0:00:00 > 0:00:04to their rival's 22 points.
0:00:20 > 0:00:24Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be
0:00:24 > 0:00:24bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:25 > 0:00:27With me are Nigel Nelson, political editor of the Sunday Mirror,
0:00:27 > 0:00:34and the political commentator, Jo Phillips.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36Lovely to have you both again.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38Many of tomorrow's front pages are already in.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41The Observer leads on Government figures that reveal almost four
0:00:41 > 0:00:51times more men than women are in Britain's highest paid posts.
0:00:51 > 0:00:57Same old story, Hague? -- hey?
0:00:57 > 0:00:59The Sunday Express says that the ex-Russian spy
0:00:59 > 0:01:02Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia may have been poisoned
0:01:02 > 0:01:05by the contents of a parcel that went undetected in the post.
0:01:05 > 0:01:07The Sunday Telegraph reveals that senior government figures
0:01:07 > 0:01:10are leading a plan to ban Russian officials involved in corruption
0:01:10 > 0:01:14and human rights abuses.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16The Sunday Times claims that since becoming Prime Minister,
0:01:17 > 0:01:19Theresa May has received over 800,000 pounds worth of donations
0:01:19 > 0:01:24from Russian oligarchs.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27The Sunday People says that the Russian President Vladimir Putin
0:01:27 > 0:01:35is planning eight more attacks.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37He is not done yet!
0:01:37 > 0:01:40Of course, it's worth a reminder that Russia has not yet been found
0:01:41 > 0:01:42responsible for the Salisbury attack.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45The Sunday Mirror front page features claims that up to 1,000
0:01:45 > 0:01:47children could be involved in a new child abuse
0:01:47 > 0:01:51and trafficking scandal.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54And finally, the Mail on Sunday headlines allegations of bullying
0:01:54 > 0:01:56against a former executive of the ONE charity,
0:01:56 > 0:02:02which was founded by Bono.
0:02:02 > 0:02:07The accusations have been denied by the person accused.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10So Russia dominating the majority of the front pages,
0:02:10 > 0:02:16as it has for the past few days, so let's have a closer look.
0:02:16 > 0:02:21We will stay with this of course, the express, and the story that the
0:02:21 > 0:02:26poison may have been delivered by literally, delivered by parcel?Yes,
0:02:26 > 0:02:30this is slightly contradictory to what we have just heard in the news
0:02:30 > 0:02:33headlines that they do think that a possibility they were contaminated
0:02:33 > 0:02:40in the restaurant that they went to but according to neighbours, they
0:02:40 > 0:02:43have seen courier vans delivering parcels which is not unusual because
0:02:43 > 0:02:47most of us have deliveries from time to time, but it is obviously another
0:02:47 > 0:02:52line of enquiry. They are investigating that. What is quite
0:02:52 > 0:02:56interesting in the express story is that they have spoken to an expert,
0:02:56 > 0:03:00who knew there were so many experts coming out of the woodwork apart
0:03:00 > 0:03:06from myself and Nigel, of course, that this particular expert is
0:03:06 > 0:03:10saying that any would be SSTs and is probably now safely back in Russia,
0:03:10 > 0:03:14this would have been very well-organised job, if indeed it was
0:03:14 > 0:03:19carried out by Russian orbiter such -- sanction of the Russian
0:03:19 > 0:03:23government, it would have been a 3-person team. Weather has done it
0:03:23 > 0:03:28probably dropped the gas and all the nerve agent and would be awake --
0:03:28 > 0:03:33who we are. There is an awful lot of stuff for people to go through as he
0:03:33 > 0:03:37referred to, they have 200 or something witnesses.You think we
0:03:37 > 0:03:42will ever be able to trace it back, Nigel?I have no way of knowing
0:03:42 > 0:03:46that. I think it will probably be able to work out at some point who
0:03:46 > 0:03:53is probably responsible. A signature... Yeah. I do think anyone
0:03:53 > 0:03:57is hiding at the moment, I think they are sitting in the Kremlin at
0:03:57 > 0:04:02the moment so you have to put a cave yet out on no evidence yet but even
0:04:02 > 0:04:06so, we're pretty sure who is behind it. So the important thing is the
0:04:06 > 0:04:13spy fraternity knows who is behind it, they will all be gossiping
0:04:13 > 0:04:17amongst themselves on the various networks and those of them who are
0:04:17 > 0:04:23traitors to Russia will be feeling very frightened at the moment.Let's
0:04:23 > 0:04:31turn to the people because there is a story of a list?This is coming
0:04:31 > 0:04:37from a former KGB FSB major who defected to Britain 20 years ago. He
