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Welcome to the Papers. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:18 | |
With me are the Political
Commentator Lance Price | 0:00:18 | 0:00:20 | |
and Camilla Tominey,
political editor the Sunday Express. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:31 | |
Many of tomorrow's front
pages are already in. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:37 | |
Let's start with... | 0:00:37 | 0:00:42 | |
The FT, the paper says
the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, | 0:00:42 | 0:00:44 | |
has caused a fresh rift
in the Conservative Party by urging | 0:00:44 | 0:00:47 | |
'modest' Brexit changes. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:48 | |
The Times take
on the story is that Theresa May has | 0:00:48 | 0:00:51 | |
turned on the Chancellor
following his remarks. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:52 | |
The Guardian reports
that Mrs May's leadership is under | 0:00:52 | 0:00:55 | |
threat from the latest revolt
in Tory ranks over Brexit. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
The lead in the Metro
is the meeting of Theresa May | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
and President Trump at Davos. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:01 | |
It has a picture of
the pair shaking hands. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:04 | |
Its headline says the relationship
between the UK and US is "so great". | 0:01:04 | 0:01:10 | |
The I has that same photo
on its front page and reports that | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
Mr Trump will come to this country,
this year for a working | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
trip, not State Visit. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:23 | |
The Daily Telegraph
carries a warning by | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
the Defence Secretary that Russia
could cause mass casualities | 0:01:25 | 0:01:27 | |
in Britain by crippling our
crucial energy supplies. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:34 | |
And so there are a variety
of stories vying for top billing | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
across a range of tomorrow's papers. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:42 | |
Let's start with the Financial
Times. Philip Hammond who is also in | 0:01:42 | 0:01:49 | |
Davos along with everybody else by
the looks of it, saying he wants a | 0:01:49 | 0:01:53 | |
soft Brexit, not too much to change
at all after we leave. The big ones | 0:01:53 | 0:02:02 | |
in the cabinet cannot help
themselves setting out their stall | 0:02:02 | 0:02:04 | |
for what Brexit should look like, we
had Boris Johnson doing his thing | 0:02:04 | 0:02:08 | |
over the weekend and getting slapped
down by Theresa May, now Philip | 0:02:08 | 0:02:13 | |
Hammond himself getting slapped down
by Downing Street for saying that | 0:02:13 | 0:02:15 | |
the way he sees it is there should
only be a modest economic divergence | 0:02:15 | 0:02:20 | |
between the UK and the EU after we
leave the EU. He makes the perfectly | 0:02:20 | 0:02:25 | |
valid point in my view that the
economies are currently aligned, | 0:02:25 | 0:02:29 | |
it's not as if you were trying to
bring together two economies that | 0:02:29 | 0:02:32 | |
are very different, as was the case
with the deal for Canada. They are | 0:02:32 | 0:02:38 | |
already well aligned so you only
want to diverged if it's in your | 0:02:38 | 0:02:41 | |
interest to do so. He thinks that
should be modest. On the other side, | 0:02:41 | 0:02:47 | |
Brexiteers will say we need a clean
break, to make the most of the | 0:02:47 | 0:02:51 | |
upside of having our own trade deals
and all the rest. We want to get out | 0:02:51 | 0:02:55 | |
and do our own thing. Precisely,
Jacob Rees-Mogg who is a leading | 0:02:55 | 0:03:02 | |
Brexiteer and probably the
mouthpiece of Brexit along with | 0:03:02 | 0:03:06 | |
Boris Johnson is not necessarily
saying anything new or that the | 0:03:06 | 0:03:09 | |
Prime Minister has not set herself
in her own Lancaster house speech, | 0:03:09 | 0:03:15 | |
and that is that she has put
together a 12 point plan and its | 0:03:15 | 0:03:19 | |
unequivocal in saying we must be out
of the single market and out of the | 0:03:19 | 0:03:22 | |
customs union. What's interesting
talking about the comparison with | 0:03:22 | 0:03:28 | |
Boris's intervention is the humility
of invective that has been quite | 0:03:28 | 0:03:31 | |
good on government because it's got
people thinking the government might | 0:03:31 | 0:03:33 | |
spend more on the NHS once we
Brexit. It is also had the effect of | 0:03:33 | 0:03:39 | |
having been a consensus around the
Cabinet table that there will be a | 0:03:39 | 0:03:43 | |
Brexit dividend. When it comes to
Hammonds, and I was getting this | 0:03:43 | 0:03:47 | |
mood earlier in Westminster, they
are angry that funnily enough, | 0:03:47 | 0:03:51 | |
pardon the pun, his view keeps on
diverging from the message the Prime | 0:03:51 | 0:03:54 | |
Minister is trying to put out. It
makes it look like there is no | 0:03:54 | 0:03:58 | |
consensus between number ten and 11
which is awkward at a time when | 0:03:58 | 0:04:02 | |
Theresa May is once again looking
vulnerable. It is extraordinary that | 0:04:02 | 0:04:07 | |
senior Cabinet ministers feel they
can speak out like this without any | 0:04:07 | 0:04:09 | |
threat of potentially being sacked.
