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Now on BBC News, here's The Papers. | 0:00:01 | 0:00:05 | |
Hello, and welcome to our look ahead
to what the the papers will be | 0:00:15 | 0:00:18 | |
bringing us tomorrow. | 0:00:18 | 0:00:20 | |
With me are Prashant Rao,
who's Deputy Europe business editor | 0:00:20 | 0:00:25 | |
of the New York Times
and political commentator, | 0:00:25 | 0:00:27 | |
James Millar. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:35 | |
The Sunday Express says a crackdown
on the subsidised drinking culture | 0:00:35 | 0:00:39 | |
in Parliament is to be launched,
in the wake of the | 0:00:39 | 0:00:42 | |
Westminster sex scandal. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:43 | |
The Sunday Telegraph says
Theresa May's aides 'sat on' | 0:00:43 | 0:00:45 | |
allegations against senior
Conservatives. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:47 | |
The Observer reports claims
about Sir Michael Fallon - | 0:00:47 | 0:00:49 | |
who suddenly resigned
from cabinet last week. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:52 | |
The paper alleges that a female
journalist told Number ten | 0:00:52 | 0:00:58 | |
that he had tried to kiss her
in 2003 after a lunch. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
The Mail on Sunday leads
on allegations involving the Tory | 0:01:01 | 0:01:04 | |
whip, Chris Pincher. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:05 | |
The paper claims the Tamworth MP
made an unwanted sexual pass | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
at the former Olympic rower
and Conservative activist | 0:01:08 | 0:01:10 | |
Alex Story in 2001. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:16 | |
In a statement Mr Pincher said,
"If Mr Story has ever felt offended | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
by anything I said then I can
only apologise to him." | 0:01:19 | 0:01:22 | |
The Sunday Times
details allegations dating back | 0:01:22 | 0:01:23 | |
to 2008, that police found
pornography on the computer of one | 0:01:23 | 0:01:26 | |
of Theresa May's closest allies,
Damian Green. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
Mr Green categorically denies
the claims which he says | 0:01:29 | 0:01:32 | |
are unscrupulous and untrue. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:39 | |
Let's begin, James Millar, let's
start if we can with the latest | 0:01:39 | 0:01:46 | |
allegations about Sir Michael
Fallon, who resigned as Defence | 0:01:46 | 0:01:50 | |
Secretary in the Observer this
morning. When you see the latest | 0:01:50 | 0:01:55 | |
allegations, there are so many
allegations to choose from, wordy | 0:01:55 | 0:01:57 | |
start? This one is, yet, Michael
Fallon has resigned after it was | 0:01:57 | 0:02:05 | |
alleged he put his hand on Julia
Hartley Brewer's knee. Another | 0:02:05 | 0:02:16 | |
person has said that he did
something very similar with her. In | 0:02:16 | 0:02:22 | |
both cases, the actual incident
wasn't that big a deal but it's a | 0:02:22 | 0:02:26 | |
pattern of behaviour and the whole
problem is that people like, people, | 0:02:26 | 0:02:33 | |
shall we say, do stuff like this to
women. And it builds up and builds | 0:02:33 | 0:02:37 | |
up and that is the problem. It's not
necessarily the specific | 0:02:37 | 0:02:41 | |
allegations, though in some cases
they are serious allegations and | 0:02:41 | 0:02:43 | |
they are the problem. It's this
overwhelming sort of weight of | 0:02:43 | 0:02:47 | |
allegations and the culture and the
attitude towards women. Prashant, is | 0:02:47 | 0:02:53 | |
there perhaps a sense of relief in
Downing Street this morning, that | 0:02:53 | 0:02:57 | |
the claims are not worse's when that
comes closest to the prime ministers | 0:02:57 | 0:03:02 | |
the one that about Damian Green,
before Secretary of State, which | 0:03:02 | 0:03:09 | |
appears in the Sunday Times. It is
so early days. I think caution... | 0:03:09 | 0:03:14 | |
These allegations are still coming
out. We don't know yet. They could | 0:03:14 | 0:03:18 | |
be worse, we don't know yet what is
to come out and it is important to | 0:03:18 | 0:03:24 | |
say, of course, that one of the
problems with this whole thing is | 0:03:24 | 0:03:27 | |
that there has not been a reporting
system in place that allows for | 0:03:27 | 0:03:32 | |
these issues to come to light. And
so a huge flood of them are coming | 0:03:32 | 0:03:36 | |
now because, you know, finally
people feel empowered and confident | 0:03:36 | 0:03:39 | |
that they will be taken seriously.
