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tv   The Papers  BBC News  March 23, 2019 11:30pm-11:46pm GMT

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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me arejo phillips, political commentator, and nigel nelson, political editor of the people & sunday mirror. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the prime minister is pictured alongside her deputy on the front of the sunday times. it reports senior ministers say may's days are numbered and david lidington is named as an option to replace her. the cabinet coup to install michael gove as a caretaker prime minister is across the front of the mail on sunday. it says even the prime minister's chief whip julian smith has advised her to set out her departure plans. britain marches towards election disaster says the sunday express
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adding that downing street fears being forced into calling a divisive vote as cabinet rounds on may. cabinet plans to oust may also features as the lead on the sunday telegraph. the paper also warns the end of the so—called islamic state group's self—declared caliphate could mutate to become a deadly insurgency. and a picture of the people's vote march is splashed across the observer as the paper reports more than one million people including senior politiciansjoin the uk's biggest demonstration to demand a fresh referendum on brexit let's talk about the story dominating most of the papers. the future of theresa may. not a very long—running one. not happy reading
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for mrs may. absolutely unanimous voices that she has to go and go soon. the only difference and the story is how and who would take over and it is clear that since her speech to the nation on wednesday, that rather bizarre performance of blaming mps, she has little support lead. the sunday times talking about a cabinet david lidington kerr. to be installed as a caretaker which would get us through the next stage of brexit but nigel knows the deadline deadly date. of brexit but nigel knows the deadline deadly dateli of brexit but nigel knows the deadline deadly date. i think she probably has until april 12 when the eu elections and we have to decide whether we participate or not. i was told by mps that, unless something
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happens before that and a cabinet coup could be that something that that would be the date. she would have failed in every respect, she would not have got a withdrawal, her promise not to hold european elections would have gone down the pan and stuck with long extensions to negotiate a new deal. at that point theresa may has failed and that would be the point where mps could move against her. but that said, we could have sat here a few months ago and said if she loses by an historic margin on a key point a lot of people would have thought she would have gone then. she has that resilience... has it run out? you need to separate brexit from everything else. the normal rules no
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longer apply. by rights she should have been out on her arrears when she lost that vote. mps who abstained wood at normal times been out as well. brexit has changed the political process. graeme brady, the chair of the 1922 committee, the backbenches committee, went to see her on monday and said you lost the confidence of people and that was before she made the speech on wednesday. by rights, she would have resigned when she lost the vote and election. it is such a mess within all the parties, actually. obviously the government is supposed to be running things. although you have this move to get david lidington in, there are people likejeremy hunt
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who does not support david lidington because he thinks he would do a deal with labour. and so it goes on. the sunday telegraph refers to david lidington as a potential caretaker leader but with a need to put in a strong brexiteer like michael gove. exactly. that would make sense. david lidington it is a staunch remainder, where he to be prime minister even for a short period of time, you would want someone to balance it. it is to keep the brexiteers happy but actually it is the brexiteers within the conservative party who are the ones who want to be kept on board rather than the general public who are actually at a loss to know what on
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earth is going on. and are largely being ignored. they cannot understand whyjeremy being ignored. they cannot understand why jeremy corbyn being ignored. they cannot understand whyjeremy corbyn it will not sit down in a room with people. this is a national crisis. economically, socially and politically. the argument we have seen from those who want another referendum on whatever deal emerges is that, the last time politicians could not agree on what to do about europe, they put it to the people to decide and it is almost as though we are back in that situation. they cannot or they will not because they are so cannot or they will not because they are so busy looking over their shoulders. that goes for labour as well. labour mps whose constituents voted in large numbers to leave and there are lots of people who voted leave who would feel rightly betrayed. they did not necessarily
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vote for the steel but voted to leave. would they accept a no deal? they voted two and a half years ago and it hasn't happened. they would think why would i bother to vote against. no evidence to suggest, in any polling, showing that the difference would be significant and then you would have all the campaigning that went with it. matt doing his usual wonderful stuff on the front page of the sunday telegraph. the idea that they could even stand side—by—side is a little far—fetched, perhaps. the story also featured on the mail on sunday. this with the angle that michael gove would perhaps be a good choice. the
