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a man has been released on bail after being arrested in connection with incidents in westminster earlier this week. james goddard was detained by officers this morning on suspicion of a public order offence. last week a number of mps raised concerns about safety in westminster. two french firefighters and a spanish tourist have been killed in a powerful explosion in central paris caused by a gas leak at a bakery. nearly 50 other people were injured. at prison sentences of less than 6 months in england and wales could be scrapped under plans being considered by the government. ministers think it could reduce re—offending. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me arejohn rentoul chief political commentator at the independent and anne ashworth, associate editor at the times. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in and unsurprisingly
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they all lead with brexit. the times leads with what it calls ‘a very british coup‘ — it claims senior mps plan to seize control following the brexit vote on tuesday evening. a final warning from theresa may to back her deal or face catastrophe is the express‘s headline. the observer is also looking ahead to tuesday's brexit vote. it says labour mps have been told to prepare forjeremy corbyn to table a vote of no confidence in theresa may's government as early as tuesday evening if she suffers a heavy defeat. the daily mail leads with last week's brexit developments which saw the speaker of the house allow an amendment which forces the prime minister to come up with a plan b within 3 days if she loses tuesday's brexit vote. and the telegraph says the tories are on the brink of imploding over brexit.
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these are really dramatic headlines. we are at a key moment. can i start by asking you, do you think there is a chance that if the deal falls, but to raise a's position is seriously under threat or not? that is the message in part here, isn't it? all papers lead on something different which suggests to me that there isn't a clear notion of what is going to happen, when the government loses the mail on tuesday as it almost certainly will. the one thing that won't happen is that theresa may's position is going to survive. i tend to because there are not
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enough people who believe in one thing or in, to unseat her. it seems you have this unruly aarons in the house of commons all at odds with each other at all at odds with each other about something very slightly different. their capacity to unite kind to any cause is limited in my view. a very british to is the sunday times's headline. it is basically saying at least two groups of rebel mps are trained to change comments rules. a very british headline is what i would call it. this is essentially a procedural argument about who controls the parliamentary timetable. it doesn't actually tell us anything much more about what is actually going to happen after theresa may loses that
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vote because parliament still faces three options. we can either leave the eu without a deal, we can leave with this deal because there isn't another one on offer or we can not leave at all. those are the only three options and this is a sort of diversionary tactic. the graphic at the top, the government would lose its ability to govern. this is the question of who controls the parliamentary timetable. we saw the speaker making an unprecedented ruling this week to allow the house to insist the prime minister comeback within three days. there will be more of that and that is what this is about but it doesn't resolve the fundamental question. and unless there is a new act of
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parliament... that is the crux of the matter. it is enshrined in statute something very big would need to happen. a major constitutional change and i dare say, there isn't really the time for this. tories on brink of imploding over wrecks it. warnings of a tory split. we have heard reference to the cornwall 's ad nauseam but it does feel real, doesn't it? brexiteers remain at odds, fundamentally. there is a difficult situation in the conservative party and the fact that everybody knows and the fact that everybody knows and has known for a long time, that theresa may cannot get this deal through without a vote of a substantial number of labour ——
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labour mps. it will put a huge strain on conservative party unity. the only feasible option is a softer brexit including the customs union, to get labour's support and so on and that would alienate the brexiteers. how is it that they cannot accept that compromise?m seems to me that we pay these people to make these decisions and they are fio to make these decisions and they are no way able to fulfil that role. how could they have possibly imagined that she wouldn't be seeking labour's support —— labour's support. talking about his party, one mp says that they are heading towards a brick wall at 100 mph and will be smashed to spend the rins but they have done it themselves. not by any outside agency. ——
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smashed to smithereens. the sunday express has a piece by the prime minister or somebody in her team with her name written on it, making the arguments we have heard repeatedly. is there anything new in this? not really. there is a nice picture of her wearing some nice beads and at the end of the piece she has written, she says it is time to beget the games and do what is right for this country —— forget the games. we need to line up very quietly and vote for her deal. i believe it is too late. and for the wrong newspaper! she ought to be writing for the observer to get the labour supporters in. as ansett,
