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Hello and welcome to our look ahead
to what the the papers will be | 0:00:16 | 0:00:19 | |
bringing us tomorrow. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:21 | |
With me are Martin Lipton,
Deputy Head of Sport | 0:00:21 | 0:00:23 | |
at The Sun, and Rosamund Urwin,
columnist for the London | 0:00:23 | 0:00:26 | |
Evening Standard. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:31 | |
Lovely to have you both here. We'll
be taking a look through the papers | 0:00:31 | 0:00:35 | |
in the moment. First off, a quick
resume of what's going on, starting | 0:00:35 | 0:00:39 | |
with the times. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:46 | |
The Times claims the
Prime Minister was given | 0:00:46 | 0:00:48 | |
details of an alleged sexual assault
made by the former defence | 0:00:48 | 0:00:50 | |
secretary Sir Michael Fallon
hours before he resigned. | 0:00:50 | 0:00:52 | |
He says the allegations are not true
and that he has never | 0:00:52 | 0:00:55 | |
physically assaulted anyone. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:56 | |
The Telegraph says Sir Michael had
declared Andrea Leadsom | 0:00:56 | 0:01:01 | |
was preventing Cabinet
agreement on Brexit, | 0:01:01 | 0:01:02 | |
and that she in turn | 0:01:02 | 0:01:08 | |
"stuck the knife in" in revenge. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:12 | |
The Mail has a similar line
of enquiry on its front page, | 0:01:12 | 0:01:15 | |
asking if the Leader of the Commons
had acted to save her job. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
The i chooses to focus
on the Labour Party's investigations | 0:01:18 | 0:01:27 | |
into allegations made
against its MPs. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:31 | |
We suspect that page will change
later, but currently focusing on | 0:01:31 | 0:01:36 | |
Labour MP Clive Lewis. The Daily
Express talks about Harriet Harman | 0:01:36 | 0:01:43 | |
on its front page. It says the
former deputy party leader repeated | 0:01:43 | 0:01:52 | |
an anti-Semitic joke on television. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:57 | |
The Guardian says the cost of Brexit
will mean an extra £930 on household | 0:01:57 | 0:02:01 | |
food bills as the price of staples
is set to rise in the event | 0:02:01 | 0:02:04 | |
of the UK leaving the EU
without a trade deal. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:07 | |
The FT 's top story is the row
brewing at the London Stock Exchange | 0:02:07 | 0:02:11 | |
over the departure of its chief
executive, saying he is being forced | 0:02:11 | 0:02:14 | |
out against his wishes. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:15 | |
Lastly the Daily Mirror features
the accusation of sexual assault | 0:02:15 | 0:02:17 | |
made by a female trainer
against a top jockey. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:18 | |
So those are your front pages.
Martin, what was that shake for? | 0:02:23 | 0:02:30 | |
Every paper has a variant on the
same theme, people who in positions | 0:02:30 | 0:02:34 | |
of power are behaving badly. One
story, different protagonist, | 0:02:34 | 0:02:41 | |
basically. We start with the times,
and this is a very damaging | 0:02:41 | 0:02:46 | |
allegation against Sir Michael
Fallon, the allegation that he | 0:02:46 | 0:02:53 | |
committed an alleged sexual assault.
We know he is denying it | 0:02:53 | 0:02:56 | |
emphatically and vehemently, but
this revelation came from another | 0:02:56 | 0:03:02 | |
member of the Conservative Party in
parliament, in Anna Soubry, who has | 0:03:02 | 0:03:09 | |
told The Times that this is alleged
to have happened, and that this was | 0:03:09 | 0:03:13 | |
the reason for his false resignation
-- forced resignation the other | 0:03:13 | 0:03:19 | |
night. And with every passing day,
this steady drip of claim, | 0:03:19 | 0:03:25 | |
allegation and action in terms of
MPs from most parties it would | 0:03:25 | 0:03:29 | |
appear, certainly Labour and the
Conservative Party, being forced to | 0:03:29 | 0:03:32 | |
lose the whip or even at some point
resign from Parliament, is | 0:03:32 | 0:03:37 | |
continuing. And it is pretty
depressing to see Parliament reduced | 0:03:37 | 0:03:43 | |
to this. We have got The Times, and
we have also got the mail and the | 0:03:43 | 0:03:53 | |
Telegraph, all leading on
allegations involving Conservative | 0:03:53 | 0:03:57 | |
names. Rosamunde, when you look at
that, they have all denied these | 0:03:57 | 0:04:03 | |
allegations in one form or another.
