11/11/2017 The Papers

That's all the sport for now.

Time for The Papers.

James Pearce, never look away.

Welcome to our look ahead to what

the papers will be bringing

tomorrow. When the music trickles

away, I must point out that we not

wearing poppies but Benedict is

wearing the French symbol for

Armistice Day. Isn't it gorgeous.

The cornflower.

The front pages.

These are an education. The Observer

leads on Jeremy Corbyn's calls for

Boris Johnson to quit after comments

he made about a British mother in

prison and in around. The Sunday

Times says 40 Tory MPs have signed a

letter of no confidence against

Theresa May. The Telegraph, it leads

on plans by the Environment

Secretary for a stronger Brexit. The

Sunday express says the economy is

in for a £3 billion windfall after

Brexit. Let's begin. Lots of

political stories, not the best time

to be a politician necessarily but a

great time to be a political

journalist. Let's start with the

Sunday Times. Tory turmoil as 40 MPs

say Theresa May must go. This

article by Caroline Wheeler, it says

she is really fighting on three

fronts.

At least three. Everywhere

she looks at the moment, Theresa May

has trouble, essentially. It looks

as though a lot of Tory MPs, 40,

according to the Sunday Times, are

losing patience. The received wisdom

up until relatively recently was

that she would be in place at least

until Brexit happens in March 29

team, but Brexit out of the way and

then they would move against her and

maybe look to have the new Tory

leader or Prime Minister by the

autumn of 2019. I think that is

still the most likely outcome but

there is things have happened since

you have been away. Michael Fallon

has resigned.

Just in case you

missed it.

She resigned in the wake.

There has been the sex scandal

involving quite a lot of Tory MPs,

allegedly. And obviously, Brexit not

going as according to plan. So it

looks like a lot of Tory MPs... It

is significant in terms of the

numbers because they need 48 MPs to

submit letters to the chairman of

the 1922 committee, a backbench

committee of Tory MPs, the chairman

of the man called Graham Brady, and

that will trigger a leadership

election. 40, not far short of 48,

so she is under a lot of pressure.

Whatever you think of her as a Prime

Minister, a lot of stuff that she is

having to deal with, it is not of

her making, it is the conduct of her

own MPs and ministers.

Indeed, as we

are about to see in the Sunday mail.

, the Mail on Sunday even. What is

interesting, of course, and is lost

on no one in continental Europe

since the UK is in Europe, is this

sentence, a Brexit adviser to the

European Prime Minister -- UK Prime

Minister said the talks were hostage

to the Conservative Party 's

internal psychodrama. This is being

watched very carefully not just in

Brussels but in all of the trees,

not just by the populations, but by

the governments, and contingency

planning. And that is why it

Brussels on the 27 are becoming

increasingly worried that Theresa

May will not see this process out.

That sort of narrative has been with

us for quite some time. The fact

that the referendum even took place

at all was all to do with the

machinations inside the Conservative

arty and their view of Europe.

Yet,

and it was the general election, the

snap one, in Erie to give herself a

thumping mandate to take us to

Brussels, that was the whole purpose

of the elections. Obviously, it blew

up in her face, and ever since then,

she has been living on borrowed

time. Continental Europe must just

think this government is teetering

on the edge, losing Cabinet

ministers, two in a week, and the

progress isn't there in the

discussions either. And, yeah, it

has a real critical moment for the

Prime Minister.

The Mail on Sunday

will enlighten us as to how those

who want to -- a hard Brexit are at

odds with those who want a softer

one. Boris and Michael Gove. To

hijack Number ten. Anything secret

memo has urged.

Indeed. A letter,

apparently written by the Dixie

Boris Johnson, the romance is back

on, basically. Boris Johnson and

Michael Gove, after their

spectacular falling out, Mr Gove

dubbing Mr Johnson in the front, in

the back and just about everywhere.

He bottled it and said he wasn't

standing. Extraordinary. They are

back together, and it would seem

that the accusation in the Mail on

Sunday is sparing much that we have

a Prime Minister who is a hostage,

she is going out and going to

meetings but she is almost being

operated by Mr Gove, and Mr Johnson.

The Mail on Sunday says what has

been conducted by the Foreign

Secretary and by the Environment

Secretary is quoted as soft coup.

Mrs May is their Downing Street

hostage. And this is all as there is

this continued speculation, these

problems, the fact that Michael

Fallon has gone for alleged sexual

impropriety, that pretty Patel has

gone for and authorised meetings in

Israel during what allegedly was a

holiday. Amongst which, it is

extraordinary having met Binyamin

Netanyahu, and use yet is one thing,

but having unauthorised freelance

meetings is another. Archie has got

great supporters, amongst Mr Johnson

and Mr Gove, and it seems that in

this missive, there are instructions

for the Prime Minister, she is to

talk about a hard Brexit, nobody is

allowed even in private, allegedly

she is being instructed, says the

Mail on Sunday, to have doubters,

she is to accuse Chancellor Philip

Hammond, who was a soft Brexit, of

not showing sufficient energy and

refusing to plan for the possibility

that Britain walks away with no

deal, in other words not having

enough money allocated to it. These

are very serious accusations. She is

being told, apparently, in this

missive, in this letter, which came

interested me just after her

disastrous speech, unfortunately for

her she lost her voice, was given a

qoph sweet but didn't work

immediately, had prankster hand her

a people to five, -- P 45. This was

terribly unfortunate. They are

selling her things like she is too

Article eight the following, and

actually, we just had a date, now

she is to say that the transition

period, according to Mr Johnson and

according to the Mail on Sunday, is

to be fixed for June the 30th 2021.

