08/01/2018 The Papers

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-- hello, and welcome to our deadly

what papers will be bringing us

tomorrow. Jenni Russell of the Times

and Martin Lipton, deputy head of

sport at the Sun. Let's look at the

front pages. Most on the reshuffle,

including the Metro. Saying that

some cabinet members refused to be

budged. A different take on the

Financial Times, focusing on the new

minister David Lidington being

Europe friendly. The Financial Times

-- Daily Telegraph also carries that

but also the story of a couple from

Derby who planned a Christmas

bombing campaign. The Daily Mail,

splashing with its own poll saying

there is overwhelming public support

for diverging the foreign aid budget

to the NHS to help ease winter

pressures. Slightly out of sync

there, but let's return to the

reshuffle on the front of the mail.

Upon on the daddy of political

sitcoms. The headline, "No, Prime

Minister." And the Times seeing the

Prime Minister needed to redeem

herself of changes at lower

ministerial levels. Described by one

wag as the night of the long plastic

kitchen knives, quite funny, and I

have said it three times tonight.

But anyway, the Daily Mail, the

Prime Minister on a day of

reshuffling chaos. Theresa May

forced to sack the Education

Secretary after she refuses to move.

As the day gone as Theresa May had

hoped?

It would be hard to make that

case, wouldn't it. I know the Sun's

Tanvir this will be on the shuffle

-- will be omni-shuffle. -- the

Sun's title on this. It is

remarkable, and although she is in

charge of the Government, she hasn't

said, do what I say, I have a plan.

She has that they're mostly saying,

OK then, do what you like.

That is

because, Martin, that authority

Number ten had also been briefing,

that had come back perhaps in full

force, after the Brexit deal, moving

on to phase two, Brexit backbenchers

quiet now, feeling things would be

improving from now on, that

authority still isn't there, is it

improving from now on, that

authority still isn't there, is it?

This was supposed to be this renewed

sense of command and you end up

going back to the 19s in office but

not in power, with no understanding.

When you have chaos -- going back to

the mid-90s. These titles, and these

are the support of newspapers! Six

months after winning an election it

is bad enough that you have to

reshuffle a team that is your

programme for government, but if you

then can't even do that competently,

it begs questions unfortunately, and

a lot of supportive newspapers are

turning this on to the person who is

responsible. She can't blame Nick

Timothy this time, she can't blame

any other advisers. How can you

spend the weekend briefing about a

reshuffle then failed to carry it

out?

It is quite remarkable.

But there

have been significant changes.

In

terms of titles! The name of the

department.

Yes, Jeremy Hunt with an

extra bit on his portfolio, but he

was already the Secretary of State

for social care anyway. But the

Daily Telegraph, Night of the

Blunder Stiletto, alluding to what I

was saying at the beginning. Jenni,

your point.

The papers which on the

whole have really backed Theresa May

on what they are sceptical tonight.

The Sun, the Telegraph, pretty much

cheerleaders, and they are saying

this is feeble, the reshuffle has

fallen flat, she has been derailed,

and I think your point that some of

these appointments make sense is all

a different point, because despite

herself has ended up with Jeremy

Hunt not only staying in health but

saying he wants to take social care

into that brief. That makes a lot of

sense, but it was his idea, not

hers. He said, no, I do not want to

go, and run a kind of beef. Prepare

for a Brexit department, which is

how she saw his move the business.

So saying no, I ain't leaving and I

want a bigger...

Let's not be quite

that cynical. He is saying I want to

make this work, because the gap

between social care and the NHS is

clogging it up, so we should be

grateful for that but it is not due

to her.

Martin, what is the Sun's

view on this?

I think we have been

somewhat critical of how it has

gone. There to see it has not been a

great day for the Government. I

think it is feared she that Sajid

Javid's remit has been expanded to

include housing, that is a really

important thing we believe, as a

paper, for the country and our

readers as well and that is the

biggest positive, from an otherwise

rather unimpressive day. The chaos

just seems to unravel... This

briefing, this tweet by Central

office, about Chris Grayling getting

the chairmanship of the party, and

then he lost his job and 27 seconds,

by the sound of things. Whether that

was a mess up is irrelevant. We are

going back to where we were in

October, when that speech started to

fall apart, aren't we?

Yes, exactly

like the moment when she was giving

the speaker conference and the

letters were falling off the

platform behind.

You make the point

that all of the right-leaning papers

are not particularly impressed with

what happened today, and the front

of the Times, Greening quits in

shambolic reshuffle, rejecting Prime

Minister's job offer. Her position

was untenable, Justine Greening,

when she made it clear she would not

back an extension of grammar

schools, that she had to go.

Yes,

finding her too much of Cameronite.

As an public schoolgirl, she riled a

lot with but still she is a girl

educated in a Northern comprehensive

and for a reshuffle billed as "We

will make this cabinet more like the

country," and off a lot of white men

still sitting there tonight.