What goes through your mind when you | 0:04:03 | 0:04:08 | |
read this? As Martin said, it is
just allegation after allegation? | 0:04:08 | 0:04:13 | |
And Michael Fallon has said that he
has behaved inappropriately, so he | 0:04:13 | 0:04:17 | |
has done a fair -- mea culpa on some
of it. But one of the things that | 0:04:17 | 0:04:30 | |
strikes me is that we knew that the
informal atmosphere in Parliament, | 0:04:30 | 0:04:37 | |
we knew there were problems to do
with power, with the fact that | 0:04:37 | 0:04:41 | |
frankly if you're a junior
researcher in Parliament and | 0:04:41 | 0:04:44 | |
employed by an MP, how much are you
able to say no to things? We knew | 0:04:44 | 0:04:50 | |
all these issues, people had been
reporting on these things for years, | 0:04:50 | 0:04:55 | |
but we have suddenly opened the
floodgates, I feel. Harvey Weinstein | 0:04:55 | 0:05:00 | |
has changed things, it really has,
and people are saying all these | 0:05:00 | 0:05:04 | |
things were heard about in the
background, and actually this should | 0:05:04 | 0:05:07 | |
be on the front pages. Finally
people do seem empowered to speak | 0:05:07 | 0:05:11 | |
out for the first time. And we
forget how hard it is to come | 0:05:11 | 0:05:16 | |
forward. Lots of people have been
talking about a witchhunt, and | 0:05:16 | 0:05:21 | |
personally I think that is
completely the wrong term, because | 0:05:21 | 0:05:23 | |
when you think about witchhunts,
they were hunting innocent people. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:28 | |
We act as though the worst thing
that can ever happen to somebody who | 0:05:28 | 0:05:32 | |
has done selling bad is that they
lose their job, but how many other | 0:05:32 | 0:05:35 | |
people's careers were harmed because
these things happen to them? Maybe | 0:05:35 | 0:05:39 | |
they did bring forward a complaint
that was damaging to their career. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:43 | |
Perhaps they didn't, but they moved
jobs and felt forced to go and do | 0:05:43 | 0:05:46 | |
something else. You'd feel
uncomfortable, wouldn't you, in that | 0:05:46 | 0:05:49 | |
environment? Of course you would,
and we are shining a spotlight on | 0:05:49 | 0:05:55 | |
Parliament, but I'm sure in the
coming months it will be other | 0:05:55 | 0:05:58 | |
industries. What is interesting is
that the Michael Fallon stories are | 0:05:58 | 0:06:03 | |
there, and then you go onto the
other stories about Michael Fallon | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
and then also Andrea Leadsom, and
what you have this fear and loathing | 0:06:07 | 0:06:10 | |
around Cabinet table, and until two
or three days ago, ministerial, | 0:06:10 | 0:06:19 | |
Secretary of State colleagues, just
doing each other over big time in a | 0:06:19 | 0:06:21 | |
pretty public forum here, Andrea
Leadsom saved her job by accusing | 0:06:21 | 0:06:29 | |
Fallon of sexual harassment, it says
here. There is a question there. | 0:06:29 | 0:06:33 | |
This is friends of Michael Fallon
clearly briefing on his behalf, | 0:06:33 | 0:06:39 | |
saying she was about to be sacked
because she isn't very good, and he | 0:06:39 | 0:06:43 | |
was on the other side... It isn't
that she wasn't very good, they have | 0:06:43 | 0:06:47 | |
this issue that she was one of those
people who they think is going to be | 0:06:47 | 0:06:51 | |
