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the metropolitan police re—iterate that publishing leaked diplomatic telegrams could be a criminal offence. the warning follows the resignation of the british ambassador in washington. the police have been criticised for threatening prosecutions of the media over the leak. foreign secretaryjeremy hunt says he's told his iranian counterpart that the uk will assist with the release of an oil tanker — if tehran makes guarantees the cargo is not bound for syria. facebook is reportedly fined a record £4 billion to settle an investigation into violations of its users‘ data privacy. hello and welcome to our look ahead
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to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are nigel nelson, political editor of the sunday mirror and sunday people, and the political commentator, jo phillips. glad to have you back. we will chat ina glad to have you back. we will chat in a moment. first we will look through the front pages. the mail on sunday reports on more leaked messages from the uk's former ambassador to the us, sir kim darroch, claiming he informed downing street that president trump abandoned the iran nuclear deal as an act of what it quotes as "diplomatic vandalism" to spite his predecessor, barack obama. the sunday telegraph leads with more on those leaks — it reports the cabinet office called in the police chief who threatened to prosecute those who published sensitive memos, dragging the prime minister into a row over press freedom. the sunday times claims the brext party chairman, richard tice, has been embroiled in the so—called "trump files" scandal, after it emerged
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he is in a relationship with the journalist who broke the story. the sunday express says brexit party leader, nigel farage, has a plan to wipe out labour in its northern heartland — saying it was a "historic mistake" for the party to back remain. the observer reports on the ongoing row over alleged anti—semitism within labour, saying former staff who took part in a bbc panorama investigation are planning to sue to party. it pictures simona halep who today won her first wimbledon, crushing serena williams in straight sets. a great picture though. and the ongoing drama on love island heats up in the daily star — with the father of contestant curtis pitchard coming to his son's defence, slamming twitter trolls who branded the dancer a "snake". all right. let's turn to then...
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love island. we are not leading on that. they have never watched it. let's start with the mail on sunday. and more leaks being published. yes, indeed. donald trump, as you were just saying, abandoned the aranha nuclear deal as an act of diplomatic vandalism despite barack obama —— iran. this is according to the outgoing ambassador to washington in a memo to downing street. there are obviously more of these leaks, these documents that have found the light of day into the mail on sunday. and it has revealed, and interestingly timing, given where we are in the political sphere at the moment, sir kim darroch's claim was made after borisjohnson, who at kim darroch's claim was made after boris johnson, who at that time was foreign secretary, made a trip to the white house to try to change president trump's mind. but this is another revelation that will cause
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consternation. may hesitate to handle the mail on sunday on the basis of unofficial secret. if this is true it is playing russian roulette with world peace. i mean, the one thing about the iran nuclear deal was that it locked down iran's nuclear capability, whatever israel might upset about it, and now know tensions are actually rising because it no longer is. what is interesting about the male front page as they are making the most of the to prosecute newspapers who reveal these e—mails. so we have by the masthead fighting for free speech, a quote from jeremy hunt who is saying he defends the right of the press to publish these lea ks. he defends the right of the press to publish these leaks. borisjohnson saying there is no threat for international security. so the two front runners... and this, fighting for free speech. so here we are
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looking at whether this is in the public interest. that is the question at the moment, isn't it? public interest. that is the question at the moment, isn't mm is always a difficult one. and it is one that all of us as journalists have had to wrestle with from time to time. my view is that if something is leaked that is in the public interest... and is this in the public interest? i think it is. but that isn't there —— the same as saying that what you expect to be confidential e—mails, you must be able to assume that they rain private, the fact that they have entered and have been leased, it would appear maliciously. clearly they are in the public interest even though they have caused public embarrassment. let us turn to the sunday times. staying with the story. it is bringing in the brexit party. indeed, yes. the revelation here, we start with the headline" trump league scandal embroiled
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brexit party —— leak". what it tells us brexit party —— leak". what it tells us for the first time is that the author of the mail on sundays story, isabel oakeshott, is in a relationship with richard tice, the chairman of the brexit party. and that's about it. the suggestion that richard tice is in any way involved is denied both by richard tice and by isabel oakeshott, hu wei spoke to today about the very same thing. and when you think about it would be pretty unlikely for isabel oakeshott to have, as a source, somebody she was dating. so we could probably rule that out. so the sunday times slightly of a place that one. yes, but they are also talking about the police closing in on this eurosceptic philby, an allusion to kim philby in whitehall. but it does seem kim philby in whitehall. but it does seem the security service and police have got a fairly good idea of where
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this leak has come from or who's the culprit. it will be interesting to see if we go as far as a prosecution. that'll be the interesting one. to get a criminal prosecution out of it would be difficult. i think identifying the legal would not be so difficult. they would not have been that many people on the distribution list. all you have to do is compare the most sensitive of those diplomatic cables and where they went to. do you think we will see more of these? it started with 2017 leaks in these now go back to 2018. you do wonder if it will continue coming out. we do not know what kind of arch isabel 0akeshott has got. we could be going on for weeks. to make the point that richard tice has responded that he has been lined up for thejob. he said ina has been lined up for thejob. he said in a tweet that the fact that he wants the job is totally wrong, he wants the job is totally wrong, he says. he does go on but that is the main point. he says it is a
