17/02/2018 The Papers

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We have got a lot to fit in.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Nigel Nelson, political

editor of the Sunday Mirror

and political commentator,

Jo Phillips.

Many of tomorrow's front

pages are already in.

The Observer investigates

Britain's prison system,

claiming two-thirds of prisons

are providing inadequate conditions

or unacceptable

treatment for inmates.

The Sunday Express says Theresa May

has declared there will be "no

going back" on Brexit.

The Telegraph leads

on claims prominent members

of the Labour Party met eastern bloc

agents during the Cold War.

The Mail on Sunday has

an interview with Brendan Cox,

the widower of murdered MP Jo Cox,

who has stepped down from his role

in two charities after admitting

inappropriate behaviour

with a colleague.

The Sunday Times says

the Education Secretary is looking

at a number of university reforms,

including cheaper tuition fees

for some courses.

And the Sun on Sunday reports

on alleged marriage difficulties

between pop stars

Cheryl and Liam Payne.

So a variety of stories

on the front pages.

We won't be looking at all of them.

Let us start with the Mail on

Sunday. Brendan Cox. We have to take

issue, straightaway, with the

headline. Yes, I was a sex pest,

confesses Jo Cox's husband.

He does

not say that anywhere in the

interview at all. He certainly

admits to inappropriate behaviour.

He apologises profusely for

behaviour that may have made

colleagues feel uncomfortable. And

he completely denies an allegation

about, I think it was in the Mail on

Sunday last week, that he sexually

assaulted a woman in America. He has

continued to deny that. And he says

that one of the descriptions of an

incident in 2015 is massively

exaggerated. The headline, as is so

often the case, belies the story

inside. There is no doubt it is yet

another story of somebody who

perhaps now, with hindsight,

realises that their behaviour, and

he does say I did not think it was

predatory, I thought it was playful,

was inappropriate and caused deep

distress.

Even though he is saying

it is a massive exaggeration,

clearly some of the women involved

there are some to complain about.

That right. Obviously he feels they

did have something to complain

about, because he has resigned from

the two charities that he founded,

the Jo Cox Foundation and More in

Common. And he says he will, for the

time being, withdraw from public

life. We must not conflict this with

what is going on with Oxfam and

other charities. We are in the same

territory, but it is not the same.

It says all the way through that

while he disputes are some of the

allegations made against him, that

he is sorry that he made people feel

uncomfortable.

Letters move onto the

Sunday Telegraph. Check agent claims

15 MPs met spies, not just Jeremy

Corbyn.

John McDonnell and Ken

Livingstone. A total of 15 MPs. They

see that this is ridiculous will

stop Ken Livingstone calls it a

tissue of lies. Labour is describing

the allegations as absurd, which is

what they have been saying all week.

The point about this is that we are

going back to the 1980s. We are

going back to a different time.

Gorbachev was then that changing the

whole nature of Russia and Eastern

Europe...

Perestroika and glasnost.

Those great was we had at the time.

MPs were meeting a lot of Eastern

Europeans at the time. The only

thing you could actually say that

they were guilty of was not to

imagine that some of them might have

been spies.

We don't know what on

earth they could have passed to

these agents.

Ken Livingstone was

not an MP. He was coming to the end

of this time of leading the DLC.

John McDonnell probably was an MP

then, or was he at the DLC? Jeremy

Corbyn was in the same constituency.

And the Czechoslovakian diplomat or

spy talks about three meetings with

Jeremy Corbyn. Three meetings over

the course of a couple of years,

three years, in fact, does not sound

like a lot to me.

Presence in the

Observer. The dire state of our

failing jails.

If we can find the

shock figures. They are quite

worrying. It is an analysis of 118

different prisons. 68% are providing

unsatisfactory standards with two

inside jails unacceptably unsafe.

What we have to do is either build

more prisons or reduce the prison

population dramatically. There are

84,000 prisoners behind bars at the

moment. The jails are just not able

to accommodate them. They are no

longer fit for purpose. That is the

next stage, really, to start

debasing the whole business of

criminal justice and how we do

without.

How do you upgrade the

present stock?

Exactly. You have

Victorian buildings that are unfit

for purpose. Prison officers with

low morale and a high turnover of

staff. You have cuts to funding and

rehabilitation. We have had this

conversation for as long as I can

remember.

