27/08/2017 The Papers

We'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment -

The American National Weather Service has described the flooding

from Tropical Storm Harvey as being "beyond

Governor of Texas Gregg Abbott says there are more tornado

Two lorry drivers have been charged with causing death by dangerous

driving in connection with a collision on the M1

near Milton Keynes in which eight people were killed.

Labour has committed, for the first time,

to keeping the UK in the single market and customs union

during a transition period after leaving the EU.

It says it's to avoid the economy falling off a "cliff edge".

A suspected chemical leak affects at least 50 people

in the Eastbourne area - police warn residents and visitors

to avoid the beaches and stay indoors.

A minute's silence has been observed at the Notting Hill Carnival to pay

tribute to the victims of Grenfell Fire.

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

With me are the political commentator and journalist,

Daisy McAndrew and Tim Stanley, lead writer at The Daily Telegraph.

Of course some of the papers are dominated by the

The FT reports that the US state Houston has been hit

by "catastrophic" flooding as the storm caused torrential rains

The Express focuses on Labour's U-turn on the single market,

saying the party is facing a backlash from MPs after announcing

a dramatic shift in party policy to back continued membership

The Sun suggests scientists in the US have found

a breakthrough to prevent the risk of heart attack and cancer.

While the I also leads with the same story -

they say the drug has been welcomed by the British Heart Foundation.

The Guardian's headline is Backlash over Labour's

shift to soft Brexit' - they report that the move risks

alienating thousands of voters in traditional seats who support

And finally, the Daily Mail also reports on the new study

which claims thousands of lives could be saved thanks to a new heart

drug hailed as the biggest breakthrough since statins.

That's a flavour of some of those pages, some of them even in the

right order! Let's begin with The Express. Easy, take us to the

outrage as they put it over EU exit betrayal. I don't think anyone who

reads The Express regularly will be surprised that this outrage. This is

the story that the Brexit spokesman for the Labour Party has

significantly shifted their stance on Brexit. To supporting what would

basically be a soft Brexit. Which was not the position Jeremy Corbyn

had outlined. The thing that annoys me I will Brexit stories, and you

could say this on an awful lot of political stories, is that when you

see two opposing newspapers you think you were reading completely

different stories. It is frustrating when you think that the truth is in

the middle somehow. As so often is the case. Also about this Brexit

story is lot of people nowadays like to say they are so -- there is so

much buyers' regret from people who voted out, and everyone is now

convinced it's a terrible idea. It's simply not true. David Cowling who

I'm sure viewers will know, a fantastic expert on polls and

elections, very respected, did a big piece earlier this week really

analysing all the polls since the referendum. Public opinion has not

shifted one jot. It has shifted one point which is within the rounds of

complete nothing. Very interesting. I think this move was a direct

result of the appalling decision to do a general election. This has been

the inevitable consequence of that. How big shift is by Labour? The

public may not have changed its mind but it sounds like Labour have. At

the top of the party, Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonald have talked on

different occasions about leaving the customs union and the single

market. Out meant out. During the election, lots of voters, Suntory

and Ukip will have on to Labour on the suction that that was the party

's position. There are of course other people in the party who favour

what you describe as a soft Brexit. It sounds like that side has won the

argument. Keir Starmer has written an article arguing that what should

happen once Britain has completed these talks has left the EU, that it

should then enter a transitional period, during which Britain will

remain within the single market. He says it could be two to four years.

Whatever happens next we shall see. What's interesting is that during

the summer, that seems to be pretty close to the position people

associated with Philip Hammond. Some said he favoured a transitional

period that perhaps need never end. But of course, about a week ago he

and Liam Fox wrote an article for my newspaper, the Daily Telegraph,

saying we have decided out means out. We will not be bowled by any

treaties. So Labour has moved into that ground, which has been vacated

by the Tories. Continue the theme with the inside of the Sun, page

two. Again, perhaps not surprisingly, critical of where Keir

Starmer is now. And not unreasonably. Reading the Observer

article, it was not the Observer was at first remark reading the article,

he is clear about this position. What he is not about is what that

means the free movement. Presumably if you are in the single market you

retain that. Which is something that will irritate a lot of voters. The

other thing is thing is he is really not clear about what the future

relationship with the EU will be. He mentions three times a future

relationship which will be progressive, not just about trade

but science and things like that, which is superb but of course the

Tories have been a bit clearer. They say it is a free trade deal. He is

not absolutely clear about what it means when it begins. Your point of

the Tories being clearer is true on one side in that they have sounded

clearer. The fundamental truth is that no politician knows really what

they are talking about, because how could they? We are in such uncharted

waters. The Labour Party is trying to put some clear blue water or some

proper choices in front of the electorate. I think in the view that

there will be an election sooner rather than later. They want to

offer that choice. Expecting anyone to have any answers about any

details is a pie in the sky. Don't forget, Michel Barnier said at one

point there will be known smooth terrain. This is not possible. Both

sides could be discussing something that is not even feasible. Lets add

to the potential confusion. This report on Page two of the sun

quoting somebody who went to the meeting at Chequers, suggesting that

Theresa May will quit in two years' time. This is not the first time

we've had this story. This has been bandied about quite a bit. Number

ten has said it's all rubbish. Silly season, August, nothing better. Not

the same as saying it's not true. This first came out with the 1922

committee, then her saying she cried election night, people putting words

in her mouth sort of, saying she has decided not to stay another two

years. I suspect this is wishful thinking on some people's behalf.

