tv The Papers BBC News October 7, 2017 11:30pm-11:46pm BST
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hello, this is bbc news. we will be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first the headlines at 11:30pm: 11 people have been injured in an accident outside london's natural history museum, after a car mounted the pavement and struck pedestrians. lots of people screaming, crying, sort of panic. people picking up their children, dragging their children, so i thought immediately something has happened. police say it is not terror—related. a man has been arrested following the accident. the prime minister says her thoughts are with the injured. rallies have taken place across spain, as tensions continue over catalonia's bid for independence. the spanish prime minister has ruled out any mediation, or a snap election as a result of the crisis. there are renewed fears for the future of jobs at the bombardier aircraft factory in belfast, after the us government announced a further increase
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in tariffs on planes made by the canadian company. president trump has issued an emergency declaration, as hurricane nate approaches the gulf coast of the united states. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are martin lipton, deputy head of sport at the sun, and the political commentator daisy mcandrew. tomorrow's front pages: the sunday times has an interview with the prime minister, in which she suggests she is prepared to demote borisjohnson. it also claims that three cabinet ministers discussed forcing her out. the observer says tory grandees are urging mrs may to cultivate
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the next generation of mps, suggesting that may be the best way to keep mrjohnson out of number ten. but the former prime minister sirjohn major has blasted plotters in the mail on sunday, and said backing her is the only way to prevent what he calls the poisonous neo—marxism of a labour government. the sunday telegraph says the pm is preparing contingency plans in case of failing to secure a brexit deal. and borisjohnson has reportedly told the paper tory mps sniffed the air this week, before backing mrs may. brexit‘s big three back the pm is the lead in the sunday express. trade secretary liam fox has told the paper about what he calls mrs may's great inner strength. the sunday mirror has pictures purportedly from inside a prison which it says exposes the party lifestyle of convicts. and the daily star sunday claims england football bosses will send bug sweepers to next year's world cup, over fears that the russians will spy on the team. lets start, daisy and martin. there
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are so lets start, daisy and martin. there are so much politics in the sunday papers. do you want to kick us off with the front of the times?m papers. do you want to kick us off with the front of the times? it is a really interesting interview that they have got here with theresa may. it has almost been pushed down the agenda by all of the slow motion car crash debris of the conference. so we have, in no particular order, it seems to me, there is going to be a reshuffle in a fortnight‘s time. three members of the cabinet want theresa may out a christmas, others wa nt theresa may out a christmas, others want her out within two years. half the cabinet to go anyway. her husband says he is concerned about her welfare, and she has threatened borisjohnson her welfare, and she has threatened boris johnson with her welfare, and she has threatened borisjohnson with the motion unless he pipes down. she says she is getting on with the job. she he pipes down. she says she is getting on with thejob. she is not entirely getting on with the job. she does admit she had an uncomfortable time. uncomfortable is the understatement of the day. it
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has been an unmitigated debacle. the week from hell for any prime minister. i can't think of anything as bad as this since probably black wednesday, when the sirjohn major government basically began a five—year had long cascade to oblivion, which came in 1997. this has happened just in a very short period of time. it is about the same point in the year, four months after the election, as the major debacle in 1992. there are interesting quotes in the interview with theresa may. but the first quote says that figure with knowledge of the prime minister's thinking says there is not a binary between keeping boris johnson and sacking him. it has never been my style, says the prime minister, to hide from a challenge, andi minister, to hide from a challenge, and i am not going to start now. people might question that over the last few months, but she also talks
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about... this is why it, i don't really understand this idea of opening herself up and making herself look worse. one minute she says journalists are accusing me of being an ice maiden or a robot. don't repeat it, it becomes real! and they claim people are in dire need of a good night's sleep. it goes on and on. i am a very determined person and i am not someone determined person and i am not someone who gives up. that is a relief, i am overjoyed with that. you go further down the peace and you have two ministers according to this piece of plotting her downfall. they are in touch with a third who agreed she had to go, and a fourth told the newspaper she is finished and they need to organise an orderly transition to a new leader. it is a car crash, it is a mess, it is a shambles. and i can't see it lasting, i really can't. the trouble is, i totally agree, none of us can see it lasting, but none of us can see it lasting, but none of us can see what the alternative is. many people are saying that there are three choices facing theresa may and
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the conservative party. she either goes i'iow, the conservative party. she either goes now, sometime between now and christmas, it is a short—term option, which lots of people are saying would get it out the way, pull the plaster cast off, feel the pain and move on. the other thing to bearin pain and move on. the other thing to bear in mind, we are in the middle of brexit negotiations, so that is a total disaster. we have already heard that eu negotiators have started quite backroom negotiations with the labour party because they are so concerned with the labour party because they are so concerned with what is going oi'i are so concerned with what is going on with the conservative party and the government. then she could say give usa the government. then she could say give us a timetable of when she is going. she tried to do that, she said june 2019. but then she said, no, no. i am said june 2019. but then she said, no, no. lam going said june 2019. but then she said, no, no. i am going to fight today. but that is clearly rubbish. there is no way she is fighting the next general election. i think she was to say now i will see out the brexit negotiations, i will be out within two years, she wouldn't last two yea rs, two years, she wouldn't last two years, but it would give her months‘ grace before the plot is started. it would give her time to try and build
