tv The Papers BBC News June 29, 2019 11:30pm-11:46pm BST
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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the journalist and author, christina patterson, and katherine forster, a journalist at the sunday times. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. "get a grip or lose an election." that's the message from labour mp's tojeremy corbyn in the observer, over fears that the party could lose in a snap general election. the politics continue in the sunday times, afterjeremy hunt and borisjohnson both reveal they were drafting in new negotiating teams to replace theresa may's failed brexit deal. in the telegraph, space tourists could soon blast off from britain after the uk space agency began plans to rival nasa and us technology giants. "farage‘s plan to fight the new pm."
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the sunday express leads with nigel farage‘s 200 million pound investment in the regions, as he tries to gain supporters for his brexit party. and in the mail on sunday, jeremy corbyn hits back after the civil service leaked information about his supposed poor health. the front page of the telegraph, boris to set up a 100 day walk up on it. time is obviously very short between now and the 31st of october and they are getting teams together to work out what to do in every possible eventuality stop iain duncan smith is now the new campaign chairman and he is issuing a stark warning of the consequences of not leaving on the 31st, which will be
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catastrophic for the public ‘s faith and presumably also for the conservative party. we also learnt thatjohn virgo has decided to stay on until christmas and of course he is supposed to be neutral but he is an activist. he has an interesting approach to what parliament trip sieges may or may not be used to get a certain result. christina, you are not impressed by the detail, are you? apiece has been written which we haven't yet seen, saying that she is not in —— impressed by the details or stop there isn't a plan. there isn't a plan that boris johnson or anyone else on that team
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bother to divulge with the public or even with the tory members that are going to propel him into the leadership of the tory party. he just contradicts himself all the time, one minute he says that we will leave on the 31st of october, do ordie, the will leave on the 31st of october, do or die, the next minute he says that the chances of no deal of1 million two one. he says that may's deal is dead, those three eventualities do deal is dead, those three eve ntualities do not deal is dead, those three eventualities do not line up. if we don't possibly draw the agreement, ora don't possibly draw the agreement, or a withdrawal agreement, we will leave without a deal. so he's absolutely wrong to say that the chances of no deal 1,000,000— one. on the other hand he doesn't know or doesn't bother to find out as
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wilfully ignoring the fact that for example, the world trade organisation rules says that we would have to impose tariffs, they would have to impose tariffs, they would be imposed on all our exports. and that would vary, and the car industry that would be about 10%, in agriculture it could go up to 75%. i think on cheese it's about 33— 40%. that would make agricultural exports completely unviable. it would put many, many people out of business, it would have a catastrophic effect oi'i it would have a catastrophic effect on finance and the city, so it's all very well to say it will all be fine. but even if boris achieves his lifelong ambition of being king of the world, he has apparently wanted to be since he was a toddler, having gone to the trouble ofjumped up any policies that might make it viable, even he cannot magic away these
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tariffs. and it cannot magic away the challenge that will arrive at the challenge that will arrive at the northern ireland border. he says he wants to be minister of the union, he will break up the union if there is no deal. that is not conjecture, that's a fact was not that's one of the details on the sunday telegraph story. this talks about the foreign secretary, about jeremy hunt and his plan. they are saying thatjeremy hunt who obviously is appealing to the hundred and 60,000 conservative voters, they are both saying i'm the typist on brexit, he is saying we're going to get to the new agreement, i am bringing in the ex— canadian prime minister, what i'm looking for isa prime minister, what i'm looking for is a canada plus. which is all great, and they‘ re is a canada plus. which is all great, and they're going to
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turbocharge preparations for a no deal departure. i think a lot of people would say that one of the fundamental mistakes the government has made is that from the time of the brexit vote, they should have prepared properly for no deal. and at the demented. rather than not really doing anything for a very long time, which sent a message to the eu, we are not serious, we're not going to leave without a deal. if the eu don't believe that we will leave without a deal, they have no incentive at all to give us an event. why would they? why would they help us? and this is what boris johnson argues. i'm not saying they believe boris will do it or indeed that boris would do it, but if they don't believe it, we are completely stuck. but that is like saying, i'm really, really serious about shooting my feet off. you just watch me shoot my feet. that is
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essentially what we are preparing for with no deal. they don't want it. all the signals from brussels are that because they know that no deal will be terrible for us, they are now relatively relaxed about it because if it happens to us, they never will be calling back within a few weeks to say that we can't deal with this 66 —— few weeks to say that we can't deal with this 66 -- 66 few weeks to say that we can't deal with this 66 —— 66 patel —— city 6% tariffs. they will say fine, give us a39 tariffs. they will say fine, give us a 39 billion and by the way, we won't negotiate anything until you've signed that withdrawal agreement for you. there is a border that will instantly kick in. in the event of no deal, there won't be a ha rd event of no deal, there won't be a hard border, we will find something, we will make some arrangement, were not going to put up a hard border. we are now engaged in a very high—stakes game of chicken with the