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idea is he could act as the caretaker. if the caretaker is not going to stand for prime minister in a leadership election, i am not sure michael gove would be keen to be a caretaker because he is likely to be one of the candidates. the home secretary tonight saying he's with a caretaker and would drop out of the race... would allow that to happen provided all the other major candidates also said the same thing. they can behave like clouds sometimes but a lot of negotiations between cabinet ministers just to get this particular thing sorted out so get this particular thing sorted out so it may not be coming quite as soofi so it may not be coming quite as 50011 as some so it may not be coming quite as soon as some of the papers are saved. in the times, a tweet saying could you have a situation where a
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caretaking prime minister is still in the country through these huge decisions. it is a good point but you would actually get to the point where you would then have probably a better reception in europe because you would have had to have got to april 12 first... you would have had to have got to april12 first... it is you would have had to have got to april 12 first. .. it is predicated a bit on parliament taking control. your caretaker is not going out there to negotiate anything but what would happen in these circumstances, assuming parliament can come up with assuming parliament can come up with a position, is he would take that deal, whatever that might be to europe. you are almost like an emissary. you're not going there is someone emissary. you're not going there is someone strong and stable. while politicians have the bickering and infighting, organisers of this march
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through central london save more than a million people attended. it is such a contentious political statement now. more people than the people walking with nigel farage! they all went off to the pub, didn't they? some people are saying, if these numbers are right, 1 million, it would make it as big as stop the war march, on a par with the biggest one in the century. people feel strongly about brexit. leavers also feel extremely strongly about brexit and were not on this march. i know people denigrate bolt but it is consistent that nothing has substantially changed. there may be a narrow remain victory. but they
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could be people thinking, actually, i care too much about democracy to let the people who voted leave to be let the people who voted leave to be let down. what would people be voting on the basis of an to what end? you would have to have some sort of deal sorted out, one that has been passed through parliament and agreed to by era. especially those people who much today, you have remain versus the deal. in a way, what we have been talking about sums this up. people have travelled the length and breadth of this country. we know cabinet ministers are probably sitting around, having dinner, plotting their path to
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success or leadership and the divide between politicians and of the people is becoming dangerous. the time we heard that phrase used, throwback to the expenses scandal, the sunday times has... what a segue! last time it was moats, this time is not so robust. britain's richest mp brought a £6 80 lavatory seat for his constituency office, i will not say from where, and only a month later he had to buy another
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one. you can imagine what is going to happen now, journalists are going to happen now, journalists are going to spend ages trying to find out how we broke the seed. easy large man chris make yes. there may be a response, it may be worth picking up the paper. jeremy corbyn apparently spent hundred £80 on artwork for a jeremy corbyn calendar. spent hundred £80 on artwork for a jeremy corbyn calendarlj spent hundred £80 on artwork for a jeremy corbyn calendar. i have not seen jeremy corbyn calendar. i have not seen it... laughter goes back to what we are talking about, the absence of trust between the political classes and the people who pay their wages and vote for them. it is also about business. how many times the leaders of british industry have to say we need some decisions and roadmaps, something going on while these — i know we're laughing about it — but it is
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indicative, to use that dreadful word, a degree of contempt of detachment from the public and the constituents and what people are concerned about. the topline figure, 2296 concerned about. the topline figure, 22% more expenditure. with these things at the devil is always end the detail. somethings may have been justified and justified. how many pay rises compared to people who in the public sector? we are in danger of overlooking a popular story covered in the front page of the telegraph with a striking photograph. the end of the caliphate by the islamic state group, with the support of the us the syrian army seizing the last bit of land. support of the us the syrian army seizing the last bit of landm should be great news they have finally been defeated and now we have to look forward to the future
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which may not be quite so great. even at the defence secretary is making the point that, using his words, we are painfully aware of the threats these extremists still pose. now they are no longer a fighting force, they will spread out across the world and in europe and simply become terror cells and so, if anything, we might be more at risk than we were while we were fighting. iam glad than we were while we were fighting. i am glad we got to that one, just in time. thank you to you for watching. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you, seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer.

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