01/07/2017 The Papers

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

-- Hello and welcome to our look ahead to

With me are Benedicte Paviot of France 24 and Kevin

We start with the Mail on Sunday, which claims

that the Prime Minister Theresa May is considering a dramatic U-turn

on university tuition fees to attract younger voters

The Observer reports a Tory revolt against public sector cuts,

suggesting Theresa May is facing pressure from within her Cabinet,

who are demanding a radical overhaul of state funding

Brexit talks is the Sunday Telegraph's headline as the paper

leads with concern that number 10 has told business leaders that

Theresa May could abandon Brexit talks over the "divorce bill".

The Express reports that British fishermen will be given exclusive

rights to a 12-mile zone around the coastline under

And "Rogue SAS unit accused of executing civilians"

is the headline on the cover of The Times.

First, a good evening to you both. We start with the Telegraph and the

front page. Kevin, do you want to kick that one off? This is a

briefing from business leaders that has apparently been given by a

former number ten figure. This person, who has not been named, was

in Downing Street at the time, just after the election and they have

subsequently left, which does not matter which

-- doesn't narrow it down. They say that he has been told that if

Brussels tries to set -- play hardball on the divorce Bill, how

much question pay to leave the European Union to meet its previous

commitments, then the Prime Minister is willing to walk in or storm out,

as we lock -- like to see comment journalistic circles. This happened

in September. This has been designed for domestic consumption, which

essentially is to make the Prime Minister because if she is talking

tough in the eyes of the public. I think this would have been more

credible if it had happened before the election or if conservatives had

a good result in the election, but really, the Prime Minister has been

severely weakened and, I think, the European leaders have smelt blood.

The delay she does not have strong hand. The whole point of calling the

election was so that she has a strong mandate and she does have

that. I just don't think it carries the same week that it would have

done had she got the result that she was looking for. It's not something

she wants to have attached to her. Her storming out, it would not be

good PR? I think it's interesting that according to this person that

has now left Downing Street, it would be for domestic consumption

and four September. What happens in September? Annual party conference.

Funny that! Just a happy coincidence! I think what is

interesting is that this divorce Bill, whether as you 100 billion

euros or half of that, this was not explicit in the referendum campaign

and there are people who feel that not a single penny, some people and

the government, believe that not a single penny should be paid off any

divorce Bill, but of course that's not generally true in the divorce

anyway. So I think that there is a problem. Yes, the rest of the

European Union is watching extremely carefully, both the result of the

election that we fought happened on Friday the 9th of June, but also how

this is all playing out, whether it was the Queen 's speech, the tapered

belabour our amendments, etc and I think an interesting line in this

piece in the Sunday Telegraph, about, the liquid -- the move could

be seen as deliberately provocative by you tube leaders. The European

Union has said that they are not looking to punish Britain, that it

needs to be beneficial. I don't see how walking out the work score deal

at all. Especially when looking to get a good trade deal as well. This

is supposed to be settled before we had to discussions. Britain wanted

these talks to happen at the same time. If we start point off on the

divorce poll, doesn't suggest that will get much leeway when it comes

to getting a trade deal. Just to rent this particular story off, in

some European states, in particular Germany, the finance minister is

already seeing that I suspect the British are going to feel that they

have made a mistake and what is the likelihood of ours going back on

Brexit? That is so much going on. She said, Jimmy say I'm a dreamer,

but are not the only one. All of these knots, wink, wink. We have had

the referendum. The clock is ticking on Article 50. I don't think there's

any going back now. Let's move on, the chaos continues, Conservative

chaos over tuition fees U-turn. Some of the study up for us. This is

interesting. According to Simon Walters, the political editor of the

mail on Sunday, Damian Green, who is briefing heavily, the most senior

minister in the government, effectively a Deputy Prime Minister,

says that the national debate may well be needed on the issue of

tuition fees and in order to get back the youth vote, a support that

is seen as having very much voted in favour of Labour and having been

wooed successfully by Labour, and particularly by that late pledge by

the Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to say that tuition fees will

be waived completely, although they were introduced by the Labour Party

initially, and then increased by the Tories later on, that it is

absolutely capital that the Conservative Party change a lot of

its fundamental core beliefs and therefore backed down on tuition

fees. So this would be the mother of old U-turns. One can imagine, if

this is indeed true, that Damian Green would be saying something that

were not sanctioned by the Prime Minister herself. So one wonders

what other of the core beliefs are going to be ditched in order to woo

back the youth vote or indeed the actual votes -- the older fought. It

makes you wonder what the Tories really stand for now, doesn't it?

