09/07/2017 The Papers

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

With me are the broadcaster Penny Smith and the journalist James

The FT says Theresa May is expected to ask Labour to come forward

with feedback and ideas on her policies following speculation

amongst backbench Conservative MPs over her future.

The Telegraph runs with the same story, saying Mrs May will ask

for Jeremy Corbyn's help to push through Brexit bills and for MPs

to contribute, not just criticise her plans.

Mrs May's unprecedented appeal to Labour will be seen as an attempt

to relaunch her faltering premiership, the Guardian says.

Her remarks will set a very different tone to her leadership

style before the election, the Times says, as she faces up

to a new reality of a minority government.

And the i also leads with that story.

Meanwhile, The Metro features the parents of terminally-ill baby

Charlie Gard, who delivered a petition to Great Ormond Street

Hospital today calling on them to let him go to the US

Their appeal is also the front page story in the Mail.

The paper says the High Court hearing taking place tomorrow

That story is also in tomorrow's Mirror.

So let us begin. The first story is the front page of the Guardian. A

photo on the front of a few front pages tomorrow, celebrations in

Mosul with the Iraqi forces there celebrating the defeat of IS. But we

have been considering this evening just how much they have to

celebrate. That is a good point. It is wonderful they have liberated

Mosul but at what cost? Thousands of people have died, mainly civilians.

Some from coalition airstrikes. Million residents have been

displaced. Great swathes of the city have been reduced to rubble

including the famous mosques and minaret. Ayaz has this fantastic

ability to regenerate itself. Some of the Ayaz commanders came from

Saddam Hussein's Kabbalah henchmen. They went up aid and reappeared in

IIS. 300 to Hades have been killed they are foreign fighters. And they

will disappear and reappear in some other place. 1500 attacks have been

mounted on freed areas of Iraq and Syria in the last year. These people

are not going away. They are extremist who will do anything to

achieve their aims. They do not wear uniforms. They do not fight... We

should point out that they are celebrations because the people

there have been living under this, under IS for three months but living

with bombs and fighting for nine months. -- living under IS for three

years. The final months were horrible and close... The desolation

we have seen in images has been staggering. It was completely wiped

out. And can you imagine how that you would be if that was your city?

The city that you love, turned into that. All the people you know who

have died, who have had hideous situations with the so-called

Islamic State. These militants still do have a handful of pounds in some

stretches, it says, of sparsely populated desert. They can change,

they can morph they can melt away, they can rise again and it does not

have to be rising again in Mosul. There are several other Iraqi

cities... The ground is fertile for jihad is because there is misery

positive. That is where jihadist ideologies thrive. Neighbours are

turned against neighbours. This is an Epoque will struggle between the

Sunnis and the Shia. A journalist was upset because an old man said he

watched his daughter shot in front of him by a neighbour he thought was

a friend. That is the sort of thing that was happening in Yugoslavia.