But one of the consequences of that | 0:03:39 | 0:03:43 | |
is that we don't know how much is
left in the system, how much is not | 0:03:43 | 0:03:48 | |
been reported and is yet to be
reported. So I certainly wouldn't | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
feel relieved in any part of
Government so I can't imagine anyone | 0:03:51 | 0:03:55 | |
has any level transparency of what
has been going on for 15, 20 years, | 0:03:55 | 0:04:00 | |
the duration of some of these MPs'
careers. Regarding Damian Green, the | 0:04:00 | 0:04:07 | |
allegation that police raided his
office relating to the Home Office, | 0:04:07 | 0:04:13 | |
which he denied anything to do with,
they found pornography on a | 0:04:13 | 0:04:18 | |
computer, not necessarily his
personally but a computer in use on | 0:04:18 | 0:04:21 | |
his office. These are all... As you
said, this but special fit a pattern | 0:04:21 | 0:04:28 | |
comment about the weight of the
cumulative allegations. Whether | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
Damian Green has issued this
statement in response, but it's kind | 0:04:31 | 0:04:38 | |
of... Is obviously much more
serious, but it harks back to the | 0:04:38 | 0:04:46 | |
expenses scandal where Everest hard
because the system has failed and it | 0:04:46 | 0:04:52 | |
is incumbent on the entire class of
Westminster to look and try to find | 0:04:52 | 0:04:55 | |
a way to fix this. -- everyone is
part because the system has failed. | 0:04:55 | 0:05:02 | |
And that includes journalists. This
is an idea, the media are saying, | 0:05:02 | 0:05:06 | |
look at these terrible politicians,
it's not just politicians. It is all | 0:05:06 | 0:05:09 | |
industries, we're discovering in the
wake of the Harvey Weinstein thing. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:13 | |
But particularly, you mentioned the
Sunday Times front page, most from | 0:05:13 | 0:05:17 | |
pages are written by men, certainly
all the Sunday political editors are | 0:05:17 | 0:05:23 | |
written by men, we are men sitting
around a table to give up this. On | 0:05:23 | 0:05:26 | |
the front page, there's a picture of
the women who accuse Damian Green | 0:05:26 | 0:05:33 | |
looking over her shoulder. I've
never seen a male byline picture | 0:05:33 | 0:05:36 | |
where he is looking over his
shoulder. There is a culture thing | 0:05:36 | 0:05:40 | |
here which goes very deep. I have
written a book cold The Gender | 0:05:40 | 0:05:49 | |
Agenda about how we teach children,
how we approach them from a very | 0:05:49 | 0:05:52 | |
young age and teach them about male
and female culture. It goes that | 0:05:52 | 0:06:00 | |
steep, it just shows... How you fix
it, it's a big ask, think it's fair | 0:06:00 | 0:06:06 | |
to say. And we see in the United
States, for example, increasingly a | 0:06:06 | 0:06:11 | |
lot of this is happening in the
United States that women, people who | 0:06:11 | 0:06:15 | |
have been harassed and assaulted her
final started to speak out. And a | 0:06:15 | 0:06:19 | |
colleague of mine made a really
important point, which was that it's | 0:06:19 | 0:06:24 | |
important when also journalists have
to face these accusations and people | 0:06:24 | 0:06:27 | |
in the media, because these are the
storytellers of her political age. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:30 | |
The people who define the narrative
arc politicians, in the case of the | 0:06:30 | 0:06:35 | |
US president election, Bill Clinton,
we had men telling the story of a | 0:06:35 | 0:06:40 | |
woman and so this matters. --
Hillary Clinton. So it matters how | 0:06:40 | 0:06:45 | |
we comport ourselves in these
situations. And there will be people | 0:06:45 | 0:06:48 | |
watching us now he will say, look,
if this stuff was out there, if it | 0:06:48 | 0:06:55 | |
was the common gossip of
Westminster, some of it, not all | 0:06:55 | 0:06:58 | |
that, have journalists at
Westminster failed in their duty to | 0:06:58 | 0:07:00 | |
be storytellers Kuzmenko is the
