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That's all the sport for now. | 0:00:00 | 0:00:01 | |
Now on BBC News it's
time for The Papers. | 0:00:01 | 0:00:11 | |
Hello and welcome to our look
ahead to what the papers | 0:00:15 | 0:00:18 | |
are bringing us today. | 0:00:18 | 0:00:20 | |
With me are Katy Balls, political
correspondent at The Spectator, | 0:00:20 | 0:00:24 | |
and the journalist and broadcaster
Shyama Perera. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:33 | |
Let's have a look at some
of the front pages. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:35 | |
The Observer leads on comments
from a former head of the civil | 0:00:35 | 0:00:38 | |
service, who makes a scathing
comparison between some brexiteers | 0:00:38 | 0:00:41 | |
and German nationalists
between the world wars. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:47 | |
Theresa May will face a coup
from cabinet brexiteers, | 0:00:47 | 0:00:49 | |
if she persists with plans to remain
in the customs union, | 0:00:49 | 0:00:52 | |
according to the Sunday Times. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:57 | |
And more Brexit on the The Sunday
Telegraph which says | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
the Prime Minister is being urged
to invoke the example | 0:01:00 | 0:01:04 | |
of Margaret Thatcher
and defy her chancellor over Brexit. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:07 | |
The Express accuses Jeremy Corbyn
of environmental hypocrisy, | 0:01:07 | 0:01:09 | |
claiming he left a diesel car
waiting outside his house for 40 | 0:01:09 | 0:01:13 | |
minutes before getting in for a six
mile trip to Westminster. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
Meanwhile the Mirror has an image
of the Health Secretary, | 0:01:16 | 0:01:21 | |
Jeremy Hunt, taking a nap
in a hotel, which the paper claims | 0:01:21 | 0:01:24 | |
was taken while thousands
marched through London, | 0:01:24 | 0:01:26 | |
calling for more NHS support. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:36 | |
There we are, a snapshot of the
newspaper front pages. Katy, let's | 0:01:41 | 0:01:44 | |
kick off with Brexit, Brexit, Brexit
on the front pages. Don't let | 0:01:44 | 0:01:52 | |
Hammond ruin Brexit. I think it is
an understatement to say tensions | 0:01:52 | 0:02:02 | |
are running high over Brexit. We
have the two big meetings next week. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:07 | |
The Cabinet are meant to be
thrashing out a position. I'd then | 0:02:07 | 0:02:19 | |
think it's hugely surprising that
Bernard Jenkins has said that the | 0:02:19 | 0:02:28 | |
Chancellor is frustrating the
process. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:39 | |
The head of Waitrose... We are still
quite away down the track and we are | 0:02:41 | 0:02:52 | |
still trying to work out what kind
of Brexit it is going to be. I | 0:02:52 | 0:02:56 | |
suppose that is why we are getting
all this arguing. We and it's | 0:02:56 | 0:03:02 | |
interesting that Bernard Jenkins is
the latest voice saying we should | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
not be so vague, but an unknown
source, a senior Brexiteer is quoted | 0:03:05 | 0:03:11 | |
as saying in the piece that there
are far more of us than there are | 0:03:11 | 0:03:17 | |
Tory Remainers in the Commons and we
are the ones who can pull the temple | 0:03:17 | 0:03:21 | |
down. I found that confusing because
I thought it was the temple of | 0:03:21 | 0:03:26 | |
Brexit we are building and if it is
going to be pulled down, what will | 0:03:26 | 0:03:30 | |
we be left with? Maybe they are
talking about the temple of Theresa | 0:03:30 | 0:03:39 | |
May's government? If we are going to
use the divine as a metaphor, the | 0:03:39 | 0:03:44 | |
reason that they haven't been able
to find a way forward is because | 0:03:44 | 0:03:48 | |
someone on high wants to abandon the
whole plan. Sticking with the temple | 0:03:48 | 0:03:56 | |
metaphor, there are Brexiteers in
the Sunday Times who want to create | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
a new temple, I suppose. This is a
dream number ten with Boris Johnson | 0:03:59 | 0:04:10 | |
and Michael Gove. These are new
tenants that can move into the | 0:04:10 | 0:04:16 | |
temple if the current ones don't
live unto it! A softer Brexit is | 0:04:16 | 0:04:27 | |
being discussed, which would mean a
customs union of some sort. If she | 0:04:27 | 0:04:32 | |
does that, there is this idea that
they will get rid of her and they | 0:04:32 | 0:04:37 | |
will move in the three Brexiteers.
Gove would be the deputy, but only | 0:04:37 | 0:04:50 | |
if he remembers not to stab Boris
Johnson in the back again. I don't | 0:04:50 | 0:04:53 | |
think this is everyone's version of
a dream. A nice picture of them as | 0:04:53 | 0:05:01 | |
the three Musketeers, the three
Brexiteers. We could have Boris made | 0:05:01 | 0:05:11 | |
up, we saw that piece of Gary
Oldman's make up. We could have a | 0:05:11 | 0:05:23 | |
better representation. People talk
about Theresa May's weakness. Is she | 0:05:23 | 0:05:31 | |
staying put for now? I think she is.