Battling between people who were formerly friends. Domestic matters

now. A beautiful photo on the front page of the Times. We can discuss

the bug lets talk about the headline. An absolutely beautiful

image, as you say. A week and Made pleads for support. Another

difficult weekend ahead Theresa May who have a fight on her hands to

retain the leadership and take the party forward. There is suggestion

that she will beg Jeremy for help and support which suggest how

utterly desperate she must be at the moment. It does smack of

desperation. Reports today, denied by Mr Mitchell, apparently told

other Tory MPs that Mrs May was dead in the water, echoing what George

Osborne said after the election. Totally un- suppressed glee,

actually. It is interesting that so many Cabinet ministers are openly

questioning her policies. Boris Johnson saying that they must lift

the cap on public service pay. I just wanted to say that there is

this talk of this sort of thing and how it could all change before the

autumn meeting, before the autumn conference. But then you have David

Liddington in this saying that it is all too much sun and too much press

echo. -- prosecco. The only thing in her favour is a terrible job and

that is why Boris Johnson nor David Davis have openly campaigned against

her. They do not want the job at the Mosman. What is this manoeuvring

they keep on talking about? That is gossip that goes on in all political

parties. Nobody has come out and said they want the job because it is

a terrible job, to try and steer this country through Brexit, the

most difficult negotiations since the Second World War and with a

weakened party with no majority without the help of the DUP. They

used to say that English football manager was impossible job. I would

say it is now the Prime Minister. May faces a backlash over historical

repeal bill. Another milestone as we head towards the Brexit negotiations

will not again, I bring it back to what support she can garner from the

rival parties. Jeremy Corbyn, in the current climate, will he be in any

way incentivise towards helping her? No. That is a simple answer. Tory

MPs are openly saying that her position is untenable and I do think

this repeal bill will be a complete nightmare to try and steer through

Parliament. Except that we always knew it would be. We are so knitted

into Europe that unpicking it was always going to be difficult. This

idea that we could suddenly go OK, on this day let us just stop it. It

does not happen like that. This is the divorce from hell. You thought

that Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor had it off... You have not

seen Brexit. You will get the Jules, who will get the dog, the yacht, the

house? That is small beer compared to this. It will only take seven MPs

to mount a rebellion, for the government to be defeated, even with

the help of the DUP. It is so tenuous. And you have Liberal

Democrat saying, predicting that legislative war, saying the bill

would look like a Christmas tree because of the number of amendments

that will be hung onto with full. As I said, anybody who thought it was

going to be easy... Over the last year, it is not going to be easy.

This is the reaction from the European Parliament rejecting

Britain's damp squib off on citizens rights. This is Theresa May's

suggestion a couple of weeks ago. Do not forget, that this is a

negotiation, this is our starting point. It is very much like the

start of any negotiation. You go and barter over something in a market

you start your position here, they start there and you come together.

That is how it is. The problem for Mrs May now is that before the

election she was being quite leash, saying that no deal is better than a

bad deal. But Europe is laughing. There is a sense in Europe that we

are a laughing stock closed she is so impotent and everything will need

to be run through Parliament where she does not have a majority. They

think well, how can she get through any hard Brexit ideas because she is

fatally weakened? Again, we come back to that point. It is going to

happen because we voted for it. There for it will happen. There are

people who say they won't. And there are people who say they will. I was

told the other day by someone just to get over it. I was quite

flattered. It showed I had annoyed her in a way. And I think this whole

idea that we just turn up, have a nice chat with Michelle Barnier...

We have long established that that is not going to happen. Let's move

away from politics back to the Financial Times. This is a tidal

power project under. ?1.3 billion project. This is something that is

at the most a massive job. It has been described by some critics as

Britain's hobbyist ever renewable energy project so it is in Swansea

Bay and this would be a tidal lagoon 1900 construction jobs. A huge

number of jobs. Six mile seawall. 16 underwater turbines, powerful

155,000 homes. It would take three years to build and have a design

life of 120 years. The thing is, of course, you can look at one side and

say that if great. The other side will save what a catastrophe for the

local area. This story is saying, essentially, that the government...

It's that was supported by David Cameron at the time. They have now

said either stump up the cash and make it happen or just stop it now

because there are people who have put in lots of money to this already

and now.... They say it could be spectacular. That that is the local

investors talking it up. And it is true it would generate many jobs in

terms of construction but perhaps like David Cameron's career which

ended up with him tweeting photos of his own feet, this may well be

doomed. If that is the last we hear of him, so be it the cost of lagoon

power is, to me, is its downfall. It is predicted to cost 168 megawatts

per hour where is nuclear power, derided by people, is almost half

the price. But then you have environmentalists who say, yes, what

about the long-term consequences? And this is the problem with

everything. However, a six mile seawall will cause massive

environmental damage. The ecosystem is going to be destroyed. We could

build a wall! What a great idea! Write-down the English Channel. I

believe Donald Trump is planning to come to this country, maybe we

should build across the Atlantic. If we build a wall, he can't reach it.

On that note, thank you very much and we will leave it for now. Thank

you for taking us through the papers. Coming up next, the film

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