There

was some change in terms of the Tory

Central office, with James Cleverly

and so on, but they are not front of

house.

They are not in power.

So it

is all well and good talking it up,

but you then have to deliver.

And it has been no delivery.

All

right, OK. Sorry, go on.

Someone

from the Cameron government said

tonight, has the reverse Midas

touch, whatever she touches, whether

it was the election to give her a

majority, the conference to relaunch

her, or the reshuffle, it just goes

wrong. I have to see if you can't

handle her Cabinet ministers how

will she handled the Brexit

negotiations with 27 obdurate

European countries? This really

doesn't bode well.

The reverse Midas

touch is in fact not having the

Midas touch.

Exactly.

All right,

let's move on to the Financial

Times. Appoints pro-European as for

fixer in Cabinet. This would seem to

be a plus side, some would argue?

I'm not sure whether the Brexiteers

would argue that, actually.

Lidington is a former Europe

Minister, but he was a very strong

Remainer and he effectively replaces

a strong Remainer in Damian Green,

however there was a lot of talk

about it being someone like Dominic

Raab, who has not appeared at all in

today's move, so he will be moved

one actions in the second phase of

this reshuffle, so I think there

will be criticism again from the

Brexit wing of the party.

But to be

fair I think if she is trying to

keep a Remain-Leave balance, as

years, she was replacing top! Damian

Green, so it is about not shifting

the balance in the Cabinet. She was

replacing Damian Green.

Yes, but it

is the lack of change. I don't know

too much about Lidington in terms of

how strong a boy she will be. He is

going to be there, standing with her

at Prime Minister's Questions, we

are told, but he will not be the

Deputy First Minister of state in

that position will not be felt.

Shuai converted the bit dangerous to

give anyone that rule in case they

embarrassed to begin -- she may have

thought it a bit dangerous. Who

knows the thinking.

Moving on, the

Financial Times, human rights probe,

Jenni, in relation to Carrie

Gracie's resignation.

Yes, the story

running all day on the BBC, you're

on China editor has found that she

is being paid much less than the

male International editors, and she

said she doesn't want this to be

about wanting more pay, but just

about equality. And estimate the

human rights commission is saying it

wants clarification from the BBC to

make sure they are doing their legal

duty and making sure women are being

treated equally, so the BBC is not

going to get away with the kind of

fudge with which it has pushing its

women away with.

The BBC would say

it has had an independent audit and

there is no systemic problem there,

but there you go. We have been

discussing an all-day, yes, indeed.

Yes, but it was discovered that was

not true.

Martin, male fertility,

front page of the Telegraph.

Write a

worrying story and a very

interesting story. -- this is quite

a worrying story. If you take the

study from a Danish University in

Copenhagen, from as little as two

weeks, men between... Young men in

their 20s will have a large decline

in their fertility to quite a strong

degree, which is obviously very

concerning because people do take

painkillers fairly regularly. There

always is the danger you keep taking

them, isn't there a? But there is a

serious danger here. Men who took

600 mg every day, three pills, found

that a condition called compensated

hypogonadism, which sounds like

something out of a magazine, but

there you go. Testosterone levels

fall to our level which may impact

fertility. This is a scientific

study from Denmark and it will

concern people, unquestionably.

A

lot of people who work out find

themselves taking Agu Provine for

muscle pain and three tablets per

day is not very much, yet it says

that 20% drop in testosterone,

reduced muscle mass, less strength,

reduced libido -- find themselves

taking IB -- ibuprofen for muscle

pain.

Front page of the Guardian,

Oprah for president. A year ago I

would have said, I'm sorry, no

experience, that would be a joke.

Donald Trump has gotten. No public

office history. No public service

history either. Why not Oprah

Winfrey?

Well, probably for two

reasons, firstly she is black, and

secondly she is female.

That has

been done, but the female side,

absolutely. You think that would be

lethal?

A lot of people think racism

was the reaction... The reaction

against Obama was a big reason why

Trump got elected, and I think given

the field open to Americans, Oprah

would be a super president. She has

charisma, drive, intellect, heart,

intelligence, good at managing

people, a fine functioning brain,

unlike...

She is good on the telly.

Yes, she would know how to do the

speeches, can motivate people. We

discovered the last of days that

Trump's basically acting like a

toddler in the White House and has

declining mental functions so Oprah

would look like an intellectual

management and political giant

compared to the current president,

so I think we can on the hop.

Well,

Martin, very briefly? -- we can only

hope.

The American system has become

increasingly bizarre, a real-life

version of the Apprentice, hasn't

it? Oprah Winfrey has no of the

Apprentice, hasn't it? Oprah Winfrey

has no obvious qualifications but

that no longer seems to matter.

Except potentially more experience

of activism than Donald Trump ever

had?

And she has a big social

conscience.

OK, we will leave it

there. It has been good to have UN.

Looking at some of the stories

behind the headlines, Martin and

Jenni, thank you for that. And don't

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Martin. And thank you for watching.

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