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on the east coast. five people have died, as forecasters warn that storm surges remain a dangerous threat. a former british soldier is given a seven and a half yearjail sentence in turkey for helping kurdish forces in the fight against so—called islamic state. andthe english cyclist simon yates secures victory in la vuelta, crowning an extraordinary year for british cycling. co nsta nce constance were stars as a naive professor trying to win over herb oyster and's the wealthy family in crazy rich asians. find out what mark kermode thinks of that and the rest of the big releases in this week's film review. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the political editor of the sunday mirror, nigel nelson, and the political commentatorjo phillips. welcome to both of you. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the observer leads on a call
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by london mayor sadiq khan for a second referendum on the uk's membership of the eu, saying voters should be given the chance to reject a brexit deal. the telegraph on the other hand carries an interview with former tory mp, author and remain voterjeffrey archer, who says he rejects the idea of a second referendum. the main story for the paper is an alleged dispute within the russian intelligence services over the failed assassination of sergei skripal. the express leads on claims that militia groups in libya are trying to get the country's ruling authority to "hand over" the brother of the manchester arena bomber, salman abedi, to avoid the possibility of him being extradited to the uk. the mail carries claims of muslim extremists hijacking a bible class at a london prison. and the sunday times has an exclusive interview with leader of the scottish conservatives, ruth davidson, as well as an important discovery made at edinburgh zoo — in short, hi—vis clothing puts pandas off sex. more on that later.
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that will be the story you really wa nt to that will be the story you really want to hear about, i know, but we are going to start with brexit. first order. finally! we could just have happy stories for a change. the observer, give britain a new referendum on brexit, says siddique khan. why is the labour mayor rob london intervening in this? well, he has done an interview with the observer, is the reason. it is quite interesting, nigel and i observer, is the reason. it is quite interesting, nigeland i were talking about this, all the papers today, or tomorrow's papers, they are all racing their leave stories oi'i are all racing their leave stories on interview or plugging interviews and books. —— lead stories. once upona time and books. —— lead stories. once upon a time it used to be about policy, particularly at this time of year, coming up to conference season. siddique khan has done an interview or he is writing in the
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observer, they say he issues a dramatic call, i don't think it is dramatic, but he is issuing a call for another referendum, saying people must be given the chance to reject a brexit deal that will be bad for the economy, jobs and the nhs. he says backing a second referendum was something he never expected he would have to do, so abject has been the government's performance and so great is the threat to living standards and jobs, he sees no alternative but to give people a chance to stay in the eu. what is interesting is the —— is that although i doubt very much that this will have any currency at all within the government, or possibly even outside london and westminster, it does put a lot of pressure on jeremy corbyn. you know, khan is probably the most senior labour politician and he is in power. jeremy corbyn is on. sol politician and he is in power. jeremy corbyn is on. so i think it does put pressure on the labour party. | does put pressure on the labour party. i agree. there is a growing movement within the labour party to
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say we should be going down the road ofa say we should be going down the road of a second referendum. theresa may has ruled it out absolutely. labour's position has kind of, well, we might have one, let's see how we go. they haven't ruled it out, basically. so, yes, it does do that. obviously the observer is now coming down on the side of the referendum. they have a leader on the front page, so they are calling for a second referendum. take the two together and we can see a movement building up. the observer being a labour supporting paper, ithink that puts more pressure on the labour party as well. yes, we have this movement called people's vote, but what would it take to get a second referendum 7 but what would it take to get a second referendum? my view is that it would take a huge, dramatic shift in public opinion to even be able to consider it. i think we've got to the point now where probably, you couldn't do it before the 29th of march, when we are due to leave europe. but you would have to have a demonstrable change of heart by