0:04:37 > 0:04:47is on a hit list, I have known him for four years, his name is Boris,
0:04:47 > 0:04:54he says he had a call back in the Brutt 12 which happens to be his
0:04:54 > 0:04:58birthday, too, warning him he had been put on this hit list along with
0:04:58 > 0:05:03scrip fell and the number of others. The kind of people who would not be
0:05:03 > 0:05:08surprised that they are on the hit list, in fact we talk to one of them
0:05:08 > 0:05:11today, your brother, who was the American-born British financier who
0:05:11 > 0:05:17has been born in Russia and he brushed it off, of course I am on a
0:05:17 > 0:05:21hit list, I expect sort of the Russians to come after me but they
0:05:21 > 0:05:25haven't got me yet.He said that to the Commons Select Committee last
0:05:25 > 0:05:32week.Yes.It are the most appalling and chilling thing, I do believe
0:05:32 > 0:05:36they want to kill me but they haven't figured out how to do it but
0:05:36 > 0:05:39in my analysis, this wasn't an attack on an individual, this is an
0:05:39 > 0:05:43attack to send a message on all the other spies, policemen and senior
0:05:43 > 0:05:48military about the devastating price of disloyalty.That is what is going
0:05:48 > 0:05:56on, about sending out messages. The various people who appeal in this,
0:05:56 > 0:06:00-- who appear in this, our best war double agencies in the list,
0:06:00 > 0:06:05Christopher Steele, if you remember, took those unsubstantiated claims
0:06:05 > 0:06:10about Donald Trump and prostitutes in Moscow, and the variety then of
0:06:10 > 0:06:15people who have defected. They have something in common - they have
0:06:15 > 0:06:21upset by the Mayor Putin at some point or another, and if they have
0:06:21 > 0:06:27ended up on the hit list then they would expect it. -- Vladimir.What
0:06:27 > 0:06:32about this unspoken rule that you do not target swapped spies? Is this a
0:06:32 > 0:06:38mess?It is maybe more observed in the bridge really because the whole
0:06:38 > 0:06:45point is about being a traitor. -- breach. The Russians it is the worst
0:06:45 > 0:06:50possible crime and as a result you are never quite safe. There haven't
0:06:50 > 0:06:53been trying to bump up a lot involved in spy swaps but they have
0:06:53 > 0:06:57had a cloud hanging over them.Don't forget it was Vladimir Putin in 2006
0:06:57 > 0:07:03who brought in the law, or changed the law, allowing the FSB to operate
0:07:03 > 0:07:07abroad and is the implicit encouragement was that just be
0:07:07 > 0:07:11inventive, be innovative, act on your own initiative.It is still
0:07:11 > 0:07:16Russia but it is Russian donors that are on the front page of the Sunday
0:07:16 > 0:07:22Times, Jo.When Theresa May became Prime Minister she said that she
0:07:22 > 0:07:26would distance her party, the Conservative Party, the Russian
0:07:26 > 0:07:33donors. And allies that the her aides, she was stuck with a long
0:07:33 > 0:07:36spoon but according to the Sunday Times, the Conservatives have
0:07:36 > 0:07:41received over 800 thousand pounds. It is a register donations so they
0:07:41 > 0:07:46are not illegal. But the Russian oligarchs and their associates have
0:07:46 > 0:07:50given them. That this is another stick with which to beat the Prime
0:07:50 > 0:07:54Minister, accusing her of being linked in response to the poisoning
0:07:54 > 0:08:01scandal. -- limp. That is obviously come from unnamed British ministers
0:08:01 > 0:08:05but the fact that it is company is interesting. It talks about lobbying
0:08:05 > 0:08:09companies who have links to the Kremlin and Russia. It also talks
0:08:09 > 0:08:18about the wife of a former minister of Putin who gave £160,000 to play
0:08:18 > 0:08:23tennis with David Cameron.Very quickly Nigel you may have to
0:08:23 > 0:08:27explain who the redheaded bombshell is on the front page of the times,
0:08:27 > 0:08:36just so we... Context?Indeed! Anna Chapman had a go on Twitter today
0:08:36 > 0:08:39which seems to be her preferred method nowadays, and of course she
0:08:39 > 0:08:45was a part of the spy swap from the US who some of the people on the hit
0:08:45 > 0:08:51list were also swapped for.I take, the Sunday Telegraph, and what we
0:08:51 > 0:08:55are talking about possible action here but we have to say that this
0:08:55 > 0:09:00has been written, we don't know yet if it is Russia, we don't have any,
0:09:00 > 0:09:05you know, talking about someone action that might be taken.This is
0:09:05 > 0:09:10a good point, before we can actually do anything, we have to have pretty
0:09:10 > 0:09:16conclusive proof who is behind it. So we are making assumptions,
0:09:16 > 0:09:20Russia, it sort of looks like Russia but we don't know. Certainly, no
0:09:20 > 0:09:25sanctions can come into play and till that has been satisfactorily be
0:09:25 > 0:09:31improved but the idea is we joined the US and Canada which is obviously
0:09:31 > 0:09:34much better if we do proper sanctions and the kind of things
0:09:34 > 0:09:38they are talking about is these bands, stopping certain Russians