impossible to get a compromise on
Brexit, because she is a very strong | 0:06:51 | 0:06:55 | |
Brexiteer, so they think it is
impossible she will sign up to a | 0:06:55 | 0:06:59 | |
deal. How are they going to cope
with the fact that in that cabinet | 0:06:59 | 0:07:02 | |
on Brexit you have people like her
and you have obviously people who | 0:07:02 | 0:07:05 | |
really want Remain ultimately. It's
insane. There are all the other | 0:07:05 | 0:07:12 | |
factors here, and if this level of
sheer animosity, whether it is on a | 0:07:12 | 0:07:18 | |
personal or political level within
the Cabinet, how can you have any | 0:07:18 | 0:07:23 | |
concept of governmental control and
to termination of issues. It is | 0:07:23 | 0:07:28 | |
really quite concerning. It is fair
to say reading between the lines | 0:07:28 | 0:07:33 | |
that there is a Remain faction that
feels that Andrea Leadsom is so | 0:07:33 | 0:07:44 | |
vehemently pro-Brexit that she
wouldn't compromise at all on the | 0:07:44 | 0:07:47 | |
final deal, and it is conflating two
different issues. I was thinking | 0:07:47 | 0:07:51 | |
back to the expenses scandal, and it
was in no wayGordon Brown's fault, | 0:07:51 | 0:08:00 | |
but it did add to the feeling that
these were the dying days of a | 0:08:00 | 0:08:04 | |
regime, and again, this is not to do
with Theresa May although there may | 0:08:04 | 0:08:07 | |
be things that she knew or the whips
knew, but it does seem this is going | 0:08:07 | 0:08:12 | |
to be the nail in the coffin. How
long do you think the public will be | 0:08:12 | 0:08:19 | |
interested in this story? Already
we're getting people having fatigue | 0:08:19 | 0:08:23 | |
over the stories, I don't want to
hear about this any more. It's | 0:08:23 | 0:08:27 | |
politics. It depends what the
allegations are. If we're talking | 0:08:27 | 0:08:32 | |
about if all the allegations were
the same, if they were all putting | 0:08:32 | 0:08:35 | |
hands on knees, which if you are
harassed is a serious issue, but | 0:08:35 | 0:08:41 | |
again and again, people would get a
bit bored, but if we're talking | 0:08:41 | 0:08:45 | |
about significant and serious
allegations of criminal acts which | 0:08:45 | 0:08:47 | |
have been covered up whether it was
by the Labour Party or the | 0:08:47 | 0:08:53 | |
Conservative Party, any other party,
then it will continue to run. And it | 0:08:53 | 0:08:58 | |
should do. As the Harvey Weinstein
and now Kevin Spacey allegations, we | 0:08:58 | 0:09:05 | |
had Dustin Hoffman allegations, when
the allegations are of a | 0:09:05 | 0:09:12 | |
particularly serious nature, they
will continue to be looked at. I | 0:09:12 | 0:09:16 | |
have talked to female MPs who
started to say, do we need an | 0:09:16 | 0:09:19 | |
inquiry into the historic behaviour
in Parliament in much the same way | 0:09:19 | 0:09:22 | |
that see with the church or other
institutions, and they are saying, | 0:09:22 | 0:09:27 | |
if that happens, how far back are we
going to go? I'm sure there is some | 0:09:27 | 0:09:32 | |
terrible behaviour that has never
come to light. Goodness, and | 0:09:32 | 0:09:36 | |
everybody saying the Sunday papers
will be interesting. We will see | 0:09:36 | 0:09:42 | |
what happens there. Exactly. Staying
on the Telegraph, it is this picture | 0:09:42 | 0:09:46 | |
here, what do you think about this?
