requests for user. >> police requests for user. >> police requests for user. >> details, although given his staffing cuts, it might just. >> be. >> be. >> because nobody was in the office to answer the phone. and our television producers in crisis, they're the unsung heroes of television shows, playing a vital role, picking stories on headliners. but some have had to get otherjobs. i'm leo kearse and tonight i'm joined by steve allen and nick dixon, the big dog, to take you through saturday's top stories. this is headliners. first things first. let's see what we've got on the front pages. the daily mail leads with how many more putin spies in the uk.7 the putin spies in the uk? the telegraph has revealed. mastermind at the centre of a russian spy ring in britain. and the iweekend has uk animal rights may be watered down as price of labour's brexit reset

with europe? oh, it's brexit, it's definitely not halal slaughter. anyway, let's kick off with the daily mail steve. >> yeah, worrying stuff. >> yeah, worrying stuff. >> their headline. >> their headline. >> how many more. putin spies in uk question mark don't ask me. >> daily mail. >> daily mail. >> you're a newspaper. stop panicking me about this. but this is after this bulgarian espionage cell convicted of plotting honey traps. i don't know if you've seen the picture on the front page. a somewhat honey trap lady. i'm not sure if that's an adjective, but i think we all know what we're saying. and if information was in some way exchanged for liaisons with someone like that, was it worth it? makes sense. you know, it's all transactional. >> nobody's going to send that quy- >> guy- >> to quy- >> to jail. >> to jail. >> it's a victimless crime in so many ways. but yeah, they've . many ways. but yeah, they've. well, it seems all very sexy and, like, espionage. that's a good word, isn't it? >> very james bond. >> very james bond. >> until you find out that it was run from a guest house in great yarmouth, that sexiness drops off a cliff right at the end there, doesn't it? oh, well, you know, fair enough. >> yeah. and this, this is slightly worrying that. >> a fifth. >> a fifth. >> of british counter—terror policing is now devoted to

battling state backed threats such as russian spies, chinese spies, iranian spies, people like that, scottish spies. who knows? who knows? mince pies. mince pies. lots of them. and that means there's going to be less. less counterterrorism resources to deal with islamic terrorism. >> good point. i mean, the fact that it was in great yarmouth, are they part of the conspiracy that's getting rupert lowe in trouble? that's his constituency. >> just did he did he bully her? >> just did he did he bully her? >> well, this this woman doesn't look like she could be bullied. it says temptress. and she reminds me of the simon hart diaries where this guy alistair jack said, if you think you're punching above your weight, ask yourself why? so when you're deaung yourself why? so when you're dealing with someone like this, it's probably a honey trap, right? that's the first thing you've got to ask. >> yourself are men and you just think, yeah, i've still got it. even in the face of all visual evidence, you just think. >> that it turns out to be a prison sentence. yeah, but this guy was unbelievable. this jan marsalek guy who was at the top of it. so this woman that they show on the front, she's the telegraph did a nice tree. she's only at the bottom. then there's like several layers above and this mask, like. >> more attractive people to sleep with in exchange for secrets. >> just more important spies.

and this. >> guy, smaller inside russian spies. every time, you. >> know, they get closer to putin. the this guy martell, by the way, he had access to a network of spies in the uk, us, germany, austria, israel, italy, switzerland, france, croatia, hong kong and turkey. imagine the whatsapp groups hardly keep track of like that. much spying. that must be a nightmare administrative nightmare, right? >> and also. >> and also. >> this this must raise some questions about britain's borders. i mean, if spies want to come into the uk, it's not like the old days where you had to forge passports and things like that. now you just get on anything that floats, rip up your passport, arrive and say, your passport, arrive and say, you know, you need a new passport. and also a mobile phone would be nice to send your secrets back home. >> i'm not sure if that's how she made her way into the country. i'm not sure if she had that particular struggle, i don't know, it's always possible to get people living in a place, having a job as a cover and being they've always been spies. so whilst this headline is meant to be scaring us because it's got the word putin in it, yeah, there's always been things like this, i guess. >> i think the scary thing is that it's really happened. it's

not just they're not just alarming us. >> with, you know, there's not hoax. >> there could be spies, putin could have spies. there actually are some. >> but the headline is but how many more spies? >> yeah, exactly how many more we've got no idea how many of anybody is here. i mean, we've got like 150,000. you know, young men from mainly muslim countries have come in. how many of them will be jihadis or harbour some grudge? how many present a threat to the west? >> it's hard to know on this one, but i guess the only way you would do it is by like data sampling and the number of bulgarian women who've tried to sleep with me for information is zero. so if you extrapolate that out, i guess. >> what, steve, i think you could be a spy. well dressed, kind of very calm demeanour and trying to play down the spy story. those are like three. >> they're onto me. they're on to me. run, run. sorry. what was the. >> and. yeah, there's the there's the prospect of men now trying to get information just so they can have sex. moving on to the daily telegraph, nick. >> yeah, well of course the telegraph have the spy story, but we're also going to cover

this reform uk story. reform civil war as mp reported to police. and of course, this is rupert lowe. it's all kicked off today. there was a statement that came out from reform talking about workplace bullying, and it said in the office they didn't actually directly say, but it said a serious bullying in the offices of the member of parliament for great yarmouth, rupert lowe. and obviously rupert lowe has denied all this completely. he's now, as patrick said, just before we came on, released another statement saying that the reform are propitious and actually that basically lawyers saying they acted too soon and rashly and so he says that tells the whole story precipitous. what did i say? propitious? yes. >> whatever one of them's to do with rain. >> this wouldn't have happened with andrew doyle. but yeah, i just hope, yeah, they rain down on him too soon. that's what happened. it's it is shocking. i mean, if you were a reform supporter, if you voted for them. he has so many fans. yeah. rupert lowe. >> and he's really the heart of the party. >> yeah. to me, he was one of the few. he was one of the few, perhaps one of the very few

mainstream politicians just telling it like it is telling the truth. and i mean, and he denies all these claims, we're in this kind of hr. culture now where you can't do anything like reform are presumably big fans of churchill. how long do you think churchill would last in the reform party? like a day? because my point is, i'm sure rupert's a nice guy, but even if he was, but you have to be a bit disagreeable and a little bit different to be the kind of person that will stand in the house of commons and read out a lot of really important questions about grooming gangs. but by your nature, if you're in a party like reform, you should be somewhat disruptive, you should be prepared to be a bit disagreeable. and i just find it likely that that kind of thing might go, might go along with what i'm saying he has on anything, but it might go along with not always being like the most agreeable person, perhaps. >> yeah, it feels like right wing movements always fall apart because, you know, people who are attracted to those movements are attracted to those movements are individualistic. they've got big egos. they want to, as nick says, disrupt things and make change. and, you know, whereas the labour party or left wing parties are more sort of conformist because that's what the left is all about. >> although maybe for the actual politicians, although because in

america they have the catch phrase of the left fall in . phrase of the left fall in. love, the right fall in line when it comes to actually just aiming for the win. and the conservatives are more like that, aren't conservatives are more