04/11/2017

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0:00:00 > 0:00:00humans are the dominant cause of the global warming.

0:00:00 > 0:00:05The White House has downplayed the conclusions.

0:00:17 > 0:00:20Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers

0:00:20 > 0:00:21will be bringing us tomorrow.

0:00:21 > 0:00:23With me are Nigel Nelson,

0:00:23 > 0:00:25Political Editor at the Sunday Mirror and Sunday People,

0:00:25 > 0:00:29and political commentator, Jo Phillips.

0:00:29 > 0:00:32Tomorrow's front pages, starting with:

0:00:32 > 0:00:36The Sunday Express says a crackdown on the subsidised drinking culture

0:00:36 > 0:00:37in Parliament is to be launched,

0:00:37 > 0:00:41in the wake of the Westminster sex scandal.

0:00:41 > 0:00:45The Sunday Telegraph says Theresa May's aides

0:00:45 > 0:00:49sat on allegations against senior Conservatives.

0:00:49 > 0:00:55The Observer reports claims about Sir Michael Fallon,

0:00:56 > 0:00:58who suddenly resigned from cabinet last week.

0:00:58 > 0:01:05The paper alleges that a female journalist told Number 10

0:01:05 > 0:01:09that he had tried to kiss her, in 2003, after a lunch.

0:01:09 > 0:01:11The Mail on Sunday leads on allegations involving

0:01:11 > 0:01:12the Tory whip, Chris Pincher.

0:01:12 > 0:01:15The paper claims the Tamworth MP made an unwanted sexual pass

0:01:15 > 0:01:23at the former Olympic rower and Conservative activist

0:01:23 > 0:01:24Alex Story in 2001.

0:01:24 > 0:01:25In a statement Mr Pincher said,

0:01:25 > 0:01:29"If Mr Story has ever felt offended by anything I said then I can only

0:01:29 > 0:01:30apologise to him."

0:01:30 > 0:01:37The Sunday Times details allegations dating back

0:01:37 > 0:01:40to 2008, that police found pornography on the computer

0:01:40 > 0:01:42of one of Theresa May's closest allies,

0:01:42 > 0:01:42Damian Green.

0:01:42 > 0:01:45Mr Green categorically denies the claims which he says

0:01:45 > 0:01:47are unscrupulous and untrue.

0:01:47 > 0:01:51So let's begin...

0:01:51 > 0:02:00A lot to wade through and use of the word advisedly.

0:02:00 > 0:02:01A lot to wade through and use of the word advisedly. Some serious some

0:02:01 > 0:02:10less so but clearly a big issue. And the Sunday Telegraph focusing on who

0:02:10 > 0:02:13knew what and how much information are we not hearing.This is the

0:02:13 > 0:02:22question that not only we are asking and the newspapers but what is being

0:02:22 > 0:02:28asked amongst MPs. The blips, who run the vertical parties, they run

0:02:28 > 0:02:35it through discipline and through that discipline, they know people's

0:02:35 > 0:02:40secrets. There has always been a degree of suspicion about the amount

0:02:40 > 0:02:50of power of the whips hold. A number of questions about Gavin Barwell, at

0:02:50 > 0:02:59cheap weep -- chief, who is now at chief of staff and questions about

0:02:59 > 0:03:06Gavin Williamson who has become defence secretary, against a lot of

0:03:06 > 0:03:16people 's... A lot of people 's surprises. It is about who knew what

0:03:16 > 0:03:24when and who did you go to complain because if the people you complain

0:03:24 > 0:03:30to use that knowledge is this not a sensible system.What do you make of

0:03:30 > 0:03:37these?Very similar to Joe. They have to address the way whips

0:03:37 > 0:03:43parade. There are allegations that whips are hiding this and that there

0:03:43 > 0:03:50may be other reasons for this. A woman may complain and say I do not

0:03:50 > 0:03:58want to take this any further. A lot of the time the MPs do not know the

0:03:58 > 0:04:06complaint is being made to the whips. The whole system needs to be

0:04:06 > 0:04:10cleaned up and one of the places they will look at is exactly what

0:04:10 > 0:04:16secrets the whips keep on how they use them.The Mail on Sunday has a

