02/09/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Nigel Nelson, who's the political editor

at the Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, and the political

The Observer says that the Prime Minister Theresa May is facing

a revolt from Remain supporting MP's over the upcoming Brexit Bill.

The same story leads the Sunday Telegraph,

with Tory rebels being told to back Brexit or get Corbyn.

The Sunday Times also leads with a Brexit story,

it says Theresa May has secretly agreed a ?50 billion

The Mail on Sunday says that Theresa May ignored a memo

from Sir Lynton Crosby telling her not to risk

And The Express leads with presents left to pen-pals

by Moors Murderer Ian Brady, who died in May.

So, let's begin, and I think we can see from that what is dominating and

it is Brexit and politics. Jo, we are going to start with the Daily

Mail, the bombshell, apparently, dropped by Lynton Crosby who said

you should not be thinking about a general election. Nevertheless, she

did? She did, and completely ignored him. The Mail on Sunday have got

this memo from Lynton Crosby, who was called while he was away on a

long planned family holiday in Fiji. He said, you need to call one of the

chiefs of staff, and was told they were thinking about going for an

election. He said, I'd think that is a smart idea. He asked what research

had been done, heard that none had been done. Obviously said, you know,

this is a bonkers idea, are you sure you are going to go ahead with this?

Furthermore, there's a real risk that the Conservative vote would end

up broadly similar to what the party got in 2015, voters do not want the

uncertainty. This also comes on the same day that the Prime Minister, in

the poll for the same paper, shows that Conservative voters think that

they have more chance of winning if she quits. Boris Johnson is the

favourite to replace her. But I think this memo that has been linked

just shows the total shambles that was going on. And then we saw it

played out, embarrassingly, toe curling Lee, through every day of

the election campaign. It's amazing that everybody thought the way they

did. Calling the election was always high risk. Everything that had

happened in America, the voters were behaving particularly keenly, and

nothing was guaranteed. The article says it was Lynton Crosby's strategy

to make Theresa May the centre of the campaign. The strong and stable

leader? Exactly, it wasn't about the Tory party, it was about Theresa

May. Anybody that spent five minutes in her company knows that she

couldn't sustain that. Lynton Crosby should have known. What he was

thinking to try to do it that way was bound to actually fail. Pages

and pages of this in the Daily Mail, but we must go on to the Sunday

Times. Staying with Theresa May, this is the suggestion that Theresa

May has secretly agreed the terms of a divorce bill, they have numbers

and everything? We should say our esteemed colleague Chris Mason has

it on high authority from Downing Street that this story is absolute

rubbish. They say it is to be not true. Maybe we should move on? Tim

Shipman, also an esteemed colleague, says a Tory source who has discussed

the plans with Theresa May's inner circle, saying they are planning to

approve a politically explosive Brexit bill of up to ?50 billion

after the Conservative Party conference in an effort to

kick-start the talks and negotiations with the European

Union. It means Britain would pay between ?7 billion and ?17 billion a

year for three years after Brexit before ending the sizeable direct

payments. I don't know if you believe that? The trouble is, it's

about time somebody put a figure on what we are going to have to pay. I

think the onus is on Michel Barnier and the EU, they are the ones

selling this thing. We are the buyers, if you like, and they should

come up with it. We fight estimates of any thing from 40 billion to 100

billion. Let's start with the actual figure so that we know what it is.

Then we can also find out what we are buying, we can talk about, OK,

we might pay that amount of money for staying near or in the single

market. Whether the story is true or not, Downing Street have denied it,

we will be somewhere around this figure. She will have two actually

come up with money within this kind of range. We just don't know what it

is. That is why Europe must say what they want from us. Staying on

Brexit, in The Observer, this is the suggestion that if Tory backbenchers

start to create a fuss about Brexit and the terms thereof, they might be

in a spot of bother with the whips? Yes, what comes up is the Repeal

Bill, which has come down from The Great Repeal Bill, what it was

originally called. On the day of Brexit, all EU law becomes UK law.

Completely sensible. A lot of people don't like it. A lot of clauses

suggest that powers would be taken away from Parliament and handed over

to Whitehall. Anyway, a lot of Tory rebels, there has been a major

assault from Labour, trying to get the Tory rebels to come over to

them. The euro supporters in the Tory party. The warning is that if

you do that, we could be into general election territory. The

government could fall if she can't get through her bill. According to

the Observer, the whips are leaning on MPs and saying, don't do this. Of

course, the MPs are saying, the more they lean on us, the more they are

inclined to have a go. I will move us on, but let's jump to the Sunday

Times, just to finish. Time is tight. It is a totally different

story, but an interesting one. Five-year-olds wearing the hijab as

a school uniform. New figures coming out? It is they survey the Sunday

Times has done. It has shown there are lots of state primary schools

that allow girls as young as five to where the Muslim headscarf, this is

just the headscarf, not covering the face or anything. The idea of

wearing the hijab, normally it comes in at puberty, not at the age of

five. There are completely understandable concerns, which I

must say I share. It is alarming female Muslim campaigners, church

leaders and academics, they say it is sexualising little girls.

Basically saying to them, you must be covered up because you are a

sexual thing, a sexual temptation. There are concerns, Ofsted are

looking to see if headteachers have been coming under pressure from

external organisations, from parents or religious leaders, to bring this

in. There is quite a difference across the country. A fifth of 800

primary schools, including Church of England primary, in 11 regions, now

lest the hijab as part of their uniform policy, which is odd for

five or six-year-olds. I think we disagree somewhat on this one. I

would be happy about this, provided the parents of the children are

happy, and the schools are happy. The principle of the hijab being

school uniform, I don't have a problem with it. Well, we end on a

glorious disagreement. We have had to be short and sweet, because time

is tight. We will be back in the next hour. Thanks to Jo and Nigel

for now. We will be back at 11.30 when we will have more time for more

discussion and disagreement! That have a look at the weather

prospects. Hello, a lovely start

to the weekend, with the exception of a few sharp showers in East

Anglia. Most places were dry with some

sunshine, with skies like this.