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eu. that's what's going on. and the sta kes a re eu. that's what's going on. and the stakes are very high. he was going to blink? someone is going to have to blink? someone is going to have to blink. that me take you both to the other main story on the front page of the sunday times which is related and relates to borisjohnson ‘s private life. related and relates to borisjohnson 's private life. generally speaking, one would say this kind of story ought not to be relevant when someone ought not to be relevant when someone is trying to be prime minister, but i'm afraid, in the light of recent events, and particularly in the light of the row la st particularly in the light of the row last weekend with several members of the public were so concerned by the i’ow the public were so concerned by the row that took place in that flat. one couple called the police and others said they were very alarmed and heard her shouting, what did you say? and that they sent it to a national newspaper. i happen to
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agree that a future prime minister is heard screaming so loudly that people outside the flat hear it, and in the street, get off me, get out of my flat, that is something in the public interest because of somebody's character. what the reason gosling has said is that 30 years ago she was a very good friend of borisjohnson 's years ago she was a very good friend of boris johnson 's first wife and she has broken her silence that she has held for 30 years to said that she was very frightened by the way boris sexually, she says, threatened her. he basically, apparently, allegedly said that she was not to tell anybody what had been alleged about rose's behaviour. louisa was clearly very disturbed by it. it seems to add to the story that this isa man seems to add to the story that this is a man with a fierce temper, and that women have not felt 100% safe in his company. and so therefore,
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it's a very old story, it is not irrelevant. it is 30 years old, do you have reservations about its importance? ijust think, nobody knows. the only two people that know what happened in that flat other two people that were in it. similarly, allegra, this lady knows how boris johnson spoke to her. but also there was a thin last week about carrie simon's and how she has a temper. no—one knows about what happened except the people in the relationship. yes, ithink except the people in the relationship. yes, i think the fact that he didn't say anything has allowed this to continue. it would have been helpful if he had said, yes, we had a big row, things are said, we are fine. he didn't say that. he said nothing at then releases a picture that clearly
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wasn't taken on the sunday looking all loved up. that is not good. if you are going to sound not going to talk about my private life then don't release a photo. it's notjust not good, to put what was clearly an old picture because his hair was much longer in it, that is actively misleading. i agree. much longer in it, that is actively misleading. iagree. let's turn much longer in it, that is actively misleading. i agree. let's turn our attention to the observer, we've talked a great deal about the government, let's talk about the labour party. they've got their own problems as well. goodness me. you would think normally with the government in such complete disarray, political paralysis, that the opposition ought to be surging ahead. surely this is a gift, you would think. and yet, part of the reason the conservatives have been able to get away with the mess that we are in, is because labour are
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equally divided over brexit. they are feuding over anti—semitism which they clearly have not got a grip on. they suspended chris williamson and that they let him back in two days later, they suspend him again. questions aboutjeremy later, they suspend him again. questions about jeremy corbett ‘s leadership, the shadow education secretary who has been a big supporter of his was openly criticising at an event saying how embarrassed she has been about the events of the last few days. labour are events of the last few days. labour a re really events of the last few days. labour are really in a dreadful threat as well. there were further reports that people question jeremy well. there were further reports that people questionjeremy corbyn that people questionjeremy corbyn that people questionjeremy corbyn that people are now beginning to lose patience with jeremy collard. diane abbott tweeted that she was losing faith in the brexit policy and these are the absolute inner circle. labour is in a terrible,
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terrible state. the indications are thatjeremy terrible state. the indications are that jeremy corbyn are not fruit —— fit to be prime minister. we are between the devil and the deep lucy that if an opposition party has minimal chance of winning a general election with an outright majority in the government is in such a terrible mess, that's something very serious about the state of our current lytic situation. let me take you both finally to a nonpolitical story, back to the front rage of the sunday telegraph, the space tourism race. going into space be the only way to get away from brexit. the uk space agency are very keen for us to have a new dawn and going off into space have a new dawn and going off into space on have a new dawn and going off into space on horizontal craft which will be able to take off from runways in cornwall and in sunderland. we can lead the way in space tourism, it
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sounds fabulous. i dread to think how much money you would need to have two go into space. who knows? interestingly, cornwall and sunderland both very brexit voting areas. but if that's the only way to escape the political situation than count me in. that's the wrong reason to wa nt count me in. that's the wrong reason to want to do it but anyway, thank you both very much. that is 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 — 7 days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. a big thank you to my guests this evening christina patterson, and katherine forster. that's all from us and goodnight.
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hello and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. and to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. lovely to see you. what have you been watching? a big week. we have yesterday, which is the new film by danny boyle and writer richard curtis, apollo 11, an extraordinary documentary, and support the girls, a tale of a day in the life at work. and look, i go away for seven months and you haven't given me a horror film to watch this week. no, i know. i'm really sorry.
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