0:04:16 > 0:04:24new story with claims Chris Pincher, dating back some time.Dating back

0:04:24 > 0:04:38to the time before he was an MP were he will be deeply had been described

0:04:38 > 0:04:47of making approaches like Harvey Weinstein. They had been at some

0:04:47 > 0:04:53Tory party event with Mr Pincher who was not an MP at the time. They went

0:04:53 > 0:04:57out the drinks and dinner and went back to his house and made unwonted

0:04:57 > 0:05:05advances. Mr Pincher says, if Mr Storey has felt offended, then I can

0:05:05 > 0:05:14only apologise. The fact that a lot of these allegations are historic

0:05:14 > 0:05:18but what Mr Storey has said Anne goes back to the first point we were

0:05:18 > 0:05:26making, is that Mr Pincher is now a government whip. That may lead to

0:05:26 > 0:05:33someone else faced with a similar predicament. That is at the nub of a

0:05:33 > 0:05:39lot of this. You may be afraid to say anything because it may damage

0:05:39 > 0:05:46your career or you fear that nothing will be done.Much will difficult,

0:05:46 > 0:05:53if you want to be an MP and it is a very long process to go and do it

0:05:53 > 0:05:57and on the basis of that, you will be worried about getting a black

0:05:57 > 0:06:01mark against you. That has stopped an awful lot of people from doing

0:06:01 > 0:06:08that.While you are with us, the Sunday at post taxes to Scotland.

0:06:08 > 0:06:13The tentacles of this story are going to spread.I think that is

0:06:13 > 0:06:18right. If you think about it started, Harvey Weinstein and moves

0:06:18 > 0:06:24out to a lot of other institutions. This is the childcare Minister, Mark

0:06:24 > 0:06:32McDonald, in Scotland, his quote on the basis that he feels his

0:06:32 > 0:06:36behaviour has not come up to standard in the past. It shows that

0:06:36 > 0:06:41it is moving elsewhere and in the European Parliament, you have 30 odd

0:06:41 > 0:06:46allegations that now of inappropriate behaviour. They are

0:06:46 > 0:06:51trying to sort out a whole new safeguarding system over there,

0:06:51 > 0:06:56similar to hear. I think every institution is going to be hit here.

0:06:56 > 0:07:01Mark McDonnell has put out a statement saying some of my previous

0:07:01 > 0:07:06actions have been considered to be inappropriate where I believe myself

0:07:06 > 0:07:11to be merely humourous or friendly. My behaviour may have made others

0:07:11 > 0:07:15uncomfortable and it is my responsibility and I apologise

0:07:15 > 0:07:20unreservedly to anyone I have upset or may have found my behaviour

0:07:20 > 0:07:26inappropriate. It is a sideline but it will show people having

0:07:26 > 0:07:32resignations with not so much clarity. Someone has clearly felt

0:07:32 > 0:07:37aggrieved and upset and we are going to sit movement records of that.

0:07:37 > 0:07:41Yes, we are going to sit movement and also people resigning and people

0:07:41 > 0:07:47saying, there is no smoke without fire. This might have been a minor

0:07:47 > 0:07:52incident but there are obviously more skeletons in the Cabinet. But

0:07:52 > 0:07:57we need some perspective. As with all human relationships, and in a

0:07:57 > 0:08:02working environment, a lot of it is about nuance and some of that is

0:08:02 > 0:08:11about what older people might accept as gentlemanly, behaviour and other

0:08:11 > 0:08:21people might find repugnant. The feel so intimidated, apparently,

0:08:21 > 0:08:27from a crass remark that she left five years before she mentioned that

0:08:27 > 0:08:34beggars belief. Where is the example, she is the Leader of the

0:08:34 > 0:08:38House and is going to be part of this revamp so I want to say, why

0:08:38 > 0:08:44did you not say something? I get into that level in politics we have

0:08:44 > 0:08:48to have sharp elbows and a sharp tongue, and be able to call a spade

0:08:48 > 0:08:53is vague, wouldn't you have said, Michael, that is totally

0:08:53 > 0:09:00inappropriate.The same question as to why powerful women in Hollywood

