12/11/2017 The Papers

That's all the sport for now.

Hello and welcome to our look

ahead to what the papers

will be bringing us.

With me are the journalist

and broadcaster Shyama Perera and

The Sunday Times Education Editor,

Sian Griffiths.

Let's look at the front pages.

The Observer leads

on Jeremy Corbyn's calls

for Boris Johnson to quit,

after comments he made

about a British mother

imprisoned in Iran.

The Sunday Times says 40 Tory MPs

have agreed to sign a letter

of no-confidence in Theresa May.

The Telegraph leads on plans

by the Environment Secretary,

Michael Gove, for stronger

environmental policy

following Brexit.

Meanwhile, the Mail on Sunday says

Mr Gove and Boris Johnson

are holding Theresa May to ransom

in order to secure a hard-Brexit.

The Sunday Express says the economy

is in for a £3 billion

windfall after Brexit.

Let's kick off was the Mail on

Sunday story, Boris and Michael Doe

plot to hijack number ten, Sian. --

Michael Gove.

It is spread across

the pages and the make quite a big

deal of it. It is a leaked letter

written by Michael Gove and Boris

Johnson. It basically tells Theresa

May how she should be running her

Cabinet and makes a series of veiled

threats, according to the Mail on

Sunday, and it spells out the

divisions within Theresa May's

cabinet between the hard Brexit

supporters and those taking a softer

approach. They make a series of

demands an ugly out their hard

Brexit manifesto and the criticise

Philip Hammond for not being

sufficiently energetic, as they see

it, but hard Brexit. It comes at a

time when Theresa May's Cabinet is

in disarray, continuing leadership

speculation, she has lost two

Cabinet ministers with two more

under investigation and the

overwhelming feeling is it is a

mess.

Boris Johnson is one of those a lot

of people are saying should be out

of the Cabinet.

That feels like a last-ditch effort

by Boris Johnson, yet again with

Michael Gold alongside, to put his

mark on the race he seems to have

been losing because every single

time he opens his mouth he puts his

own foot in it. They remind me of

the political equivalent of the

Tamworth two. They have broken

through the fence and running

crazily. Of course it was Michael

Gove who famously stabs Boris

Johnson in the back, or the front.

These two ultimately rub each other

the wrong way and do not get on yet

how all the back together again and

yet how prescient, I think, because

I think it gives us some sense of

how this effort to undermine Theresa

May will go. Apart from anything

else, there is nobody ready to jump

in and take her place and Philip

Hammond, when we speak of him having

insufficient energy, that is just

personal because he is just so laid

back. All of this feels quite

personal.

It is personal but also critical for

what kind of Brexit we have.

It is,

and we have the EU withdrawal bill

coming through Parliament this week

and we seem to be completely stuck

at the moment with the hard Brexit

supporters and those wanting a

softer option and battling it out,

unable to move forward and the idea

we will not pay will not agree to

pay the £60 billion bill and move

forward with trade talks. The Sunday

Times, labour are making massive

capital, Jeremy Corbyn is writing

about this and saying if Theresa May

cannot govern she should go and make

way for a Cabinet, a Government that

can take Brexit forwards and can

somehow free up this stock position

we seem to have been in for a long

time.

The Sunday Times have Tory turmoil

as 40 MPs say Theresa May must go.

If that is right and there are 40

MPs who want her out that is

reaching a critical mass.

It is because you only need eight

small. -- eight is more to unseat

her. Coming back to the first story

although there are lots of

detractors, nobody is actually

offering to take up the role and one

wonders by creating this moment of

critical mass, what is the party

doing? It is imploding. Reading it

just as a punter, you think, what

are the hoping to achieve? Theresa

May is immovable, all this will do

is cause a panic which she will take

six or seven days to respond to and

by which time the next crisis within

the party and the Brexit

negotiations. All I feel is this

sense of anxiety and tension and

headless chicken moment. The point

of critical mass is when we discover

the pen is full of headless

chickens.

You have those two wings of the

Conservative Party, the remaining

and leave, with different views of

what Brexit should be.

And on top of

that you have all these other

things. Boris Johnson and Michael

Gove writing this letter, but Boris

Johnson himself is under immense

pressure with people calling for him

to quit because of the way he

handled the case of the British

mother imprisoned in Iran. It is not

just you have divisions in the

Cabinet, you have a whole lot of

other things, the sexual harassment

allegations also going on. I think

it must look from Brussels as though

our Cabinet is in complete disarray.

Let's move on, still in the Sunday

Times, another of her Cabinet

ministers in danger, one might say,

about his cabinet future, Damien

Green, effectively the Deputy Prime

Minister and according to the Sunday

Times button's most senior police

officer saying he was tall

pornography was discovered and

Damien Green's parliamentary

computer back in 2008. Boris Johnson

and now Damien Green under threat

perhaps.

I cannot work out what is a

meaningful about the Damien Green

story. There was the accusation of

some inappropriate texting and now

the suggestion pornography was found

on his office computer but we are

told it was not illegal pornography

so what exactly is being suggested

here? Did he use his office time to

serve things he should not have

surfed? OK, why is that newsworthy?

Or are we saying this implies

something other Damien Green which I

cannot see what it is implying.

So you think his job is not in

danger?

I think his job is clearly

in danger because people are gunning

for them but at this stage I do not

quite understand what he has done.

