place in mid—september have been postponed to october because of a fresh covid—19 outbreak. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are andy silvester, deputy editor of city am and the journalist and author yasmin alibhai—brown. hello to you both again. i'll chat ina hello to you both again. i'll chat in a moment. first, a look at some of those front pages. the metro leads on the angry student protests outside downing street after the controversy over a—level exam results. the ‘i' reports on the two legal challenges launched by students against the exam regulator quual over the statitistical model used

to calculate the results. the daily telegraph claims that some quual board members want to ditch the model, against the wishes of education secretary gavin williamson, who supports it. the guardian reports on the growing pressure on the prime minister, who's received criticism from both conservative and labour mps over the government's handling of the situation. the times says borisjohnson is being warned by mps in his own party that they will go on the warpath unless there is a satisfactory solution to the fiasco. the daily mail says the prime minister is facing calls to delay this thursday's gcse results by two weeks to allow those grades to be revised and avoid a repeat scenario. the financial times says the government is considering state—backed loans for companies in debt as a way of rescuing the high street. and the daily mirror reports on the news that two bodies

were found in lancashire after two brothers went missing at sea during a visit to lytham st annes. those are the front pages. let's get oui’ those are the front pages. let's get our talk under way. lovely to see you both again. let's start off this time with the guardian. a story that's made many of the pictures and that is of course this exams fiasco. andy, kick us course this exams fiasco. andy, kick us off? as a deed many papers are reporting the backlash against the government's handling of the a level results. this is an unprecedented sale situation. i think people have been willing to let the government some slack on certain things because of the situation. the level of anger and confusion being directed towards the government, notjust by those

who would argue with the tory today if he said it wasn't monday tomorrow. —— was monday. parents from right across the country, kids from right across the country, kids from across the country. i don't remember a story for a long time creating this level of almost uniform head scratching, and they really do have to get a grip on this. before the result on thursday. yasmin. i agree with every word and he said. i never understood how people gave this government —— andy said. they've been so many catastrophes. almost 60,000 people died, yet people took it. education touches something really deep in all

classes, and that they proved themselves inept? i don't know, maybe andy can tell me. have they said you can't appeal or they don't know how people are going to appeal? even i don't understand, i've been following this. education touches something, and the tories are meant to be efficient. so this is a big crash, a very big crash. boris johnson said the other day not that long ago, every child in this country should get a superb education. well, where is it? andy. that the phrase politician use. part of the appeals process to use not graded —— mock grades or predictive grades. it was withdrawn, there have been tweets that seem to contradict each other. as we now see, and

emerging public split between quual and the government itself. about where they will take this from now on. yasmin is exactly right about these feelings growing out of the government that was in the early stages of this global pandemic. people are willing to say to the government, "just be clear with us and level with us and we will allow you. ,, and level with us and we will allow you. " as part of the unlocking process , you. " as part of the unlocking process, when you have peers to look at across europe while these exams have gone off relatively stress —free, have gone off relatively stress—free, that when people start to look at the government and ask whether the right decisions have been made at the right times. let's turn to the times. the front page of the times, the headline and

exa m page of the times, the headline and exam shambles. the line there, where gavin williamson has said there will be no u—turns. gavin williamson has said there will be no u-turns. this is the difference between the first minister in scotland and our government, who seem so unable to read the atmosphere. never admit they're wrong. the mistakes that we re they're wrong. the mistakes that were made with covid, they blame it i'iow were made with covid, they blame it now on were made with covid, they blame it now on the scientists. gavin williamson, not in my view, a man who should ever be a minister or secretary of state, is now deciding that what happened was right, that board members on quual are saying step back, think again, let's go back to teacher assessments. teachers know the pupils. this is an extraordinary year. let'sjust teachers know the pupils. this is an extraordinary year. let's just deal with it. the numbers are even higher

with it. the numbers are even higher with gcs he's coming up. the chaos is going to be greater. —— gcses. i feel so bad for all these pupils having to go through all this. andy, are you surprised borisjohnson has remained silent so far? he's made a public statement, the buck stops with me sort of stop. but yeah, he has remained on his vacation. i would imagine conversations are pretty live about when he may return from that —— staycation. i think where you can give the government a degree of understanding is this is an unprecedented situation. they almost did know how the algorithm would work. stuff we are reading this morning, quual didn't necessarily cover themselves in glory when building this algorithm.