0:09:00 > 0:09:05have not spoken up earlier.That takes us on to the Sunday express. I

0:09:05 > 0:09:13will get both of your views. A possible way to change the way

0:09:13 > 0:09:17things are done and businesses run in the comments.Cheap bars, there

0:09:17 > 0:09:24are several bars of their. It is nothing like it used to be when I

0:09:24 > 0:09:27worked in the comments were you could pretty much drink around the

0:09:27 > 0:09:36clock... And we did! Yes, we did. Sitting outside with Charlie Kennedy

0:09:36 > 0:09:40at three o'clock in the morning when the votes were still going on. It

0:09:40 > 0:09:46can change the culture to a certain extent that you have people away

0:09:46 > 0:09:52from home, you have drinks - less so than in the past - but it does make

0:09:52 > 0:10:03people behave in a different way and in an inappropriate way. One of the

0:10:03 > 0:10:09bars, where everybody can go, does seem quite often to be at the centre

0:10:09 > 0:10:17of these allegations.One of the bars your friend Andrea Leadsom is

0:10:17 > 0:10:23talking about in the Sunday express, closing bars like that and change

0:10:23 > 0:10:29the amount of alcohol consumed. It is already an awful lot less than it

0:10:29 > 0:10:36used to be. And meals have water rather than a bottle of wine with

0:10:36 > 0:10:39them these days.Damon Green, Theresa May is deputy and new

0:10:39 > 0:10:47allegations.One of the most important point to make about this

0:10:47 > 0:10:52is that it has got nothing to do with sexual harassment whatsoever.

0:10:52 > 0:10:57What the Sunday Times as saying is back in 2000 date, when Damian

0:10:57 > 0:11:01Green's offices were raided by police that some pornographic images

0:11:01 > 0:11:07were found on computers there. There is no suggestion they were anything

0:11:07 > 0:11:12to do with him. He has made the point that the material was actually

0:11:12 > 0:11:18perfectly lawful. One of the investigating officers said some of

0:11:18 > 0:11:25it might have been extreme. That is the extent of the story. There were

0:11:25 > 0:11:28rumours today about the story appearing and Damien would have to

0:11:28 > 0:11:33resign by tomorrow but he will not have to resign over a story like

0:11:33 > 0:11:41this and it is at a time with every thing else going on...He says the

0:11:41 > 0:11:48claim is untrue and he has been very firm in his denial. But once

0:11:48 > 0:11:54somebody is in people's sites... The Observer especially Michael Fallon

0:11:54 > 0:11:58and it brings us back to news from last week the stop but it is the

0:11:58 > 0:12:08trip, drip.The journal is confirms it was her and that it was Michael

0:12:08 > 0:12:17Fallon that make a lunch at her at large. He was 29 years old at the

0:12:17 > 0:12:25time. She said she felt humiliated and ashamed, did I led him on? Back

0:12:25 > 0:12:29to the drinking culture in many years ago again. Michael, according

0:12:29 > 0:12:34to a friend of his, realises that this kind of instant is unacceptable

0:12:34 > 0:12:43and which is why he had to resign but it comes back to this... The

0:12:43 > 0:12:51impression was that it was a 1-off incidents. And it is like oh, it is

0:12:51 > 0:12:55Michael Beer Michael. Everybody had had too much to drink but what she's

0:12:55 > 0:12:59saying at this is where you get into this tangled web of the news, what

0:12:59 > 0:13:07could she have done? It is that sort of empowerment. People will go, hang

0:13:07 > 0:13:13on, chaps, this is not on.Plenty more to talk about on this subject

0:13:13 > 0:13:21but tell us about this slightly more quirky story...

0:13:26 > 0:13:31Things are not what they used to be. Nursery rhymes are going out of

0:13:31 > 0:13:45fashion. Nursery rhymes are going out of fashion and young people

0:13:45 > 0:13:55today, they are doing Peppa Pig iPad games etc. The argument is we need

0:13:55 > 0:13:59to get nursery rhymes back in school so we can make them better prepared

0:13:59 > 0:14:08for school later on.Look at the cartoon. It will make you smile. In

0:14:08 > 0:14:13the meantime, thank you to both of you. That is all we have time for.