I'm sure she has no idea how long she's going to be in number ten. She

will be hoping it will be a full term. With a tiny majority quite

unlikely, I would've thought. Some say the conference will be make or

break with her big speech, will she apologise for went wrong, some

people say. I agree with Daisy. There is a sort of Damocles hanging

over her head right now and it all comes down to whether people feel

she handles things well or not. You are quite right to link the two

stories because they are most definitely linked. Her weakness and

the Labour Party movement. Let me link another one. The front of the

Financial Times... Very nicely done. Almost as if it was planned! Their

suggestion is that she is yes, under pressure, but partly because of what

Labour are announcing. Let's forget about silly season. It's all going

to start when parliament comebacks together and Brexit legislation

starts to get negotiated. The importance of the last election was

that the Tories wanted a big majority to smooth the Brexit they

wanted to the comments. The problem is, they do not have a majority,

which means on the one hand, labour take this position matters. It would

not have done before. But it matters now. Equally important is the

behaviour of Tory rebels, who now feel if Labour is taking this

position and remaining in the single market, we can ally with them and

perhaps through the comments we can affect a negotiation. And those Tory

rebels are those who are very much on the remain side. Absolutely. Just

hours after this article dropped in the Observer this morning, Matthew

Parris was not an MP any more but used to be, still an influential

columnist and writer, used to be a Tory MP. Absolutely die-hard

Remainer, saying for the first time in his life he could consider voting

Labour. That is not to be sniffed at. As a comment, lots of Brexiteers

will sneer at him and say he would say that, but actually he has never

voted anything other than conservative and buy him to be out

of the blocks so far saying I would never vote for Kolbing but I would

vote Labour, if called is not there, given this U-turn, it is

significant. There will be lots of MPs thinking similar things. -- I

would never vote for Jeremy Corbyn. They will be thinking it and

muttering it in the Commodores and suddenly be monitoring it at

parties. Even by his own it he has been conservative in vote only for a

very long time. His disagreement with the suppose right-wing drift,

ie popular drifter the party has been very well known and documented

in his column. Frankly, I'm not sure... Do tell us what you really

think. I don't want to go too far down the Matthew Parris route

because he's not here to defend himself. But we do know who these

people are who really matter. Nicky Morgan, etc. And Mrs may has a

working majority of just 13, that involves the DUP as well of course.

A further combination. A word about the Harry Kane also on the front

page of the FT. Dramatic photographs of course of two men in some sort of

treatable craft but a pretty precarious one. Extraordinary

pictures. I have read I think in the New York Times a short while ago

that they are saying five dead. I have not seen that confirmed

elsewhere, but given the build-up, the catastrophic floods, the worse

the state has seen for 20 years or so they say, if we could hope that

was the end of it, five deaths is obviously too many but it's not

quite what was predicted. Fingers crossed, but they are saying this

evening we will get to everyone, climb up to your roof and someone.

It's not terribly reassuring. It's always extraordinary miniseries

things in the States is unthinkable the nations of the world, it is

surprising they don't deal with these things better. Maybe they have

worse weather than many. Take us to the Huffington Post. This is where

Rex Tillerson, US Secretary of State of course, is saying that President

Trump speaks only for himself an American values. This morning on TV,

Rex Tillerson was asked about the UN. The Ewen's claim that Donald

Trump... The UN had castigated Donald Trump for his remarks

following the Charlottesville demonstrations about race. He was

asked about this and Tillerson responded by saying American values

are unchanging and are represented by the State Department. We oppose

racism and favour the equal treatment of all peoples. He was

asked by the interviewer, what about the President's view? He replied

that the president speaks for himself. That is pretty remarkable.

The idea that Secretary of State could imply that the president only

speak for himself and not the administration of which he is head.

That is hard to remember something like that happening recently. Hard

to think of any recent Secretary of State 's prior one who I can imagine

saying that the president he or she was working alongside. I can't think

of one. No. We have never been in this situation, it's remarkable.

When you think back to Theresa May and her visit after the election, it

all seemed to go so swimmingly. They were there holding hands. The UN and

Nato were big parts of their discussions, and Trump had called

later obsolete, it had been a long-time criticism from him, saying

he would cut funding by hundreds of millions of dollars. May it was very

pleased she seemed to have made him slightly less and them, rather than

generally pro-them. But there has been no love lost there for some

time. The UN has been very critical on his stance on torture recently.

Lamb busting him for that. You can see Tillerson is in a very difficult

position with the UN on one side and Trump on the other. You would not

want that. Tillerson will be responding to diplomatic pressure

from allies, people who will have been saying to him in the last

couple of weeks, you have to make some distinction here or people will

feel they just cannot work for America if the president speaks for

America on these issues. A word about the Daily Mail front page.

This is not the only paper to cover this. Best heart drugs or

distractions. A new monthly injection could save thousands of

lives. After new look at a health story and you are sceptical that

this one does seem to have a lot of substance. A report publicised today

in Barcelona at a big health conference. Looking at what few

details I have seen, it is as you say a very big report, four years

long, 10,000 patients. Each of whom had had a heart attack. Apparently

the point is that if you have had a heart attack you are likely to have

another within the next 45 years. This drug seems to have cut the risk

or cut the number of heart attacks that patients had significantly.

There are two causes of heart attacks, and statins deals with both

of them. Inflammation and cholesterol. Cholesterol you can

treat and people know how to treat it but this was those who had some

sort of information. Certainly look significant. As you said, we are

slightly set article about the stories. Significant? Expensive too.

Whereas statins across the UK ?400 a year, this is estimated to cost a a

year. Until that price drops, probably not something ordinary

patients can access. On that note, time has beaten us. Thank you both,

that is it for the papers the south. Thank you Daisy and Tim,

you'll both be back at half 11 for another look at the stories

making the news tomorrow.