29/06/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Tim Stanley, lead writer at The Daily Telegraph,

and Jessica Elgot, Political Correspondent

Tomorrow's front pages starting with.

welcome to you both. The front pages... We're not doing them, we

are so short a time we're going straight on. The Metro is where we

begin. Squeaky bum time. That takes hand-picking. Prime Minister clings

to power implying it was a bit nip and tuck from Theresa May today

because of her lack of majority. I'm impressed by this because it managed

to combine two stories in one. One story is the purchasing of DUP

support so the government giving ?33 per taxpayer in order to get the

support they need in order to get the Queen's speech voted through

which happened today by a margin of 223 -- 323-309. Essentially that is

the story, they have paid off the DUP and because they have support

they now have a agenda. But it has exposed how things are going was

back in the Metro says Theresa May squeaked through the speech and the

nature is everyone will be from now on. This is the best it gets for

Theresa May. This is all of the Conservative MP votes, no rebels and

all of the DUP members. Every vote will be this close. These are the

types of things the DUP said yes we will supported that they cannot be

sure if they get around to anything as? It covers finance, security, a

confidence motion, Brexit legislation so the very basic start

of the daily life of the government. That could continue but other things

could be disagreed upon and we should listen to save the DUP has

forced a U-turn on things like means testing, the Winter fuel allowance

and the triple lock and pensions. And of course as we will discuss

with the abortion amendment, the price has already shot up a little

bit because the government has caved on one other aspect. Why don't we

talk about that? Abortion concession had soft Tory revolt on the Queen 's

speech, this is an amendment tabled by the Labour MP Stella Crecy.

Normally amendments like this on specific issues usually fall by the

wayside and I get support there was something about this that really

caught the attention of MPs. I think it is because women in Northern

Ireland if they come over here for an abortion they have to pay for it

even though the UK taxpayers pay for the NHS but because it is so

restricted in Northern Ireland most of them will travel over here if

they want to have a termination. Most MPs, most Tory MPs said they

had no idea this was the case. It seemed like a really strange

anomaly. It is bizarre they didn't know because there are certain

things about Northern Ireland which set it very much a part in

legislative terms for the rest of the UK. But the key thing they

didn't know is if they came here to have a termination that they

wouldn't have won on the NHS and that they would have a charge. When

Stella Crecy put this forward and it is a bit of political gameplaying

with baiting the government to see if they would do this if they are in

a deal with the DUP, love to talk to the Mac 40 MPs might have abstained

or at the very least expressed concerns to the whip about the

issue. The government seemed to decide that they have two act in a

policy which has been the case for decades in the course of the

morning. With cross-party support. You are absolutely right. Abortion

remains devolved when it comes to Northern Ireland and there was a

ruling by the Belfast Court of Appeal today that it is not a

judicial issue, it is a political issue to be decided by the Stormont

assembly. This is why I think the amendment was so clever. She

identified the one aspect of the Northern Ireland arrangements on

abortion which the Commons could legitimately have a say on. That is

the issue if you can't have an abortion within Northern Ireland

except for cases of rape and help, if you cannot have on their... It's

not even for rape or incest. It is if the mother's health or well-being

is at risk. OK and a medical emergency. If you cannot have one in

Northern Ireland than he pays for it in England? That legitimately was

within the purview of the Commons discussion, Ian Paisley junior said

that on Wednesday in a debate about the Queen's speech. He said this is

something England can do something about so by seizing upon that one

bit, she identified the thing the Commons could legitimately discuss.

There was support and it didn't end up getting voted on, she withdrew

it. So she probably managed to identify the one thing that you

could actually do through the Commons. Movie: looking at the

express which is a somewhat perplexing headline. May gets big E

exits boost. How? When I first saw this I couldn't understand what the

story was about and then I read it and this was about an amendment

which will supported by good chunk of Labour MPs against the advice of

their own party whips which was to keep Britain in the single market.

