01/11/2017 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Christopher Hope,

chief political correspondent

at the Daily Telegraph,

and political commentator

Ayesha Hazarika.

Tomorrow's front pages -

starting with...

The Telegraph leads

with the resignation

of Defence Secretary Michael Fallon,

after allegations about

his personal conduct.

The Mirror goes with the same story,

reporting Mr Fallon saying his

behaviour fell below the standards

required of his office.

The Times reports fears

within the government that more

ministers may be forced to resign.

The Metro also dedicates its front

page to Michael Fallon's resignation

- and so does the i.

The Mail claims that Mr Fallon has

warned the Prime Minister

that there could be further

revelations about his behaviour.

And the Sun is the only

paper to attempt a pun,

with 'fallon his sword'.

I think that works better on the

page there. Only one story in town,

and we have the two perfect people

to discuss it. The resignation of

the Defence Secretary. You clearly

have had a busy evening because this

story only broke at 7:30pm. How much

of a shock was it?

A complete shock.

He goes back to this claim by a

journalist friend of mine, Julia

Hartley-Brewer, that Michael Fallon

had touched her on the knee, and she

said she would punch him if he did

it again. He admitted it and

apologise, and it was thought that

that was it, really. Then a complete

bombshell tonight, he's resigned. An

exchange of letters, an

old-fashioned resignation. There

will be a new person replacing

Michael Fallon, maybe Tobias

Ellwood, one of his juniors at the

defence Department. It is

extraordinary that no one thought he

would go, and we are trying to work

out what it all means.

It's

interesting. Fallon shocks

Westminster with a stunning

resignation and admits behaviour

fell short, but we have to see this

in the context of all of the

allegations swirling around

Westminster at the moment.

The

climate is very C bra around

Westminster at the moment, but

people feel this is very... The

climate is very febrile. A lot of

women feel uncomfortable in

Westminster, as do a lot of young

men. Pretty much every female friend

of mine in politics has had

experience of sexual harassment.

Female advisers, female journalists,

they all have their own stories and

wonder what to do. Some stories are

historic and some are more recent.

There is a feeling that a lot of

young women and men have had enough

of this culture.

It's never really a

police matter. It is a lot lower

level. It's insidious, it makes you

uncomfortable. It's not a police

matter. That is far too much.

Theresa May is working out what to

do about this.

As a man who works in

Westminster, are you aware of these

kinds of allegations?

You are told

about it, but I am not told the same

things you are. It's basically women

sharing with other women.

I think

there is a culture... It's very,

very macho in the House of Commons.

It's designed to be a bit of a

gentleman 's club. There's still the

majority of men in positions of

power. The women tend to be the

support staff, more junior, and the

men are away from their wives, homes

and families, and there is quite a

lot of subsidised booze, which is a

heady mixture. My experience is that

a lot of men, who tend to be a bit

older, don't realise what they are

doing is inappropriate. They don't

think what they are doing is

particularly bad. They think it

comes with the job. Being an MP,

being in a position of power, the

perks that come with it is this kind

of behaviour. They think it is a bit

of naughty fun.

Michael Fallon said

that his conduct fell below the

standards that are now expected.

That is what it says on the front

pages. Do you think Moore might

emerge about his behaviour?

We don't

know. As things stand tonight, we

don't know the answer. There is a

suspicion that more might come out.

The BBC reported earlier that more

claims were made to Number 10. We

don't know if that's true. Maybe he

felt that rather than hanging on

while other things emerge, he would

go now.

My experience, and a lot of

the other women I've spoken to,

often people doing this type of

behaviour is not a one off. It's

kind of a pattern of behaviour, and

I think he has done the right thing.

He said about standards for the

Armed Forces, but it's also

standards of decent men and women

who are modern in 2017 would expect.

The House of Commons makes judgment

on the rest of us. We have to abide

by the laws that are created in the

House of Commons. They do have to

hold themselves to a higher degree

of behaviour.

While there are no new

allegations against him, there is

evidence that things that he

previously viewed as flotation might

become public.

On to the Telegraph,

your front-page story. The headline

was interesting. Fallon quits as

Westminster sex scandal claims its

first scalp. Is the indication that

there could be more?

There might be

more. We might go back to the back

to basics crisis that laid waste to

John Major. That was seen by

journalists as no more sex and

sleaze, and it triggered all sorts

of stories.

The other point is that

it's quite easy to get tribal about

this, and say that it is one party

against another. I am a pretty

tribal person, having been a Labour

person, and I would say that all

parties have an issue with this. We

heard terrible stories this week

about a story about a young activist

who claims she was raped and a party

official swept it under the carpet.

We have to avoid being partisan.

Officials need to come together and

find solutions, mechanisms, and

independent complaint system so that

young, vulnerable men and women in

the House of Commons feel they have

somewhere to go to.

Damian Green

denies any allegations about his

conduct, but he is basically under

pressure and is being investigated

by the Cabinet Office.

Let's move on

to the Daily Mirror. The front-page

story, Dustin Hoffman sexually

harassed me when I was just 17. This

is the Oscar-winning actor, famous

for films like to see. He has been

accused of harassment on the set of

death of a salesman back in 1985.

The woman who accused me was -- the

woman who accused him was an intern

at the time. This takes you back to

Hollywood, where this whole thing

began.

Yes, the Harvey Weinstein

allegations were the genesis of this

story. It is worth saying that this

type of culture exists across many,

many industries. I think it happens

everywhere, but certainly Hollywood

has been the focus of this. The

interesting, or the worrying thing

about this is that she was a very,

very young girl, and he was this

movie star, a lot older than her. He

is saying that... A lot of this is

about abuse of power. Often when

young people come into film or

politics, they are starry eyed, and

if you are one of the celebrities,

you have a lot of power, and how you

wield that power has to be watched

carefully.

Dustin Hoffman says, I

have the utmost respect for women

and feel terrible that anything I

might have done could have put her

in an uncomfortable situation. I am

sorry. So he has apologised.

It's

coming out Daily Mail. Kevin Spacey

earlier this week. It all started

with the Harvey Weinstein affair. It

all seems to be really serious, and

a pattern of abuse over many years,

allegedly, with those women.

Back to

the Telegraph, and a story you vote.

Labour angers the palace by dragging

the Queen into Brexit row. How have

they done that?

Get the Queen

involved in the Brexit! Before the

last referendum last year, it was

said she backed Brexit. This is

using a Commons procedure, called

the humble address, to try to force

the government to release these

papers showing the impact of Brexit

on 58 areas. Where the government to

release this... The Queen has a

motion called the humble address,

and will have to respond to what the

Labour Party pushes through, which

may draw the Queen in on Brexit.

This could be avoided by the

government releasing those

documents. They are really

important, and there's prominent

Conservative Party members saying,

what ever position you have taken on

the Brexit debate, everyone should

care about the future of the

country, and these impact

assessments are very important for

MPs to shine a bit of light on what

is going on.

They are saying they

want to release it.

I thought that

the vote tonight wasn't binding.

The

speaker said it was binding, but the

government are going to respond. I

have been led to believe that they

are going to release the gist.

Are

they going to redact it?

That is

what Keir Starmer said.

Not a

surprise I am slightly confused by

that!

Slightly confused by Brexit.

Good to talk to you both.

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Thank you, Christopher Hope

and Ayesha Hazarika.