11/07/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Alison Little, deputy political editor

of the Daily Express, and the Guardian

It is good to see you. The front pages.

The I leads with the public inquiry into contaminated blood.

The paper calls it the "worst scandal in NHS history".

The news that President Trump's son was keen to accept information

on Hillary Clinton from a Russian national, is the main

The Telegraph has the same story, with the claim that Trump junior

The Express leads with the Foreign Secretary's suggestion,

that the EU can "go whistle" if it makes "extortionate" demands

The Times says a parliamentary report has concluded that a joint

Royal Navy and EU mission to combat people smuggling in

in the Mediterranean has caused more migrants to die at sea.

The aristocrat found guilty over menacing Facebook posts

to the businesswoman Gina Miller, is the top story in the Metro.

The mail has details of report that claims Conservative MPs were targets

of hate campaign to the election. And - 'Wade to go Jo' is the Sun's

back page headline - as Virginia Wade celebrates

Johanna Konta making it through to the semi

finals of Wimbledon. We will discuss that later. We will

start with the disturbing story about the PM ordering an enquiry

into NHS deaths after years of campaigning and finally the

relatives of some of those who died from contaminated blood products in

the 70s and 80s will get the enquiry they have been after. It has been

widely welcomed and there is cross-party pressure for this

enquiry, including the DUP supporting Theresa May. I do not

know how significant that was in it. Blood products given by the NHS to

British haemophiliacs and other patients and it turned out a lot of

it to be infected with hepatitis C and HIV. Police 2400 have died and

thousands more infected and families put at risk and claims the

authorities knew and covered it up. And it took years before they stop

the use of these products. We will have a public inquiry and the

victims will be consulted on what sort of enquiry. It is very sad of

course, that this goes on so long and it takes so long to get a

inquiry. Almost what Theresa May does best. Another statesman-like

statement issued today about it. And references back the week of the

anniversary walking into Downing Street and promising to write

injustices and it is significant in her statement about the need for the

enquiry. She makes the point of saying, and I will seek to root out

injustice wherever I find it. She has been trying to restate her

mission. Does that mean we will get a inquiry into what happened at

Orgreave? It could be because she is in a position where she has to do

the things she can achieve and there is not much that she can achieve.

There was not much of a legislative programme in the Queen's Speech.

Brexit moving slowly. She can do this, it is within her power. We

have the Grenfell Tower enquiry. We will have this inquiry and you may

be right, there will be an Orgreave inquiry. These things are

complicated because once you decide to have a inquiry you have to decide

what kind of inquiry and how technical and in this case to what

extent will they look at how specifically what happened as

regarding the screening of these blood products and how much would it

be about what happened to people? And about their experiences. There

is a tension between finding out what happened and giving people a

chance to tell their stories and a chance to have some element of

catharsis. It seems bizarre that in those days, the blood was not

screened, it was sold by people to hospitals and so one, some of those

selling products were criminals. American prisoners paid for their

donations. It seems bizarre it was not screened. It is about whether

you accept other people'sstandards because they were obtained from

elsewhere and we did not know the extent to which they screamed and we

would not screening. The Telegraph newspaper talking about inquiries --

which they screamed. And a federal prosecutor is looking into the

possibility of collusion between the Donald Trump campaign and Russian

officials. All of those enquiries have been given another bit of

evidence. Exhibit 700 92. An e-mail between Donald Trump junior and a

pop impresario from Britain. Only in America! Very weird. The pop

impresario is allegedly in touch with Donald Trump's Sun and says the

Russians have interesting information and might help you win

the election and so what do the job team do? Do they say we are not

interested because you cannot influence an election. You Russian

people, we are not having that. From what we are told they had a meeting

with someone acting as a go-between. It is their case they did not get

any significant information from that meeting but I am not sure it

will matter. Here you have senior people from Donald Trump's team who

it is said went to the meeting in expectation they would get

information to help them win the election and influence their

selection. I think there is deep trouble. Whether it stretches to the

President, I am not sure, but certainly another piece of evidence

against him. I don't know if you have put your money on the bookies.

Have not, but it is more of a bad smell with this fish, this rush of

fish, concerning the troubled family. The front page of the Daily

Telegraph says Trump Junior facing Russian treason investigation.

Apparently, technically, you have to be at war for it to be treason in

America. Last I looked, Russia is not at war with America, not on the

face of it, maybe there is a cyber war going on, but it is about

collusion and the possibility we should not be axed setting

information potentially to a rival in an election campaign,

particularly from a foreign power. They shouldn't. A damning quote from

Trump Junior pictures from the inauguration. He got the e-mail

saying he got the information and he said, I love it. Spare a thought for

the journalist on the New York Times who tweeted poignantly, we have been

chasing this for a year. The greatest spoiler of all time. As a

journalist, I applaud and feel for him. It is a very warm family

because Donald Trump said my son is a high-quality person and I applaud

his transparency. What we would all say about our children. If you have

a federal prosecutor like Robert Muller breathing down your neck at

this stage you say very little, which is precisely why his tweets

have stopped for the last, I don't know, few hours. This don't get

comfortable. All rights. The express, the EU can whistle for its

money. A Tory backbencher supported by Boris Johnson and the backbencher

said the EU should go whistle if it wants a divorce bill that is huge.

This ?85 billion. Typical performance from Boris, to cheer the

troops about Brexit. The Tory MP said tell them to go whistle and

Boris obliged. And he went further and said we'd do not have a plan for

no deal. Emily Thornberry said have you privately got a plan, so if you

are being kind to Boris he is taking that literally and whether

personally he has a plan, well no. We love it in the Express because

that is how we feel but probably compromise is going to have to be

made and later David Davis the Brexit Secretary was giving

evidence. He is seen as the calm voice. Allison, you love it at the

Express but you do not love it at the Guardian! David Davis probably

did not love it much either because he is conducting the negotiations.

Probably had his head in his hands. He will go into the meeting and say,

what Boris said... You conduct your negotiations like this. Insult the

person you negotiate with as much as you can. There is the public side.

And behind... It is high-stakes poker, negotiating tactics. I look

at my cards and looked impassive, I do not chuck things at the person

across the table. Stay calm. It will be brilliant. You assume Boris has a

plan B, what if he is true to his word, taken at face value, on the

Express, you would be panicking? We are not panicking. Downing Street,

David Davis saying we plan for every contingency. A deal always gets

done. On everything. You are comforted because Boris said so? You

heard it, a deal always gets done. I think they have contingencies. They

didn't for the vote, with Brexit. No rerunning of the EU referendum,

please. Johanna Konta. Tipping the star to knockout Venus Williams in

the semifinal. That is a big mountain to climb but what a win.

Absolutely. Centre court, when they close the roof and there are British

players on, it is absolutely a brilliant atmosphere. Worth a few

games in itself to the player because they gets so much support.

She benefited today and played extraordinarily well. I think the

second time she has come back to being set down and that doesn't seem

to worry her now. She showed such grit. I watched bits of it and the

end. Note bass, have done work. Was just catching up. It was

astonishing. We have ourselves a proper tennis player. Has Hungarian

parrots, she was born -- she has Hungarian parents. She

was born in Australia. There is a monitor in the middle of the desk

and I can watch it. But I don't! Notes to boss. Thanks for looking at

the stories behind the headlines. Goodbye.

The evening, and unsettled spell of weather across England and Wales

with some areas seeing over an inch of rain fall. In the south-west and

across Wales, you could see it was heavy at times and