Sian, are you any clearer?

That is

an enquiry into his conduct and this

evidence will go forward to that

enquiry. I think this is significant

because we broke the steely -- broke

the story that extreme pawn had been

found on his parliamentary computer

-- extreme pornography. And now we

see Sir Paul Stephenson has found

extreme pornography was found on

these computers.

The one would willingly admit to

having a look at pornography. It is

something so intensely private and I

do not blame him for saying, it

could not have been me.

That is the

whole point, who looks at

pornography in work on a work

computer?

I suspect at least two

thirds of all men in offices. And a

good number of women. I don't know.

When we think pornography is the

most accessed subject on the

internet it is probable most offices

will have pornography accessed from.

In most offices I have worked and it

is absolutely a disciplinary matter

if you have looked at pornography on

your work computer.

We mention the

Boris Johnson and left his job was

under threat. Lots of people have

been calling for him to go on a very

strong words about him from Jeremy

Corbyn, not just the usual calls for

him to resign but saying Boris

Johnson has undermined our country

and put our citizens at risk with

his incompetence and Colonial

throwback views. Pretty tough words

from Jeremy Corbyn.

Absolutely. I worked on this story

this week and I was shocked, Nazanin

Zaghari-Ratcliffe's MP and I

realised when I spoke to her MP they

have been trying to get Boris

Johnson or someone in the Foreign

Office to look at this case for 18

months. There has been a petition

signed by 200 MPs, e-mails, letters,

visits, they could not even get a

visit in the diary, the meeting, and

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's British

husband also could not get a meeting

in the dining with Boris Johnson.

This is a British citizen imprisoned

-- could not get the meeting. This

is a British citizen held in

solitary confinement in Iran and her

daughter is also out there. Surely

we should be protecting citizens

abroad and the idea you can have 18

months ago passed and no one will

even look at this case is appalling.

It may be sometimes the Foreign

Office say a softly softly approach

behind the scenes is better than a

public campaign.

But then you can still engage with

the family but as far as I

understand today that is supposed to

be a phone call between Richard

Ratcliffe and Boris Johnson, the

first one for 18 months. She has

said she has even stopped in the

lobby, doorstep him to try and get

them to at this. She set up a

meeting with the Tory MP who also

has a constituent imprisoned in Iran

and that was postponed for two weeks

and when it finally happened that

was when Boris Johnson made that

terrible mistake in the House of

Commons when he said Nazanin

Zaghari-Ratcliffe was training

journalists in Iran.

Do you think he will go or not?

I

think he should publicly apologise

for his mistake, we try it and make

it clear it is the British

Government's official position that

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe be

released. But that still has not

happened. We also do not know

released. But that still has not

happened. We also do not know how

many other criticisms are being held

in Iran.

Do you think he will go on this?

I

do not think you well, he is like

Teflon.

-- I do not think he will.

On that, Michael Gove has just been

saying there is no reason she should

be held in prison in Iran.

Let's look at the Observer.

Armistice Day and commemoration

services around the country today.

The picture there of younger people

with the headline, we shall not

forget them. It is important the

young remember as well.

It is a

telling picture but there is quite a

lot of news about this this year

because the Queen and Prince Philip

will be watching the ceremony rather

than taking part.

Watching from the balcony.

But we will miss her putting her

wreath on. There was some outrage

yesterday because Harry and William

were rugby matches when the rest of

the Royal family were marking the

11th. It has been interesting

because suddenly everything is

changing. I think the literal

changing today is a very serious

moment.

Understandable, it is called, lots

of standing for the Queen.

It says a lot about the changing of

our establishment.

Let's finish off with the Sunday

Telegraph. How words and phrases are

disappearing from the English

language, as spoken in the UK.

It is

a very sweet story. It says grade

adverbs, it gives examples of quite,

rather unfairly, are in decline. I

used, actually, all the time. The

study by an expert in linguistics at

Lancaster University, it shows use

of these words are seen as a middle

or upper class way of speaking.

Some of these other words, like

frightfully, awfully, terribly, they

are seen as a bit too posh, perhaps.

I thought, word we all talk you have

to deliver bad news as a sandwich,

something good, then say something

bad and then something good. These

add to allow us to do that. You've

done really well here but I wasn't

awfully happy with the middle bit.

These are what we use all the time

to deliver bad news. A super-centre

Pabst -- super sensitised society,

like we have no, I am amazed me no

longer use these.

I think the application is because

of the American influence, which is

perhaps simpler with fewer

adjectives and fewer adverbs.

We have a lot of very, very bad,

very, very good.

Is that the Wii English language is

going in the UK?

I wonder if it is

due to the effects of texting

because if you are texting you would

not text frightfully, that is too

long. And such once up to 14 140

characters. I would like to see a

gendered study on this because I

suspect women used frightfully and

awfully more so than men...

But they are diplomatic words. They

are about creating a moment where

everybody can be consensual, though

I suspect Theresa May has been using

too many of these words! I suspect

all of these stories link up and the

problem with the bodice is he does

not use enough of these which is why

he messed up over Nazanin

Zaghari-Ratcliffe -- the problem

with Boris Johnson.

I would like to see we are

frightfully, terribly, grateful to

both of you for coming in. Thank you

to Shyama and Sia. We take a look at

tomorrow's front pages of the

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evening. Goodbye for now.