culture such that, we used to talk | 0:07:00 | 0:07:05 | |
about the lobby system, stories were
given an attributable and | 0:07:05 | 0:07:09 | |
anonymously to journalists as a sort
a trade-off between what you could | 0:07:09 | 0:07:17 | |
report and couldn't encase all your
resources would dry up. I was asking | 0:07:17 | 0:07:22 | |
a Hollywood journalists that well,
have we as a profession been | 0:07:22 | 0:07:27 | |
complicit? I, this week, had been
amazed after prime Minster's | 0:07:27 | 0:07:34 | |
questions, they had the Prime
Minister smoke when an political | 0:07:34 | 0:07:40 | |
journalists, and 95% of the people
at the tables were members of -- the | 0:07:40 | 0:07:50 | |
Prime Minister's spokesman. I have
no doubt that if their World war | 0:07:50 | 0:07:52 | |
women in the House of Commons, this
would not happen. Not on this scale. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
There would be by people doing bad
things, but it would be a different | 0:07:55 | 0:08:01 | |
culture. I was struck, perhaps most
of all today, I can't think of a | 0:08:01 | 0:08:07 | |
previous occasion where one MP from
a little party has written an | 0:08:07 | 0:08:11 | |
article about the behaviour, alleged
behaviour of another MP, and has | 0:08:11 | 0:08:14 | |
done so because he says the whip's
office, which he complained to, | 0:08:14 | 0:08:18 | |
hadn't acted on it in his view. I
don't want to get into the specific | 0:08:18 | 0:08:25 | |
allegations, but it is striking. It
is also striking because it is a man | 0:08:25 | 0:08:31 | |
speaking, the men have a duty, we
have a different position, added you | 0:08:31 | 0:08:34 | |
to speak up about these things. But,
yes, absolutely, it feeds into the | 0:08:34 | 0:08:40 | |
Sunday Telegraph spot which is the
centre of mine, which is that the | 0:08:40 | 0:08:43 | |
whips have known about the stuff and
have done nothing. I am not sure | 0:08:43 | 0:08:46 | |
about that. The whips have known
about, shall we say, bad behaviour | 0:08:46 | 0:08:54 | |
and then there is obvious that the
illegal stuff, I think the whips | 0:08:54 | 0:08:56 | |
know the difference. I think if they
had an allegation that somebody had | 0:08:56 | 0:09:02 | |
raped somebody, you're pretty
confident they would act on it, | 0:09:02 | 0:09:03 | |
because that is a political -- a
criminal matter? I don't think we | 0:09:03 | 0:09:10 | |
can say with any certainty but
traditionally, the view is that they | 0:09:10 | 0:09:15 | |
would use things to get people to
vote the way they want to... The | 0:09:15 | 0:09:20 | |
little Black book they are alleged
to have! And you mentioned is the | 0:09:20 | 0:09:27 | |
American, there has been the odd
congressional scandal, the use of | 0:09:27 | 0:09:33 | |
pages, young man he worked carrying
messages around, there has been | 0:09:33 | 0:09:38 | |
suggestion that congressmen have
acted inappropriately with them. Is | 0:09:38 | 0:09:41 | |
there the same thing in that
institution as well, the sense that | 0:09:41 | 0:09:44 | |
people don't have someone they can
go to? Is this a common problem for | 0:09:44 | 0:09:49 | |
legislatures, political systems, to
wrestle with's it is, if you think | 0:09:49 | 0:09:53 | |
about it, the way that the House of
Commons is structured, I thought | 0:09:53 | 0:09:59 | |
this was interesting that touched on
in BBC podcasts recently, this week | 0:09:59 | 0:10:03 | |
in Westminster, this is a tribal
structure. There's a sense of us and | 0:10:03 | 0:10:08 | |
them. There's a bigger game we're
playing here we should, you know, | 0:10:08 | 0:10:13 | |
leave this aside for the bigger goal
which is getting into Government, | 0:10:13 | 0:10:16 | |
passing legislation that will change
the country for the common good. And | 0:10:16 | 0:10:20 | |
these things, it's fine, we will
sort it out, it'll be OK. You don't | 0:10:20 | 0:10:24 | |
wash dirty linen in public in case
it damages the party. Exactly, | 0:10:24 | 0:10:28 | |
loyalty to the party good behaviour.