I think she is trying to get us to | 0:05:31 | 0:05:39 | |
the next election without a
decision, without a proper plan, so | 0:05:39 | 0:05:43 | |
we are forced to go back to the
country. I feel she has lost the | 0:05:43 | 0:05:51 | |
appetite for it, but she is very
good at keeping everybody sort of | 0:05:51 | 0:05:57 | |
trailing behind, complaining,
dreading the satchels in the sand, | 0:05:57 | 0:06:01 | |
but they still do their homework and
turn up at 9am the next morning. She | 0:06:01 | 0:06:05 | |
is trying to keep this fragile
coalition within her government | 0:06:05 | 0:06:10 | |
together. The way she became to the
Prime Minister is because she was a | 0:06:10 | 0:06:17 | |
reluctant remain them. There is a
point in this please which is | 0:06:17 | 0:06:24 | |
basically if she were to go for a
softer Brexit, and I think the | 0:06:24 | 0:06:30 | |
Brexit camp at the moment being led
by Jacob Rees Mogg, they are the | 0:06:30 | 0:06:39 | |
type who would call for a confidence
vote. Ultimately it will go above | 0:06:39 | 0:06:47 | |
her. Last story on Brexit. This is
Lord Turnbull. He is aligning the | 0:06:47 | 0:07:12 | |
naysayers | 0:07:12 | 0:07:22 | |
with the Nazis in Germany. He is
saying the attacks on the Civil | 0:07:22 | 0:07:27 | |
Service are, if you like, following
a pattern, which ultimately led to | 0:07:27 | 0:07:34 | |
national socialism. I suspect that
might be overstating it, but when | 0:07:34 | 0:07:40 | |
you look at what is happening in the
rest of the world, perhaps it is | 0:07:40 | 0:07:43 | |
not. Katy, what do you think about
that? Once you compare tactics with | 0:07:43 | 0:07:53 | |
anything with the word Nazi in it,
you are into territory that is over | 0:07:53 | 0:07:57 | |
the top. There is a growing problem
between the Civil Service and the | 0:07:57 | 0:08:04 | |
government we have seen that this
week with Liz information. I don't | 0:08:04 | 0:08:19 | |
regard this as helpful. It's making
a hard job even harder. The Sunday | 0:08:19 | 0:08:25 | |
Telegraph. Uma Thurman, Harvey
Weinstein, more allegations that he | 0:08:25 | 0:08:32 | |
allegedly attacked her as well.
Shyama, this is something that she | 0:08:32 | 0:08:39 | |
has hinted about before and now she
has given chapter and verse about | 0:08:39 | 0:08:46 | |
it. Yes, and the report she gives is
very similar to others, he exposed | 0:08:46 | 0:08:53 | |
himself, he jumped on her.
Apparently she broke down in the | 0:08:53 | 0:09:01 | |
middle of an interview when she was
retelling the story. I'm curious | 0:09:01 | 0:09:06 | |
about the timing. She could have set
this up front. I don't know if it is | 0:09:06 | 0:09:11 | |
strategic and she is doing it to
keep the argument alive,. I'm not | 0:09:11 | 0:09:17 | |
entirely sure what it adds to what
we know. It's interesting to know | 0:09:17 | 0:09:21 | |
that Uma Thurman was one of the
victims. It shows that no one was | 0:09:21 | 0:09:24 | |
about being attacked by Weinstein,
assuming at this point that all | 0:09:24 | 0:09:30 | |
these allegations have foundation.