0:09:38 > 0:09:43coming here with their money, freezing the assets in this country
0:09:43 > 0:09:48of which there is quite a bit -- visa bans I would like to see it go
0:09:48 > 0:09:51a bit further and talk about actually expelling Russian
0:09:51 > 0:09:54intelligence officers. We know who they are. There would be a
0:09:54 > 0:09:58tit-for-tat, some of our good Blues in Moscow but it seems to me if you
0:09:58 > 0:10:04don't stand up to it, if you don't make some kind of, a stand, to say
0:10:04 > 0:10:10we won't put up with this, and you guys will have to go.Jo, do you
0:10:10 > 0:10:14think Britain has too much to lose by upsetting, because there is a
0:10:14 > 0:10:19little bit of weighing up here.If you look the instance, we talk about
0:10:19 > 0:10:23oligarchs and people with vast sums, unimaginable amounts of money, who
0:10:23 > 0:10:28are heavily invested in property particularly in London and around
0:10:28 > 0:10:34Europe as well, but you know, if you take those people, wherever they
0:10:34 > 0:10:38come from, whether it is Russia, China, the Middle East or wherever,
0:10:38 > 0:10:42and you take them out, of the investment game, you cause a huge
0:10:42 > 0:10:48crush at a time when our economy is precarious anyway because of the
0:10:48 > 0:10:52uncertainty over wrecks it. And I think you know whether it is Russian
0:10:52 > 0:11:02or whether it is any other... -- Brexit.It is a case of show me the
0:11:02 > 0:11:08money, isn't it?I don't think it's...Are you talking about the
0:11:08 > 0:11:13Conservatives?If they were to give back the £800,000...Absolutely. The
0:11:13 > 0:11:18venue and I would have to go and prove that who we are to sell a
0:11:18 > 0:11:21house or buy a house or anything else, it seems that different rules
0:11:21 > 0:11:25apply to different people who have a lot of money.OK, somebody who will
0:11:25 > 0:11:31have a lot of money, it seems, let's turn back to the express and who
0:11:31 > 0:11:34dares wins, this is the SAS training. You are looking lost,
0:11:34 > 0:11:42Nigel.I am only lost because that is not me. I am lost no longer!
0:11:42 > 0:11:49Crosstalk.Honestly, he is dreaming. This is the Sunday express, they
0:11:49 > 0:11:53must from this story, how many were all weddings are we had, because it
0:11:53 > 0:11:59is training for the imminent next in line or close in line to the throne,
0:11:59 > 0:12:03hostile environment training, but Meghan Markle had hers before the
0:12:03 > 0:12:08wedding and has been out with the SAS allegedly and they used live
0:12:08 > 0:12:13bullets to frighten the wits out of her.OK. Let's turn to the Observer,
0:12:13 > 0:12:21I saw this and I thought here we go again.Did you? What did you think
0:12:21 > 0:12:29of this? I am a bloke and I cannot say that, but...I cannot say that,
0:12:29 > 0:12:36I don't have one. That is the gender difference.The store is reporting
0:12:36 > 0:12:40four times more men than women are in high paid post, that is basically
0:12:40 > 0:12:45it, and the trouble about it is the figures initially sound awful, the
0:12:45 > 0:12:52extension 81,000 men, only £100,000 compared to 179,000 women. When it
0:12:52 > 0:12:58comes to millionaires, 17,000 men, 2000 women. The trouble is if you
0:12:58 > 0:13:01drill down into those figures and find out what it actually means, I
0:13:01 > 0:13:05do think it gives you a picture of a gender pay gap. And surely, where
0:13:05 > 0:13:10the gap exists is where you have men and women to bring exactly the same
0:13:10 > 0:13:15job and the women are paid less. That is patently wrong, it is
0:13:15 > 0:13:19different from those figures to say that this is.It is also, it doesn't
0:13:19 > 0:13:24put it in any context because if you go in that sort of money the chances
0:13:24 > 0:13:28are you are not in your 20s and what would be more interesting... Not in
0:13:28 > 0:13:32an average job. It would be more interesting to look people in their
0:13:32 > 0:13:3730s where we will be in 20 years time.Let's go very quickly, I don't
0:13:37 > 0:13:41no if we 50s in in about 90 seconds, back to the Sunday Times. Let's talk
0:13:41 > 0:13:48about General Newton -- gender neutral cards.It is a marketing
0:13:48 > 0:13:56ploy, honestly.We stay with the Sunday Times, zooming in here, I
0:13:56 > 0:14:01love this.I love this because I love the film three billboards
0:14:01 > 0:14:04outside adding Ms Lawrie which Frances McDormand obviously won the
0:14:04 > 0:14:09Oscar for. You haven't seen it, I thoroughly recommend it, but this is
0:14:09 > 0:14:19a wonderful cartoon. -- Three Billboards ourside Ebbing, Missouri.
0:14:19 > 0:14:28We are all asking that question. Nigel and Jo, it has been a
0:14:28 > 0:14:29pleasure. Thank you for watching.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32Don't forget, you can see the front pages of the papers online
0:14:32 > 0:14:34on the BBC News website.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37It's all there for you, seven days a week, at BBC.co.uk/papers,