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:00:00. > :00:20.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

:00:21. > :00:26.With me are Kevin Schofield of Politics Home and Benedicte Paviot

:00:27. > :00:43.We start with the Mail on Sunday, which claims

:00:44. > :00:46.that the Prime Minister Theresa May is considering a dramatic U-turn

:00:47. > :00:48.on university tuition fees, to attract younger

:00:49. > :00:52.The Observer reports a Tory revolt against public sector cuts,

:00:53. > :00:55.suggesting Theresa May is facing pressure from within her cabinet,

:00:56. > :00:58.who are demanding a radical overhaul of state funding for public

:00:59. > :01:02.The Sunday Telegraph reports claims that Number 10 has told business

:01:03. > :01:04.leaders that Theresa May could walk out of Brexit talks over

:01:05. > :01:12.The Express reports that British fishermen will be given exclusive

:01:13. > :01:15.rights to a 12-mile zone around the coastline

:01:16. > :01:21.And 'Rogue SAS unit accused of executing civilians',

:01:22. > :01:32.is the headline on the cover of The Sunday Times.

:01:33. > :01:43.Let's get on with the review. Starting with the Telegraph and this

:01:44. > :01:48.Rex app walk out. -- Brexit walk out. This is a warning that Theresa

:01:49. > :01:57.May would walk out or we'll walk out of the Brexit discussions. I don't

:01:58. > :02:01.know if we heard this from marine person or David Davis. Anyway,

:02:02. > :02:05.whoever is representing Britain at this time we'll walk out if we are

:02:06. > :02:13.told that they will ask for a multi-million pound bill. This has

:02:14. > :02:16.been briefed to business leaders by a member of the Number 10 staff

:02:17. > :02:24.after the election. We don't know who that person is, but there could

:02:25. > :02:30.be a mass exodus from Downing Street. A lot of people are saying

:02:31. > :02:33.they are fed up. So a private briefing was given to business

:02:34. > :02:42.leaders, saying this is what Theresa May will do. The flaw in this

:02:43. > :02:47.argument is if you want to walk out and make a stand, it's best not to

:02:48. > :02:52.let people know three months in advance. The surprise is kind of

:02:53. > :02:58.lost. Absolutely. People will say, we knew you were going to do that!

:02:59. > :03:04.Also, I wonder how much of an impact this will have, given the result of

:03:05. > :03:09.the general election, which the Prime Minister calls to increase the

:03:10. > :03:19.mandate. Clearly that's all gone up in smithereens. My reading this, I

:03:20. > :03:23.have to read it twice because by the time I got through it for the second

:03:24. > :03:27.time I thought, well, it's a bit of an insult to British intelligence to

:03:28. > :03:30.think they are going to put on this show, because they are saying it's

:03:31. > :03:35.for domestic consumption. We don't need to see that, do we? Maybe it's

:03:36. > :03:38.a way of galvanising the troops before the Conservative Party

:03:39. > :03:44.Conference, before the autumn kicks off and we will see later in the

:03:45. > :03:49.review that there are many twitching ministers asking for the

:03:50. > :03:54.pursestrings to be loosened. Here it would seem the pursestrings will not

:03:55. > :03:58.be loosened and certainly not to the extent that the divorce bill that

:03:59. > :04:03.the EU leaders seem to be asking for. That bill ranges from about 100

:04:04. > :04:08.billion euros to 50 billion euros, or even down to about 40. What is

:04:09. > :04:16.interesting, or the Sunday Telegraph article also says, if some pools

:04:17. > :04:19.have suggested that the voter -- voters are against paying large sums

:04:20. > :04:23.to Brussels. Not surprising because we didn't hear about it in the

:04:24. > :04:29.so-called campaign, which lacked a lot of information. It is

:04:30. > :04:33.interesting. It says, yet, UK officials are increasingly resigned

:04:34. > :04:38.to the fact that they will have to pay when they leave and of course in

:04:39. > :04:46.any divorce you do need to pay. This will be money that you've already

:04:47. > :04:55.committed to. Precisely. You can't walk away from your commitments.