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ridiculous suggestion. no response yet from president trump. we were hoping for a tweet. the fact that it mentions president obama. you do imagine it as a trigger point for him. eye would have thought so. yes. —— i would have thought so. we turn to the sunday telegraph. still with the leaks. to the sunday telegraph. still with the lea ks. but to the sunday telegraph. still with the leaks. but theresa may and her defence. again, this is another headline that is not quite the same as the story. really, the governments, prime minister, and cabinet office have been dragged into what appears to be and came across as a heavy— handed into what appears to be and came across as a heavy—handed comments from scotland yard saying that, you know, anybody publishing this would be likely to be prosecuted and nigel touched it and he would probably be in the slam on the way out. this sort of thing, neil basu, the head
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of the meta— specialist operations, appears to have been, according to the telegraph, set out to protect the government from embarrassment. that is a whole different thing, to protect the government from, in effect, a very serious crime. scotland yard have a relationship with the cabinet office. they get called in if there is a serious threat. this clearly was a serious offe nce. threat. this clearly was a serious offence. but this whole thing is pa rt of offence. but this whole thing is part of this incredibly tangled web. so we have just heard about richard tice denying that he has any interest in the job in washington thatis interest in the job in washington that is now becoming vacant following the resignation of sir kim darroch. the cabinet office is being run by sirmark darroch. the cabinet office is being run by sir mark as well. he is one of the people who has been tipped as a possible replacement as american ambassador. that will be if mrs may make the appointment before she leaves next week. do you think she would do that? i would if i was her
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to get her revenge on borisjohnson. wouldn't that just things up? to get her revenge on borisjohnson. wouldn't thatjust things up? of course it would. she is coming to the end of her premiership and stirring things up is what she would be best from hereon. the other is, it is quite right that borisjohnson really does want a brexiteer in that position. the question is obviously whether he would go as far as to make a political appointment... like nigel farage. like nigel farage being a possibility. that would neutralise the brexit party, which would do him a favour on that front. it will keep donald trump happy because he always said he would like nigel farage and washington doing thejob. the diplomatic nigel farage and washington doing the job. the diplomatic service would go completely bonkers. but it is not beyond the bounds of possibility. it is ridiculous. it is bizarre. the other thing is, possibility. it is ridiculous. it is bizarre. the otherthing is, if theresa may wanted to appoint someone like that, a senior civil servant, she is sending out a very clear signal to president trump that
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we will not be pushed around by you. that's right. we turn to the observer. whistleblower said to sue labour. why are they suing, on what grounds? these are the whistleblowers who appeared on the bbc panorama documentary anyway. it is actually devastating. it really did lift the lid on anti—semitism in labour. what they are angry about is the way that the labour party or senior officials of the labour party turned on them since then. and they are being accused of a number of things, that they did it for political reasons, that they would isa political reasons, that they would is a fact did, whether one considers these things to be defamatory we will have to see when it gets to court. but they have hired the media lawyer mark lewis to fight on their behalf. very high-profile. very high—profile. and i think we labour have been getting it wrong, and the panorama programme came out, the rebuttal just went on panorama programme came out, the rebuttaljust went on and on and on.
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and it wasn't necessary. in the whistleblowers obviously feel, probably rightly, they have been introduced since then personally and they are saying that they will not stand for it. i think as nigel says the way the labour party has dealt with the allegations, has dealt with the investigation, and then followed it with how they have dealt with the panorama programme, they are digging themselves into a deeper and deeper hole. this is a party that is supposed to be and has a proud tradition of supporting and standing up tradition of supporting and standing up for the rights of employees who do dare to blow a whistle. this story also making the front page of the times. absolutely. the headline is all—out war in labour over anti—semitism. it is interesting, len mccluskey. len mccluskey, the leader of united, who was at the miners' garlett yesterday and in
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public and called the deputy leader a disgrace —— gala. she is undergoing breast treatment and undergoing breast treatment and under going anti—semitism. 0ne undergoing breast treatment and under going anti—semitism. one of the whistleblowers under going anti—semitism. one of the whistleblowe rs on under going anti—semitism. one of the whistleblowers on the panorama programme, according to the story in the sunday times, the met police have received at least one threat against sam matthews. just remembering, these are all alleged claims of anti—semitism, as it stands. we turn to the sunday express. you talk about nigel farage, he is on the front page. where he loves to be! this is based ona where he loves to be! this is based on a poll this unexpressed has done showing that the brexit party has done rather well, it gets 20 points in this poll compared to 24% for the tories and 28% for labour. nigel farage is looking at 57 mps, should
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there be a general election based on those figures. so what he is saying isjeremy those figures. so what he is saying is jeremy corbyn's those figures. so what he is saying isjeremy corbyn's made a huge mistake by backing a second referendum. backers are coming over to him and nigel farage wants to storm labour's heartlands in the north. and presumably then do some deal with the remaining rump of the conservative party. could well be. there is a clear picture therefrom at wimbledon. that is the royal box. i think the picture on the front of the independent, the players involved in today's wimbledon much. serena williams and simona halep. simona halep, romanian, 27 years old, second grand slam title. absolutely astonishing and beat serena williams in less than an hour. she is one to watch, she has a
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great future. serena williams is a 37, she has lost three big major... well, she has been defeated in a free major matches since coming back after having a baby but a great match and it is great to see new faces and new people coming along. i'm sorry i missed it. i had to work today. serena has set a place in wimbledon. absolutely, no-one can ta ke wimbledon. absolutely, no-one can take that away. as her sister as well venus. but you must know when you're at that level that someone will come along. but it is wonderful, exciting. that's it for the papers tonight. you are going to the formula one tomorrow. i am indeed. up you are going to the formula one tomorrow. iam indeed. up early. thank you so much forjoining me. thank you so much forjoining me. thank you so much forjoining me. thank you for

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