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0:00:19 > 0:00:23Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be
0:00:23 > 0:00:24bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:24 > 0:00:26With me are Kevin Schofield, Editor of PoliticsHome
0:00:26 > 0:00:28and Benedicte Paviot, UK correspondent at the French
0:00:28 > 0:00:29broadcaster, France 24.
0:00:29 > 0:00:30Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...
0:00:30 > 0:00:33The Observer leads on Jeremy Corbyn's calls for Boris Johnson
0:00:33 > 0:00:36to quit after comments he made about a British mother
0:00:36 > 0:00:48imprisoned in Iran.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50The Sunday Times says 40 Tory MPs
0:00:50 > 0:00:53have agreed to sign a letter of no-confidence in Theresa May.
0:00:54 > 0:00:55The Telegraph leads on plans
0:00:55 > 0:00:57by the Environment Secretary, Michael Gove, for stronger
0:00:57 > 0:00:58environmental policy following Brexit.
0:00:58 > 0:01:00Meanwhile, the Mail on Sunday says Mr Gove
0:01:00 > 0:01:03and Boris Johnson are holding Theresa May to ransom in order
0:01:03 > 0:01:08to secure a hard-Brexit.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10The Sunday Express says the economy
0:01:10 > 0:01:17is in for a £3 billion windfall after Brexit.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27We don't really have favourites on this, Kevin.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30So let's begin.
0:01:30 > 0:01:35Next time, put it right. We will start with The Mail on Sunday, Boris
0:01:35 > 0:01:41and go of plot to hijack Number 10, a secret memo has emerged written
0:01:41 > 0:01:45after the party conference in the autumn.When they felt Theresa May
0:01:45 > 0:01:53was at her weakest and they are Michael Gove and Boris Johnson, the
0:01:53 > 0:01:57Environment Secretary and the Foreign Secretary, so The Mail on
0:01:57 > 0:02:00Sunday quite rightly calls this a bombshell leaked letter so the
0:02:00 > 0:02:06secret letter is a secret no more. It seems the bromance is absolutely
0:02:06 > 0:02:11back on. These two men have known each other for a long time, since
0:02:11 > 0:02:15university, they had their major falling out when there was the
0:02:15 > 0:02:18leadership election when David Cameron needed to be replaced and it
0:02:18 > 0:02:23seems they've come up with a list of instructions for a woman, the Prime
0:02:23 > 0:02:26Minister, Theresa May, who, according to The Mail on Sunday, has
0:02:26 > 0:02:32been the victim of a soft coup and is almost being held hostage
0:02:32 > 0:02:38effectively in 10 Downing Street. Amongst the duo's demands, according
0:02:38 > 0:02:46to this leaked letter, our post-Brexit transition must end on
0:02:46 > 0:02:52June 30, 2021. Philip Hammond, the Chancellor, about to deliver his
0:02:52 > 0:02:56budget on November the 22nd, another big test for the Conservative Party
0:02:56 > 0:03:01to get that right for the Chancellor and the government as well amid the
0:03:01 > 0:03:05Brexit negotiations, Mr Hammond will be told he will be held over a
0:03:05 > 0:03:09barrel because he must not criticise all be seen to criticise either
0:03:09 > 0:03:15privately or publicly a hard Brexit. The line that will go down really
0:03:15 > 0:03:20well with the civil servants is this line the Whitehall machine and its
0:03:20 > 0:03:27ossified ways of working, be left to its own devices, new high-powered
0:03:27 > 0:03:33staff are needed to apply grid to the Oyster. Explosive stuff. Theresa
0:03:33 > 0:03:37May might be gagging over her cornflakes or whatever she likes to
0:03:37 > 0:03:46eat. This plotting, I am reminded of, if we had sound effects, I would
0:03:46 > 0:03:52go tick, tock, tick, tock for the government, for certain ministers,
0:03:52 > 0:03:59for this Prime Minister, tick, tock, tick, tock for the Brexit
0:03:59 > 0:04:02negotiations and plot, plot, plot because the plotting seems to be
0:04:02 > 0:04:06continuing. Boris Johnson, we will come onto that, doesn't have the
0:04:06 > 0:04:11support he would have liked to have because... And we will also come
0:04:11 > 0:04:15onto that, because of what has happened in the last few days on
0:04:15 > 0:04:20Iran, that's all I'll say at the moment.Indeed. Is it just the hard
0:04:20 > 0:04:24Brexit they are angling for, getting themselves into position for when
0:04:24 > 0:04:29they no longer think Theresa May is required?I think that is definitely
0:04:29 > 0:04:35on the cards. We know Boris Johnson is hugely ambitious, desperate to be
0:04:35 > 0:04:40Prime Minister. Michael Gove likewise looked like he shot himself
0:04:40 > 0:04:44in the foot when he stood instead of Boris Johnson last year, didn't go
0:04:44 > 0:04:49terribly well but he seems to have reinvented himself almost and he's
0:04:49 > 0:04:52been mentioned in dispatches in the last few days as a potential leader
0:04:52 > 0:04:57so there's all sorts of manoeuvring is going on within the Cabinet and
0:04:57 > 0:05:00everything that happens within the Conservative Party at the moment has
0:05:00 > 0:05:04two BC in within the prison of the fact everyone knows the Prime
0:05:04 > 0:05:07Minister is living on borrowed time and it's all about succession and
0:05:07 > 0:05:16jockeying opposition -- has to be seen. Last year we could have
0:05:16 > 0:05:19thought Michael Gove and Boris Johnson was a dream ticket when
0:05:19 > 0:05:24Theresa May goes.40 MPs saying Theresa May must go according to the
0:05:24 > 0:05:28Sunday Times and those on the Remain side of the referendum debate saying
0:05:28 > 0:05:32we don't want this ultra hard Brexit and they are manoeuvring into
0:05:32 > 0:05:39position?Essentially it is the Tory party being two parties in one now.