:04:56. > :05:00.It fell through commitment to previously made. It does make you

:05:01. > :05:08.wonder why this was revealed as to what an. As I say, I think it can be

:05:09. > :05:14.counter-productive because you are basically showing your hand. Again,

:05:15. > :05:17.it is foolish to think that EU leaders and their advisers are

:05:18. > :05:22.reading this. This will not make for cordial relations. Do you think

:05:23. > :05:30.other EU leaders might have envisaged this as a scenario? I

:05:31. > :05:39.wonder! The Sunday Express. Still on Brexit, at this time we are

:05:40. > :05:45.literally fishing. In the same way that dominated the Queen's Speech,

:05:46. > :05:49.it will dominate parliamentary life and therefore all about jobs and

:05:50. > :05:53.economic life of this country for years to come and actually probably

:05:54. > :05:57.wipe a lot of our smiles of our faces because there will be all kind

:05:58. > :06:02.of different foreseen and unforeseen consequences. Anyway, the Sunday

:06:03. > :06:09.express is looking at the fishing rights in our waters. A possessive

:06:10. > :06:16.adjective. Britain is going to take back control of its coasts in

:06:17. > :06:21.accordance with the big take back control. So British fishermen we are

:06:22. > :06:26.told will have the right to a 12 mile zone around the coastline under

:06:27. > :06:32.the post- Brexit plans to take back control of our fishing policy.

:06:33. > :06:35.Interesting as the government, according to the Sunday express,

:06:36. > :06:40.will announce on Monday that it is withdrawing from the London

:06:41. > :06:44.fisheries Convention. Personally I have to admit to have not read that

:06:45. > :06:50.bit, London. Soon the London fisheries Convention, meaning the

:06:51. > :06:56.countries that could, amongst them, that could fish within six miles of

:06:57. > :07:04.British shores will be banned from fishing within 12 miles off the

:07:05. > :07:11.coast. Intriguingly on this front page it says Michael Gove, whose

:07:12. > :07:17.father's Aberdeen fishing business closedown because of Brussels

:07:18. > :07:22.bureaucracy, said" leaving the London". Presumably fishing

:07:23. > :07:34.convention are the next two words! Perhaps Michael Gove could tell us.

:07:35. > :07:40.Obviously fish can't tell, so then they will be gone, presumably.

:07:41. > :07:51.Pollution doesn't respect waters. Very true. Michael Gove has always

:07:52. > :07:59.given as the reason as why he backed Rex it, because of the Common

:08:00. > :08:05.Fisheries Policy. -- Brexit. Now fate have conspired that he is in a

:08:06. > :08:11.position to take back control. To help take back control. It will be

:08:12. > :08:16.interesting to see how much fish we collect from other EU shores. It

:08:17. > :08:24.adds up to millions of pounds, is that right? It will be interesting

:08:25. > :08:31.to see if the consumption of fish goes up in Britain. Are these fish

:08:32. > :08:37.we are going to export? The observer. Top Tories in revolt

:08:38. > :08:43.against Theresa May over public spending, is one of the stories. In

:08:44. > :08:53.revolt over public sector cash. She has got her plate rather full! Yes

:08:54. > :08:57.and we mentioned before that there was a witness in the position and

:08:58. > :09:02.now she has demonstrated that her own Cabinet realised that she has

:09:03. > :09:06.been pushing her around. An increasing number of Cabinet

:09:07. > :09:11.ministers are talking about the public sector pay cut. There was a

:09:12. > :09:17.lot of confusion about whether or not Downing Street would want to see

:09:18. > :09:22.the pay cap moved. At the moment since 2010 it has been off-limits

:09:23. > :09:26.for all public sector workers. The feeling now on the back of the

:09:27. > :09:30.election result is clearly that there is a mood in the public that

:09:31. > :09:34.austerity has gone on for too long and particular public sector

:09:35. > :09:48.workers, firefighters, police, people who have really... They

:09:49. > :09:52.deserve a pay rise. So the Prime Minister, colleagues and Cabinet,

:09:53. > :09:59.feel emboldened to go public and try to put as much pressure on it as

:10:00. > :10:03.they can. Also Justine Greening wants more money for schools and

:10:04. > :10:14.Damian Green, who is the closest to the Prime Minister in the Cabinet,

:10:15. > :10:19.effectively her deputy hinted that potentially the tuition fees policy

:10:20. > :10:24.could also be overturned. So there is definitely a move abroad and

:10:25. > :10:35.jockeying for position within Cabinet. That's how the Mail on

:10:36. > :10:40.Sunday leads their front page. This is on their front page as well.