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people to even consider it. it hasn't happened. i don't believe there will be a second referendum. and they would need to be an act of parliament? yes, and there are rules about it, where you are supposed to spend seven months setting these things up. this is what i mean about running out of time. it is all but impossible to do before we actually leave. what would this second referendum last? exactly. this is where i think it is very tempting for people who want to change things, but as nigel said, there is fio things, but as nigel said, there is no evidence, and certainly the polling we have consistently talked about, on this programme in particular, it is still as close as it was when we had the first referendum. so why you going to ask people, because really, you can only ask two questions, you accept the deal that theresa may has negotiated, whether she has got a deal or whether she is walking away with no deal, or not? i mean, are you then going to ask people, do you wa nt you then going to ask people, do you want a second referendum on staying in the eu? that could be the third
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question. at which point you then get on to but you know, do you want norway, do you want canada. get on to but you know, do you want norway, do you want canadam get on to but you know, do you want norway, do you want canada. it is fairly easy, if there is a no deal, because you simply vote on staying in the eu on present terms of pulling out completely with no deal. so that would be a straightforward question. and effectively a rerun of the referendum campaign in 2016. and if people haven't really changed their lot —— changed their minds, it doesn't seem much of a democracy to overturn a previous decision people didn't like. presumably at that stage there would be a vote of no—confidence in theresa may. we are more likely to have a general election before a second referendum. i think you right, a general election is per leon the cards there. autumn or spring? i think soofi. there. autumn or spring? i think soon. i think if she loses her chequers plan... made for the election. may for the election, indeed. no deal means she is gone
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anyway. the shadow foreign secretary yesterday was saying labour wouldn't support anything. anything? wouldn't support anything. anything? wouldn't support anything. anything? wouldn't support any may vote ordeal. —— or deal. they want a general election. of course they do. in may. the sunday times. here we have ruth davidson, leader of the scottish conservatives. i never want to be prime minister. that will disappoint a lot of people, especially in the more liberal wing of the conservatives. there will be people who don't know who ruth davidson is, because she is not a westminster mp. she is the leader of the scottish conservatives. she is winking at us. she is expecting her first baby. she is an absolute breath of fresh air in politics, regardless of which party she is in. she's gay. she has
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done this interview here where she is incredibly frank about her problems with depression and mental health issues during her teenage years. she talks about self harming, she talks about drinking. in the context of this, she says that she puts her mental health and her family, her forthcoming child and her partnership, much higher than coming to westminster to lead the conservative party. yes, emphatically saying she really doesn't want that. i think this is a sensational story because we have a lwa ys sensational story because we have always felt at westminster that there must be a mechanism for ruth davidson to actually get there and become leader. complicated, obviously, because she would first have to stand as an mp to be able to do it. lord house of lords. yes, the idea of going to the house of lords and becoming prime minister is a bit 19th—century nowadays. but the idea that she rules herself out, and
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there is no question, absolutely and totally out, and she gives very good reasons for doing it. she wants to look after her own mental health. i think taking her out of the equation, well, there are plenty of other people who want the job. isn't it amazing that people who are so extraordinarily frank, refreshing, honest and open... they are the kind of people you want to leave the country. they absolutely are, unlike some of the people who are currently in the running. i think what is quite interesting, the liberal democrats, their conference is going on, and obviously covered in huge —— cove red on, and obviously covered in huge —— covered hugely in all the papers, they are talking about bringing in people from outside to be leaders. there is this sort of sense of desperation, everybody looking to somebody. it could be somebody who was on love island. it may well be. we could just draw lots, like jury membership. perhaps somebody could ta ke membership. perhaps somebody could take it in turns. would you want to? no thank you, i'm far too sensible.