I interviewed Bernard Jenkin early | 0:04:09 | 0:04:14 | |
and he said maybe it's time for
another reshuffle, she needs to | 0:04:14 | 0:04:17 | |
bring in people who agree with her.
We had one suddenly last week of the | 0:04:17 | 0:04:22 | |
week before. People are still
talking about the fact that as you | 0:04:22 | 0:04:25 | |
say, the really big senior Cabinet
ministers, the Foreign Secretary, | 0:04:25 | 0:04:30 | |
Home Secretary to a certain extent,
Chancellor of the Exchequer seem to | 0:04:30 | 0:04:37 | |
feel they have license or the
ability to go out there and say | 0:04:37 | 0:04:39 | |
these things and they know they will
not be sacked. Every time they do it | 0:04:39 | 0:04:44 | |
it weakens Theresa May, a mixer
looked as if she is captive of | 0:04:44 | 0:04:47 | |
Cabinet rather than in command of
them. That is what of course | 0:04:47 | 0:04:52 | |
immediately prompts all the
speculation about how long she will | 0:04:52 | 0:04:55 | |
be there. There is the split in the
Cabinet, you can't get away from it, | 0:04:55 | 0:05:00 | |
they have different views of what
the future will look like after | 0:05:00 | 0:05:02 | |
Brexit. How will they resolve that?
The issue of Europe is always | 0:05:02 | 0:05:09 | |
dividing all parties, it's not just
a problem for the Conservatives but | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
for Labour as well who similarly
cannot seem to agree on what the | 0:05:12 | 0:05:16 | |
Brexit end stage should look like.
Equally, because this has come with | 0:05:16 | 0:05:22 | |
another story, the chairman of the
9022 backbench committee receiving | 0:05:22 | 0:05:26 | |
more letters from MPs urging Theresa
May to go. Let's look at that. There | 0:05:26 | 0:05:32 | |
is a lot of rhetoric around
Westminster tonight, if somebody is | 0:05:32 | 0:05:35 | |
going to be resigning, it should be
Philip Hammond. It's an interesting | 0:05:35 | 0:05:40 | |
one. Theresa May in this hugely
difficult position of trying to | 0:05:40 | 0:05:46 | |
manage Brexit when there is no
agreement on it, trying to manage | 0:05:46 | 0:05:48 | |
the government and there seems to be
no agreement on whether she should | 0:05:48 | 0:05:51 | |
be there or not. It's tricky, a rock
and a hard place situation. The | 0:05:51 | 0:05:57 | |
question is, are these real threats
to move against you? I detected this | 0:05:57 | 0:06:02 | |
week in Westminster, definitely
there is frustration that she has | 0:06:02 | 0:06:04 | |
not being bold enough on things like
the NHS, that she has not got that | 0:06:04 | 0:06:08 | |
vision for the country. This
extraordinary story in the Guardian, | 0:06:08 | 0:06:13 | |
the idea that there are 48 letters
that must be written to Graham | 0:06:13 | 0:06:18 | |
Brady, they are a bit worried they
might get there and have this | 0:06:18 | 0:06:21 | |
accidental leadership contest.