I mean, these are very serious

accusations. An MP will be on Andrew

Marr tomorrow morning and that will

be a heck of an interview.

It has

been her week. The ambitious hard

Brexiters are keen to push her out,

put some steel on her spine, make

sure she doesn't give into

Remainers. This was written as

Benedict says, just after the Tory

conference but since then, Boris

Johnson's stock has fallen quite

considerably. The British citizen in

the Iranian jail, he told people

that she was training journalists

when she wasn't.

This incredible

friendship through journalism having

been met at university.

Rekindled by

their shared ambition. Boris Johnson

and Michael Gove, says the Mail on

Sunday, are actually running this

hard Brexit cell.

This letter has

leaked. For your and Gavin 's I

only, it says. It is very

controversial. They don't want this

getting out. It has Bilic to the

Mail on Sunday.

You very kindly both flagged up what

is coming next without rushing on.

These are very well trained guests:

Let us takes the compliment.

It do,

it is meant, in exactly that way.

Thank you.

You mentioned that

perhaps Boris Johnson stock is not

so high after, you know, as it was

maybe higher after the kip

conference. Sack Boris for shaping

our nation, this is Jeremy Corbyn,

particularly in regard to that

incredibly unhelpful comment about

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is

now been dragged in front of a very

Conservative judge in Iran.

Yes, the

threat is she could have five more

years added to her sentence, and if

that were to happen, I really think

that Boris Johnson's position would

be untenable and the Prime Minister

would either have to sack him or

tell him to resign. And, yes, Jeremy

Corbyn has given a statement to The

Observer, in which he said, we have

put up with Johnson embarrassing and

undermining our country with his

colonial throw back view, it is time

for him to go. Strong words, you to

say Jeremy Corbyn has upped his

game, his media advisers are much

better than they were before, and it

is, the one hand you might say he

would say that, wouldn't he, it just

increases the pressure on Boris

Johnson, and as I say, he's having

lost Michael Fallon and Priti Patel,

if the Prime Minister was to lose

Boris Johnson as well, she would be

in a lot of trouble.

We should point

out, I mean what Iran is doing to

Mrs Ratcliffe is appall, we must not

lose sight of that. There is the

unfortunate wording in front of that

committee by the Foreign Secretary,

then a not very forthcoming apology

that needed to be dragged out of him

after an urgent question in

Parliament. That was rather

unfortunate as well. I understand

the two men, Nazanin

Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband is to

speak to the Foreign Secretary

tomorrow, and of course, there must

be a hope that this woman, who was

separated from their lit 8 girl, who

now is not speaking English any

more.

She with her grandparents in

Iran.

This is heartbreaking stuff,

you know, really one has to be very

careful when talking about a case

like that. And people were livid

because it was clear she was not

training journalist, this is not her

function, that is unfortunate. That

is endangering the life of a British

citizen.

It was as much to do with

Boris Johnson's attempt to wriggle

off the hook.

Always best to fall on

your sword and apologise and try and

mend fences and sort this out.

Back

to the Sunday Times. Vealed, the

woman paid £200 million, who is this

woman with the very large salary?

She is the, she the, she is the boss

of Bet365, the gambling company.

A

lot of money to be made in gambling.

The incredible annual salary

according to the account, £199.3

million in 2016/17. I don't think

anyone really need that much money

but she has done very well. What is

interesting is it says these

accounts show that the firm took £47

billion in bets in the last 12 month

month, that is up from 36 billion,

an increase of 12 billion in -- 10

billion in 12 months. Online

gambling, and it shows how that has

exploded, which is pretty worrying.

As the Sunday Times talks about the

company's soaring prophet built but

increases the debate oh the

targeting of people in general, and

particularly young gamblers.

And

whether the limit should be reduced

and how much you can bet in a

certain period of time.

Yes more

than £50 it should be really reduced

on those machines. To, to £2. This

is...

It is so easy now.

It would be

interesting to see how they have

done that jump, that is

extraordinary.

That is just one

company.

Is it is a big thing in

France, online gambling?

I believe

it is. It is a worldwide thing. The

reach with the internet, with the

internet is extraordinary. I mean in

a sense we are already teaching

children to be addicted to screen,

games, this is how we find out how a

child has bypassed, if they have

used the thumb print of their parent

and they owe all this money on these

games. This serious, it is not

funny, this wrecks live, it wrecks

lives.

Briefly the Sunday Express,

there is a new £5 tax which will

help predict heart attacks.

I was

interesting in doing this, this

could help a lot of people, a £5

blood test which detected whether

people with chest pains are at risk

of a heart attacks. The Papers say

it could revolutionise treatment of

patients. The results are obtained

in just 20 minute, so this could

really save millions, but what is

really, and also save a lot of money

avenue the NHS, this global study

has been done on nearly 23,000

people, so this seems like

something, so the next question s

how soon do we see it in the UK.

Cheap though, five quite. That could

save your life. Let us get it here

as quickly as possible. We have to

stop because Kate is champing at the

bit, to come and read the very

important news on BBC One, and the

BBC News channel. She is just over

there. Kevin Schofield and Benedict

Paviot will be here later. Kate

coming up very soon.