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the sunday telegraph. kremlin spies in crisis over skripal. a suggestion here is that the two men who visited salisbury cathedral were put on television to punish them? yes, what the telegraph is saying is that the russian secret services, in the plural, are furious about what happened. it was very bad tradecraft. they were caught on cctv all over the place. there is obviously a question mark overthrowing the purview what all away with the novichok and some body being killed over that. —— over throwing the perfume bottle away. smearing it on a door handle, as well, that is not how the gru normally operates, they usually target some body specifically. anybody could have walked past, the postman could have touched the door handle. so they are in trouble. they
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would have been three or four others out there, as the backup team, so maybe they are being heroes back in moscow because they did the job properly. maybe they manage to be overt. which is in the job description, really. it makes it look like a dreadful model.m description, really. it makes it look like a dreadful model. it does. the serious point is that if they deliberately did what they did, in other words, they meant to carry out this operation by spraying the stuff on the door handle, then we've got a lot to worry about. that is not the normal way that a russian assassination would happen. normal way that a russian assassination would happenm normal way that a russian assassination would happen. it is a very cavalier attitude to public safety. the daily mail, surrey, the mail on sunday, page two. —— sorry. new probe launched into broken rail industry, and it is coming from retail. yes, mr keith williams, from john lewis, who is widely tipped, he isjohn lewis' john lewis, who is widely tipped, he is john lewis' deputy john lewis, who is widely tipped, he isjohn lewis' deputy chairman, he will be leading the review ordered by chris grayling. the rail system,
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as anybody who travels on it, wherever they are in the country, it is broken. there have been strikes, there have been timetable things causing absolute chaos. it is expensive. it is unreliable. and because it is so fragmented, labour say they would renationalise the railways. nigel is in favour of that, as we heard earlier. interestingly, the john lewis model, which appeals to a lot of industry insiders in the rail industry, the john lewis model web workers are partners in the firm, it is a sort of nationalisation lite. why does that work better? while, they say it would work better than the current system. anything would work better than the current system. but how does putting john lewis on rails actually make the railway system work? i am assuming this would be across the board, or across the network, as opposed to individual companies. so it would actually do
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something aboutjoining companies. so it would actually do something about joining them companies. so it would actually do something aboutjoining them up a bit. so, nationalisation? that is not on the cards at the moment. bit. so, nationalisation? that is not on the cards at the momentm increases productivity, doesn't it? if you have a stake in it. these companies that are employee owned, they are said to be more resilient when times are difficult. and if you've got, you know, you've got this lengthy and ongoing industrial dispute on south—western trains, which have caused absolute chaos for hundreds of thousands of people, you know, to the point where people have had to pack in theirjobs or they have been sacked, if you've got some sort of staking your future, and the way the company operates, and it is a mutual relationship... it would ta ke a mutual relationship... it would take a while for it to come in, like renationalisation would. you would have to wait for those franchises to merge. we have just had the chaos of east coast main line. it will be a 12 month review. i am afraid, i know
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i sound cynical, but how many reviews of things do we have, and how many very good people outside of x coming in from business. —— outside of politics. you know, the world is littered with sort of dusty tomes that have been done by people. and nothing has ever been enacted upon it. i cannot fault a word you have said. well, thank you very much. agreement, it is lovely. somebody said that on twitter, actually, that even when you disagree you do it so nicely. you should see them when they are offset. a different story. we scrap away. yes, especially jo. the sunday times. hi viz vests... iam away. yes, especially jo. the sunday times. hi viz vests... i am so disappointed we were not given special vests to our. we are not
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allowed to wear them in here. special vests to our. we are not allowed to wear them in herelj special vests to our. we are not allowed to wear them in here. i like the idea, boris johnson, allowed to wear them in here. i like the idea, borisjohnson, pandas, high visibility vests and leaf lowers, all in the same story, which is extraordinary to get those in. —— leaf blowers. workers at edinburgh zoo leaf blowers. workers at edinburgh zoo have been told not to wear high visibility vests because that may put off the pandas. they don't know that it will put off the pandas, but it may put off the pandas having sex, and also they cannot blow believes away because the noise of that might put them off as well. thoughtfully, we have a cartoon of two pandas, who say that these high visibility vests should be tried on borisjohnson. so visibility vests should be tried on boris johnson. so getting visibility vests should be tried on borisjohnson. so getting all those elements into a front—page story, i think, is absolutely brilliant. elements into a front—page story, i think, is absolutely brilliantm is genius. it is lovely. you do wonder what you have to do with these pandas. there is this rather euphemistic quote, that sunshine is apparently unreceptive to natural mating.
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