Somebody else apparently has written | 0:06:21 | 0:06:25 | |
a letter, those sources close to
Graham Brady which usually means the | 0:06:25 | 0:06:29 | |
man himself have talked that down
and said the figures that have been | 0:06:29 | 0:06:33 | |
bandied about are not right. There
is no doubt there is a substantial | 0:06:33 | 0:06:38 | |
number of people who certainly
willing to consider the possibility | 0:06:38 | 0:06:41 | |
of a change in leadership if they
are not actually seeking to go for | 0:06:41 | 0:06:45 | |
it. The fact is, if she will be
unseated, she will be unseated by | 0:06:45 | 0:06:49 | |
the Brexiteers, who think she is too
close to the view being put forward | 0:06:49 | 0:06:57 | |
by the Chancellor, that the break
with the EU won't be significant | 0:06:57 | 0:07:01 | |
amount to satisfy them. That's why
this speech from Jacob Rees-Mogg | 0:07:01 | 0:07:08 | |
tonight is significant. She has been
put on notice that they would be | 0:07:08 | 0:07:13 | |
prepared to move against, if she
moved too far in other direction. | 0:07:13 | 0:07:17 | |
She is walking the tightrope. Even
though that might risk a general | 0:07:17 | 0:07:22 | |
election, and allowing Jeremy Corbyn
into number ten? Or alternatively | 0:07:22 | 0:07:27 | |
for the Brexiteers, is it worth to
have Jeremy Corbyn in number ten or | 0:07:27 | 0:07:32 | |
an arch Remainer in Theresa May's
position? In regard to the | 0:07:32 | 0:07:37 | |
Brexiteers, the question is whether
they will attribute this beginning | 0:07:37 | 0:07:39 | |
of bread lines that we also saw
yesterday the David Davis -- this | 0:07:39 | 0:07:48 | |
pinkening of red lines. Yesterday he
seemed quite casual saying there | 0:07:48 | 0:07:52 | |
were no bread lines at all, it was
not just a case of pinkening but the | 0:07:52 | 0:07:56 | |
idea that they had been robbed out
altogether. It is up to Mrs major | 0:07:56 | 0:08:00 | |
tidies loose ends together and
reassert the point you made in the | 0:08:00 | 0:08:03 | |
Lancaster house speech that we will
move onto a different position. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:07 | |
Interesting to see it that
materialises. Now onto the front | 0:08:07 | 0:08:11 | |
page of I think every newspaper,
that photo of Donald Trump and | 0:08:11 | 0:08:15 | |
Theresa May shaking hands. There
they are at Davos. They have not | 0:08:15 | 0:08:19 | |
seen each other since a number of
spats over a number of issues | 0:08:19 | 0:08:24 | |
including the tweets that President
Trump retweeted, actually, which was | 0:08:24 | 0:08:28 | |
the bridge and first tweets. A few
problems. -- Britain first tweets. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:36 | |
The body language was as good as
they could make it but it is a | 0:08:36 | 0:08:40 | |
complete farce. Theresa May says,
shoulder to shoulder, Trump says | 0:08:40 | 0:08:48 | |
joint at the hip. They must be
virtually one body right now! | 0:08:48 | 0:08:51 | |
LAUGHTER A horrible thought for all
concerned. It is simply not true. | 0:08:51 | 0:08:58 | |
Bridging and the US offered further
apart on key issues now than they | 0:08:58 | 0:09:01 | |
have been for as long as I can
remember. Residents and Prime | 0:09:01 | 0:09:06 | |
ministers tried to stay in June as
much as they can, they always claim | 0:09:06 | 0:09:10 | |
that they are, but this time it's a
complete fabrication. Despite | 0:09:10 | 0:09:15 | |
Brexit, Theresa May is in favour of
global free trade, Donald Trump is a | 0:09:15 | 0:09:19 | |
protectionist. They disagree
fundamentally over Iran and whether | 0:09:19 | 0:09:22 | |
or not to carry on with the treaty
signed there, they disagree over | 0:09:22 | 0:09:27 | |
climate change, they disagree over
the response to Islamist and other | 0:09:27 | 0:09:32 | |
terror threats. Fundamentally
disagree on whether or not the way | 0:09:32 | 0:09:34 | |
to tackle that is to look for
greater integration within society | 0:09:34 | 0:09:38 | |
or, in Donald Trump's case, to push
people out, because you don't like | 0:09:38 | 0:09:42 | |
them. This nonsense about a special
relationship which has been nonsense | 0:09:42 | 0:09:49 | |
ever since the press was invented
has been a farce. He is coming to | 0:09:49 | 0:09:56 | |
Britain? It might be a working
visit, not a state visit, without | 0:09:56 | 0:10:01 | |
the bells and whistles of an event
that you would usually expect in | 0:10:01 | 0:10:05 | |
London, it might take place
elsewhere. We know the president is | 0:10:05 | 0:10:09 | |
keen to go to Scotland because
that's where he can trace its roots, | 0:10:09 | 0:10:15 | |