Good PR on Mr Corbyn's part? Was who | 0:09:46 | 0:09:58 | |
the bloke who didn't think it was
the right thing to do in the | 0:09:58 | 0:10:01 | |
election campaign to go on the One
Show sofa? He is now you're lovable | 0:10:01 | 0:10:12 | |
uncle, that amazing sort of makeover
that he's had. He looks comfortable. | 0:10:12 | 0:10:19 | |
He was never comfortable in these
situations before. One of the really | 0:10:19 | 0:10:23 | |
interesting things in the run-up to
the election was that when he was | 0:10:23 | 0:10:26 | |
asked about, will you still be
tending the allotment if you are | 0:10:26 | 0:10:30 | |
Prime Minister, and he said, of
course I were, everyone needs a | 0:10:30 | 0:10:33 | |
life, and I thought, that's a really
good answer, and lots of people | 0:10:33 | 0:10:36 | |
thought, that could have been a big
story, and actually people were | 0:10:36 | 0:10:41 | |
like, no, that sounds sensible, and
he has managed to find a way to do | 0:10:41 | 0:10:51 | |
this stuff in a way that he feels
comfortable with, which has | 0:10:51 | 0:10:53 | |
surprised me, because I thought he
would never look comfortable with | 0:10:53 | 0:10:56 | |
it. And yet when he is asked, he was
on his doorstep earlier, for | 0:10:56 | 0:11:02 | |
comments on including Kelvin Hopkins
in the Shadow Cabinet, he refused to | 0:11:02 | 0:11:07 | |
answer that, and yet a week earlier
he was saying, zero tolerance, zero | 0:11:07 | 0:11:11 | |
tolerance. So it's almost as if he
will only answer. And they are old | 0:11:11 | 0:11:18 | |
friends, that is the suggestion. And
therein lies the issue. It is going | 0:11:18 | 0:11:22 | |
back to where we started, these
relationships between old men are | 0:11:22 | 0:11:27 | |
not healthy. And that's it, it's the
old boys club, and it can be just as | 0:11:27 | 0:11:34 | |
much an old boys club in a trade
union background or Party meetings | 0:11:34 | 0:11:37 | |
as it is for older Tony and is. It
is suggesting that Rosie Winterton | 0:11:37 | 0:11:45 | |
queried the appointment when he was
made, when Mr Hopkins was made | 0:11:45 | 0:11:51 | |
Shadow culture Secretary. And that
is the point, a lot of women feel | 0:11:51 | 0:11:54 | |
like when they have raised these
things and said, hang on, then they | 0:11:54 | 0:11:58 | |
don't get listen to, and maybe
finally we are going to start | 0:11:58 | 0:12:01 | |
listening. And what you think about
this argument where they say, we | 0:12:01 | 0:12:05 | |
didn't know. In any other workplace,
it is common sense, isn't it? And | 0:12:05 | 0:12:09 | |
you know you've done something
wrong, because a lot of this is | 0:12:09 | 0:12:13 | |
just, it was just a bit of banter.
Maybe people don't want to know. It | 0:12:13 | 0:12:18 | |
is an easier life not knowing. And I
think that is what we are going to | 0:12:18 | 0:12:24 | |
find out, the lot of people had
heard rumours. But to be fair, | 0:12:24 | 0:12:27 | |
hearing a rumour about something is
not the same as knowing it. And some | 0:12:27 | 0:12:32 | |
of these allegations, we have all
seen versions of the list, some of | 0:12:32 | 0:12:37 | |
the things on that list work and is
-- were nonsense. All the consensual | 0:12:37 | 0:12:44 | |
and none of our business. A lot of
this is historical and it will be | 0:12:44 | 0:12:49 | |
interesting to see how far it goes.
The code of conduct will have to | 0:12:49 | 0:12:52 | |
come into place, but... It depends
where we think the Linnes. What | 0:12:52 | 0:12:59 | |
constitutes a resigning offence? And
we sure that beset? Let's stay with | 0:12:59 | 0:13:04 | |
the Cabot Telegraph, and UK | 0:13:04 | 0:13:16 | |
jihadists are all targets, says RAF
chief. This is a Commodore who says, | 0:13:16 | 0:13:21 | |
if you pitch up in Iraq and Syria
fighting for Daesh then you are | 0:13:21 | 0:13:27 | |
valid to be targeted because you
know what you're signing up for. I | 0:13:27 | 0:13:34 | |
think many people, irrespective of
their political leanings, would | 0:13:34 | 0:13:37 | |
probably go along with that,
actually. I think there is a | 0:13:37 | 0:13:41 | |
question of how on earth do you
derail the lies -- deradicalise | 0:13:41 | 0:13:51 | |
somebody who has gone out there.