She says she feels bad for not | 0:09:30 | 0:09:34 | |
protecting other women. I suppose
different women feel differently | 0:09:34 | 0:09:47 | |
about what they want a say in public
regarding what happened to them. We | 0:09:47 | 0:09:53 | |
had lots of leading actresses who
have now, and spoken. They talk | 0:09:53 | 0:09:58 | |
about the guilt, they should have
used the position of power, but it | 0:09:58 | 0:10:04 | |
tells you about his monopoly on the
industry. Someone like Uma Thurman, | 0:10:04 | 0:10:10 | |
or Angelina Jolie, they feel they
can't say anything. These are | 0:10:10 | 0:10:20 | |
isolated events and may be the
subject just believes that it is | 0:10:20 | 0:10:23 | |
only happen to them. It's only when
someone else brings it up it starts | 0:10:23 | 0:10:30 | |
to snowball. If these are all true,
why is he currently just in therapy? | 0:10:30 | 0:10:36 | |
It doesn't quite seem right. The
Sunday express. We have a story | 0:10:36 | 0:10:49 | |
about Jeremy Carbone. They say he
uses a toxin pumping diesel car and | 0:10:49 | 0:10:54 | |
leaves it on the yellow line for 40
minutes. Are you outraged by that? | 0:10:54 | 0:11:00 | |
I'm quite low energy today and could
not get that outraged. Lots of | 0:11:00 | 0:11:07 | |
people see Jeremy Corbyn as this
left-wing messiah, this saint. The | 0:11:07 | 0:11:17 | |
fact he has taken this car which is
diesel, it goes against his | 0:11:17 | 0:11:22 | |
principles. It's interesting that
they have come up with alternative | 0:11:22 | 0:11:29 | |
routes for him to get to work. He
can use the tube or the bus. Or | 0:11:29 | 0:11:36 | |
cycle. But there are security
issues. But they miss the main | 0:11:36 | 0:11:42 | |
point. Apart from having described
in great detail the spec of a Ford | 0:11:42 | 0:11:47 | |
Galaxy, the car is actually provided
by the government car service. So in | 0:11:47 | 0:11:53 | |
fact it is not Jeremy Corbyn who is
using it. It is not his decision. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:58 | |
No, it is the government's. It is
only being done for safety reasons | 0:11:58 | 0:12:05 | |
because they decided he should not
cycle into work any more because it | 0:12:05 | 0:12:10 | |
was a security risk. Another
personal story about a politician if | 0:12:10 | 0:12:15 | |
you like is in the Sunday Mirror.
Gerry Mahar nes having a nap. They | 0:12:15 | 0:12:26 | |
are making something about how he
was sleeping at a spa Hotel while | 0:12:26 | 0:12:32 | |
NHS demonstrators were out on the
streets demonstrating. I think this | 0:12:32 | 0:12:36 | |
is slightly unfair. Whatever you may
think of Jeremy Hunt, he has a fall | 0:12:36 | 0:12:43 | |
asleep at his desk or in the
Chamber. Maybe it is a sign that | 0:12:43 | 0:12:48 | |
he's working very hard in his day
job that by the time it gets to the | 0:12:48 | 0:12:52 | |
weekend he can't stay awake. This is
about NHS funding and if you speak | 0:12:52 | 0:12:57 | |
to people in the party and in
covenant, Jeremy Hunt is lobbying | 0:12:57 | 0:13:01 | |
for more funding. It's not that he
is going against them. I think it's | 0:13:01 | 0:13:08 | |
unfair. So should he be allowed a
little keep every now and again? Of | 0:13:08 | 0:13:13 | |
course. He is probably exhausted.
Maybe the mirror committee was | 0:13:13 | 0:13:19 | |
watching the demonstration on BBC
News. Maybe he fell asleep when he | 0:13:19 | 0:13:24 | |
was watching it on BBC News. I doubt
that very much. If he was watching | 0:13:24 | 0:13:32 | |
cars would not fall asleep. It is
the mirror of the Jeremy Carbone | 0:13:32 | 0:13:38 | |
story. Just having a pop at someone.
Let's end on an upbeat note. The | 0:13:38 | 0:13:45 | |
Spice Girls are reuniting for a £50
million tour. Posh is going to sing | 0:13:45 | 0:14:01 | |
and make even perform at Harry and
Meghan's wedding. | 0:14:01 | 0:14:13 | |
They are embodying global Britain.
Girl power! Are you a big fan? I was | 0:14:16 | 0:14:23 | |
a big fan. At school we used to pick
one to be. Who were you? I was posh. | 0:14:23 | 0:14:34 | |
But I think maybe posh is doing this
because it is financial. If you | 0:14:34 | 0:14:40 | |
enjoy singing, I saw them once at
the O2 when they did the last | 0:14:40 | 0:14:44 | |
reunion and she sang the least. She
probably sign a couple of tiny solo | 0:14:44 | 0:14:53 | |
bits, and the worst. Interestingly
though the crowd went wild when she | 0:14:53 | 0:14:57 | |
did something. The other four, not
so much. She just opened her mouth | 0:14:57 | 0:15:03 | |
and the crowd went wild. Would you
go to the concerts now? Yes. I | 0:15:03 | 0:15:13 | |
wouldn't batter my way to get the
tickets... If someone offered you a | 0:15:13 | 0:15:18 | |
free ticket? It depends. Good luck
to the Spice Girls. As we said, | 0:15:18 | 0:15:30 | |
global Britain in action. Thank you
both. Great to have you with us. | 0:15:30 | 0:15:38 | |
That's it for The Papers
this morning. | 0:15:38 | 0:15:39 | |
Don't forget you can see the front
pages of the papers online | 0:15:39 | 0:15:42 | |
on the BBC News website. | 0:15:42 | 0:15:43 | |
And if you miss the programme any | 0:15:43 | 0:15:45 | |
evening, you can watch it
later on BBC iPlayer. | 0:15:45 | 0:15:47 | |
Thank you Shyama and Katy. | 0:15:47 | 0:15:48 | |
Goodbye. | 0:15:48 | 0:15:54 |