0:05:39 > 0:05:44You still have the Remain backing MPs who want a soft Brexit, and the
0:05:44 > 0:05:49hard Brexiteers who essentially want Britain to walk away and not give
0:05:49 > 0:05:55the EU terribly much. Things seem to be coming to a head. A couple of
0:05:55 > 0:06:00weeks ago I spoke to a former minister who said they sense a
0:06:00 > 0:06:03change in the mood where previously there been a belief Theresa May
0:06:03 > 0:06:09would stay in place until Brexit, 2019, and probably depart later that
0:06:09 > 0:06:14year maybe at Tory conference 2019 and they would elect a new leader
0:06:14 > 0:06:19and Prime Minister -- there'd been. It looks like, not just because
0:06:19 > 0:06:23Brexit, but you've got Michael Fallon and Priti Patel leaving the
0:06:23 > 0:06:27Cabinet. You've got the sex harassment stuff. It looks as though
0:06:27 > 0:06:32events are being done to the Prime Minister, to the government, rather
0:06:32 > 0:06:38than the government shaping events and all of this, the backdrop is she
0:06:38 > 0:06:42called a snap election in June, it blew up in her face, we now have a
0:06:42 > 0:06:46hung parliament and she's being pulled in all sorts of directions
0:06:46 > 0:06:50and she doesn't seem to be...We've got a minority government.She
0:06:50 > 0:06:56doesn't seem to be in control of her Cabinet, her government, her future.
0:06:56 > 0:07:03The whole thing...Events.Indeed, things seem to be coming to a head.
0:07:03 > 0:07:07And the EU withdrawal bill coming up on Tuesday. This is all being
0:07:07 > 0:07:10watched very carefully in Continental Europe, not just in
0:07:10 > 0:07:15France and Germany, by President Macron or Angela Merkel, but
0:07:15 > 0:07:20interesting, in the Sunday Times, this line, which will infuriate
0:07:20 > 0:07:24Brexiteers, EU negotiators say their UK counterparts have signalled
0:07:24 > 0:07:27willingness to resolve the key outstanding, the divorce Bill, the
0:07:27 > 0:07:34so-called payment cheque, to agree a 60 million euros exit bill which is
0:07:34 > 0:07:38a condition for starting trade talks.But these EU negotiators are
0:07:38 > 0:07:42concerned that what is happening is because there's this loss control,
0:07:42 > 0:07:50this huge division in the British government, that they are no longer
0:07:50 > 0:07:56convinced that actually because of what they call the internal
0:07:56 > 0:07:59psychodrama of the Conservative Party, they are no longer sure if
0:07:59 > 0:08:02Theresa May will be in place throughout the process and that is
0:08:02 > 0:08:06of great concern so they are making contingency plans.Staying with the
0:08:06 > 0:08:13Sunday Times, one of those Conservative MPs who has been in the
0:08:13 > 0:08:17news of late, Damian Green, and the Met Police chief who was in charge
0:08:17 > 0:08:25at the time of an investigation into computer leaks in 2008 apparently
0:08:25 > 0:08:29knew that pornography had allegedly been found on Damian Green's
0:08:29 > 0:08:34computer.We also have to stress Damian Green completely denies this,
0:08:34 > 0:08:38last week put out a strong statement saying it was completely untrue, it
0:08:38 > 0:08:45was smears, seemed to be fitted up by a disgruntled former anti-terror
0:08:45 > 0:08:49officer, Bob quick. This is another headache that the Prime Minister
0:08:49 > 0:08:55could well do without. He's not just any Tory MP or Cabinet minister,
0:08:55 > 0:08:58he's a first secretary of, effectively Theresa May's deputy.
0:08:58 > 0:09:05Our closest -- her closest ally in government, long-standing friend
0:09:05 > 0:09:10going back to university days. If you lost Damian Green Ben...All
0:09:10 > 0:09:16bets are off.She would be in a lot of trouble -- then. She relies on
0:09:16 > 0:09:21him an awful lot to put it mildly. There's an investigation going on
0:09:21 > 0:09:25into whether he broke the ministerial code, not just the porn
0:09:25 > 0:09:30allegations but also allegations he also denies about sexual
0:09:30 > 0:09:36inappropriateness with a female journalist. It never rains but it
0:09:36 > 0:09:40pours.It's a Sunday Times story we should point out.They broke the
0:09:40 > 0:09:46story.What's unfortunate in a sense is this is, as you pointed out, the
0:09:46 > 0:09:53boss of Bob Quick, at the time, but the fact Damian Green, it was the
0:09:53 > 0:09:58computers, plural, that is crucial, that is the alleged accusation. The
0:09:58 > 0:10:07problem is Mr Green said it was completely untrue and these were
0:10:07 > 0:10:11disreputable comments. Now to have Sir Paul Stephenson coming out
0:10:11 > 0:10:16saying I knew about them...Knew about them at the time but he said
0:10:16 > 0:10:20it wasn't relevant to the enquiry, which was about the computer leaks.
