tv The Papers BBC News February 23, 2019 11:30pm-11:46pm GMT
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hello, this is bbc news with carole walker. spell outbreaks of rain. this mild spell likely to continue for the next few days before it cools down. i suppose we'll be taking a look at tomorrow it could not last forever, could it? morning's papers injust a moment. but first, the headlines: good night. at least two people have been killed and more than 20 injured on venezuela's border with brazil, as opposition supporters try to move humanitarian aid into the country. three cabinet ministers threaten to defy the prime minister, saying they'll vote to delay brexit unless a deal‘s approved by mps. ajudge in chicago has set bail at $1 million for the singer r kelly in his sexual assault case. votes are being counted in nigeria after the biggest presidential and parliamentary elections in african history. frankie is a whole different breed, he likes hurting people. and among the new releases in the film review this week, cold pursuit with liam neeson, who made those controversial comments prior to its release. that's in a quarter of an hour.
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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the political correspondent at the daily mirror, nicola bartlett, and the political commentator giles kenningham. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. let's start with the observer, which reports that some of labour's most influential figures are telling jeremy corbyn to change his approach on issues including antisemitism and brexit. the sunday telegraph covers an editorial by the northern ireland secretary, in which he says that delaying britain's departure from the eu is an "elephant trap", that could kill off brexit altogether. the sunday express says the prime minister has been told to hold her nerve by the former brexit minister david jones and other prominent eurosceptics.
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in contrast, the sunday times says a vicious cabinet war has erupted over a plot by senior ministers to delay brexit. the mail on sunday alleges the former head of gchq quit his post after giving a character statement for a catholic priest later jailed for child sex offences. robert hannigan told the paper he had acted in good faith, but that subsequent criminal actions showed his judgement was "completely wrong." so, lots of politics all over the front pages, as you would expect. nicola, at sunday times suggesting that theresa may is going to come back to the commons once again and said just give me a bit more time to get some changes to the withdrawal agreement. yeah, well, i mean i think we have been here before, another tuesday statement from prime minister in which she tries to defend the situation that we are in. i think she hoped that by now should
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have more to say the mps to commence on to back the deal and time is definitely, i think, on to back the deal and time is definitely, ithink, running out. and as the story in the sunday times suggest, there is a big, i think we are probably no less for a while but there is a lot of tension within the cabinet is between those people who would be, they would be more pro—remain, amber rudd, david gauke, they obviously wrote this letter today and are really concerned about the prospect of no deal, and they are saying if theresa may does not move to stop us, then there is a chance that they will have two defy her hands back at the commons moved to stop no deal being a possibility. absolutely, and having gone public this week in saying that they want to do all they possibly can to stop a no—deal brexit, surely if theresa may does seek a further delay, they
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will have two rely on the cabinet to try and support this meal time for the deal on the government. potentially, i mean i think she still will get the deal, if you speak to members of the cabinet, they are still quite bullish. look at the way the eu operates, things are done at the last minute, they will be concessions on the backstop, oi'i will be concessions on the backstop, on the irish border. it is careful what you wish for, brexit may not happen at all with the hard exit is the five her or you might end up with a very soft brexit, for those reasons, i think she will get there, it is going to be rocky ride along the way. interesting that idea of a delay, picked up in the sunday telegraph, and elephant trap that we can't escape, is the warning from one minister, and i think thatjust reflects that concern that some of the senior brexiteers feel that if there is a delay, could end up being indefinite. indefinite, or you get a
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soft brexit, where we stay in the customs union, which is something that they do not want. interestingly, the telegraph also says that phillip hammond privately urging theresa may the promise that she will not take the uk out of eu without a deal. as nicola said before, there's a huge split within the cabinet that she is trying to manage it. in normal political times, it would be huge that this was playing out in public, but i think it now feels like the new normal, we are getting desensitised to it in the political space. are people seeing this as the new normal, do you think? or as that brexit date approaches, there is a sense of crisis? well, i mean it is still something to have those three cabinet ministers write publicly and publicly declared their opposition to the prime minister but i think as he said, does not really surprise is that those people feel that way. it has been that kind of widely reported for a long time now. the ticking of the clock, i think, you
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know, labour has been accusing the prime minister of running down the clock for a long time and there is some sense in which it does seem to be her strategy, time is a bit of a tall in this in trying to persuade people to back the deal. and in the midst of all of this, it is extraordinary that the problems within the labour party and actually grabbing just as many headlines. the mail is predicting that another jewish mp is set to quit the party, the mp they are talking about. is that tally with what you are hearing, nicola? she is certainly someone hearing, nicola? she is certainly someone who you would have thought was a potential person to quit. she is, it is anotherjewish mp who has faced a lot of abuse as the mail on sunday reports. there was a meeting in her constituency on friday in which members voted to basically support membership in liverpool