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these are people that have just departed the land of compromise. they have religious belief in a no deal brexit and they are unpersuaded will. therefore she is going to need large numbers of labour's vote. what has been said to them in private? get behind it or you lose yourjob? the mail on sunday took the bit about it, the pm could fall on wednesday, they say, on their front page. rebel mps could lead to one of two nightmare scenarios, jeremy corbyn winning the vote of no—confidence and tory mps lose their seats. the ebert —— the observer mps... their seats. the ebert —— the observer mps. .. the observer is speculating whetherjeremy corbyn could do that early. would you not
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wait, and? i think could do that early. would you not wait, and? ithink he could do that early. would you not wait, and? i think he will wait. there are awful lot of amendments that need to be voted on before them. it will be nearly midnight if he is doing a vote of no—confidence. if there are any point? ——if there are any point? she has a very, very tight deadline to come back with a plan b. perhaps if the plan b fails? it is unclear as to whether anybody has actually asked jeremy corbyn whether this is what he is going to do. apparently labour has been told to show up. it is in the promise of something that may not necessarily transpire. i thinkjeremy corbyn would look weak if he doesn't follow through on this. there is no point because he won't win. if he does
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lose, he will have to back a referendum. will he doesn't have two but he has to set out his position ona but he has to set out his position on a second referendum. he could say that first we want a general election. the fact he is the leader of the labor party is a key rate —— reason that wrecks it hasn't been sold. with someone in the middle, you would have had a different dynamic. the independent‘s headline is time that the key thing that every body keeps saying, what will happen if the vote falls on tuesday? even —— giving the british public the final say is that the —— most popular path. i am reading these
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headlines in the face of the managers who have declared —— business managers who have declared, and a profound brexiteer, who has been acting against that that brexit —— acting against the fact that brexit now won't happen. you think there is a ground swell of use in there is a ground swell of use in the country, chaos in the parliament, it won't happen? what do people that voted leave think? are they used to angry? what about what chris grayling says today, this could lead to the rise of the right? we have heard about worries of violence. is it fear mongering, panic? leigh we are in such
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uncharted territories. i don't think the average brit is going to don the yellow vest and take to the streets. i think there will be a lot of profound anger against politicians against the political classes. the independent has been campaigning for a second referendum but i think there are problems with it. on the other hand, we are reaching a point where the parliament is deadlocked and the second referendum becomes a likely outcome. parliament needs to choose between a second referendum and theresa may's deal because the majority of mps don't want and no deal brexit. we will be covering this in great detail but we will just mention a story on the sunday telegraph which talks about what is actually happening at the moment with the nhs and the elderly in hospital. an extraordinary story. it
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seems as if you have elderly people in hospital having had hip transplants, they are more likely to be of and be released early if you give them something decent to it. have we not been feeding elderly people in hospital? elderly people who need good nutrition to get over orthopaedic surgery? people make their first this story and say that is really, really bad news. it doesn't seem as though it is one small mill that they need to make a far faster recovery. i will finish with a happy note, a new screen dialling with nominations winning an award this week. in the mail, there isa award this week. in the mail, there is a photograph of her, well, lots of photographs of her, one where she is in the footlights at cambridge at
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eachit is in the footlights at cambridge at each it shows her with a bunch of young actors, many of whom have gone on to come absolute superstars. young actors, many of whom have gone on to come absolute superstarsm isa on to come absolute superstarsm is a where are they now picture, isn't it? a lot of them are household names now. robert webb and tristam hunt even. he was a household name before he left parliament. the rising new labour hope. a very talented bunch of people. the selection of what is in page three in the paper is very important. it needs to be a story that either raises a smile or is just either slightly scandalous and this is a very heartwarming story about the fact that olivia coleman, national treasure, has always been a smiling lovely person who'd you would probably have liked to have gone to university with and has been smiling ever since. you can't write her off as a national treasure yet.
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—— you can't make. her off as a national treasure yet. -- you can't make. well, she will be playing the queen. a picture of her playing the queen. a picture of her playing a queen. national treasure. well, the queen constitutional crisis, who knows where this week is going to end up thatjohn and anne, thank you very much indeed for joining us tonight. the sunday papers with a dramatic outlook for the start of next week. that's it for the papers to note. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. coming up next it's the film review.

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