There is an argument that people who | 0:13:51 | 0:13:57 | |
are very easily influenced at 18,
and frankly the efforts that go into | 0:13:57 | 0:14:04 | |
radicalising someone are enormous,
and if you start on picking that, | 0:14:04 | 0:14:07 | |
then actually you might have some
success, but I think I do understand | 0:14:07 | 0:14:11 | |
this argument, that if people have
chosen to travel to these countries, | 0:14:11 | 0:14:17 | |
then how do we really think we're
going to get them back. It is an | 0:14:17 | 0:14:23 | |
issue which has become a significant
one clearly the government, how do | 0:14:23 | 0:14:27 | |
you deal? When these people do
return, what do you do? You can't | 0:14:27 | 0:14:33 | |
just, you have to find due cause to
lock them up, it isn't that easy. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:42 | |
And how can you seriously turn up in
Syria because you are naive now? We | 0:14:42 | 0:14:47 | |
have seen the horrors that Daesh
have committed, throwing people off | 0:14:47 | 0:14:52 | |
buildings, how could you not
understand that? And also, how are | 0:14:52 | 0:14:56 | |
you to know from 20,000 feet the
nationality of the people you are | 0:14:56 | 0:14:59 | |
dropping bombs on down below. You
may find subsequently that there was | 0:14:59 | 0:15:04 | |
a core of British jihadists, but you
are not going to know that from that | 0:15:04 | 0:15:10 | |
height, are you? Let's turn to the
FT. Were you in the queues? I have a | 0:15:10 | 0:15:19 | |
very broken phone, and I'm quite
happy with that. I find this utter | 0:15:19 | 0:15:25 | |
madness, frankly. I am terrified
that my daughter will now be | 0:15:25 | 0:15:29 | |
demanding a new... A $1000 phone,
that is madness, isn't it? They go | 0:15:29 | 0:15:35 | |
out of date overnight, don't they?
And I always feel that they make the | 0:15:35 | 0:15:41 | |
charges so rubbish, you have to keep
buying new ones. I get through at | 0:15:41 | 0:15:48 | |
least five charges of year, because
I'm rubbish! I bend them over and | 0:15:48 | 0:15:53 | |
twist them, and I just... They are
not Lego! I have had the same phone | 0:15:53 | 0:16:01 | |
for three years, I am rather proud
of that! If you are Apple, this is | 0:16:01 | 0:16:06 | |
great news, because they haven't
seen these cues in recent years, and | 0:16:06 | 0:16:09 | |
suddenly the 60 minute expensive
phone has been good for the markets. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:19 | |
-- this extremely expensive phone.
And their main competition is in | 0:16:19 | 0:16:22 | |
Asia from the likes of Samsung, and
the Chinese in particular, a very | 0:16:22 | 0:16:28 | |
large market, are saying, we get
more for our money on the Samsung, | 0:16:28 | 0:16:31 | |
we don't want to pay all that for
the brand, yet a lot of Apple people | 0:16:31 | 0:16:35 | |
will pay just for the brand. Have
they sorted out the fact that doing | 0:16:35 | 0:16:44 | |
your work e-mails on an Apple phone
is rubbish. I miss my Blackberry. | 0:16:44 | 0:16:52 | |
You have a proper keyboard on those!
We should go back to proper phones. | 0:16:52 | 0:16:59 | |
I had that one that you could drop
in a beer glass. But nearly $1000. | 0:16:59 | 0:17:05 | |
It is an incredible sum of money for
a phone. People are willing to pay | 0:17:05 | 0:17:10 | |
that now. They needed some good
news, didn't they? Their share price | 0:17:10 | 0:17:13 | |
climbed as well to an all-time high,
12% rise in fourth-quarter revenues. | 0:17:13 | 0:17:22 | |
$52 billion! A net income of $10.7
billion. My goodness, there you go. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:28 | |
Can I have some, please? Martin and
Rosamund, thank you very much for | 0:17:28 | 0:17:36 | |
that. We await all the weekend
newspapers. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:40 | |
Don't forget you can see the front
pages of the papers online | 0:17:40 | 0:17:43 | |
on the BBC News website. | 0:17:43 | 0:17:51 | |
It's all there for you - seven days
a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. | 0:17:51 | 0:17:54 | |
And if you miss the programme any | 0:17:54 | 0:17:56 | |
evening you can watch it
later on BBC iPlayer. | 0:17:56 | 0:17:58 | |
Thank you to Martin Lipton
and Rosamund Urwin. | 0:17:58 | 0:18:00 | |
Goodbye. | 0:18:00 | 0:18:03 |