hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are polly mackenzie, chief executive of demos, and claire cohen, women s editor at the telegraph. welcome back to both of you. let me bring you up to date with the front pages, got a few more in since our last review. the front page of the i focusses on the reports of another party in downing street during the first coronavirus lockdown this one, a surprise birthday party for borisjohnson. the guardian also features the news of downing street lockdown parties, saying the prime minister is facing renewed anger from mps and bereaved families over the allegations. the times says about 30 guests sang and ate unionjack cake at the celebration organised by the pm s now wife carriejohnson. the metro s front page reports that nato has ordered warplanes and battleshops to eastern europe, as borisjohnson accuses russia of planning a lightning war on ukraine. the daily express also focusses
at number two or three minister in a huge department, the government can be quite a frustrating business. does that offer any defence against what lord agnew was saying today? in what lord agnew was saying today? in a sense, the treasury has a defence, which was that this was a global pandemic pretty much unprecedented, and they had to get these loans out all the support that went through the income taxes and furlough out at fast speed, and obviously the checks weren t going to be as good as they would like them to be. but i think that you are right, often people with policy ambition come into government and find, as dominic cummings did, that the mechanisms of government, the civil servants just aren t quite set up to be as responsive as they would want to. but it s much easier to diagnose a problem then it is to actually do the patient work of resolving the problems. i think it s a shame in a way that lord agnew has resigned, and wonder if other ministers have shared his
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are sienna rodgers, who s the editor at labourlist, and the political strategist and former adviser to borisjohnson when he was the mayor of london, jo tanner. good evening to you both. thank you so much for being with us. and we willjust give you a sneak preview of those front pages, then. the metro leads with claims by dominic cummings, borisjohnson s former chief adviser, that the prime minister misled parliament when he said he wasn t aware of the party on may 20 in 2020 in the back garden of downing street. the guardian goes with the same story, which is captured in its headline, cummings accuses pm of lying over no 10 party . the times too makes that its top story with an almost identical treatment. the mirror reports that borisjohnson allegedly waved aside objections to that now infamous number 10 party, according to dominic cummings. the i newspaper says that the conservati
cuts to the criminaljustice system, we have got courts in just major disrepair. anyone working in law, or even related to law, any caseworkers know about this, the fact that people are waiting years and years, and it is actually affecting the outcomes in ourjustice system, the fact that people have to wait so long, and now talking about, giving magistrates different powers during the pandemic, talk aboutjury sizes. ijust feel as if the pandemic, talk aboutjury sizes. i just feel as if there is the pandemic, talk aboutjury sizes. ijust feel as if there is no recognition there that they have really touched so many different systems, so many areas. we went into the pandemic with already big backlogs in course, just as we did in the nhs, so these arch new problems. in the nhs, so these arch new problem- in the nhs, so these arch new roblems. ,,, ., ~ ., ,, g ., problems. speaking of the nhs, 10, nhs staff have problems. speaking of the nhs, 10, nhs staff have to problems. sp
and the intermission is over cirque du soleil are back in the uk after a covid imposed hiatus celebrating their 25th anniversary in london. hello and thanks forjoining us. there are fresh allegations that two more parties were held in downing street when such gatherings would have breached covid 19 rules. the daily telegraph has reported that the events took place the night before prince philip s funeral, last april. number 10 has not denied the claims. with me is our reporter mark lobel. some more potentially damaging revelations here. revelations here. reports of another two revelations here. reports of another two downing - revelations here. reports of another two downing st - another two downing st gatherings. one friday night in april 2021. around that time there was no into mixing of households allowed because of covid guidelines and outdoors you could meet in a group of six or two households could meet up, but most damagingly, on the 16th of april 2021, when t