0:00:15 > 0:00:19Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
0:00:19 > 0:00:20bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:20 > 0:00:26With me are the journalist Dina Hamdy and broadcaster David Davies.
0:00:26 > 0:00:29Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...
0:00:29 > 0:00:36The i, which leads with the tributes paid to the former Welsh
0:00:36 > 0:00:38government minister, Carl Sargeant, who was found dead
0:00:38 > 0:00:39after facing allegations, from a number of women,
0:00:40 > 0:00:41about his personal conduct.
0:00:41 > 0:00:42Staying with the same story,
0:00:42 > 0:00:46The Metro details how the 49-year-old father of two had
0:00:46 > 0:00:50been unaware of the details of the claims made against him.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52The Telegraph goes with the fallout following the International
0:00:52 > 0:00:53Development Secretary, Priti Patel's unsanctioned meetings
0:00:53 > 0:00:55with Israeli politicians during a private holiday
0:00:55 > 0:00:59over the summer.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02Eating too much sugar could speed up the progress and severity
0:01:02 > 0:01:03of Alzheimer's according to new research, that's
0:01:03 > 0:01:11on the Daily Express front page.
0:01:11 > 0:01:15The Financial Times leads with a warning from Wall Street banker to
0:01:15 > 0:01:20the US commerce Secretary that a slow Brexit could force them to
0:01:20 > 0:01:25start moving jobs out of the city. The Times goes with the claims that
0:01:25 > 0:01:28two Labour run councils are using offshore companies to avoid paying
0:01:28 > 0:01:34millions of pounds in tax. The Guardian leads with more revelations
0:01:34 > 0:01:39from the Paradise Papers detailing how the Prince of Wales's private
0:01:39 > 0:01:43estate secretly invested in a friend's environmental firm in
0:01:43 > 0:01:46Bermuda and the Daily Mail details how a mother who posted propaganda
0:01:46 > 0:01:49to a so-called Islamic State group on social media was spared jail
0:01:49 > 0:01:54after the judge took pity on her five children.
0:01:54 > 0:02:00Before we talk about some of those front pages, a line from Laura
0:02:00 > 0:02:02Kuenssberg, our political editor, which will be relevant to the
0:02:02 > 0:02:08discussion, and she says that sources have suggested to the BBC
0:02:08 > 0:02:14that Priti Patel is in deep trouble. Number ten is examining new
0:02:14 > 0:02:21revelations about her meetings overseas tonight. The minister and
0:02:21 > 0:02:25Theresa May have apparently not spoken this evening and that will
0:02:25 > 0:02:32appear in a tweet that Laura has security, but suggestions she has
0:02:32 > 0:02:38been fired are not correct at this point in time. That is what Laura
0:02:38 > 0:02:41Kuenssberg is saying about relations between number ten and the
0:02:41 > 0:02:44International Development Secretary. There may be further developments in
0:02:44 > 0:02:52the hours to come. Priti Patel of course has left the country because
0:02:52 > 0:02:55she is going on business to Uganda so she did not appear in the Commons
0:02:55 > 0:03:05earlier when opposition MPs were demanding further comments from her.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08With both David and Dina we will start with that issue. The front of
0:03:08 > 0:03:13the Telegraph, they are leading us where Laura Kuenssberg was
0:03:13 > 0:03:20indicating.Absolutely, and as Priti Patel's International development
0:03:20 > 0:03:24colleague, Alistair Burt, said in the Commons this afternoon, she is
0:03:24 > 0:03:32in the air. And she was literally in the air at that time, earlier than
0:03:32 > 0:03:40expected, she managed to get out of the country. That is where she has
0:03:40 > 0:03:45gone and she is in Africa and getting on with the job. But looking
0:03:45 > 0:03:53at these stories tonight, yes, Priti Patel is in deep trouble, you would
0:03:53 > 0:03:58have to say that and you would expect a denoument when she gets
0:03:58 > 0:04:03back. But it's not only her, the government looks in deep trouble
0:04:03 > 0:04:09tonight.And the Daily Telegraph, clearly a Conservative supporting
0:04:09 > 0:04:16newspaper, is not pulling back on this?No and I think they shouldn't.