What is acceptable in civil | 0:10:28 | 0:10:34 | |
society... Moving on to the express,
it talks about cracking down on it | 0:10:34 | 0:10:40 | |
in their case, subsidised drinking
culture. But there's a more general | 0:10:40 | 0:10:44 | |
point about, we have this meeting
tomorrow, little party leaders, in | 0:10:44 | 0:10:47 | |
much of what you're saying, Prasad,
but that, we don't want to lose | 0:10:47 | 0:10:50 | |
sight of the bigger picture, is
there a danger that the natural | 0:10:50 | 0:10:55 | |
political tribal rivalries will make
it difficult for them to agree a | 0:10:55 | 0:10:57 | |
common set of criteria that can be
used and actually applied and hand | 0:10:57 | 0:11:02 | |
this over to an independent body?
Absolutely, achieving that is gone | 0:11:02 | 0:11:08 | |
to be tricky, because as you say,
tribal loyalties. There is no real | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
reason for them to work together
other than for the common good, but | 0:11:11 | 0:11:16 | |
as you say, gaining advantage,
electoral advantage, they may not be | 0:11:16 | 0:11:18 | |
inclined to do so. The set up a
parliament is so weird and I don't | 0:11:18 | 0:11:24 | |
mean that their sale in a pejorative
sense, it is just odd, because staff | 0:11:24 | 0:11:30 | |
don't work for Parliament, they work
for MPs. And lots of people work for | 0:11:30 | 0:11:34 | |
parties. So here is the external
body they're going to be in charge | 0:11:34 | 0:11:39 | |
of, will they be in charge of all
parties, all Parliamentary staff? | 0:11:39 | 0:11:44 | |
And this is talking about cheap
booze, again, most workplaces don't | 0:11:44 | 0:11:48 | |
have a couple of pubs in the
basement. But MPs, as it stands, | 0:11:48 | 0:11:56 | |
giving sitting hours, have to be
there in the evening. They don't | 0:11:56 | 0:12:00 | |
have to go there and drink but
grown-ups can go there in drag, they | 0:12:00 | 0:12:04 | |
don't have to be put in some sudden
crash until it is time to vote! -- | 0:12:04 | 0:12:07 | |
grown-ups can go in there and drink.
But becomes manager with any | 0:12:07 | 0:12:15 | |
legislature is power. That is a huge
part of it. Let's move on and away | 0:12:15 | 0:12:20 | |
from the Westminster sleaze into
something that some might say is a | 0:12:20 | 0:12:26 | |
surprisingly important story, rather
buried away, and this is on page | 0:12:26 | 0:12:32 | |
Hopp, sorry, six and seven of the
daily Mirror this morning. We have | 0:12:32 | 0:12:40 | |
Gordon Brown's book coming out in a
couple of days and there is except | 0:12:40 | 0:12:45 | |
here where the former Prime Minister
talks about the decision-making in | 0:12:45 | 0:12:50 | |
the lead up to the Iraq war.
Officer, the seminal decision of the | 0:12:50 | 0:12:54 | |
time he was in Government. I would
say certainly. And so Gordon Brown | 0:12:54 | 0:13:00 | |
makes the case that there was a
particular reports that the US | 0:13:00 | 0:13:05 | |
Government declined, did not hand
over to the Brits in the run-up to | 0:13:05 | 0:13:08 | |
the war would would have influence
with their not at least he would | 0:13:08 | 0:13:11 | |
have decided to favour invading
Iraq. So this is interesting, | 0:13:11 | 0:13:17 | |
because Gordon Brown is, think we're
a stage now where we're going to | 0:13:17 | 0:13:23 | |
start reassessing his legacy, it's
about a decade since he famously | 0:13:23 | 0:13:26 | |
could have called the election,
could have delivered him another | 0:13:26 | 0:13:31 | |
five-year term in office and didn't.
And so now we can step back and | 0:13:31 | 0:13:35 | |
think about, who was Gordon Brown
the Prime Minister? At the time, it | 0:13:35 | 0:13:39 | |
felt like there was all this
difference between him and Tony | 0:13:39 | 0:13:43 | |
Blair, the Blairite umbrella. But
you look up parliaments today and | 0:13:43 | 0:13:47 | |
the true party tearing itself apart,
Jeremy Corbyn. -- the Tory party | 0:13:47 | 0:13:52 | |
turn itself apart. Gros it almost
makes you started. They weren't that | 0:13:52 | 0:13:58 | |
difference but we magnified it.