They keep changing. I would love to be a fly on the wall in Thorpe

Hammond pots house right now. If this has landed on his doorstep, he

will be taking his hero to rate now. This is ?8 billion a year to axe

tuition fees. We would the money come from? The premised, all

throughout the election campaign, was criticising Labour and Jeremy

Corbyn for the magic Mainichi, that there's a quote that has come to

back -- come back to haunt quite significantly. He doesn't say, but

even that's a signal that they are going to look at it. People would

argue that tuition fees actually haven't had a detrimental effect on

encouraging young people from working-class or less well-off

backgrounds to go into higher education because you don't have to

pay the fees upfront, you pay them back when she were paying a certain

amount of money, so it is all well and good to see we will act tuition

fees and get young people coming back to us, but I think there is

something much more deep-seated in terms of the Conservative Party,

they have become toxic. Let's turn to the Sunday Times. A rogue SCSI

unit. I believe these are allegations that we see at the BBC

have not been able to verify. It no identity of anyone or the unit

itself, but it does cover the front page of the times. It's an

incredible story. If it turns out to be true. There has been an extensive

investigation by the Sunday Times. The allegation essentially is quite

simple, the rogue SCSI unit in Afghanistan killing, executing,

unarmed civilians and it would appear, allegedly, trying to affect

-- set them up by leaving guns which are traditionally used by the

Taliban and then taking pictures or looks different. The allegation is

that these are unarmed civilians that were taken at by this so-called

rogue SCSI unit. There is an investigation which has been

confirmed by the Defence Secretary that doesn't exist. Previously. Yes,

previously. In February. Yes, any secure underground bunker in

Cornwall, which makes it sending the secretive and they have been

caddying at this investigation and it seems, according to sources, that

it has been a credible claim, salt, as I say, the tones are to be true,

this will be an absolute scandal. We will stay with the times. This story

is that parents face ?60 fence when children are late for school. The

bit harsh, isn't it? Yes, particularly since the bizarre says

that sanctions to improve punctuality could improve --

included making children collect litter, remove chewing gum or mop

classroom floors before school and then we learn that it is a measure

that is used in Cisco gear that is often a leader, it is pointed out

here, a leader in academic tables. It says the fence could be used as a

last resort. I think that there is going to be some very worried

parents. I would be very cheeriest to know whether there's going to

improve the punctuality and that sounds a bit like a parking ticket

because you could get ?60 fee, fine, if your children consistently turn

up late, so be careful! That could rise to ?120 if it does not paid

within 21 days. I've been caught with that one before! Nothing is

good to focus appearance meant more, I think, than ?60. That's a lot of

money, for being late. I will have to set the alarm clock a little

earlier. Maybe it should be means tested. That is really complicated.

I think it should be more, if your lovely close school because you have

no excuse. Do you of course to the school? We haven't been wagered and

we definitely would be if we would be charged. How would you enforce

it? Someone's come to detest that in court. Let's go back to the

Telegraph. We've been reading with a study on BBC News today. Sorry we

are looking at is that the council ultimatum. -- is the cancer

ultimatum. The Balkans have been reading with this. The government is

keeping an extremely close eye on the behaviour, watching whether they

are on the ground, whether they give interviews, whether they actually

seem out of touch. But on this morning was incredible. I can crash

of an interview. The way that the council leader resigned last week

was almost grudgingly resigning and blaming the media. Of course, the

anger was palpable in the first five days. The point is that, can we

really wait next week for the election of another council leader?

Is that the normal modus operandi? Don't believe in being overreactive,

but I think that really, couldn't that have been moved along? I think

it is worrying when we hear that at least one or two people have been

charged rent for flats that have burnt down. Of course, this is a

huge task, for any council, and I think there is good well, but there

are lessons that need to be learnt for the future. And I'm not even

going to mention the whole cladding scandal. One thing I want on the

ground and the seen it anywhere else, though stored told by a

resident of what's next in the tower, that whole area, there was a

consultation that was closed and overnight, where they were walking

and redeveloping the theory and achievement -- changing the use of

that area. This is all now gone completely quiet and it would seem

wholly inappropriate. What's interesting is that we were talking

to one of the volunteers today and she was saying that she still not

really picking up on council presence on the ground, helping

those residents. That extraordinary. It makes you wonder and you would

have thought that the local authority would have some kind of

emergency response strategy in place for and clearly this was an

extraordinarily awful incident but you would think they would have some

kind of sport -- this book response. That's for a national commission,

that will be really important. This must never happen again. One more

misstep and that desert. We have about 30 seconds. That fantastic

picture on the Telegraph. The Lions Deidre dream after thrilling win

against the all Blacks. Either of you watch this game? I don't -- I

didn't, to screaming children to do with this money. Nobody gave him a

chance. It said the fantastically for next week. One more game in the

series. Dare to dream. Dear to win. Thank you.

You'll both be back at 11.30pm for another look at the stories