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wavertree, in basically welcoming the fact that she was leaving the party. it is a really, really quiet toxic atmosphere in some of these seats, and it is a really difficult issue for the party. it does, as you said, again, the government is having all these problems, the tories, it is like labour can go one step further each time. tories, it is like labour can go one step further each timelj tories, it is like labour can go one step further each time. i think that this is the best stories seen so far in the sunday papers, and the problem for labour is that they have not quite worked out how to deal with this. do they go hard on them and save select another mp, stand for it seemed flip—flop a bit on this week, you've seenjohn mcdonnell try to sort of put out the sort of, some olive branch to them, as you've seen the tom watson. then you have a harder left saying right, thatis you have a harder left saying right, that is it, you are done. and so how do they, whether they go? had to say iwe do they, whether they go? had to say i we have any before with corbyn, he has got too much of a stranglehold
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on the membership. —— i have to said. ithink on the membership. —— i have to said. i think the only way he's going to go is with having a few fails atan going to go is with having a few fails at an election. the observer is saying it is all too late. there is saying it is all too late. there is an quite senior figures in the party, london mayor sadiq khan, as you mentioned tom watson, and also one of labour's biggest owners, who has donated over £1 million, while previous leaders of the labour party. it is very much being thrown on tojeremy party. it is very much being thrown on to jeremy corbyn individually, i think this is interesting, and that you said they have kind of change course a little bit over the week. it is difficult to know how much damage this does. i think maybe the fa ct damage this does. i think maybe the fact that you have now got three tory mps who have joined independent group, might almost sort of neutralise it for labour a bit nawaz. if it stops here, that i do
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not think it damages than that much. —— labour in a way. not think it damages than that much. -- labour in a way. the party is a bit dysfunctional, there is not a leader. you get more people defecting, you get more money coming m, defecting, you get more money coming in, so that is the key for them. so far, ido in, so that is the key for them. so far, i do not know whether it is by default or by design, it has been quite well executed, the kind of trip of stories coming out. seven mps, then anotherone, trip of stories coming out. seven mps, then another one, then a donor, then speculation about another one going over. you mentioned omentum, of course, the movement that has given so much backing thejeremy corbyn. —— momentum. the independent is saying that its founderjohn lancelin has admitted that this new group is actually quite a threat to labour. interestingly, i'm not sure his quotes quite backup headline that much. momentum is already
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organising campaign days in the seats of a lot of these defectors, and they are, it you know, throwing their weight behind that. he does say further down that the grouping does not really have the weight that you might want from it, comparing it to the sdp, where he said that there we re to the sdp, where he said that there were three potential leaders, and the independent group so far does not even have one comment i think is a really interesting point how many of these mps are household names? how much political weight really do they carry? i think it is interesting that they already doing that and i think there is a lot of suggestion of who might be lined up for labour in opposition to these people and a lot of the seats already and it is only kind of a wiki and. and as you say, so far it is not quite clear exactly, even whether they are going to become a
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formal party, what the platform and policies are going to be, but they have created a bit of a buzz the sunday telegraph is saying that labour donors are throwing their weight high in the independent group, giving them some chance to perhaps get a mork adherent campaigned together. —— behind. big hit in the donor world gave {1.5 million to the party under gordon brown. they are going to have two if they want to become a political force, the money in terms of creating an infrastructure, advertising, all of these things will certainly allow them to continue in the short term anyway. fascinating sunday times. brexit which art in heaven. this might be my favourite story. the archbishop
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of canterbury is so concerned about the state of the nation after march 29 that he is preparing for five days a parent is hoping to broke in jeremy corbyn and theresa may to join him. theresa may is a regular church—goer, she often pitch is going to church on a sunday. jeremy corbyn, the sunday times is not say whether he does god or not. by day ‘s prayer afterwards. some divine intervention might be what she is relying on by that stage, given the... jean-claude juncker has already said that it is in the hands of god, brexit, so there is a religious theme. let's just of god, brexit, so there is a religious theme. let'sjust look of god, brexit, so there is a religious theme. let's just look at one another story, here on the sunday sunday telegraph, talking about thejihadis sunday sunday telegraph, talking about the jihadis bride, sunday sunday telegraph, talking about thejihadis bride, shamima begum, saying that britain is trying to make an example of me. —— the sunday telegraph. this is a very difficult case this. yeah, i mean it
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has been a very difficult case. it has been a very difficult case. it has really divided political opinion, she said that she's been made an example of being singled out by speaking up, she singled herself out. sajid javid said he has taken legal advice by people say it is... he hasjust legal advice by people say it is... he has just taken legal advice by people say it is... he hasjust taken her citizenship away. bangladesh say that she is not away. bangladesh say that she is not a citizen there, so we assumed up? ina sense a citizen there, so we assumed up? in a sense of is he doing this to somewhat appeal to the hard right of the tory party? because as we know, he is one of the people heavily mooted, will definitely stand when theresa may goes. and just very briefly, jeremy corbyn is saying that she should be brought back to the uk and didn't help. yes, well i think what has been very interesting is all of the different questions this has blown up and it is almost a kind of national debate with people divided, she left she was 15, she has this baby, it is really difficult. thank you both very much indeed forjoining us this evening.
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