There was at her in small | 0:13:58 | 0:14:01 | |
differences. But the same thing. And
Iraq was one-stop Gordon Brown was | 0:14:01 | 0:14:07 | |
the second most powerful person in
Government and by a further close | 0:14:07 | 0:14:10 | |
margin. That was certainly the
narrative. The whole idea that one | 0:14:10 | 0:14:15 | |
report would have changed mind about
invading, I find a bit questionable. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:19 | |
It's fascinating he does not dump on
Tony Blair. He could have... He says | 0:14:19 | 0:14:27 | |
we were tricked and he says Tony
Blair was trip. He is not saying, | 0:14:27 | 0:14:31 | |
Tony Blair knew about this and lied
to the Government and led us all | 0:14:31 | 0:14:35 | |
into work, he says, we ruled trick.
He says, can't be certain but I | 0:14:35 | 0:14:41 | |
believe this report contained this
information that would have | 0:14:41 | 0:14:44 | |
suggested that actually, the
American intelligence was not | 0:14:44 | 0:14:47 | |
absolutely rock-solid, it was mostly
inference based on assumptions that | 0:14:47 | 0:14:51 | |
were made in the intelligence
community and they built one | 0:14:51 | 0:14:55 | |
influence on an assumption and
before you know, you built up | 0:14:55 | 0:14:58 | |
impressive body of evidence but
isn't. But it is also striking that | 0:14:58 | 0:15:03 | |
he takes Blair's side on this and
says, there was no secret conspiracy | 0:15:03 | 0:15:10 | |
between Blair and Bush, Blair was
out of the loop. Is is an | 0:15:10 | 0:15:14 | |
interesting type in the book to, it
will be interesting to see held did | 0:15:14 | 0:15:17 | |
received. He will get an easy ride
in the mirror but he left office as | 0:15:17 | 0:15:24 | |
probably the worst Prime Minister
post-war, and now Cameron Orr Maher | 0:15:24 | 0:15:29 | |
mixing it up down at the bottom of
the league table! -- Cameron and | 0:15:29 | 0:15:33 | |
Make. -- Theresa May. The Sunday
Times, you're talking about gender | 0:15:33 | 0:15:44 | |
stereotyping of children, young age,
whatever happens to drilling nursery | 0:15:44 | 0:15:47 | |
rhymes into them from a young age?
It is interesting, I certainly find | 0:15:47 | 0:15:53 | |
that I can't remember nursery
rhymes, it's about 20 or 30 years | 0:15:53 | 0:15:57 | |
since you had them and you suddenly
remember them again. The chief | 0:15:57 | 0:16:02 | |
inspector of schools, of Ofsted, she
doesn't say this but the story says | 0:16:02 | 0:16:09 | |
that youngsters would rather play
pepper pic iPad games and find out | 0:16:09 | 0:16:12 | |
what happened to Doctor Foster. A
couple of things, one, it's not | 0:16:12 | 0:16:18 | |
either or. IPad games are not
necessarily bad. Second, Doctor | 0:16:18 | 0:16:23 | |
Foster fell into a puddle, it's
pretty grim! It's probably better | 0:16:23 | 0:16:26 | |
for some children stop more
sophisticated emotional connection. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:32 | |
Prashant, do you have a favourite
nursery rhyme? And I do think, not | 0:16:32 | 0:16:38 | |
one comes to mind. But certainly,
it's not black-and-white issue, yet | 0:16:38 | 0:16:43 | |
alone exactly like we did in the
70s, 80s, 90s. Medical science have | 0:16:43 | 0:16:48 | |
moved on, we do things differently
in the hospital, when it in the | 0:16:48 | 0:16:51 | |
school as well? It seems a bit
strange to move on in this the | 0:16:51 | 0:16:54 | |
starter. Were of the things we would
perhaps have had in common is Sesame | 0:16:54 | 0:17:00 | |
Street, the songs on Sesame Street.
I can't remember now. Have you got a | 0:17:00 | 0:17:05 | |
favourite nursery ran? Maybe if they
build it into you at school... Temm | 0:17:05 | 0:17:14 | |
says Michigan's learners. And they
are all gruesome, nursery rhymes. | 0:17:14 | 0:17:23 | |
Jack and Jill, Jack Trax his head
open, doesn't he? Their horrible! | 0:17:23 | 0:17:30 | |
Prashant and James, thank you for
joining us for the paper review. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:36 | |
Just a reminder, we take a look
at tomorrows front pages every | 0:17:36 | 0:17:40 | |
evening at 10:40pm here on BBC News. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:43 |