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some sort of legacy. there is something to be said for that, however what would happen in reality is that the leadership election would start the day she announced that. like a presidential election la st we that. like a presidential election last we zinnias, we would have the brexit negotiations and the conservative leadership election going on. those who would want to replace her would be wary of going too far, because they might be accused of undermining the party and her, and so therefore, while it would be an uneasy peace, it might just last for a period of time. but it would be finite, because clearly. . . it would be finite, because clearly... in the third alternative, she could go now and say i am going but not yet, or she could struggle oi'i. but not yet, or she could struggle on. which is what will happen, from the sound of it. it is definitely when, not if. and it is how, from her own doing, or by being brought down. who would want to pick up that baton? we all know someone who would like to. with the aforementioned
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secretary of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs, mr boris johnson, saying that the people wanting to unseat the prime minister are nutters. mps have sniffed the air before deciding to back theresa may. we also had this ludicrous thing about this whatsapp message which doris sa nt thing about this whatsapp message which doris sant to tory mps this morning —— boris sent. i don‘t think you would get into the final two. he thinks he would, but i think he has a lot of enemies. they are both now damaged. they are all damaged. it is interesting, these are the papers are putting forward the idea that you need to skip an entire generation. boris has been around a long time and is damaged but does still have this film star quality within the conservative party. he
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has to be past it. he is older than me andi has to be past it. he is older than me and i am getting past it! look at jeremy corbyn! and that is the other thing with the conservative party. a lot of the chatter this week in manchester was about the age of the party and how they are not appealing to younger voters at all. and how incredible it successful the labour party has been on that. i think somehow they are falling into that trap of thinking that in order to appeal to a younger voter we have to have a younger leader. that didn't follow in the labour party, or in the american presidential campaign. that is not the way things are going. but it does mean getting your message out there and looking like you understand people's concerns. that is where they are falling down. and as we know, the more internal bloodletting, the less attractive party looks. what they have to sort out their mess before they can look at the bigger picture. perhaps somebody who could suggest a few things isjohn somebody who could suggest a few things is john major, somebody who could suggest a few things isjohn major, sirjohn major. he is saying they are too
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timid. they are piecemeal. he has certainly been there and got the t—shirt of the infighting. he knows what he is talking about about trying to get a party back. and he was staggeringly successful at it, as well. no doubt at all, he should be the person to give advice about how to stop a party falling apart... sorry, no! the so-called big beasts are being wheeled out. we saw michael heseltine today. he was flounced out of government, as well. lam not flounced out of government, as well. i am not sure this is the right way to go, to be bringing it up. he has done this big piece in the mail on sunday. backing valiant theresa may or letting in poisonous marxist is his message. actually, this is a 20 year score with iain duncan smith. you have to explain what the score is over. this is all going back to the maastricht treaty, which is
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ancient history for most of us. but on the back of the black wednesday debacle when the uk was forced to drop out of the exchange—rate mechanism, there a huge push by the eurosceptic wing of the conservative party, and one of the leaders of that was a little—known backbencher from east london called iain duncan smith, who has subsequently become leader of the conservative party, albeit somewhat briefly. and in a series of rather candid but off the record briefings, comments which we re record briefings, comments which were captured by a broadcaster, by broadcasting cameras and microphones, john major referred to iain duncan smith and his colleagues as illegitimate, shall we say, to put it politely. so he is targeting the universal credit space. and he is saying it is unkind and unworkable. a lot of people would have sympathy with that view. but it also doesn't feel like the story of the day at the moment. and as we
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we re the day at the moment. and as we were saying, it does feel more like settling old scores with iain duncan smith, another tory leader who knows a thing or two about dying with thousands more cuts. the feeling you get with these front pages is there area get with these front pages is there are a lot of people telling mrs may how to do herjob. and that is not a good position. they don't believe that she is up to the job. she has prove n that she is up to the job. she has proven she is not. the mere fact she called that election is proof for most people. that was the funny thing. this shock election which we we re thing. this shock election which we were not prepared for, you called it! who called it? you called it, and you were unprepared for the election you called. you were prepared for it, you just messed it i prepared for it, you just messed it “ng prepared for it, you just messed it up! leaving the politics to one side, on the front of the times, the headline is cartoons lure kids to gambling. it is a very, very good
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story they are running. and what the story they are running. and what the story is is that some of is an‘s biggest gambling operators are deliberately targeting children with their favourite cartoons. so they are saying, for instance, the paddy power website has a peter pan game on it. it is clearly not aimed at adults. another is jack and the beanstalk, another is something called moon princess. we know that gambling is a big problem, is a big addiction for many people. and particularly vulnerable people. these are not rich people losing money, these are people who can‘t afford to lose money getting totally addicted and encouraged. and we know there has been a lot of attention put on what they call the crack cocaine of gambling, which is in the stores you have these betting terminals in betting shops, and a lot of mps have been big on this for along time, really campaigning to crack down on this, but this is a new threat or danger. and to me, as a mother of young children who are
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already clearly addicted to electronic devices, to introduce a secondary addiction, even more damaging, ata secondary addiction, even more damaging, at a young age, and get them hooked on that idea of winning something for free and not understanding the full impact, so, you know, i salute the times were doing the story. it is children's mines in adult world. the gambling commission according to this piece says there are 450,000 children in england and wales alone who are gambling every week. now, as someone who likes a punt, albeit not a big one, i who likes a punt, albeit not a big one, lam who likes a punt, albeit not a big one, i am genuinely concerned about those numbers. it says that britain... britain spend £34,000 a minute on online gambling. it is a gateway, i think, minute on online gambling. it is a gateway, ithink, to minute on online gambling. it is a gateway, i think, to the next stage. you are dragging them in, and it is an easy cook. and they are calling for some action to be taken, so we will see how this goes. goodness me. helping students cheat
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