his mother was Scottish. I feel it
still goes beyond that, and for | 0:10:15 | 0:10:21 | |
people living in Britain and America
there is a great deal of shared | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
culture, there is an affection
across the pond, it will be even | 0:10:24 | 0:10:27 | |
more strength and come May when an
American actress marries into the | 0:10:27 | 0:10:31 | |
royal family. All these different
stages are quite significant, | 0:10:31 | 0:10:36 | |
perhaps with a capital P it's not,
but there is still a recognition | 0:10:36 | 0:10:39 | |
between both countries and their
inhabitants that there is a more | 0:10:39 | 0:10:44 | |
special relationship with America
than some other countries. It does | 0:10:44 | 0:10:47 | |
not go much further than we kind of
speak the same language and we watch | 0:10:47 | 0:10:50 | |
a lot of their telly and they love
us in the Crown. Let's move on to a | 0:10:50 | 0:10:57 | |
relationship with another country,
Russia. An extraordinary headline | 0:10:57 | 0:11:00 | |
and story in the Daily Telegraph,
Russia ready to kill us by the | 0:11:00 | 0:11:05 | |
thousands, this is the Defence
Secretary. It's all about, he says, | 0:11:05 | 0:11:09 | |
the possibility that Russia could
effectively hack into our energy | 0:11:09 | 0:11:13 | |
supply and therefore lead to lots of
death. On one level he is right but | 0:11:13 | 0:11:21 | |
it's an extraordinary headline, were
she ready to kill us by the | 0:11:21 | 0:11:23 | |
thousands. Why would they want to do
so? The actual quote is, they could | 0:11:23 | 0:11:29 | |
cause thousands and thousands and
thousands of deaths. That is to | 0:11:29 | 0:11:35 | |
extrapolate what might happen, but
that would only happen if there was | 0:11:35 | 0:11:38 | |
a world war going on. I don't think
anyone is suggesting we are at that | 0:11:38 | 0:11:42 | |
point. However there is no doubt
they are looking very closely at | 0:11:42 | 0:11:46 | |
Bridge and's vulnerabilities and the
particular when he's talking about | 0:11:46 | 0:11:50 | |
here is our vulnerability in terms
of energy supply. -- Britain's | 0:11:50 | 0:11:54 | |
vulnerabilities. If people have
wondered why in the past Theresa | 0:11:54 | 0:11:58 | |
May, who is a cautious Prime
Minister and now she is a | 0:11:58 | 0:12:04 | |
cash-strapped government, have
agreed to a £20 billion cost for | 0:12:04 | 0:12:10 | |
this reactor, this is your answer.
We have to have energy security. | 0:12:10 | 0:12:15 | |
There is no doubt the GCHQ and
others can see that the Russians are | 0:12:15 | 0:12:19 | |
looking at where we are vulnerable.
Though she was concerned about | 0:12:19 | 0:12:23 | |
Chinese involvement in that. She
reassessed that. We are always | 0:12:23 | 0:12:30 | |
concerned about Chinese involvement
in everything. What's interesting | 0:12:30 | 0:12:33 | |
here is pointing out the common
perception now with regard to the | 0:12:33 | 0:12:37 | |
Russian threat, it does not quite
match the reality of what they are | 0:12:37 | 0:12:40 | |
capable of. Uses the example of the
plan for Russians will be landing | 0:12:40 | 0:12:44 | |
craft to appear in the South Bay of
Scarborough or off Brighton Beach. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:48 | |
Who is imagining that?! But that
they want to quote, kill our | 0:12:48 | 0:12:54 | |
national infrastructure, is
certainly food for thought. Finally, | 0:12:54 | 0:12:59 | |
throat lozenges don't work according
to the Telegraph. Neither does cough | 0:12:59 | 0:13:03 | |
syrup. My father, a retired GP, has
always said this, it's nonsense. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:08 | |
They all sell different things,
tickly cough, chesty cough, it's all | 0:13:08 | 0:13:11 | |
nonsense. How long have I spent at
the pharmacists counter wondering | 0:13:11 | 0:13:17 | |
whether I've got a tickly cough or a
dry cough. I think it's all | 0:13:17 | 0:13:24 | |
psychological, if you think they
were it probably gets you through | 0:13:24 | 0:13:27 | |
your next interview if you have a
tickly cough. And bad for my | 0:13:27 | 0:13:32 | |
ministers, the Chancellor we were
talking about earlier was feeding | 0:13:32 | 0:13:34 | |
the Prime Minister and cough sweets
during her speech at the Tory party | 0:13:34 | 0:13:38 | |
conference and it did no good.
Apparently a throat spray more | 0:13:38 | 0:13:43 | |
effective. They are much better. | 0:13:43 | 0:13:53 | |
That's it for THE PAPERS tonight. | 0:13:53 | 0:13:55 | |
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