0:10:20 > 0:10:26Let's look at the Observer, sack Boris for shaming our nation, Corbyn
0:10:26 > 0:10:30tells the Prime Minister, over the comments Boris Johnson made
0:10:30 > 0:10:36regarding Nazaneen sa careea Radcliffe, who is in prison in Iran
0:10:36 > 0:10:45-- Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.He said that she had been in Iran
0:10:45 > 0:10:50training journalists, he told a Commons Select Committee, obviously
0:10:50 > 0:10:55she wouldn't but ears pricked up in Iran at that point and it would
0:10:55 > 0:11:00appear they are using that as an excuse to increase her sentence.
0:11:00 > 0:11:07Boris Johnson this week has tried to... I was going to say apologised
0:11:07 > 0:11:10but he hasn't apologised, he's apologised if people misunderstood
0:11:10 > 0:11:14what he said but if you look at what he said, it is pretty clear. He
0:11:14 > 0:11:21misspoke.He was taken out of context.Made maybe he misremembered
0:11:21 > 0:11:26what he was briefed or maybe he was badly briefed -- maybe. He landed
0:11:26 > 0:11:31her in it. If it turns out she has her centres increased then his
0:11:31 > 0:11:36position I think becomes untenable -- her sentence.We should point
0:11:36 > 0:11:39out, everything you said I completely agree with, but we should
0:11:39 > 0:11:45point out that the treatment of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is
0:11:45 > 0:11:49appalling by Iran. To separate her from her little girl, who barely
0:11:49 > 0:11:54speaks English any more now, who is with her maternal grandparents, and
0:11:54 > 0:12:00the fact that she was hooded at some point. Of course she would be very
0:12:00 > 0:12:04depressed, she already 18 months into this. What would be very
0:12:04 > 0:12:09serious is if her sentence is indeed lengthened as a result of this miss
0:12:09 > 0:12:13speaking, I do hate that word, but what happened and what Boris Johnson
0:12:13 > 0:12:18said to the Parliamentary committee. As you say, Tehran has jumped on it
0:12:18 > 0:12:25and there are divisions in Iran, the hardline is pushing for another five
0:12:25 > 0:12:30years on top of the five years she's already in four.Let's look at the
0:12:30 > 0:12:36Observer, we shall not forget them, some schoolgirls observing the two
0:12:36 > 0:12:46minute's silence at the Cemaat after day -- already in for. -- the
0:12:46 > 0:12:53Cenotaph.I am wearing a British poppy but I am wearing the French
0:12:53 > 0:12:58equivalent and we had a ceremony at Victoria Station with the French
0:12:58 > 0:13:04ambassador today with a very impressive British soldiers there,
0:13:04 > 0:13:07as Brexit happens, that bilateral relationship will be all the more
0:13:07 > 0:13:13important and prominent. What has always moved me greatly and
0:13:13 > 0:13:17impressed me as a child and increasingly as an adult is in
0:13:17 > 0:13:20France in most villages and in towns, you have monuments to the
0:13:20 > 0:13:27dead. For people who have never come across them, that might seem a very
0:13:27 > 0:13:31morbid thing but it's very humbling to look at these and to take a few
0:13:31 > 0:13:35minutes to look as a mark of respect, not just one day a year,
0:13:35 > 0:13:40but to see it as part of a living, thriving community and you can go up
0:13:40 > 0:13:44and have a look and you see names and the first names are different
0:13:44 > 0:13:49most of the time, but the surnames, you see entire families of men wiped
0:13:49 > 0:13:57out. That tradition, these young children, girls, as it happens, on
0:13:57 > 0:14:02the front of the Observer, that oral tradition we going to lose in ten
0:14:02 > 0:14:06years, the generation who were children in Britain, France and
0:14:06 > 0:14:10Germany and elsewhere, this oral tradition of helping people
0:14:10 > 0:14:14understand, this is literally deadly serious, it is so important to pass
0:14:14 > 0:14:18that on. I want to tonight pay tribute to Robert Hall, I've met him
0:14:18 > 0:14:23and I want to pay tribute to him, the work he does for the BBC and the
0:14:23 > 0:14:26way he approaches his reports is absolutely commendable because it's
0:14:26 > 0:14:32a legacy that is very important. That is it for the papers for
0:14:32 > 0:14:37tonight. Thank you Benedict and Kevin. Good to see you both. Coming
0:14:37 > 0:14:42up next it is the Film Review and I'll be back tomorrow. Goodbye.