:10:41. > :10:43.That's right. It seems there is real pressure on the Prime Minister

:10:44. > :10:51.actually to make an announcement before the 20th of July, so that it

:10:52. > :10:54.is sense, although MPs won't be in Westminster and talking to each

:10:55. > :10:59.other, which I gather is when a lot of the plotting goes on, but it

:11:00. > :11:06.would seem they want... There may be some announcement a foot. And of

:11:07. > :11:11.course this is on the back of weeks in a demonstration in London and

:11:12. > :11:15.other parts of the UK about stopping austerity, basically. It is

:11:16. > :11:22.interesting that the polls are very bad now. They've been spooked by the

:11:23. > :11:26.election result. The Observer was just showing that now according to

:11:27. > :11:34.the latest poll in the Observer by opinion it shows Theresa May is a

:11:35. > :11:39.-20% and Jeremy Corbyn on 4%. So the election is having it would seem

:11:40. > :11:44.applications as we saw, with the tabled amendments, whether it was on

:11:45. > :11:54.abortion, etc, and very these protests. Living the Sunday Times.

:11:55. > :12:02.This is a story that hasn't been verified by the BBC. We don't

:12:03. > :12:05.exactly know who is involved, but if you could just quickly summarise

:12:06. > :12:12.that for us and I will let you know how the MoD has come back.

:12:13. > :12:20.Essentially these are allegations against so-called row SAS units, who

:12:21. > :12:23.have been accused of executing civilians in Afghanistan and are

:12:24. > :12:29.trying to dress it up as if they have been Taliban insurgents. So

:12:30. > :12:35.essentially they have been accused of working. There is an ongoing

:12:36. > :12:43.operation into allegations against British soldiers in Afghanistan and

:12:44. > :12:50.this is one of the allegations. These are credible claims. The MoD

:12:51. > :12:52.response to this, we've had a spokesperson saying the Royal

:12:53. > :12:55.Military Police has found no evidence of criminal behaviour by

:12:56. > :13:03.the armed forces in Afghanistan. They discount over 90% of the 600 of

:13:04. > :13:06.the allegations made and 10% of the allegations remain. That is a

:13:07. > :13:11.summary of the response from the MoD. Very quickly, I would like to

:13:12. > :13:19.move on to... At the back to the Sunday express, this is going to get

:13:20. > :13:25.people talking. It is hard enough to get him to see the GP, but things

:13:26. > :13:29.possibly getting more tough. Apparently family doctors will be

:13:30. > :13:42.able to turn away all but life or death patients under a new court.

:13:43. > :13:46.The Sunday express has new details of this plan drawn up by members of

:13:47. > :13:52.the BMA's general practitioners committee after a unanimous

:13:53. > :13:59.approval. It would see surgeries closing their doors in emergencies

:14:00. > :14:12.such as flu epidemic, staff shortages, or a cyber attack. That

:14:13. > :14:20.is pretty scary. Very quickly, the Sunday express. Do you know when

:14:21. > :14:28.Wimbledon starts? Monday? Very good! Andy Murray says he is fighting fit.

:14:29. > :14:35.He isn't playing very well, he had a bad end at Queens club. So fingers

:14:36. > :14:42.crossed he can make a decent fist at defending the title. We will be

:14:43. > :14:46.there. Murray hill, or whatever it is called these days. Thank you very

:14:47. > :14:55.much. An absolute pleasure. That's it from us. Meet the Author is next.

:14:56. > :14:58.The Irish writer Paula McGrath's novel, A History of Running Away,

:14:59. > :15:02.is about three women separated by time and place,

:15:03. > :15:05.who are all trying to escape the circumstances of their lives.

:15:06. > :15:09.They're all connected although we don't know how