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