilst being poorly managed and could be justified. Safety would not
:10:42. > :10:46.have been compared my son are quite clear that they allowed the right
:10:47. > :10:51.amount of expenditure. If you look at the very beginning of the time
:10:52. > :10:58.story it says in that they received, the records show little evidence
:10:59. > :11:02.that is clearly something the council has contested in the
:11:03. > :11:07.statement that safety concerns would have been part of the
:11:08. > :11:12.decision-making process. I don't know if we can move on, a story
:11:13. > :11:20.going on throughout the whole of the day about a public meeting which
:11:21. > :11:26.should have held the night in Kensington and Chelsea Council. The
:11:27. > :11:31.Daily Telegraph briefly, a private meeting and the Guardian and other
:11:32. > :11:35.media organisations got a court order to allow reporters into the
:11:36. > :11:39.meeting. Yes during the course of the day that was a High Court ruling
:11:40. > :11:42.that says journalist should be allowed into this, what was supposed
:11:43. > :11:50.to be a public meeting which was changed to be private at the
:11:51. > :11:54.council. And when the leader of the council realised at the start of the
:11:55. > :11:58.meeting that there were journalists he had another meeting to take
:11:59. > :12:01.place. He did seem to understand they were there in the first place.
:12:02. > :12:07.And finally some levity if you don't mind. The Daily Express, not in the
:12:08. > :12:13.house, MPs can go tireless. The common speaker sweeping away a
:12:14. > :12:17.custom for 100 years, should men have to wear a tie? I have been
:12:18. > :12:22.meditating upon the Sordo. On the one hand the wearing a retired means
:12:23. > :12:25.you have two the business, the extra effort to look presentable means
:12:26. > :12:29.your mind is focused. On the other hand some people wear such ludicrous
:12:30. > :12:38.and absurd tyres that they themselves undermine the
:12:39. > :12:43.institution. Yes or no. I like the type 94 wearing one. Don't ever turn
:12:44. > :12:49.up here without wearing one that is it for the papers tonight.
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