0:04:16 > 0:04:22Frankly nobody knows more what Priti Patel or Boris Johnson need to do to
0:04:22 > 0:04:28be sacked. This week has been extraordinary. She has scheduled
0:04:28 > 0:04:34meetings without telling the Foreign Office or the ambassador in Israel,
0:04:34 > 0:04:38or indeed the Prime Minister has gone leaving her in the dark when
0:04:38 > 0:04:44she met Netanyahu last week. It extraordinary that this has
0:04:44 > 0:04:49happened, and she lied about it initially to the papers before
0:04:49 > 0:04:53finally admitting that she has had these meetings. And now we discover
0:04:53 > 0:04:58that a lobbyist was also present in these meetings. The point I would
0:04:58 > 0:05:04like to make is that both the blunders of Patel and Boris Johnson,
0:05:04 > 0:05:08if I may bring him into the equation, are to do with the middle
0:05:08 > 0:05:13East at a time when the region is on the brink of a showdown perhaps
0:05:13 > 0:05:19between Saudi Arabia and Iran is not an outright war. As you can find out
0:05:19 > 0:05:23from the Financial Times story here. Let me get to that a little bit
0:05:23 > 0:05:27later if I may because I want to stay with the Conservative Party for
0:05:27 > 0:05:33a moment because inside The times, you brought them together, Priti
0:05:33 > 0:05:35Patel and Boris Johnson, both brought together because of the
0:05:35 > 0:05:41difficulties they face.I am sure the conspiracy theorists will point
0:05:41 > 0:05:48out that both Boris and pretty Patel were leading members of the Brexit
0:05:48 > 0:05:52campaign Battle Priti Patel. Putting that aside for the time being, you
0:05:52 > 0:05:59referred to the inside page, "Patel led lobby group chief sit in on
0:05:59 > 0:06:04secret Israel talks". She has been accused of breaching the ministerial
0:06:04 > 0:06:12code on several occasions now. This was Lord Pollock, honorary friends
0:06:12 > 0:06:18of the Conservative friends of Israel, who set up 12 meetings for
0:06:18 > 0:06:20the international the relevant secretary during her family holiday.
0:06:20 > 0:06:25That would have been quite a family holiday with 12 meetings! One
0:06:25 > 0:06:30wonders how long the holiday was. Less time for the beach!Not much
0:06:30 > 0:06:36time for those very nice beaches in Israel but anyway, there it is. As
0:06:36 > 0:06:39far as Boris is concerned...This is to do with the fact he had to go
0:06:39 > 0:06:43before the Commons today after he spoke last week in front of a
0:06:43 > 0:06:48committee of MPs with reference to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who is
0:06:48 > 0:06:53currently in prison in Iran.I was thinking, if I said to you, what are
0:06:53 > 0:06:59the attributes that a Foreign Secretary, the successors to Lord
0:06:59 > 0:07:05Palmerston and Lord Salisbury and Douglas Hurd and Lord Carrington,
0:07:05 > 0:07:12those sorts of figures, what are those attributes? You talk about
0:07:12 > 0:07:16diplomacy and resilience and tact and command of detail, reputation
0:07:16 > 0:07:22abroad. You would have to ask how many of those attributes would the
0:07:22 > 0:07:27present Foreign Secretary have. None.I think that is pretty harsh.
0:07:27 > 0:07:34He has resilience! But it is a different style.At least he showed
0:07:34 > 0:07:40up.I was going to say, he did show up and in terms of what Iran as said
0:07:40 > 0:07:44in response to what he said, the reading is that it might have taken
0:07:44 > 0:07:53the pressure off him.Yes, but we have to remember that they did haul
0:07:53 > 0:07:55Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to an extraordinary court hearing just to
0:07:55 > 0:08:00tell her that what was Boris Johnson said was adamant prove...Because
0:08:00 > 0:08:04she may have been training journalists was what he said.
0:08:04 > 0:08:08Exactly. And maybe endangering her further and extending her prison
0:08:08 > 0:08:14sentence further when it should be the last thing he does.Is there a
0:08:14 > 0:08:20job in government where language matters more?No.That is why the
0:08:20 > 0:08:26reading of it is so important. In the Guardian, this is a tragic story
0:08:26 > 0:08:37of Carl Sargent in Wales.It is very hard to know what to say about this,
0:08:37 > 0:08:42apart from I don't envy his family, they must be in a really terrible
0:08:42 > 0:08:47state at the minute. His position, his reputation has gone down the
0:08:47 > 0:08:53drain, and he is now dead, all in one week. It must be a lot for a
0:08:53 > 0:08:57family and his children to take on. And the allegations, we don't know
0:08:57 > 0:09:01what they were...Interesting to hear the reaction of Jeremy Corbyn
0:09:01 > 0:09:10when he said that actually everybody, in any way, on whatever
0:09:10 > 0:09:19side, dragged into these allegations from any of this nature, they need
0:09:19 > 0:09:22pastoral care and you need to consider that whatever the truth.