That's right. It feels

very familiar.

When he was just a

secretary, he seemed to be

concentrating on prisons and trying

to do something about it -- Justice

Secretary. How many recommendations

have been in and nothing changes?

There has to be a fundamental change

in criminality and what to do with

people.

Stay with the Observer.

Jeremy Corbyn under pressure to

shift Brexit stance.

Have I got News

EU? Who is this coming from? -- have

I got News for you.

Two women on the

show for a change.

Two funny women.

I don't know about me...

This is

20,000 members of the Labour Party.

I don't know about shifting his

Brexit starts, it would be nice to

know what it is, let alone shifting

it. They want to know whether he

wants to stay in the single market

in the customs union or what he

wants. Neil Kinnock has now joined

in and says these members in the

Labour Party... Neil Kinnock is

backing stopping Britain's exes,

whether or not that is likely. Lots

of people are thinking there should

be another referendum or there

should be some way to stop

everything hurtling out of control.

There is no prospect mechanism at

the moment for a second referendum.

There is no mechanism for it at all.

There are a lot of campaign groups

who are trying to get one. Eben

Britton being one of them. Best for

Britain another. -- open Britain. It

won't happen unless there is a huge

change in public attitudes. No sign

of that coming from the pulse at the

moment. If anything the Brexiteers

have actually hardened up.

It is

still exactly the same figures. The

Sunday Times. No screen sex please,

we are actors. Equity is suggesting

there may have to be guidelines in

place for performers who might be

asked to do saucy scenes.

We cannot

go into it as such...

Why? Because

we are a bit Coric? -- coy?

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Basically it is no serious kissing

and covering yourself up.

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Which seems to me to make a nude

scene work.

It is a bit of a passion

killer.

Liberty bodice is at the

ready.

It is serious.

I was or is

under the impression, I am very

naive, that on-screen kisses were a

bit like on screen punches in the

face, that it was all sleight of

hand and things, I didn't realise

that we did it.

It depends on which

film you are doing it.

They

mentioned Roger Moore. It is not

known as a porn star.

What is this

story? Carrey gets a job with air

miles. Still on the Sunday Times --

Prince Harry.

After last week's

interesting discussion about the

Commonwealth, I am sure am not in

thinking the Queen or the head of

state was automatically...

Head of

the Commonwealth. I assumed that the

head of state was ahead of the,.

Prince Harry is to come into a youth

leadership role. There is a common

thugs of government conference in

April -- Commonwealth heads of

government. The Commonwealth still

has 53 members. It is extremely

young, as an organisation, in terms

of its membership and the people

within the countries, they have

predominantly younger demographics.

I don't understand the headline

other than that he will travel

around a lot.

The key to this is

that Prince Charles will probably

get the role anyway, he is 69, the

idea is that you need a younger

royal to bridge the gap.

Back to The

Telegraph. A little aside. Craig

Watts and says we have been

wonderful, perfect for the news.

Is

he a producer?

I don't think he has

anything to do with it. Sheep who

can grow human organs created in

lab.

This is all a bit scary. It is

coming out of Stanford University.

The idea is that you genetically

modified sheep, that you introduced

human DNA and various different

things can grow from that,

ultimately you can be growing organs

for human transplant. Just another

step along the way of scientific

advancement. Let us have the NHS

will be able to cope when it

arrives.

How close are we to

achieving that?

Ten years.

You said

that without moving your lips.

Was

that inappropriate behaviour? Yes,

it is meant talking of women, it

happens all the time. -- men.

CROSSTALK Would you like to say

stomach about the?

No, it is a solidified. -- it is

fine.

In the Independent, golden

glory for Lizzy Yarnold. A fabulous

picture of her become the first UK

athlete to successfully defend a

title at the Winter Olympics.

I

should imagine if the so... Do we go

into the weather forecast after

this?

No, we don't. The Film Review.

If there is a snow there will be DJs

playing out of cupboards with

children wanting to try this in the

snow -- tea trays.

I might have a go

at the luge, you can go feet first.

How do you begin to start practising

that?

You can't go slowly to see if

you like it.

You could not even go

down the stairs on a tea tray.

Anyway, good for her. She is an

absolute hero. That is a super

photo.

Thank you both.

That's it for the Papers tonight.

Thank you, Nigel and Jo.

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