there is a legitimate route to be have an illegitimate inquest on the fa ct to have an illegitimate inquest on the fact to old —— of how they came to this decision. after what happened in scotland, could we not have learned something from that example? we saw and a much smaller scale what happened in scotland. sol we saw and a much smaller scale what happened in scotland. so i rushed ahead with this. —— so why rush ahead with this. —— so why rush ahead with this. —— so why rush ahead with this? you can give them this degree of understanding because quual is a large regulator, the government should have made a move pretty quickly when we saw the covid chaos in scotland and try to get ahead of this storm rather than at the moment, where it sort of seems. . . the moment, where it sort of seems... they are trying to clear up the records rather than prepare for the records rather than prepare for the next one. let us go to our next page, which is the front page of the daily telegraph. they talk about this divide. how

much damage you think it has done? we know it's damage the government, but to the body itself, the regulator? i have to say, for most people, quual is a thing that sits... it's on top of the letter, but not something people pay attention to. they see it as the role of the government to sort the exa m role of the government to sort the exam systems. the government has the power to do what it wants with quual within sort of regulator rebounds. so i don't think as a body, the public will look at it and think this needs to be ripped up and started again. whether that view has come stronger amongst conservatives, many have their legacy within the department for education is a different question. could we see in two years time the sort of moves with public health england. time will tell us. yasmin, let's turn to

the daily mail. attention now is very firmly turned to thursday, and these up coming gcse results. they should be sorting this out, and they should hand it back to the teachers. why is this country, why is this government, actually, so, so anti—teachers? why doesn't it work with teachers to get some kind of decent outcome in this unprecedented year and get some future setting for the four children who suffered a lot? they've been suffering a lot throughout these years. all they've gone through, why can't they work with teachers? and i think andy is right in some ways, and this is the frightening thing. they will try and pin it on quual, like they pinned it on public health

and and. maybe this time they will not be forgiven —— public health england. they need to really understand. lord baker, who was an education minister a long time ago, has said in the front page of the daily mail, "delay this and get this sorted." daily mail, "delay this and get this sorted. " but if daily mail, "delay this and get this sorted." but if you have gavin williamson, who previously was a sack minister insisting they were right —— sax minister, i don't know what the outcome will be. final point, will they be delayed?” what the outcome will be. final point, will they be delayed? i would imagine. the results will come out on time, i imagine what will be in place is a much more stringent appeals process with a lot more clarity and communication around it, so clarity and communication around it, so they can say on the morning of

the results, these are the results. here are your pathways for the peeling them if you aren't happy. that doesn't help all students. front page of the mirror now and the brothers lost at sea in a holiday horror. what a terrible tragedy. absolutely awful. absolutely awful. these young men, three of them went out into the sea, one was able to swim back and these two brothers perish. there's beena these two brothers perish. there's been a lot of drownings since the weather hit us of young people, more than usual, i think. and this latest awful tragedy in the middle of what is becoming an impossible life are so is becoming an impossible life are so many people at the moment, i

don't know how you survived this. just to reiterate, they haven't been formally identified but in the search for the two boys, two bodies have been found. andy, can you take me to the front page of the times? yeah, this is a fascinating story. the morrison ‘s will be the next supermarket to remove the so—called bags for life with bags for —— heavy brown paper bags. back to the 50s. basically the science is now saying that actually, environmentally, those things will be better for the environment, for the future then those bags that are apparently safe in the knowledge we were doing our bit to be green. i do have to say as well, i don't think it'll be long before we start to look at the

pandemic as a whole in the way it changed our use of items, particularly the sort of now almost focused on single—use things. you look at all the progress we've made a society on single—use plastics over the last four to five years and hope the government gets a grip on that so we are still moving on the right direction there. yasmin, i grew up with brown bags. and newspapers. we used to bag things and newspapers. but the thing with brown paper bags is if you buy things for the freezer, they break. the bottom falls off. i think the technology, we need to look to america because they still use them and it seems to work. for now, thank you very much of the eight. have a great week ahead. —— very much indeed. that's it for the papers tonight.

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