01/07/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Kevin Schofield of Politics Home and Benedicte Paviot

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

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 for public

The Sunday Telegraph reports claims that Number 10 has told business

leaders that Theresa May could walk out of Brexit talks over

The Express reports that British fishermen will be given exclusive

rights to a 12-mile zone around the coastline

And 'Rogue SAS unit accused of executing civilians',

is the headline on the cover of The Sunday Times.

Let's get on with the review. Starting with the Telegraph and this

Rex app walk out. -- Brexit walk out. This is a warning that Theresa

May would walk out or we'll walk out of the Brexit discussions. I don't

know if we heard this from marine person or David Davis. Anyway,

whoever is representing Britain at this time we'll walk out if we are

told that they will ask for a multi-million pound bill. This has

been briefed to business leaders by a member of the Number 10 staff

after the election. We don't know who that person is, but there could

be a mass exodus from Downing Street. A lot of people are saying

they are fed up. So a private briefing was given to business

leaders, saying this is what Theresa May will do. The flaw in this

argument is if you want to walk out and make a stand, it's best not to

let people know three months in advance. The surprise is kind of

lost. Absolutely. People will say, we knew you were going to do that!

Also, I wonder how much of an impact this will have, given the result of

the general election, which the Prime Minister calls to increase the

mandate. Clearly that's all gone up in smithereens. My reading this, I

have to read it twice because by the time I got through it for the second

time I thought, well, it's a bit of an insult to British intelligence to

think they are going to put on this show, because they are saying it's

for domestic consumption. We don't need to see that, do we? Maybe it's

a way of galvanising the troops before the Conservative Party

Conference, before the autumn kicks off and we will see later in the

review that there are many twitching ministers asking for the

pursestrings to be loosened. Here it would seem the pursestrings will not

be loosened and certainly not to the extent that the divorce bill that

the EU leaders seem to be asking for. That bill ranges from about 100

billion euros to 50 billion euros, or even down to about 40. What is

interesting, or the Sunday Telegraph article also says, if some pools

have suggested that the voter -- voters are against paying large sums

to Brussels. Not surprising because we didn't hear about it in the

so-called campaign, which lacked a lot of information. It is

interesting. It says, yet, UK officials are increasingly resigned

to the fact that they will have to pay when they leave and of course in

any divorce you do need to pay. This will be money that you've already

committed to. Precisely. You can't walk away from your commitments.

It fell through commitment to previously made. It does make you

wonder why this was revealed as to what an. As I say, I think it can be

counter-productive because you are basically showing your hand. Again,

it is foolish to think that EU leaders and their advisers are

reading this. This will not make for cordial relations. Do you think

other EU leaders might have envisaged this as a scenario? I

wonder! The Sunday Express. Still on Brexit, at this time we are

literally fishing. In the same way that dominated the Queen's Speech,

it will dominate parliamentary life and therefore all about jobs and

economic life of this country for years to come and actually probably

wipe a lot of our smiles of our faces because there will be all kind

of different foreseen and unforeseen consequences. Anyway, the Sunday

express is looking at the fishing rights in our waters. A possessive

adjective. Britain is going to take back control of its coasts in

accordance with the big take back control. So British fishermen we are

told will have the right to a 12 mile zone around the coastline under

the post- Brexit plans to take back control of our fishing policy.

Interesting as the government, according to the Sunday express,

will announce on Monday that it is withdrawing from the London

fisheries Convention. Personally I have to admit to have not read that

bit, London. Soon the London fisheries Convention, meaning the

countries that could, amongst them, that could fish within six miles of

British shores will be banned from fishing within 12 miles off the

coast. Intriguingly on this front page it says Michael Gove, whose

father's Aberdeen fishing business closedown because of Brussels

bureaucracy, said" leaving the London". Presumably fishing

convention are the next two words! Perhaps Michael Gove could tell us.

Obviously fish can't tell, so then they will be gone, presumably.

Pollution doesn't respect waters. Very true. Michael Gove has always

given as the reason as why he backed Rex it, because of the Common

Fisheries Policy. -- Brexit. Now fate have conspired that he is in a

position to take back control. To help take back control. It will be

interesting to see how much fish we collect from other EU shores. It

adds up to millions of pounds, is that right? It will be interesting

to see if the consumption of fish goes up in Britain. Are these fish

we are going to export? The observer. Top Tories in revolt

against Theresa May over public spending, is one of the stories. In

revolt over public sector cash. She has got her plate rather full! Yes

and we mentioned before that there was a witness in the position and

now she has demonstrated that her own Cabinet realised that she has

been pushing her around. An increasing number of Cabinet

ministers are talking about the public sector pay cut. There was a

lot of confusion about whether or not Downing Street would want to see

the pay cap moved. At the moment since 2010 it has been off-limits

for all public sector workers. The feeling now on the back of the

election result is clearly that there is a mood in the public that

austerity has gone on for too long and particular public sector

workers, firefighters, police, people who have really... They

deserve a pay rise. So the Prime Minister, colleagues and Cabinet,

feel emboldened to go public and try to put as much pressure on it as

they can. Also Justine Greening wants more money for schools and

Damian Green, who is the closest to the Prime Minister in the Cabinet,

effectively her deputy hinted that potentially the tuition fees policy

could also be overturned. So there is definitely a move abroad and

jockeying for position within Cabinet. That's how the Mail on

Sunday leads their front page. This is on their front page as well.

That's right. It seems there is real pressure on the Prime Minister

actually to make an announcement before the 20th of July, so that it

is sense, although MPs won't be in Westminster and talking to each

other, which I gather is when a lot of the plotting goes on, but it

would seem they want... There may be some announcement a foot. And of

course this is on the back of weeks in a demonstration in London and

other parts of the UK about stopping austerity, basically. It is

interesting that the polls are very bad now. They've been spooked by the

election result. The Observer was just showing that now according to

the latest poll in the Observer by opinion it shows Theresa May is a

-20% and Jeremy Corbyn on 4%. So the election is having it would seem

applications as we saw, with the tabled amendments, whether it was on

abortion, etc, and very these protests. Living the Sunday Times.

This is a story that hasn't been verified by the BBC. We don't

exactly know who is involved, but if you could just quickly summarise

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

Essentially these are allegations against so-called row SAS units, who

have been accused of executing civilians in Afghanistan and are

trying to dress it up as if they have been Taliban insurgents. So

essentially they have been accused of working. There is an ongoing

operation into allegations against British soldiers in Afghanistan and

this is one of the allegations. These are credible claims. The MoD

response to this, we've had a spokesperson saying the Royal

Military Police has found no evidence of criminal behaviour by

the armed forces in Afghanistan. They discount over 90% of the 600 of

the allegations made and 10% of the allegations remain. That is a

summary of the response from the MoD. Very quickly, I would like to

move on to... At the back to the Sunday express, this is going to get

people talking. It is hard enough to get him to see the GP, but things

possibly getting more tough. Apparently family doctors will be

able to turn away all but life or death patients under a new court.

The Sunday express has new details of this plan drawn up by members of

the BMA's general practitioners committee after a unanimous

approval. It would see surgeries closing their doors in emergencies

such as flu epidemic, staff shortages, or a cyber attack. That

is pretty scary. Very quickly, the Sunday express. Do you know when

Wimbledon starts? Monday? Very good! Andy Murray says he is fighting fit.

He isn't playing very well, he had a bad end at Queens club. So fingers

crossed he can make a decent fist at defending the title. We will be

there. Murray hill, or whatever it is called these days. Thank you very

much. An absolute pleasure. That's it from us. Meet the Author is next.

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