0:09:22 > 0:09:30But it is an enormous human tragedy. Let me go to two stories on the
0:09:30 > 0:09:34front of the Financial Times. You mentioned one that I will come true
0:09:34 > 0:09:41in a moment but take us to Wall Street, David.Brexit has been
0:09:41 > 0:09:48having a few days off from most of the front pages! But here it is in
0:09:48 > 0:09:52the FT and we are told that a group of financial institutions with big
0:09:52 > 0:09:58London operations led by Wall Street's banks have told the US
0:09:58 > 0:10:02commerce Secretary who is in the country at the moment that Britain's
0:10:02 > 0:10:05unstable government has slowed progress in Brexit planning and that
0:10:05 > 0:10:10might force them to start moving thousands of jobs out of the city in
0:10:10 > 0:10:14the near future. Again, echoes of the referendum campaign and all the
0:10:14 > 0:10:25rest of it. There is no doubt that this deadline that has been set of
0:10:25 > 0:10:31March 2019 is now starting to concentrate minds in a very real way
0:10:31 > 0:10:35and you can't just click your fingers and move people from one
0:10:35 > 0:10:39part of Europe to another.I suppose when this appears I feel duty bound
0:10:39 > 0:10:44to feel that the FT did not want Britain to leave the European Union
0:10:44 > 0:10:49in the first place.Absolutely right and they would seize on this sort of
0:10:49 > 0:10:55story, but there is a feeling that there is real concern about, on the
0:10:55 > 0:10:59one hand, the instability of the government, and on the other hand,
0:10:59 > 0:11:07the apparent lack of progress in the talks.And also Brussels have said
0:11:07 > 0:11:15that because of the uncertainty with the government, if they don't agree
0:11:15 > 0:11:18on the first phase of negotiations by December, they are not going to
0:11:18 > 0:11:22move onto the second they don't expect to now with everything going
0:11:22 > 0:11:26on.And that is with those three key points before you start talking
0:11:26 > 0:11:32about trade. You mentioned Saudi fleetingly. I will let you go there
0:11:32 > 0:11:43now!Thank you! What I want to say, the reason why the mistakes made by
0:11:43 > 0:11:47Boris Johnson and Priti Patel this week are significant in my point of
0:11:47 > 0:11:50view is because they are both related to the Middle East at a time
0:11:50 > 0:11:59when it is in turmoil. The backdrop is obviously the Crown Prince's move
0:11:59 > 0:12:04by rounding up members of the Royal family and major businessmen in
0:12:04 > 0:12:10alleged anti-corruption crackdowns. In effect, many people have seen
0:12:10 > 0:12:16this as a power grab as well as a wealth grab potentially. It already
0:12:16 > 0:12:22had repercussions on Lebanon, it will have repercussions on the Gulf
0:12:22 > 0:12:26as mentioned here, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Iraq and Bahrain are going to
0:12:26 > 0:12:33feel the chill financially so to speak. It is all connected at a very
0:12:33 > 0:12:36critical time for the region and the last thing you can do is afford to
0:12:36 > 0:12:40make mistakes.I don't think people in this country realise what is
0:12:40 > 0:12:46going on in a 5-star, or is it six start or seven start, Hotel in
0:12:46 > 0:12:51Riyadh at the moment. Some of these immensely wealthy people who've been
0:12:51 > 0:12:55rounded up and they are sleeping on mattresses on the floor, admittedly,
0:12:55 > 0:13:03of this posh hotel.It is quite unprecedented.Without access to
0:13:03 > 0:13:07lawyers or allegedly their phones. It is a who's who in Saudi Arabia.
0:13:07 > 0:13:12And it has barely been mentioned.I am glad we highlighted it. Going
0:13:12 > 0:13:20back to the Daily Telegraph, this is what to do that could do with Mary
0:13:20 > 0:13:26Porter 's -- Merhi Portas was trying to do to the high street but is not.
0:13:26 > 0:13:31And not just her, David Cameron, that was the call from him, save our
0:13:31 > 0:13:43high streets. Here comes Saint Merhi Portas to do it for us. -- Mary
0:13:43 > 0:13:51She was going to save all these town centres. But now it seems to have
0:13:51 > 0:14:00all faded away and she is saying, hey, there was an awful lot of fluff
0:14:00 > 0:14:05around this but not enough money. And also we are shopping online so
0:14:05 > 0:14:15much.Yes.One more from the Telegraph? I think so. Twitter plays
0:14:15 > 0:14:22the long game with 280 character limit. Do you wish to tweet at
0:14:22 > 0:14:26greater length?Not really! I have drifted off it recently.I am
0:14:26 > 0:14:33worried about Twitter because a few years ago it was the coming thing
0:14:33 > 0:14:39and I'm worried it has lost momentum. This is a way, I assume,
0:14:39 > 0:14:43to try to get some of that momentum back but its strength was always its
0:14:43 > 0:14:50brevity. And so if you lose the specialists, you lose the very point
0:14:50 > 0:14:56of it.Brevity is the key at this point as well.And it's finally that
0:14:56 > 0:14:59everybody is waiting to see what President Trump is going to do with
0:14:59 > 0:15:06the extra characters! God help us all!Thank you very much. That is it
0:15:06 > 0:15:10tonight. You can see the front pages of the papers online on the BBC News
0:15:10 > 0:15:13website and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch
0:15:13 > 0:15:19it later on the iPlayer. Thank you to Dina and David, and goodbye.