The way the express have done this is to say that this motion was

rejected by thumping 322 votes - one original one which was betrayed as a

defeat for Labour but it was a back table amendments. Jeremy Corbyn

whipped the majority of his MPs to vote to abstain on the amendment so

it is a bit of a technical way of betraying it. It happily into the

next headline which we understand a bit more which is on page two of the

sun. Regular trio Corbinned. Some of the MPs have voted to stay in the

single market lost their place on the Labour front bench. Corbin

sacked three and two May have resigned. One definitely reside.

This is what is really fascinating. Everyone is talking about the

election that didn't go the way people expected. I have been away

for a few weeks and it seems like Labour won the election. The

government is on the back foot so that outcome is unexpected that the

other one that other people are talking about is that the Labour

front bench has reconciled itself to Brexit and not just to Brexit to

leaving the single market. So we're now in a position where Jeremy

Corbyn is whipping his people to keep them on side of leaving the

single market, sacking people who disagree with that and of course the

left and much of the Labour Party are cheering him on. It is true the

election did not produced a hard Brexit Tory led government that

everybody expected that would have this massive majority. True. But the

election result has empowered Jeremy Corbyn which means you have the

Labour Party which is essentially committed to a kind of hard Brexit.

And will thereby disappoint a lot of the Labour members who voted remain?

It is striking when you compare the Glastonbury 2016 wire it was the

time of the referendum and many people are customary weighted in

their tents for the result and this year the great reception that Jeremy

Corbyn got and it feels like there is quite a disconnect from that

young demographic who are mostly pro-remain and their feelings about

Jeremy Corbyn because as Tim just said the basically has

rubber-stamped hard Brexit. Left, right and centre there are divisions

where you look. The times. Keep the cost of cladding style tower experts

told. This is the Times investigation revealing council

pressure over the cost of the refit. We must save the BBC has not seen

these e-mails and we will tell you at the moment for the Council have

said in response. Because of obvious legal implications of this I'm going

to stick very precisely to the text. It describes this in minutes of

meetings, price outlets and other correspondence which focuses on

cost-cutting before the refurb is. Which has been linked to the fire

which seven people tragically died in. One example. One e-mail lists

three options for the reduction of costs in cladding intended to encase

the building. For instance the use of aluminium panels instead of sink

which could mean a saving of 293,000 pounds. Of course zinc panels would

be noncombustible but the aluminium cladding which was eventually used

had a flammable core. Let's tell you what the council said. They have

said that the Cabinet of the Council and the person the Council are

leading, rock fielding melon, are... Based on the advice received from

the managing company which was not only response will for delivering

the project but ensuring the Bill James met the current regulations.

-- building. They are asking for a justification in the increase of the

budget which would have been made in the spirit of ensuring public funds

whilst being poorly managed and could be justified. Safety would not

have been compared my son are quite clear that they allowed the right

amount of expenditure. If you look at the very beginning of the time

story it says in that they received, the records show little evidence

that is clearly something the council has contested in the

statement that safety concerns would have been part of the

decision-making process. I don't know if we can move on, a story

going on throughout the whole of the day about a public meeting which

should have held the night in Kensington and Chelsea Council. The

Daily Telegraph briefly, a private meeting and the Guardian and other

media organisations got a court order to allow reporters into the

meeting. Yes during the course of the day that was a High Court ruling

that says journalist should be allowed into this, what was supposed

to be a public meeting which was changed to be private at the

council. And when the leader of the council realised at the start of the

meeting that there were journalists he had another meeting to take

place. He did seem to understand they were there in the first place.

And finally some levity if you don't mind. The Daily Express, not in the

house, MPs can go tireless. The common speaker sweeping away a

custom for 100 years, should men have to wear a tie? I have been

meditating upon the Sordo. On the one hand the wearing a retired means

you have two the business, the extra effort to look presentable means

your mind is focused. On the other hand some people wear such ludicrous

and absurd tyres that they themselves undermine the

institution. Yes or no. I like the type 94 wearing one. Don't ever turn

up here without wearing one that is it for the papers tonight.

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